Sounds like Marks got a cold in this video....

@garrettvlogs8766

6 жыл бұрын

Plz pin my coment

People who make whole paragraphs with hand signals lol

@simplyscuba

6 жыл бұрын

Mark does that a lot....in emails!

Going into deco because you were more focused on your GoPro than your depth gauge.

@simplyscuba

6 жыл бұрын

Oooo yeah!!!

@damoddiver

5 жыл бұрын

A bit of deco never hurt anyone.

@CookieManatee

4 жыл бұрын

oh my people in the scuba team i'm with particularly hate GoPro divers xD we even have a permanent joke about it. Those GoPro idiots xD Even my father is one of them, and i noticed he tends to drag it on the bottom too -_-

I once had a dive buddy whom is the first time meeting him, he ditched me on buddy checks, he swims on his own, surface when he likes it, and commented that I need to keep up.

3:31 800 pound dive computer holding me down? Now that is some heavy equipment.

@simplyscuba

6 жыл бұрын

It's a steam punk dive computer!

@barrettt8661

5 жыл бұрын

I couldn't figure out if you meant pounds as in weight or pounds as in the British money?

@barrettt8661

5 жыл бұрын

But it definitely is funnier as pounds as in weight

@popmasteralan5594

2 жыл бұрын

@@barrettt8661 both

Photographers who think it's OK to hover over something interesting forever while others might want to see it too. You're not the only one on this dive, dude!

The last point you mentionned, ive lived it. Some random divers with full expensive stuff who jumped into the water waiting for us on a shipwreck dive. There were so heavy with all their stuff that they gave up the dive because there were about to die from exhaust ! At least it was a beautiful dive without them !

1. I have been told it's okay to pick up a shark tooth from the water floor. (I never try to remove a shark tooth while still in a sharks mouth.) The dive instructors also encourage us to remove trash, especially if it is plastic. 2. I have been video recording my dives, rather than taking pictures. I can save an image from the video recording if I want, and flashing some marine life isn't a smart idea. 3. I have apologized more than once for accidentally fin kicking fellow divers. This is why most of the dive instructors/dive masters make sure I'm one of the first two in the water. They usually tell me to get away from the water entry point before every one else goes in. 4. When I do ocean/gulf of Mexico dives, I'm usually diving with one of the dive shop instructors. They know my dive limits and keep me out diving trouble. 5. My diving video camera weighs maybe a pound, and I can secure it using a d-ring, before surfacing.

@gbsailing9436

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah ... NONE of that is responsible. Know YOUR OWN dive limits... - and follow the rules you set for yourself!!!. Just doing Gulf of Mexico dives does not a good diver make!

@trexor67

Жыл бұрын

I loss a cellphone (with water protector) while going from 4 meters to the surface... I went to fast that the rope it broke through the thinner section... For my bad luck, the total depth of that area was like 8-10m but visibility was very low (like 1 m distance). Im going to get a submarine and I will secure it with a d-ring you mention.

#3 Not paying attention: I seem to dive exclusively with people like this. Drives me nuts.

@simplyscuba

5 жыл бұрын

That must suck Robert!

@robertthompson5701

5 жыл бұрын

It's annoying for sure.

@Toob41

5 жыл бұрын

@@robertthompson5701 What did you say?

@djsantiago3904

4 жыл бұрын

Cant blame them entirely, theres an old saying “you’re only as good as the company you keep” Or my favourite” you cant fly like an eagle when you’re surrounded by turkeys”

@joecloonan3218

4 жыл бұрын

'Divers me nuts you mean'..

You showed it a lot this video: Bad trim. Not saying it's always bad to be vertical, but those kicks come really close to the corals. That and divers just being uneasy and flailing arms everywhere etc

@misterkaos.357

6 жыл бұрын

Good point. Descending in a vertical position is sometimes useful, especially when you aren't using a descent line. Finning upward slightly helps control your descent rate, giving you more time to equalize. But once you get 10 feet off the bottom, it's best to switch to horizontal mode.

I know some dry suits can be customized with a piss valve. The question is, why haven't they come up with the fart valve yet?!

@simplyscuba

6 жыл бұрын

million dollar idea!

@Ampersandrascott

5 жыл бұрын

Meister Kaos Be careful! We don’t want any fish kills!

@internetpeople1064

5 жыл бұрын

Dude, drysuits have the exhaust valve near the shoulder to let out air from the suit.

@Richard1976

4 жыл бұрын

The piss valve still sounds disgusting.. Ordered my drysuit without one 😇

@gbsailing9436

3 жыл бұрын

THEY HAVE!!! It's on your left shoulder!!!

"800 pound dive computer", I was like what? they don't weigh that much!!!!! Then my brain kicked in.

@barrettt8661

5 жыл бұрын

Same!

@joshuasmith7369

3 жыл бұрын

Your dive buddy as British wasn't he?

I have never even chomped the mouthpiece of a regulator, yet when I do take diving lessons I will consider some of your points as my First Lessons! Thanks

@gbsailing9436

3 жыл бұрын

there's no need to ...WAIT...to do a dive lesson, you can learn skills/good dive etiquette at anytime !

On my first dive for my certification course someone tried to signal to the instructor that they had 2100 PSI but messed it up so the instructors thought they had 1100 PSI at about 30 feet and so the instructor had us all come back up and everyone was wondering why and so when she asked, why did we all come up so early the instructor says you told me you had 1,100 psi she then procedes to then show the instructor her gauges and she has 2100 everyone's pretty annoyed

@gbsailing9436

3 жыл бұрын

That is the instructors fault. He should have taught..."If I show you my pressure gauge then I want to SEE YOUR pressure gauge!" Seeing is believing in my instructors book!!!

Trying to reach in, and pull out a Maury eel to photograph, or pet. Had to end a dive early once because one of the divers in the party tried this. I do, however, feel confident he will never attempt that again.

@timothydebell8763

5 жыл бұрын

A Maury eel? Did the diver turn out to be the father? ;)

Yinz guys have wonderful sounding laughs- (SW PA American here) lol

I have seen instructors going down super fast trying to get an integrated weight that was released accidentally.....

Other divers with gopro sticks that push their cameras in the wildlife's face....for everything they see...scare it off and I am left with no good footage.

@gbsailing9436

3 жыл бұрын

That's right...only think about yourself on dives!

Do not panic! My dive instructor would sometimes come up and knock your mask off. Mind you this was in a pool but it taught you how to deal with a situation while staying calm.

2:53 I got the same advice from a pro pro diver who still is wary about his limits

Love the red sea footage

Well my buoyancy is almost perfect but still i held to rocks somtimes... I have nothing else against strong currents...

Focusing too much on setting up your camera and forgeting about depth until you reach 35m and you get narcosis . Yep that happened to me today my first 30m dive and my first narcosis experience

@llama9496

6 жыл бұрын

adam elmahdali any stories about the narcosis event?

@andreiharagus6251

6 жыл бұрын

Why would you bring a camera in your first 30m dive instead of focusing on your dive tasks and why did your instructor / buddy allowed that to happen?

@adamelmahdali9049

6 жыл бұрын

ian menendez We were 4 of us my diving instructor and 3 others , before the dive i gave my camera to my buddy who had many deep dives before . But during the dive he got confused with the cameras settings so he gave it to me to set it up for him ( bad decision)

@andreiharagus6251

6 жыл бұрын

Now your buddy owes you a beer :D

@fishingexchange3742

4 жыл бұрын

Andrei Haragus no need for the beer, he got him drunk on nitrogen 😄

Sand blowing is really annoying

@simplyscuba

6 жыл бұрын

That does suck!

Being barged into when photographing sealife! I have been scraped and bruised by fellow divers who aren't too good at maneuvering underwater.

the one missing , ,, the front crawl arm actions at 10m

What's really annoying is that a newbie diver and other is super close to the bottom and does not want to be further up. And the spray sand and mud and makes the visibility less greater

well about the "holding onto a rock" i don't necessarily agree. Sometimes you have to grab onto something if there is current for example. Obviously, i always check first that it's only rock i'm grabbing onto and not a coral or any living thing...seagrass is the only living thing i would have no problem grabbing if all else fails. About the rest, i agree. I saw once a scuba instructor bring up a huge empty Pinna Nobilis...like are you crazy? It's known to be protected. And a funny story about ditched gear. When this summer i went diving in Croatia with a team, we had an other team before us that my instructor dove with, and also in our team we had intro and absolute beginner divers too...this was their exam basically (we went with a zodiac so the team was divided into experienced and absolute beginner). And the beginners, and even in the team before us, a lot of people accidentally lost their weights when trying to get back to the zodiac. It fell out of their weight pockets or took the weight belt off upside down and it slid off. And there was a particular place where a lot was lost, so one of our dives at that place was lik: so here we are going to swim around this reef, and then those who have enough air will stay and look for weights. It was under the zodiac so if we wanted we could have just surfaced. It was funny tho, everyone ( some 14is people) just comping through the thick seagrass and searching with their light in the hope of finding weights xD

Well said .....

Well if there is a strong current you can always hold on a rock with two fingers and relax a bit , obviously what you are saying is right but i think there is a small exception

I am very uneducated, but I will be scuba diving next year in Puerto Rico. My question is how long are you normally underwater while scuba diving?

@alexleolok6464

4 жыл бұрын

I think around 30-50 minutes...if everything goes well

@gbsailing9436

3 жыл бұрын

It will depend on your depth. As a beginner you can expect to do 20-30 minute dives which get longer in shallow water. My advice is not to be fixated on how long you can stay down on a particular dive. But more about enjoying the experience, including: What did I learn today?, Did I do everything right?, Did I return with 50BAR of air? How often did I look for: My Buddy?, My air gauge?, My depth gauge? If your answers are only ONCE during the dive, then You have failed that dive and you need to re-evaluate why you are there. You are there to LEARN HOW TO DIVE, Once you have done that, THEN you can enjoy the underwater world!

I didn't expect "Don't annoy a fish" to be on the list.

@gbsailing9436

3 жыл бұрын

Well you need to go back to your Open Water Course basics and relearn "not to interact with marine life" 101 lesson!!!

@dynelol

2 жыл бұрын

@@gbsailing9436 I'm not a diver. Lol

@gbsailing9436

2 жыл бұрын

@@dynelol Oh ok, well we ALL have our problems...🤣

Overuse tank bangers.

The most annoying thing are scuba divers that stay in vertical position rather than horizontal. They do not realize how long their fins are and they end up by moving all the sand, hitting rocks and reefs, kicking scuba divers’ head, and not keeping buoyancy by solely adjusting air inside bcd.

Don’t pee in your wetsuit, it ruins the neoprene and it makes you smelly after (and if using rental super gross). Wipe it out if you have to go (two piece open cell free diving suits are the best).

Divers not taking sea sick 🤢 medication when they were advised to well before the boat trip and proceed to throw up 🤮 right in the middle of a beautiful lunch 🥗 buffet on board ...

@misterkaos.357

6 жыл бұрын

Seriously though, if they're going to throw up during the trip, they should at least have the decency to throw up during the dive. That way I can get some good pictures of the fish being attracted to the vomit.

@DanBowkley

5 жыл бұрын

Last trip I went on I took two before bed the night before, two when I woke up early that morning, and one more when the boat left around 8am. It was choppy enough I still yarked several times, including once during my safety stop which was definitely a first for me. At least I wasn't the only one, most of us had a least a slight green tinge until we were back on dry land.

My number one rule of diving is do not die. Anyone violating this rule will not be allowed to dive again.

hi guys.. (anyone) here from Little Rock, Arkansas in the USA. I recently finished my Open Water Diver course ..yay! (I have a whopping 5 dives so far) but Im now wondering what course to prepare to take next. Im considering Nitrox and Navigation, but...what do you guys thing?.. Are those over my 'ignorant/non-experienced head?.. Thx for your videos! They are awesome and funny..sometimes! :)

@jakeburns7331

3 жыл бұрын

Don't even think about the next course before you have done at least 50+ dives, can control your buoyancy, have good trim and have had an 'Oops, I won't do that again' moment.

@gbsailing9436

3 жыл бұрын

@@jakeburns7331 I second that! Although it can't hurt to do the advanced and advanced plus course as you build up supplemental dives as you go...experience+training = competence!

I know flailing your arms around is bad form but I typically do that when I know there are other divers faces near my fins. I dont want to kick their masks off so I micro maneuver with my arms.

@hanskuijsten2380

5 жыл бұрын

That's the first time I heard flailing described as "micro maneuvering". 🤣🤣🤣🤣🍻

@gbsailing9436

3 жыл бұрын

Just BE somewhere else!!!

Never give Mark a boltsnap

legend has it that that one diver frog kicking in split fins still has not moved an inch!

@gbsailing9436

3 жыл бұрын

That is NO LEGEND!!! Take my word for it!!!

I dive hollis, so I have no limits 😆

I subscribed and post notifications on and maybe you should do shout out and make a video on how to clear your snorkler and goggles plz.

@andreiharagus6251

6 жыл бұрын

You will know all about that by the time you finish confined water dive 1. Also that's when you will start buying 1 beer for your instructor each time you say goggles instead of mask ;)

@diveinstructordaniel1095

4 жыл бұрын

Andrei Haragus I think he might me a little bit to young for a beer 😄

How about bad body position

"Don't fart in your drysuit" is this serious or a joke? Can it do anything than smell horrific when you get out of your drysuit?

Do not not breath. If you do not not breath you die the end

@simplyscuba

6 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/gp9626mHmsS3aM4.html ;)

@misterkaos.357

6 жыл бұрын

Those are the people you have to give the old Mike Nelson special; punch them in the stomach to make them breathe!

@stonybrain

5 жыл бұрын

Not not ing something is a double negative and means your doing it !😝

what if the animals harass me??

A great clip and really useful advice, ..but your video footage is #1 not great (colour, composition and movement) #2 not related to what you're saying. Do you not have any footage that can match what you're talking about?

Dont fart in your dry suit 😂

Hello, can we have a short talk?

And also dont get eatn by sharks

Taking a nap is not recommended either 😴

The there is a whole ocean comment isn't really true. If you stopped to look at something more then likely someone else wants to see it as well. My issue is with people with cameras that think they are more important then others. So they will just swim into you, to get a picture.

Don’t touch the sharks

Caugh

Stay away from trigger fish

6)Go to the toilet.

Looking at your Meter while turning your air on. If it Pops out you shot you face with 230 bar.

@hanskuijsten2380

5 жыл бұрын

Nonsens. Nothing is ever going to pop out of an spg, except the little rubber stopper, which is supposed to, but is usually on the back of your spg. Just take your spg off the hose and open your valve. HP hoses have a tiny hole, only used for measuring pressure, not for letting big amounts of gas through. It's high pressure, but little volume.

It's hard not to fart though

Oblivious to everything else around you (whilst fiddling with your own camera). BAM! Ripped by a current. #facepalm

Forget to breathe

Ya know the "dont touch anything" protocol seems pretty ridiculous to me.... I GET it and all considering spearfishing is a perfectly legit SCUBA activity. I mean really, what do you thinks causes a bigger rip in the oceans fabric: Me cuddling with a big grouper and taking a couple pics or mean blowing it away with a big spear gun and letting it bleed all over the reef?

@anamoralsb

5 жыл бұрын

I think it has to do with the fact that a lot of people who want to touch the fish end up harassing them and forcing them to "cuddle" instead of letting the animal come to them naturally.

@hanskuijsten2380

5 жыл бұрын

The "not touching" is about doing damage and the fact that seemingly harmless cuddlies can and will turn into ugly biters and stingers when cornered and scared. There are plenty anecdotes about "harmless" nursesharkes biting bodyparts (off).

@gbsailing9436

3 жыл бұрын

Actually: cuddling a grouper wears OFF the grouper's outer layer of anti-microbibial covering which keeps them safe. It's like their own immune system, but on the outside! So DON'T cuddle and pat FISH!!!

Flailing your arms. Irritating, Annoying, Tiring, Useless, Dangerous.

@andreiharagus6251

6 жыл бұрын

and funny

Divers that fin while standing straight up instead of belly down. Using your regulator while on the surface, that's what your snorkel is for. Inflating your BC off your tank instead of orally. Divers that dive in a manner that completely disregards the safety of the divers around them, think spinning in circles while descending butt first.

@victorkochkarev2576

Жыл бұрын

What is wrong with inflating BC off your tank?

Turning off other's air

Nothing wrong with swimming off on your own. Need to get as far away as possible from that thrashing ball of arms and legs depicted in your video.

Dive with a snorkel attached to your mask.

Golden rule number one: Never dive alone.

@hanskuijsten2380

5 жыл бұрын

Amended: never dive alone Unless you are trained and equipped accordingly and know what you're doing.

@Ampersandrascott

5 жыл бұрын

Hans Kuijsten I disagree! Never dive alone. No amount of training can keep accidents from happening. Even professional divers have their tenders on the surface keeping them safe.

@hanskuijsten2380

5 жыл бұрын

Let's agree to disagree. No problem.

@Ampersandrascott

5 жыл бұрын

Hans Kuijsten No, I can’t agree to disagree. Encouraging people to dive alone is reckless and irresponsible. If you’re comfortable diving alone, then fine. But please don’t tell other people it’s ok. Best of luck!

@hanskuijsten2380

5 жыл бұрын

@@Ampersandrascott Hold on a minute, I'm not encouraging anybody to do anything. I'm simply stating that it's not ok to dive alone UNLESS properly trained and equipped. And that's obviously what we have a different opinion about.

id rather eat chalk than listen to this guys voice

@Alex-vx4zh

4 жыл бұрын

That weird inflection at the end of every sentence because he thinks that's how narrators should talk. So grating.

I'm so tired of "don't touch stuff" crap, are you paid to say it? One boat grounding destroys millions of times more stuff than your grubby hands lol. What about lobster hunters and spear fisher? LOLOLOLOL

@viniciusgueiros1401

4 жыл бұрын

Your parents must have been twins for you to say that...