It looks so easy admitting mistakes, literally towards the world, with a smile and a lot of positivity. It isn't and I like that you do it regardless.

@OceanPancake

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your kind comment Thomas! It's important to reflect and hopefully others can learn from my experience

Thanks for sharing. This is a great example of how important clear communication is as divers, especially when using signals that have multiple meanings.

One of the silliest things ive seen is someone shoot an SMB (i told them to keep tension on it to keep it upright) and they kept enough tension on it that it hovered 2m above them still underwater. They somehow didn’t realise this for quite a while. Later we joked that it was an smb for submarines

@OceanPancake

3 жыл бұрын

Haha thats a lot of effort and tensions! I do like this one

Have a nice day everybody. Love your stories Katt. Keep telling them!

@OceanPancake

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this kind comment!

You mentioned you had a slate? Pointer stick is also a good tool to have to signal other divers as well

@OceanPancake

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. I usually just use my finger to point, but do love my slate to communicate more complex ideas.

@bigdestroyer5895

3 жыл бұрын

The light is more useful a stick, and much more convenient to carry.

Sounded like a good lesson for you... thanks for sharing.

@OceanPancake

3 жыл бұрын

Oh it definitely was!!

Love how your hair goes more and more crazy as the story progresses lol. On another note, have you thought about using signals with just one hand? I know Padi teaches it using both, but using one hand frees up the other.

@OceanPancake

3 жыл бұрын

I tend to have both hands free when I am teaching as it ensures I can react quickly. And yeah.. I have no control over my hair. Sorry haha

@kaen9728

3 жыл бұрын

@@OceanPancake what I meant was always having a hand free if you only use one hand to signal. How many times have you not seen students hold their gauge, try to signal with both hands how much air they have, just to have them forget it, then grab the gauge, just to forget the number again. By using just one hand, they can actually hold the gauge, look at, and signal you at the same time :)

@bigdestroyer5895

3 жыл бұрын

@@kaen9728 I use one-handed signals from beginning. It was not padi, but as I know, it's not a padi's thing, in depends on the instructor. Tech-inclined instructors tend to use one-handed signals for open water classes too. If I had had to grab my gauge before signalling, it means I failed to check my pressure regularly though.

Well the story of not making a plan when you lose track of one another usually leads to silly stuff. Hence why I insist upon it always. My silly story: diving in Lanzarote we went out with a boat with a local centre. There's a heavy wind blowing that day. Out at sea we count down and jump off the boat (group of 5-6), except for the guide & skipper. Then suddenly a rope apparently gets stuck in the propeller and the boat gets blown away by the wind quickly. I direct everyone to swim to a nearby buoy and hang on, I also inflate my SMB to signal where we are. We wait for a good 5-10 minutes for them to fix the propeller, but after the boat gets going again they just TAKE OFF and leave us at the buoy where we hang for another 10 minutes. After that a guy who had been there like a 100 times decides he'll lead compass to shore, I offer to keep a watch on everyone as the last man. We take off and actually see some damn nice deap sea fish we wouldn't have seen otherwise. Then suddenly out of nowhere the guide joins us (probably following our bubbles) all panicked. After the dive she's all hazy both blaming us and herself for getting seperated... So yeah, a plan for when you lose eachother: pretty important :)

@OceanPancake

3 жыл бұрын

Oh wow. What a mess. It's so vital to plan for that and good to have sage instances where these things happen to remind us!!

hi Katt! love your videos and thank you for the info! i am about to go to open sea water in October for my open water cert! wish me luck!

Morning Katt. Sounds like when I was in the Navy. We were doing a Marching Drill. Only supposed to do so many steps and turn at one point. We had people keep going. Not occurring to them that the person ahead turned.

Hi Kat, I'm quite envious of you, because the very thought of Scuba diving, is for me, completely and utterly terrifying. How you, and other people aren't scared of what you do, defies all logic to me. I just don't understand. Could you please explain?

“Not good visibility” I had 1-1.5 meters on my first ocean dive in my course

I did the same thing as a student. The buddy I was paired up with had the compass, I was doing the kickcycles, 10 in each direction. After 10 cycles I tapped his shoulder, he turned 90° right, and we ended up pretty close to the instructor. Then we reversed roles. We went off, 10 cycles, no tap. 15 cycles, no tap. 20 cycles. no tap. 25 cylcles, no tap. I was planning to turn around at 30 cycles, cuz my buddy war obviously not counting anything, and then I felt a tug on my fin. The instructor had come after us, wondering if we were planning to cross the entire Red Sea. He explained the rules again, and we did another try, and this time it went right.

Very beautiful video. Nice creation. Great work friends.

@OceanPancake

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Great vide and story.. great grad foto!

@OceanPancake

3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you liked it!! I'm very proud of the graduation

Someone on a group went into deco, I thought that was quite silly. I was on a safety stop and low on air so was wanting to get to the surface while I waited for this guy below me, but staying at 5 metres had it's perks a school of mobula rays and a whale shark cruised past. And maybe not silly but cruelly funny. Doing a dive, someone's weight belt came undone and he was quite...rotund and inept with actually getting his hands on the weight belt. So he would ascend cause no weight, swim down grab the other end of the weight bel, try to adjust his weight belt, and he would roll over and drop the weight belt and he just kept spinning and spinning and I wanted to help but I laughed so hard my regulator came out. I eventually pulled him down and got the weight belt on, but the image still makes me laugh.

@OceanPancake

3 жыл бұрын

Been there for both. Trust me. I know what you're describing!

Oh I would've loved 3-5 meters of visibility when I did my open water certification dives two weeks ago. We were diving in a quarry and had about 2 meters of visibility. When swimming right behind the instructor you could see his fins, but visibility was bad enough you couldn't see his head.

@OceanPancake

3 жыл бұрын

That freaks me out a little bit.. even after all my dives

Knowing that you are a Physics graduate makes me stan you even more! Girl! You rock!

@OceanPancake

3 жыл бұрын

Haha thanks!

Always great to learn from experience. Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to hearing your nitrogen narcosis story.

@OceanPancake

3 жыл бұрын

That one is fun indeed haha

@bigdestroyer5895

3 жыл бұрын

@@OceanPancake That's good, I want to hear your narcosis stories too. Mine weren't fun.

@OceanPancake

3 жыл бұрын

@@bigdestroyer5895 mine have only been fun so far.. haha. I'm glad you're ok!

They obviously didn’t listen during the dive briefing because you must have surely mentioned ‘7’ verbally in addition to the hand signal that they confused with 70. That’s one CrAzY story Katt TFS

@OceanPancake

3 жыл бұрын

Well in the briefing I said 10, and showed ten fingers... somehow that got lost when I changed it to seven. I was quite freaked out haha

@elmo319

3 жыл бұрын

Vegan Diver Katt - 8 fingers, 2 thumbs 🙃 It’s only ever multiples of ten when counting air so I can’t figure out how it happened but I bet every time you brief that skill since then you’ve reiterated the number of kicks or have perhaps wrote it on a slate to be certain 😆 Looking forward to the next story 👌

@OceanPancake

3 жыл бұрын

@@elmo319 I dont know myself...

I love your videos, and as someone with more pro experience than I have I appreciate your videos. This video brought back some fun memories for me, but I do have two comments for you. First, I work in Monterey Bay. To hear you say that 3-5m was bad visibility made me laugh out loud. In Monterey that's amazing visibility. I've worked with students in "Dive by Braille" conditions. LOL. The other comment I have is you mentioned the Leaf razor in not just this video but an earlier video and that's when I bought one. I've had it for a few months now and I absolutely love it. I also love the zero plastic packaging. Why can't everyone do that with everything? If you ever make it to California I'd love to show you our beautiful kelp forests. Keep up the awesome videos and stay safe and healthy.

@OceanPancake

3 жыл бұрын

I would love to see kelp!! I've dived in braille visibility too.. let's be honest. It makes me quite freaked out and wonder why I do these things to myself. Haha I'm glad you got yourself the leaf shave!! It truly changed my life and I'm glad to get to work with a company that is doing such good work

70 kick cycles, and 70 back is a lot! They wouldn't be back for a while. I've probably been on dives where I've kicked less the whole dive.... I'll add it to the reasons I prefer the tec signals for numbers, spelling out each digit of the number. Can't mistake a 7 for a 70. I think I'd have taken the remaining group and followed them. Both so that I wouldn't lose direct supervision and so that they'd really have to use the compass to go back instead of homing in on me. The line was an interesting idea, though I'm not sure they would have recognized its intention. Even if they've learned about lines for guidance, the line wasn't in place when they left, so they wouldn't associate it with your location. In bad viz, a bright torch is your best friend for broadcasting your location to other divers.

@OceanPancake

3 жыл бұрын

I should have definitely had a torch! I carry one now always. I knew one of the students quite well so I hoped that finding a line they would stick to it..

🤣 I guess this is why you got some gray hairs, because of the schock you had, as I saw some strand of your hair are still schocked. 😁 But to be honest, you could be very proud of you, because this diver will never get lost, because if he found the way back in such a situstion, he will find back everywhere. So you trained the skill perfectly. 👌 I hope you got more stories like this. But when it comes to be silly, I lost my mask twice in one week, when I did a few boat diving. The first time when I was already in the water, I did a stupid move, one of the other diver followed the mask. Secound time, I lost it when I jump from the boat, I get a new mask and my divemaster did a save & rescue at the end of the dive. We had s lot of fun, because I told her, she pass the save & rescue of a mask. I'm the only one who managed to lost the same mask twice. I guess as long as nothing really dangerous happen we have a lot of fun, talking about those silly staff.

During our A.I. open water test Rock ''the Rock machine'' was to exausted to follow me for the 30 kicks to come back and he was in charge of the count. So I kept going until I realised for sure that the count was off and he was 50 feets behind me. From my point of view if your shape is that bad you should reconsider your choice of being an instructor or take your bike three time per week to go to work.

The best teacher in life is yourself. Gotta learn from mistakes, right? Greta video btw. New friend here 😊 -Daisy

nice creation 👍👍👍

Hi Kat. When do you recommend going for the advanced course after getting open water certification? Can I take it immediately or do more fun dives first?

@OceanPancake

3 жыл бұрын

Yes do the advanced one straight away :)

Omg! So i am donating to oceans pancake since years over my brothers paypal. It happened, that i just watched this video and at one glance i see the „picture“ of a familliar name. So i had to go back and stop it and was like: omg, why is my brothers name there? I did not know he knows you! Until i realized it is because of me, ssoooo funny!

One thing that's always predictable is that people are unpredictable :). Good on you for the self criticism and being able to learn from it.

@OceanPancake

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Always a journey..

New Dive Story!! The biggest scuba dive fail made by my scuba diving students!! Make sure to join the family and check out the plastic free co friendly Leafshave razor!! leafshave.com

Lol. I enjoyed the story

@OceanPancake

3 жыл бұрын

I hope you learned something!! :)

I dream about 3 to 5 meter vis!

Hahahahaha excellent... Sort of. Like, losing your students is terrifying / awful, but you learned.

So cute...

Haha, it was real navigation though. You are not going to use those skills in perfect visibility conditions. My silliest mistake was a cold and wet mistake. After 15 minutes of discussing plans, extensive pre-dive procedures, checking gear I finally jumped in water with a not fully closed drysuit zipper. It was a training dive, my instructor had seen it, but he doesn't like to intervene until something silly like this happens.

@OceanPancake

3 жыл бұрын

Oh goodness. that would have taught you the lesson!!!

@bigdestroyer5895

3 жыл бұрын

@@OceanPancake In fact, I have learned a good lesson. I got sidetracked several times during gearing up, and there are results.

@OceanPancake

3 жыл бұрын

@@bigdestroyer5895 Yup. Learn as we go :)

You should follow them while they are doing the kick cycle.

@OceanPancake

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, at the time I didnt because I didnt want to leave all my 9ther students. You live and learn!

Can you please do some zero waste content next

@OceanPancake

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! :) I just did my zero waste skincare routine and eco friendly products

My name was in the video *-* :D

@tomvanzanten479

3 жыл бұрын

I saw!

@alle_namen_schon_vergeben708

3 жыл бұрын

@@tomvanzanten479 nice 🙃

@OceanPancake

3 жыл бұрын

Yess! Thank you for all your support

Rather chaotic video....

@OceanPancake

3 жыл бұрын

Was quite a chaotic day.. Sorry you feel that way!

Have you found SpongeBob yet

@OceanPancake

3 жыл бұрын

Next time!

Lmfao your not good visibility is our amazing visibility I teach in 5-10 ft visibility 🤦🏻‍♂️tbh I think my students are better for they ACTUALLY have to navigate if you don’t you will get lost 😂 never lost a single one gotta make sure they know how to use a compass before anything THEN we work on the rest

IMHO the title of this video is misleading. Actually, as a instructor that situation was Your fault. And what made it worse, You didn't have any emergency plan in play, which is clearly sign of incompetents