Following On From The Air Sharing Thread

[dumpsterDiver]

So what should be done next? Show a video of good divers engaging in the air sharing activity?

Clearly the guy is an underwater clown (am I allowed to say that?). And he doesn't know how to swim, control his buoyancy or share air very well either.

What's the point of posting this video? That the practice is unsafe? That a diver has poor skills? That a diver with poor skills shouldn't be sharing air?

 

[mala]

the normal guided dive here is from sharks reef to yolanda.
its a long way for a novice to go on a single aly80.
i guess the guide was just trying to give everyone the longest dive possible.

not pretty but not rare.

 

[Peter Guy]

Just shows how much better the 7' hose is for recreational diving than the "traditional" 36" one. Even a fool can continue enjoying the pretty fishies!

 

[Divejones]

So what should be done next? Show a video of good divers engaging in the air sharing activity?

Clearly the guy is an underwater clown (am I allowed to say that?). And he doesn't know how to swim, control his buoyancy or share air very well either.

What's the point of posting this video? That the practice is unsafe? That a diver has poor skills? That a diver with poor skills shouldn't be sharing air?

+1 , absolutely with this thought process, going back to the master thread, if you are sharing air, then the place you are diving to is the safety stop, imagine a O ring burst of anyone of them, when both are below minima, what happens then ? i shudder to think

 

[dumpsterDiver]

+1 , absolutely with this thought process, going back to the master thread, if you are sharing air, then the place you are diving to is the safety stop, imagine a O ring burst of anyone of them, when both are below minima, what happens then ? i shudder to think

Not sure how the sharing air aspect is related to the consequences of a failure?

 

[TSandM]

I'm scratching my head. We don't know anything at all about the circumstances of this video. In fact, I don't know why people are assuming that one of these air-sharing divers is a dive guide -- I don't know that. I don't know that anyone is out of gas. I do know that the air-share is being executed poorly, with poor awareness and poor control on the part of the two divers. I hope there was a debrief about it, whoever the two divers were.

 

[mala]

I'm scratching my head. We don't know anything at all about the circumstances of this video. In fact, I don't know why people are assuming that one of these air-sharing divers is a dive guide -- I don't know that. I don't know that anyone is out of gas. I do know that the air-share is being executed poorly, with poor awareness and poor control on the part of the two divers. I hope there was a debrief about it, whoever the two divers were.

the guy leading the dive with the egyptian haircut and tan is probably not on holiday.

the ali 80 is floating because its empty.
his buddy is the single guy following.


debrief???

funny.

 

[RTee]

Looking at how number 2 is trailing and moving about in the water, one has to wonder if he is in fact certified and secondly, if he is, who certified him in the first place...As I watched the video, the air sharing aspect is probably the last thing I really paid attention to.

 

[TSandM]

mala, I just watched the video again. As someone who doesn't live in Egypt, I really have trouble, even after having it pointed out to me, perceiving either the haircut or the tan on the "guide". And to me, just because the pair is in front of another diver doesn't make the fellow a dive guide; there may well have been other divers in front of that pair.

The Al80 does look butt-light, but on the other hand, the camband is barely below the break on the tank, and the diver tends to curl his back, so how light it is is still, I think arguable.

Maybe he's out of gas, and the other guy is the dive guide and is dragging an out of gas diver around by his mouth to extend the dive. Maybe that wasn't it at all. I'd really like to hear from Simon if there is more information about this situation, and I do not think anything about the original video merits being snarky about what YOU think it shows.

 

[Mr Carcharodon]

+1 , absolutely with this thought process, going back to the master thread, if you are sharing air, then the place you are diving to is the safety stop, imagine a O ring burst of anyone of them, when both are below minima, what happens then ? i shudder to think

They could have been diving at a safety stop depth, we don't know. We don't know if either if them are below rock bottom. If there was a burst o-ring they share air and exit, odd to shudder about what should be a well known and practiced option. Of course if you never practice your basic safety skills you have reason to shudder if there is an emergency.