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Thanks for sharing!

The two double ender technique I will have to try out!

Rite of passage :wink:

I personally would not see this as a near death experience. I can imagine it must have been stressing and a negative experience subjectively, and it may be (although impossible to judge for me from a distance) mistakes were made. But in the end you and the DM managed to bring the dive to an end...

Should maybe have quoted, yes. I did not expect something this trivial to trigger such a strong reaction...

Tursiops, I was actually replying directly to "I can't see it catching on." by Graeme Fraser...

...come on. Of course I manage to teach the hand signals. I thought it was very clear that my comment was poking fun at the fact that first time divers sometimes mix this up, a phenomenon that probably most of us have witnessed. Without immediately resulting in the destruction of the Universe.

To change the perception of the entire non-diving world of this signal will be exceedingly hard, I fear. We have this quite often on try scuba dives: Even though the briefing explains what the "thumbs up" mean in the diving world, people use it the way they often have their entire lives. That is...

Yeah, very high chance to be mistaken for "I am doing great, buddy!"

OK so if diving without a guide, just substitute the word "guide" for "buddy". Point is, one will manage to communicate this, I am quite sure. Even more as unplanned deco in the vast majority of cases just means a few minutes at 3m that vanish anyhow on ascent.

Well, but in case of accidentally (for whatever reason) incurring a deco obligation, it will suffice that the guide communicates to stop for some given time. I do not think it is a big problem not to teach a specific sign in OWD courses to be honest.

Seems I follow the majority here ;)

fwiw, I actually from time to time did cursory internet searches to see if any accident has ever been traced to "mixed" reg setups. Never found one as of yet...

Great footage indeed!

Seems quite calm water!

Just a more or less neutral observation of my fellow Germans. Personally, I am a scientist. I know that a second stage will not care about the label on the first, as long as very basic parameters match, which is easy to check...

In German forums it is debated in a heated fashion... :stirpot:

Condolences for those who lost relatives and friends!

I have never tried tinted lenses, but would agree that the solution is probably rather in the light source.

That looks really overcrowded.