Messed up and ascended like a missile

[brainii]

on all my dives I start with a reading of 210-220, that's psi I'm pretty sure.

or it could be bar?

 

[alvinsuper]

on all my dives I start with a reading of 210-220, that's psi I'm pretty sure.

That's bars

 

[brainii]

forgive my noobiness then, all air readings are in bar it seems

 

[Russjstewart]

on all my dives I start with a reading of 210-220, that's psi I'm pretty sure.

210-220 will have to be bar, if it is psi you are gettin ripped off. One bar =14.7 psi, so 210bar = 3087 psi, which is a normal fill in most places. Most places that use metric will have spg in bar

 

[CuzzA]

I'm going to suggest you re-take you open water course so that you have the basics down. Buoyancy, mask clearing, gas management, knowing the difference between bar vs. psi are basic skills required to safely execute a dive without becoming a thread in the accidents and incidents forum.

 

[Pkishino]

I'm not going to blame you directly, but your instructor did a **** job if they passed you with problems like that.. they should have spent more time with you getting those things down before even going to the open water part of the course. Students should have no problem staying neutral, taking mask of, swimming around and replace without changing buoyancy much before I take them to OW.

 

[stepfen]

After about 1 minute (or even less) I found myself on the surface, no safety stop no nothing!

This has happened few times to me too. For me the main reason is that I have big lungs and every time something "out of the ordinary" happens I unconsciously (due to my swimming background maybe) take a deep breath to begin with. This can ruin my buoyancy in seconds.

With practice you will get used to control this and also the list of "out of the ordinary" should substantially decrease. For example a mask flooding or removed/replaced all together shouldn't be considered something "out of the ordinary" - if it does, you should practice with it until it is not.

 

[Bubblesong]

After about 1 minute (or even less) I found myself on the surface, no safety stop no nothing!

@brainii I am going out on a creaky old tree limb here, but I am guessing you are not only never certified, but that experience you describe was your first time breathing underwater. This happens in the pool check out, and wouldn’t warrant bold print, if you’d ever tried to be neutrally buoyant before.
Was this a try Scuba Experience?

 

[DandyDon]

on all my dives I start with a reading of 210-220, that's psi I'm pretty sure.

That's a BAR reading, for a full tank. You are in Europe, and don't all divers there have BAR regs? I get confused between Psi vs BAR at times, too.

@brainii I am going out on a creaky old tree limb here, but I am guessing you are not only never certified, but that experience you describe was your first time breathing underwater. This happens in the pool check out, and wouldn’t warrant bold print, if you’d ever tried to be neutrally buoyant before.
Was this a try Scuba Experience?

Good question. So do you have a certification card, or was this a Discover dive?

 

[scubadada]

Hi @brainii

@CuzzA beat me to it . You certainly have a lot to learn, buoyancy, mask clearing (this should take a couple seconds while neutral in place), and gas management, including your pressure units. I was not going to go so far as suggest you retake your PADI OW, but, professional help may be good, perhaps a different person than the one you were diving with.

I would not have guessed this day of diving was a Discover Scuba experience. I don't believe wreck dives to 72 and 52 feet would be on the agenda. Your profile states you are PADI certified

Best of luck with your progression in scuba diving