Not sure what's happening to the muppets in this video (panicked divemaster)

[Skittl1321]

Has to be a staged exercise. That person didn't look like they were panicking at all. And if you were panicking- wouldn't losing your mask make things worse, not better?

 

[MaxBottomtime]

 

[electrician]

I have no idea what was going in there, but it was hilarious. I always enjoy watching people attempting to do Kung Fu in a quasi-no gravity situation.

 

[boulderjohn]

If I were just shown the video with no explanation, I would not have thought it showed a panic situation.

I can't tell what is happening, mostly because the supposedly panicked diver is hidden for the first part, but it looks more to me as if he is holding something and trying to prevent others from taking it. It looks to me as if the instructor approaching him is reaching for something, and it appears the DM is kicking to keep him away. If he were panicking, he would certainly behave differently after his mask was removed.

 

[chrpai]

None of them looked like good divers to me.

 

[TSandM]

In my Intro to Cave class, we had to remove our fins and hold them in our hands while frog, helicopter and back kicking. The hardest part was being unbalanced by holding negative Jet fins in my hands! I've also done what we called "moon walking", which is taking your fins off on a swim platform, and then jumping off it, doing flips.

I also agree that the diver in the video doesn't appear panicked, and the last thing on earth I would want to do with a truly panicked diver is remove their mask. In panic, it wouldn't surprise me if someone would completely lose the presence of mind to separate nose from mouth breathing, and snort water.

 

[Quero]

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[victorzamora]

So I've got to mention that I think it's a panicked diver. Not the same as your traditional panicked diver, but I don't think that guy was fake. I think all of the hand signals were for trying to figure out how to deal with him. I'd bet they had ripped his fins off before the video starts. I'm thinking they were trying to slowly bring the two guys (panicking and back-mounted guy) to the surface....so when the guy who got attacked was reaching for him, he was reaching for his LPI (per standard course instructions). I'd bet the guy was experienced enough to deal with breathing while maskless, but just lost it for some reason. Maybe a personal, dry thing? Maybe a prank gone wrong? Maybe jerking his fins off pissed him off? A buddy and I were turning eachother's tanks off as a joke. A guy didn't know we were joking about it, and practically beat my buddy up over it.

 

[supergaijin]

It's interesting that some people will seek out (and usually find) flimsy evidence in order to confirm what they already believe. I believe that is called: Delusion.

Neil Degrasse Tyson talks about the same phenomenon here:
Neil Tyson talks about UFOs and the argument from ignorance - YouTube

 

[Hickdive]

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