Unbelievable Scuba Diving Accident Reaction & Analysis

[jagfish]

I could not blame this instructor if he quit...

Unbelievable Scuba Diving Accident Reaction & Analysis
This is perhaps the most unbelievable non-fatal dive accident I've ever seen on video. During an advanced class, two divers experience serious health issues: one has a burst eardrum, and the other panics and suffers a blackout, almost drowning. Watch along as a scuba instructor reacts to and analyses this "cluster".

 

[Wibble]

Struth. A masterclass of incompetence!

Was that a discover scuba diver dive? It wasn't even up to Open Water standards.

Thankfully nobody died.

Can we blame the instructor please. For not getting their core skills even moderately sorted. Neutrally buoyant... yuck.

 

[jagfish]

Struth. A masterclass of incompetence!

Was that a discover scuba diver dive? It wasn't even up to Open Water standards.

Thankfully nobody died.

Can we blame the instructor please? For not getting their core skills even moderately sorted. Neutrally buoyant... yuck.

Yeah, not knowing the background, I could give him the benefit of the doubt for even getting into that situation, by imagining maybe he works for a large LDS and was not familiar with these students before dive time. If he were familiar with all the divers in this group, I'd have to hope he'd have known at least one was not ready for that profie.