Unbelievable video?

[J.R.]

Funny, the same thing just came to mind while thinking about all of this.

Not a big fan of snuba myself.

We're agreed on that point...

 

[diver 85]

Hey Guys,

I just wanted to share my .02 psi. I am so new to scuba that I do not have my OW yet. Now I have a son that is 2 right now. I do not know how much he is going to like the water when he is about 9 or 10, but as of now if I get him in a pool I have to call his mother to take him out because he will scream his life a way to stay in it. I come from a family of swimmers, and I plan for my son to be in swimming classes soon. What I am trying to say is that this guy just posted the video and did not provide any more info. I am not saying that what he did is right. But we do not know if the guy is in 10' of water or in 60'. We do not know if the kid knows how to swim or not. I have to say that if I want to make a video to show how good my son is under water I will have him wearing his own tank. It doesn't matter if he is going to be using mine or not. The only way that I would think of doing what the guy did is to do it in a pool in less than 10' of water where I have more control of anything that can go wrong, and I know that I can get him to the surface with out worring about nothing else. I know that the video was shoot in the middle east but that is about it. I think that if you do not want to use a bc on the kid at least you should have an extra tank there for the kid to breath from just in case that something goes south on the dive. One thing that I am learning while in my OW class is that safety is paramount and it should not be ignored. I am not saying that is completly wrong I am just saying that we need more info regarding the video.
Just my .02psi

You can bet one thing, they are not @ 10 feet ...........and------our kids were just about born in our pool BUT I did not have them on scuba till they were all 3 of age(12 yo in the 80's) by a QUALIFIED professional...What makes people think they can cut corners??....I know, their stupidity.......

 

[TennisCoach]

You can bet one thing, they are not @ 10 feet ...........and------our kids were just about born in our pool BUT I did not have them on scuba till they were all 3 of age(12 yo in the 80's) by a QUALIFIED professional...What makes people think they can cut corners??....I know, their stupidity.......

I know! I agree with you and to add to your comment it may be the need to show off what our kids can do. For some people is not enough to talk about what they kids can do under a control enviroment they have to take it to the extreme. I am not planing to have my son in scuba until he has the minimun required age for it. There is a whole bunch of other things that he can do to enjoy the water that will not put them in harms way.

 

[Dtaine]

... which in turn can become a contributing factor to all kinds of ugly things... (... like suggesting that I should mail my certifying agency saying that I'm willing to dive with buddy teams with only one tank... just because I won't jump to the same conclusions you do...)

A bit of a joke there - not suggesting you actually do that.

... and if you get twitchy about this video... I'd suggest you don't watch any "Sea Hunt" videos... Mike Nelson doesn't apparently believe in surface intervals... MODs or any of that other stuff that will do in a modern diver... don't know if this is because we're less "manly" than Mike... or simply that Sea Hunt IS A DARN TELEVISION SHOW... (note... the *diving* you see is real... it's the context that isn't...)...

The biggest reason this video angers me, above other stupid shows, etc. Is that the person in the video at the biggest risk (in my opinion, yea) is a kid. He might be competent in the water beyond even the level of those of us here, but if he is, then he's been taught it's okay to cut corners while diving. That to me is the problem, is there a lot we don't know, sure, but why this video was shot is a lot less important to me than the consequences of actually diving that way. That's why I condemn it, without regard to the context.

 

[J.R.]

A bit of a joke there - not suggesting you actually do that.

Ok... didn't find it funny personally... but I'll go with your explaination...

The biggest reason this video angers me, above other stupid shows, etc. Is that the person in the video at the biggest risk (in my opinion, yea) is a kid. He might be competent in the water beyond even the level of those of us here, but if he is, then he's been taught it's okay to cut corners while diving. That to me is the problem, is there a lot we don't know, sure, but why this video was shot is a lot less important to me than the consequences of actually diving that way. That's why I condemn it, without regard to the context.

I'll ask you the same question I asked NatureDiver... what is YOUR opinion of hooka diving and snuba???

 

[Dtaine]

I'm not a fan of it really.

 

[captain]

I'm not a fan of it really.

Why, other than the depth limitations and the inconvenience of dragging the hose and surface float around how is it any different or more dangerous than scuba.

 

[ZenDiver.3D]

Why, other than the depth limitations and the inconvenience of dragging the hose and surface float around how is it any different or more dangerous than scuba.

There's a lot of space between your air supply and yourself. Entanglement, losing the reg/hose... and number of bonehead things that may happen. Whey drag it around on the surface, just strap it to the one who needs it. You.

I just don't see the point. Train before you go on vacation. My opinion only here.

 

[Calle Roo]

Hey, that kid did good. When I have to remove my reg and replace I always forget to purge and get a mouth full of water and start gagging all over. Good job kid!

 

[Dtaine]

Why, other than the depth limitations and the inconvenience of dragging the hose and surface float around how is it any different or more dangerous than scuba.

There's a lot of space between your air supply and yourself. Entanglement, losing the reg/hose... and number of bonehead things that may happen. Whey drag it around on the surface, just strap it to the one who needs it. You.

I just don't see the point. Train before you go on vacation. My opinion only here.

Essentially the same reasons as ZenDiver. Most of the diving I do would be out of the limits of snuba anyway. I think if we're going to go into the risks of scuba vs. snuba, it might be better to start a new thread.