Hello Jim here, Scooby Diving Structure in Japan. We're gonna have a look at a video that I found someone had sent to me And this is Scooby Diving Gone Wrong Weight Belt accident on YouTube 81,000 hits, a 1000 views and this was posted 2016 Let's have a look together. Here we go First time to reverse flip Good grief. Look at that visibility to die for, huh? Yeah, anyway, cousin, I'll Mexico. I've never been there anybody been there. Let us know is it always like it's like a hundred meters of visibility Deep dive Got it right now one of the things I see here I wonder if this is a function of the operator or if it's I'm gonna guess it's the operator I'm noticing these two divers both have what do you call those spare airs? So Yeah spare air split fins Yeah, snorkel on mass. I mean that these are one of the the piece of equipment that really get debated slash beaten up in the forums out there So let's see where we're going from here It's a wall dive And one of the things I've got to say you know despite you know you can Criticize or not there dive wear but look at the the woman I think it's a woman in front of this guy and she's she's in good form actually under arms wrapped and You know, they're both fairly vertical in the water, but I can't say anything bad about that so far, but let's see we're going from here Yeah, so apparently this is a wall dive where there's like an infinite or You can consider an infinite bottom, you know bottom where there's no bottom So that's always a risk. I know as as a dive leader myself, you know whenever you're taking someone into a situation like this Especially people that you don't know they're in cousin mom is Mexico. They're in cousin mom Mexico I assume this you know as a dive operator. They just you know sign some people up for a dive So yeah, you've always got to be thinking when you're somewhere with an infinite bottom where someone could just lose their buoyancy and you know go down and pop their ears or go below a dangerous step. That's always a serious situation, right? Yeah, so he's talking about yeah, if you lose your weights from this step. I think he said he's at like a hundred hundred feet 100 feet. So it's at 30 meters Talking about DCS danger All right All right 10 pounds on his belt. What is that three kilos? Yeah, I don't know I mean he looks like he has a fair bit of body fat and he's got no wetsuit at all aluminum-made even. Yeah, maybe reasonable who knows But he says his built has a plastic buckle now I I've only I think yeah, I all my all my gear has had Metal buckles stainless buckles, so I don't know about Yeah, I don't really have a lot of experience with plastic buckles maybe just a little bit But it's gonna make a point for him later. So let's keep that in mind plastic buckle So So now his buddy that it was all kind of I see no granted that there were both kind of vertical But at least the buddy you know looked calm with the hands wrapped it seems now the currents are gonna pick up and the buddy is Just blown apart here Yes, so there's There's the weight hang you can see the weight hanging off the back there and It's a huge weight. I don't know what that is But yeah, he doesn't feel this you know because he doesn't have a wetsuit on the bottom I don't think or maybe those shorts are over the wetsuit. I think you'd feel that that thing hanging like that Yeah becoming loose because it's plastic. I don't know. Please let me know experience out there I as I said I'm not a plastic buckle user, but so anyone else have had one come a loose like that I mean coming that loose it looks like it was just open. I don't know Sure is So now here he is he's walking across you know, he's I believe he's stepping on the wall with his fins So he's kind of not very aware in that sense of maybe You Looks like a beautiful dive honestly We got a nice a nice look at that air that spare air There it is on the back there goes right so the way both just fell off he didn't feel that really And look at this he's not trying to swim down at all Good grief How does he crash into the wall by losing his weights? He'd be losing Upward isn't it seemed like he went just went downward So we still had air in his BC he didn't think he didn't know to undo that good grief Good job on the instructor here Good job dive instructor dive master Hmm All right, so there's the one thing that I always tell my dive leaders and I'm sure these folks are very Adept at that you know when I'm diving and if I if I have a static group that I'm diving with for the weekend Those first that first dive possibly to I'm gonna be carrying extra weights just in case especially the first dive And especially if it's a boat dive right about dive you have no you know shortive at least you can walk back Possibly but you know I always tell the dive leaders. Yeah, I carry some extra weights on that first dive possibly to They might need to get dialed in once once that first dive or two are under your belt You know assuming you have some folks for a whole weekend which I often do then we don't have to carry extra weights after That so good on you this dive master instructor well done That's a good thing it has that spare air though, huh? Yeah, she's loading them up with weights Yeah Yeah, there we go. What do you think? So the the plastic buckle was it? Was it the plastic buckle? Plastic buckle users out there or dive operations who use plastic buckles? Yeah, this video brings up another fact for me which is usually people are more worried about oh Do I have a digital weight digital weight digital weight? Right, that's a mantra. We learned that right from open water However in my experience just like this it's much more common for people to lose their weight Unintended consequences, right? They lose their weight unintentionally Usually right when they come off the boat, right? They flip back and the belt is gone because they didn't have their hand on it I am told at the bottom of the speagle grove down in high morata. You can you can collect a lot of weight belts down there So something of the ponder most people are more preoccupied with the idea of digital weight Versus hey, you know, just keep my weight secure probably 999999% of the time. I'm gonna be okay Anyway, I forget the name of the fella who posted this. Let me see if I could find it Brian Brian, thank you so much for posting Again, you know, this is something for all of us to learn from. There's never should be never any you know picking or bullying on someone who posts something And I tell you it takes a lot of guts You know to put something up there know that it's gonna take a bunch of a bunch of criticism I'm surprised actually there are only 286 comments on this and Yeah, a lot of the comments were mentioning about holding onto the camera and not deflating your darn BC yourself Which yeah, I'd have to agree But anyway, so some interesting stuff out there if you Please please let us know your comments on that especially the plastic buckle Okay, I hope you enjoyed that another scuba never reacts. I will see you next time and see you on the beach You