OMG – Its Just Wrong – These Divers Are Horrible Scuba Divers [Video]
You don’t come across this type of horrible diving often, or should I say I don’t come across this often. .. Fortunately..LOL
The video clip below depicts a group of divers in what appears to be about 10 meters of water. At first sight everything looks copacetic, but as time progresses you will begin to notice that there is something horribly wrong with this dive.
I certainly hope this is an intro to diving course, but I am not so certain because it is titled “Very bad Scuba Divers” in YouTube.
As an experienced diver, this video may evoke a certain uneasiness about these diver’s respect and appreciation for the sport of scuba diving which we know and love.
Take a few moment to study the following video and critique their diving technique before proceeding onward to the list of some of the common mistakes already pointed out about their dive by other viewers.
Watch this video and critique their dive in the comment area below.
One person commented:
“those people aren’t diving, they’re just breathing underwater – OMG”
A list of commonly identified problems/issues with this dive.
Did your list of scuba diving fopas include any of the following?
- Use of hands while diving
- Needlessly interfering with wildlife
- Touching the bottom and kicking up sand
- Pointless diving
- Just bad scuba diving form/fining/turning etc.. what trim??
- Lack of buddy system
Any more??
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Looks like a PADI Open Water Course, Open Water Dive 1 to me.
I hope so anyway. Any other scenario and the dive professional there just isn’t responsible enough to hold people’s lives in their hands at all.
If it is an OW1 class, the instructor has completely failed to teach their students buoyancy or respect for the wildlife yet, both of which should have been taught from the moment they entered the water for the Confined Water sessions, and to a certain extend before they ever get wet.
If they are students, you can’t blame them for not knowing how to dive though. It is 100% the Instructors responsibility to ensure they teach divers how to dive safely and responsibly before they get into any Open Water Dive….and this is FAR from responsible no matter how you slice it.
When considering taking a diving course, make sure you do research on a dive instructor before you pay a dime and avoid the low cost dive instructors unless you can reasonably prove they’re actually good instructors.
You can ask about a dive instructor at other dive shops in the area and online scuba diving forums, however recently certified students are probably the worst person you can ask for an instructor reference. I mean they just got done getting certified and then celebrating, most likely by getting drunk and partying together so they tend to be entirely jaded along with the fact that they have no idea what is, or is not, a complete or proper dive course.
If you don’t do your research on your instructor, you just might end up with a certification and still not know how to dive safely, or at all….or worse yet, you leave with a piece of paper declaring you are a certified diver but the certifying organization has never heard of you and you have to pay someone else for another entire course at most likely a higher price than the bargain class you got the first time around.
Besides, it’s only your life your playing with here. Not a big deal, right?
You are absolutely correct… every word
Hmmm…maybe an open water class, but I doubt PADI…PADI standard is that everyone has a snorkel. Looks more like some sort of cruise ship/resort “try scuba!” type setup.
Ya PADI. Our open water had everyone on the bottom of the lake and just do like this. Why I left padi quick
It just looks like a bunch of incompetent friends having a bit of a jolly on there holidays. It doesn’t look like they are padi qualified to me.
I AGREE!! THE PERSON TAKING THE VIDEO IS IN AS BAD A SHAPE AS THE REST!!
I agree, I was a NASE instructor for many years. I once set in on a PADI class and was horrified. The instructor makes all the difference. Bouyancy control is out the window here. All my students have to master that to pass even the open water class…
Video looks like Mexico to me. Obviously any skilled professional can see they are over weighted in lead. But since NONE of these people have been in the pool to train, typical of third world countries, what do you expect? The instructor of this group should be expelled but it will never happen because PADI is a selectively enforced and policed agency. Sad that the environment is the one that suffers the most.
Come on people 10 meters How about 3 – 5
These are a try SCUBA class and whoever is running it had the forsite to drop them in a sand flat so they wouldn’t hurt anything It is the equilvent of a pool dive with students the first time they are underwater out of the shallows
Hopefully these people will have enough fun that they will take a open water course and have time to get more comfortable in the water no matter if it is PADI SSI NAUI or whatever
First off, why are they there.. There’s nothing to see. Secondly these are obviously students or very new divers who need lots of practice on their buoyancy!
I’m going to agree with Kelly that this looks like dive 1 of an OW class. If that is the case then I cannot really fault the divers for poor buoyancy and bad form. I think it’s a rare student who has those mastered on their first open water dive. However, they should have had it drilled into them from the first classroom session that you DO NOT interfere with the wildlife, so there is really no excuse for that.
I just got my cert card about a month ago and even I know you don’t swing your arms and legs like that.
Congrats on your Cert Card 🙂
Blowing through air. All of them, including videographer and inhaling/exhaling the entire contents of their lungs ever other second. Look at what I call their “bubble trails” – they’re like choo-choo trains, puff puff puff puff. A relaxed diver breathes at the same rate as you would if you were laying in bed, and tasked with just moving your feet back and forth very slowly. These people, like a lot of people I see diving, have every breath EXPLODE out of them like they’re blowing out birthday candles and inhaling as if preparing to blow down a house. That’s why newbies go through their tanks in 20 minutes. Anxiety is responsible for some of that, moving your arms and legs uncontrollably is another.
Obviously newbie divers who need to work on their buoyancy control. But the bottom line is… They’re diving and I’m not right now… so good for them.
This looks very typical of a Bahamas “Oh, you’re not certified to dive …. let us give you 30 minutes of instruction and drop you in the water” dive. Sandy bottom near a few bits of coral for two reasons. 1) they don’t get cut up 2) they don’t destroy the coral. There is probably a sunken boat 25 yards away that was placed there just for them to “explore”.
Been there, as I’m sure you all have been too. UW video was insanely expensive when I first strapped up but I’m sure it was not a pretty sight either. Looks like a tourist group more so than an OW class as none are paired up and there is no obvious instructor or dive master in sight . No Buoyancy control and serious lack of familiarity with gear supports tour group rather than OW class…
My daughter is 12 and has way better buoyancy than this group of clowns…check her out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSF8h76_4vk
Sandy bottom, not to deep, inexperienced, I would say a discover scuba with too many divers to instructor ratio.
As a PADI instructor I hate to see freshly minted divers carrying GoPro cameras. They spend too much time and attention on shooting fun pics and video to show friends and not enough time on paying attention to what they are doing…plus monitoring air consumption and depth (not an issue on this shallow dive). Other new divers spend time mocking for the camera and also not paying attention. Whoever certified these divers did them a disservice.
Good thing its sand — at least it will settle. Would have beat the dog out of a reef
Looks like a intro to you death class,
Overweighting, horrible buoyancy control, walking on the bottom, bicycle kicking, arms flailing and attempting to accost the wildlife… where do I begin? The woman looks at her inflater valve like she’s never seen it before not to mention the guy with his gauges dangling who’s tricked out like a fishing lure. Looks like a discover scuba after 30 minutes in the pool to me.
Looks like a ” Discover Scuba ” group. Get people in a pool for an hour with tank and reg at a resort and then dump them in the shallows where there is no reef. Whoever the videographer was……got a lot to learn.
Waving hands for stability and stirring up the water with no leadership. Where are you going you may ask,without hint without a task.
I have to admit that as a freediver, they rather look pretty normal to me. Noisy, stirring the bottom, disrespecting animals, completely ridiculous as to how the move underwater, and rather sad when you come to think that at that depth you could hit the bottom if jumping from a mid height if you are not careful. It’s sad to admit it, but there are very few divers who are actually properly trained, and what you see here, is rather typical for most weekenders.
This is why I avoid day diving cattle boats like the plague, and primarily dive from live-aboards with a close knit group of hand picked friends. When I do dive with friends that are new divers, I work with them to teach them better buoyancy control, reef etiquette, and air conservation.
This is what you get from an industry that has spent the past 40 years, deliberately dumbing down the training, at every certification level – incompetent divers, with incompetent dive-masters, who were trained by underpaid instructors with little real diving experience of their own. I started diving in 1974, and became a NAUI, YMCA, and CMAS instructor in 1981. In those days, there were real requirements for experience and skills just to enter an ITC (Instructor Training Course). Not long after, just about anyone who could fog a mirror by exhaling could gain an instructor certification. Just trying to stay involved in dive training was a struggle from day-one, because the dive-training industry ALWAYS operated on a broken economic model. From the time I started, it was always set up to be nothing more than a “hobbyists trade” and those who were truly professional – who were in it out of real respect and passion for the sport – had no way to justify the economic investment in first acquiring the needed experience and training – in order to later deliver first-class training to their students. PADI – together with The Aggressor Company – worked together throughout the 80’s to systematically diminish training standards, lower age requirements, lower experience requirements, etc., – in an effort to keep the cost as low as possible (and therefore eliminate any economic incentives for REAL training professionals). They did this solely to manufacture as many certification cards for 10 year olds and their obese parents – so that they could go on week-long live-aboard trips to Cayman, enriching Wayne Hanson’s Aggressor Travel company. As someone who loved this sport, with every fiber of my being, who devoted 30 years to perfecting the skills and teaching them to others, I was fed up and angry enough about the continual onslaught of wannabees, that I quit and left them to their own devices. I was not alone. The substandard training model for cost containment – is not compatible with a philosophy of delivering the highest quality training, in a sport that is inherently dangerous and could be life-threatening. Nevertheless, the training agencies, the equipment manufacturers, and the other members of the industry, are all in dereliction of their commitment to this sport – because most of them are economically illiterate.
The result, is what you see on this video – and what you don’t see – is the egregious destruction of our reefs, marine life, and natural ecosystems, by unqualified, untrained, weekend-divers who crawl around on all fours over the corals and sponges of some of the world’s last reef ecosystems.
signed — Angry, Impoverished, Middle-Aged, FORMER Dive Instuctor
You hit the nail on the head friend!
Thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You hit multiple nails on the head! Let’s stay in touch and hopefully get folks educated safely in this arena.
I went on some dives, cruise sponsored in Jamaica, Ocho rios that was much worse….the dive master was taking us through lava tubes knocking things left and right stirring up dust every where…I would never let my kids dive there….came up with 0 air as my gage was busted and I had no depth gage….I have over 100 dives so I made it work but much dangerous…
Most divers are too pretentious. Eliminating assumptions, there is no ecological or safety issue here.
Even if douchebags or idiots follow the rules during training they will likely revert to their nature after. There’s no way to selectively give out c-cards just like drivers licenses.
There’s inconsiderate, unsafe morons above and below 0 fsw. You can’t control it. You can, however, control if you are a pretentious judgemental asshole. Divers that are learning but unsure need to feel welcome to come to you to get advice, not afraid because of the stereotype you are perpetuating.
STOP IT!!!
Justin Hill
20 year diver
Oh you narcissistic keyboard divers. They are not harming anyone or anthing. Sure that have poor buoyancy and waterman ship skills, but so did we all at one point in our diving careers. I think this is a discover scuba group and sticking near the sand is safer that having them bouncing off the sand and surface.
Come on divers lighten up. It is not a skill contest it is a recreational activity for pleasure. I will bet they are having more fun that you uptight divers ever have in the water.
Diive more, criticize less.
Agreed!! best comment yet.
they shove discover scuba divers out fast with little instruction, but gets them involved.
Well said… Thank you. These people are far too uptight.
Brand new divers. Obviously not to to look don’t touch. Probably a drop you in the water dive. I am sure this happens way more then we think.
Been diving for over 35 years. At best it’s a REAL sloppy class/or dive /total mayhem , at worst it’s just a first step in unsafe, money motivated “certing ” folks who have no business being there, just to pump out C cards. I’ve seen this is more dive ops that cater to the cruise ships and “quantity not quality” approach to diving.
I run a dive boat out of Morehead City, NC. I recently did a dive with a customer that has at least 50 dives (many, many more from other boats) from my boat. I didn’t need to see that. Wasn’t much better than this group and we were at 120′. As a Dive Boat Captain, I can say for sure that everyone who claims to be an experienced, dialed in diver is probably not. If you can’t hover 6″ from the bottom without touching it then you still need some practice. It just gets on my nerves how people get on their high horses about new divers when I see so called seasoned divers making the same errors.
do all you negative bitches judge how someone walks too?
before you jump to say they are certified scuba divers maybe you should get informed what this really is, perhaps a discover scuba dive, where there is very little instruction.
In the beginning you can see one of the divers with here weight belt around her ass, after that the video explains it all. Rookie divers most of all rookie instructor who should have never been given his instructors license and should have it revoked. These dive companies will do anything now to make a buck and because of that they will pass just about anyone. Old school diving aka respect diving is out and B.S diving is in. It sucks, especially for the wildlife!!
You are only responsible for your own actions. You have a choice when seeing something like this how to respond. Yes there is a lot of room for improvement with these divers–but do any of you really think that if any of them reads this post that you will do anything to increase their skills, or desire to protect the marine environment–or to stay in the sport and become BETTER DIVERS? You are all flying off the handle without any information–and worse yet turning this post into an opportunity to agency bash or pound your particular opinion into the e-waves.
If I were these diver’s instructor I would let them critique their own video, and ask them how I could help them make their next dive better and safer. Shame on all of you for being such judgemental jerks.
These guys look like exactly the type of diver the dive industry pumps out nowadays. Streamlined, dumbed down courses with no attention to proper technique.
The point is to create consumers for the dive industry, particularly the resorts.
There is no swim training any more, the courses rely on catchy acronyms and very little else. A diver in the PADI system can rip through so-called advanced courses and be granted a “Master” rating with under 50 dives.
Proper training that produces a safe, competent, diver, takes time and costs a little more. When it was time to get my son certified, there was no question. We went with a friend of ours that teaches the DIR method. Sure, the DIR approach can be a little obsessive, and some practitioners can be a little pedantic but it produces safe and superior divers with proper technique and equipment management.
You get what you put in to it.
I hope these foolhardy idiots who call themselves ‘divers’ never come to Canada. I wouldn’t want anyone up here to be risking their lives for people as foolish as these wannabe’s in our cold dark waters. If you don’t have a healthy respect for nature and take diving seriously, you shouldn’t be in the water. In my opinion….it reminds me of a resort giving basic instruction like they used to do some twenty years in Mexico and bringing people to shallow water diving. I thought it was outlawed.,
That is sadly one of the most judgmental and egocentric remarks I think someone could make about these “new/rookie/poorly-trained/call-it-what-you-will” divers. This is like observing a child riding on the lap of a parent in the driver seat of a semi truck and insulting them for not knowing how bad carbon emissions are, or blaming the parent for not better teaching their child the importance of keeping the earth clean.
For Chrxxx sake the child doesn’t know any better! He/she is living out a new experience with someone that is more experienced and should therefore be encouraged to explore that! The first time encounter (scuba or child trucker), while cringeworthy, will not cause complete disaster
Let’s not treat this as any different and work on encouraging divers to get out and improve their skills. You’ll catch a lot more flies with sugar than you will vinegar
WELL said Wayne ….&Beth,we all crawled before walking..
Looks like a group of people who have just discovered they can breathe underwater. Obviously excited and don’t mind stirring up the bottom a little. The fish are obviously enjoying the extra snacks these folks are putting in the water for them. As far as dive skills go, they are obviously lacking but they are having fun in a relatively safe environment (no current, shallow water, crystal clear). If I were tasked with giving people a first time feel for diving, this would be a perfect environment for doing it with little risk to life.
Seriously folks, critiquing these divers for lack of buoyancy control, flailing, etc etc isn’t necessary. While I’m also a bad actor on the web for responding emotionally to clickbait, I have to call us out on this one. This serves no useful purpose other than to criticise some folks who aren’t divers for having a good time and to give more skilled divers the opportunity to give us a bad name.
I’ve been diving over 20 years and I am a PADI instructor. This is clearly not a PADI OW class that is for sure, This is clearly a group from a resort course and an extremely poor one at that. This is their first time in the ocean. They are on a sand bottom and are not really disturbing it that much. So this story is over hyped. As for the industry being ‘dumbed down’ that is an unsupported claim. The problem is shops that place $$ over quality. Doesn’t matter which organization it is.
I totally agree with James TerHark. I’m a DM with some tec diving experience. The video commentary is totally overblown. It looks like a handful of people on a Discover Scuba course in 15ft of water. Whatever. I hope they had fun. But more importantly, I hope they didn’t get negative feedback that will dissuade then from furthering their dives and training.
Forget all the criticisms about different training organisations and how rigorous training used to be, the bottom line is this would be below everyone’s standards in any course, in any training agency. It could definitely only be a discover scuba. That is why they are there and that there is little to see… = little to damage and annoy. A smart spot to put these ‘underwater breathers’. Is there lots done wrong, absolutely. Are they on an OWC, highly doubtable.
Oh, get off your high horse, people, its just a bunch of noobs. And no, they aren’t doing anything “wrong”
stirring up the bottom is not critical here. This isn’t a cave diving course. Using your hands is not wrong. Its just unfashionable among the scooby-doos. Wait until you graduate to rebreathers, You’ll see.
Pointing at a fish is also not a crime. Those fish were not worried in the least about it.
Oh, and as far as which agency is conducting the class? doesn’t matter at all. Nobody teaches diving. All they teach is survival. You learn diving on your own.
The kind of diver you become is no more related to the class you took than the driver you are now is related to the drivers ed class you took in high school.
Please show the noobs some courtesy, and don’t fall into the D.I.L.D.O.E. (Do it like dis or else) trap.
As Abraham Lincoln once said, There are greater things on the water and under it than are imagined in your PADIVERSE philosophy.
I tend to agree- this looks like either a Try Scuba or maybe OW1. The sheer lack of reef or structure and what looks like no more than 20 feet in depth, coupled with a complete lack of corrections by the dive master really make this look like a Try Scuba.
If that’s the case, I hardly expect buoyancy from any of the divers. I noticed a couple fiddling with masks and gear, but don’t think I saw anyone ever check their SPG.
Certainly the diver shouldn’t be trying to touch the fish, but people get excited no matter how much you might warn against it. It may not be a lack of instruction there as much as exuberance on the part of a new diver. We don’t know if the dive master took any corrective action after the dive.
Overall I think this whole thread comes off really snooty on the part of experienced divers. Yes, all those mistakes are being made, anyone with a C-card can see it. But they are mistakes made by people who are obviously not divers. At least not yet, and let’s give them a chance to improve before we cast them out of ‘the club’ for being new (and maybe a little too excited) about something.
intro dive for a bunch of friends…operator makes money
I dont see anything horrible from this video. Instead, i see a group of grand new OW divers. Take it easy folks, they will get better after 15-20 logs. Tell me that u dove like a pro when ur C card was still shiny. The only thing is that they need to stop trying to touch those fish, which is easy to understand; they were excited.
Oh, and the water doesnt look like 10m to me.
for a discover scuba, they all seemed pretty comfortable in the water.
they cannot be a certified scuba divers, they’re probably DSD and their instructor who to blame. you can tell that they’re not certified divers by the looking at some of their weight belts also the one who videotaping. it just sucks, I don’t wanna waste another minute commenting about such wired creations NOT human being.
They are obviously newbies and they’re not doing anything that I’m sure every new diver has done…yes even all of you self proclaimed experienced divers. This is the problem with the Internet; someone shares a video to show their friends and family what they’re up to and all the experts out there jump all over them! Get a life people!
Listen- I often wonder why I disassociate myself with most divers, then I realize that most (not all) are a bunch of pompous ARSES. Most of us are Recreational Diver’s and the last time I checked- Recreation is defined as: An activity done for enjoyment/ fun when one is not working. There is nothing greater than to see a diver get in the water for the first time and watch the astonishment on his/her face as he begins to experiment with his bouyancy control, breathing, fin kick and balance. It brings me great joy. That being said: Scuba police- Please get off their back. Take a look at yourself and remember what it was like to be in their fins as a new diver. Now for you environmentalist- please get a life. I don’t see a reef being destroyed plus the video never tell the entire story. I once dove a cave system on a 80 cu tank and the scuba police was on me like flies on (You know What). Well after 14000 hits on the scuba board, I reaffirmed that most divers are a bunch of know it all people. They love to critique safety concerns, give lessons, and talk shop- unfortunately over half of the divers that I know are overweight with an over inflated ego and probably couldn’t swim the 500 m if they were towed. So what’s safe about that? Please do me a favor, next time you want to critique someone- check yourself! As for myself, I’m almost 50, I dive every weekend plus 3 or 4 times during the week. I run 2 miles a day, I swim 4.5 miles every week and I am glad those folks had a great time. Additionally, I love diving and will promote the sport in a positive and safe manner. Love Bubbles!
They just look like a group of recently qualified mates having a fun dive. Yes their bouyancy control and air consumption isn’t great, but it looks like an easy environment to learn in, you can’t do much harm in 6 or 7 metres on a sandy bottom. I’m sure the first dives we all did with a bunch of mates were far from perfect model dives. Cut them some slack and admire them for taking the first step in a life time of a great hobby. We all had to start somewhere and I’m sure even these muppets will improve over time.
In viewing this video, it is important for me to know whether these divers are certified or whether the resort simply handed some gear and said go have fun. I would assume the latter on what is in the video. Buoyancy is all over the place and the word trim does not seem to exist. Constant hand movements do not help at all for trim. One diver reached for a fish. Do not touch the wildlife! Respect it. I have to agree this doesn’t appear to be in 10 meters of water. i would guess 4-5 meters based on how quickly the cameraman came up. Divers also need to pay attention to each other. It seems that somebody swam into the cameraman at 2:38. Be aware of each other and the environment. I would gladly volunteer to help get these divers in a certified OW environment following established diving protocol. I believe with proper instruction they will become much more aware of themselves and the environment.
Im guessing it’s a discover course based on the lack of skills. Good thing they wee not on reef.
YIKES! There are some pretty harsh comments floating around here. Let’s all go back to our first few dives… Were YOU any better? I’m going to go with a BIG NO! We ALL SUCKED when we started diving. But we loved it and we kept practicing and learning from more experienced divers (like you). Doing so, we progressed. Just like they will IF they get the encouragement they need. If they just hear YOU SUCK, BLAH BLAH BLAH…. how likely do you think they will be to want to continue. After all, isn’t this the best sport in the world?! And aren’t we as divers supposed to support each other?
I’m an instructor, I’ve taught in Canada, California and the Caribbean. I’ve seen all abilities. When I teach my classes I also teach peak performance buoyancy as part of my OW courses. My mission is to produce divers that not only feel comfortable with their new found skills but continue to dive. By the time we hit open water, hovering should be second nature. Trim is excellent, weights are correct and positioned properly, gauges are clipped off close to the body and as a result the divers are more comfortable and don’t blow through a tank halfway through dive 01.
Training is key. Period. The instructor is SO important to the student’s success… regardless of agency… regardless of the program, discover scuba, open water or whatever.
As professionals, it’s OUR responsibility to make sure our students are ready for the challenges of breathing underwater.
Dive Safe.
Wow its national have a go at PADI week.
I have seen good and BAD instructors from ALL agencies. I do regret that PADI have alot of bad, but thats because they have more. I have dived with some execellent divers throughout the years, but refuse to teach now due to cutting corners and all this online stuff.
It does look like a Discover scuba session to me, and also conducted where standards are low…. but lets not tarnish a whole agency for some divers.
I am a Padi MSD, I having been diving for quite some time now, and I have never seen any thing as bad as this in all the years that I have been diving, This is not only very Dangerous, but but also gives the sport a very bad rep, So who every if responsible for this, needs a good kick in the pants, and his or her Licence revoking.
Hello as a very new diver my self [only 8 logged dives ]i feel if they are new divers or discover scuba course they should be given some slack as i well know inexperienced divers such as my self will make mistakes and need advice not condemning ,yes they shouldn’t be touching wild life one of the first things i was taught in the class room section but we all need practice to get things right and as for weather is padi or someone else i think as some have said its more to do with the instructor as ive been with both padi and ssi instructors and i feel they have both been good and helping me with advice especially my ssi ones .
Anthony a new diver
Looks like a typical group of newbie divers, or perhaps a resort dive. At least they’re over sand. Here’s an example of a really bad diver, and I understand he’s an instructor (turn off sound, it’s kind of insulting and not necessary)… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhvHTHLg418
One diver has two yellow octo’s, (both being yellow) signifies that both are up for grabs (pardon the pun) in an out of air situation. (not good) and secondly it appears the 2nd octo is some how drapped around the primary octo – grab that and you have both again not good !!!
These are all experienced divers faking, for the sake of argument.
In the wrong context it’s giving a bad name to divers..
Not so much about the STUDENTS from some resort where training is fast and not so safe. Why was this even published. It’s just a bad video of newbie divers. Ya wasted our time watching this.
Och away and dry your eyes- a beginner tried to touch a fish- big deal?! Pretty sure it was unfazed, and had probably evaded a shark attack the night before. Divers don’t assume immediate mastery of buoyancy and controlled breathing; in fact for many overcoming the excitement and/or anxiety involved in the early dives would easily explain away the flapping of hands and legs. It doesn’t give a bad name to anyone except the advanced padi divers above with all 8 dives to their names all mouthing off in a huge pissing contest about who knows most about what,,,,,
Looks like a Resort Dsd dive.
I watched this and thought it looked a little like a PADI IDC (Instructor Development Course) and the student instructors that make up the group had been told to move away, get side tracked with a fish etc and see what the (student) instructor in charge does! Obviously the idea is that the student instructor will spot that a student is moving away from the group, if not valuable lesson learned – all done in a controlled way so that it (hopefully) never happens for real.