Hey guys, very insightful video, and thank you for talking about the experience and sharing this information. A few people who watched this video have been commenting on ours asking for some follow-up, so I figured it would be best to just post here.

- We don't think this was a PADI discovery dive. We tried signing up at one the day before, but they didn't have any openings and recommended the place we eventually went with.
- Around the 20:06 mark, you can hear the guide say "this is the sign for touching," which is the same sign he later gave us when I touched the coral. Since this incident, we've learned that was a huge mistake. We've been in the ocean plenty of times since and haven't touched anything. It was our honeymoon, we wanted to do the excursion, and we trusted the guides.
- As of now, this was our first and last time scuba diving. We've been snorkeling plenty of times since and definitely feel more comfortable in the ocean, but unfortunately this is still in the back of our heads. We've briefly talked about getting scuba certified, but it may be a long journey to build up the courage.

Here's where things get a little interesting...
- The woman from the company who "helped" us during the hospital visit and dropped us off at our Airbnb gave us weird vibes. For starters, she kept asking the nurses if they could discharge me and was almost trying to hurry me out, saying I was likely good to go after the IVs. We both told the nurse to keep us there as long as they wanted.
- When she was dropping us off, she said this was "a great thing for the company to go through" and that she was proud of how everyone, including the staff, responded, blah blah blah. It felt out of place and was definitely not what we wanted to hear.
- This same woman also put us in "contact" with a diver she knew, and he emailed us this:

"I wanted to reach out to you regarding a couple of concerns you had about your scuba diving on company name/location*. I have been teaching scuba diving for a very long time and thought I might help with an explanation of a couple of things. Understandably you were somewhat shook up. I read the email you sent *name with some concerns and thought I would put your mind at ease.The first was the possibility you had run out of air. The tank you used still had 70 atm of air. It’s standard safety protocol when diving to return with a safety margin of at least 50 atm left in the tank. You still had more than that. The second concern you had was a build up of Carbon Dioxide in the tank. Scuba air is just normal air with a mix of 78% nitrogen 21% oxygen and 1% of other gases including some carbon dioxide. The air you breathe out, which would have a higher percentage of carbon dioxide does not go back into the tank. The amount of air you used up was entirely normal so it was unlikely you were holding your breath for long periods between breaths. This is called skip breathing and can cause you a headache after diving. I would not like to speculate on what medical condition caused your incident. I’m very glad you recovered quickly."


It seemed like they were just trying to cover up whatever happened, but we were just thankful nothing worse happened, and we were shaken up from the whole thing.

Gus is putting in overtime with the voice reply feature 😂😂 he loves it

Hot take. People who don’t even know to swim should not be scuba diving.

I have a dive log book that the dive centres i’ve used have stamped.. but when i’ve been asked my dive history they’ve never asked me to prove it.

dive instructor just casually giving his dying guest a hang ten and swimming away with a smile on his face.. brilliant

You can see the pressure gauge at 0. If you slow down the video to x0.25 and stop exactly at 24:25 you can see it all the way down in the red.

Hi guys, love your channel!

I am a PADI IDC Staff instructor and have taught more Discover scubas (DSDs) than I can count. It's a great introduction to scuba and it does count toward your open water. or scuba diver certification. DSD leader divemasters, the confined portion is a great way to learn to teach!. Here ar some issues I saw.

1) The confined portion has to be in "pool like" conditions, calm no waves.
2) When students are performing skills you must be within arms reach (all Padi training unless otherwise specified)
3) During a Padi discover scuba the instructor must always have direct supervision, be within arms reach and always control the divers inflator. This can not be delegated to a certified assistant (divemaster) on their first DSD.

Near drowning incidents can lead to secondary drowning due to water irritating the lung lining and damaging air sacs and fluid buildup.

I never had to prove my last dive other than a log book entry. Shops I've been to always make the first dive an easy one to evaluate people's level.

I used to be a freediving spearfisherman and this was my number one concern. That guy suffered a shallow water hypoxia blackout, a very dangerous situation in freediving that kills people. Id guess he still had his regulator in his mouth, so kept the water out of his lungs. Scary stuff, glad he was ok.

18:02 "You ride your dinosaur there?"
F'ing Gus! xD

The "myth" about the quarter turn back is rooted in valve design. Back in the olden days a different valve design was used. When you fully opened the valve, they could seize up due to different expansion rates under temperature change, like the colder water and further cooling from the expanding gas. The quarter turn back allowed for enough wiggle room in the valve assembly for the valve to not seize up. Modern valves use a different mechanism, so it's no longer necessary.

Why wasn’t the dive master on top of these people? This is insane! Thank you for sharing your amazing hearts!!

I have a question: for reference, I am not a diver, in regards to tanks that you guys bring for your “break in case of emergency“ rebreather dives (open circuit dives too), do they regularly check those tanks to make sure that they’re still good? Have there been instances in the past where those tanks should not have been dove with?

It’s just been eating at me so I thought I would ask.

Thank you for all you guys do❤❤

Gus, I agree completely that dive shops can't be detectives and at some point they have to rely on the honor system when people tell them they had their dive however many months ago. how is a little dive shop supposed to independently verify that?? that makes no sense.

Secondary drowning is not due to residual sea water that remains in your lungs.  It's due to the irritation and subsequent inflammation that was caused by the original seawater (now expelled), leading to localized edema and swelling -- the source of the fluid in secondary drowning is not from the external water (i.e. sea), it's from your own body.  That inflammation causes leakiness of your blood vessels, and the serum from your blood pools in the interstitial compartment.  That swelling prevents good exchange of oxygen and CO2. Same mechanism as any part of your body that swells when irritated or injured.

Secondary drowning is  a delayed respiratory complication that happens after someone inhales (aspirates) water into their lungs during a swimming incident.  Over the next few hours, that trapped water irritates the delicate lining of the lungs, causing inflammation.  This inflammation causes the body to flood the lungs with its own fluid, a dangerous condition called pulmonary edema. This fluid blocks the lungs from transferring oxygen into the bloodstream.

did a boat dive in fiji and had the deckhand turn mine and my wifes tank off, with a quarter turn on, at the rail as we waited to giant stride. I knew I had turned both our tanks on, and as I felt him fiddling I knew what was happening. confirmed it while I floated and watched him do the same with my wifes tank. Once we were both in the water I just fully opened them again and nothing bad happened. Was pretty pissed. politely explained to the DM after what had happened, he was apologetic. Mistakes happen.

"full service" scuba is fantastic, especially when you're doing 3-5 dives a day. I know my hands get chewed up after only a couple days of that. Having help makes it so nice, but you can't get complacent, you have to own your own safety. I know that feels like a contradiction to a lot of people and I get it. Everyone draws the line for personal risk tolerance at a different point. For me that means double checking everything, doing a good buddy check, and being as alert to what's going on around me as is reasonable.

17:25 is he filming a gauge that shows no pressure, while the guide says, "yup, tank is on"... that could've been fixed between that point and the accident, but man that sure feels like the smoking gun

Man I haven't tuned into Dive Talk in a year or so and wow!!!  GUS!   My man!  You've lost so much weight!!!  Looking good brother!  👌💪

Those tanks are so low 😂

Much respect to the both of you! I am a follower from way back in the day. Love you both! I am so grateful for Woody always explaining everything for non divers or divers that have been out of the sport for a long time like myself. I’d never heard of “try scuba” until now.

Bro touching the coral is wild

Had this happen to me. Learned later in life that if the tank is not all the way open, you can see it on the pressure gauge if you breath really hard on one of your second stage regs.