@@waywardriley long ago I always had trouble with de-fog not working on my mask. So letting a little water in to clear was habitual. And I think people need to know when to break and when to just exhale. Mixing those up can lead to a very bad time.
Yeah I had the same thing doing my training. Is whenever I would get air in my mask I would freak out and usually swim to the surface. But one day I just stopped and did the procedure
@@waywardrileyfor some reason I imagined a full scuba set diver, flailing around in a kiddie pool, freaking out about their mask falling off, and that they're gonna drown while the pool barely has any water in it anymore due to them being larger than the kiddie pool XD!
When I was in young marines we had to learn how to properly use scuba gear, and our instructor would randomly swim by people and rip off masks to see how they handled the situation. 10/10 would recommend
I mean considering some of the awful and deadly "hazing" the military gets up to, are we _sure_ that was just training and not the instructor being a psychopath? :P
Damn dude, I wish to have experiences like this. My young marines unit is a hot mess of bullshit and stuff not being put into the system. I’ve clocked probably around 50 hours in the 1 and 1/2 years I’ve been there (not many community service events), and in the system I still have 0 hours
Another thing is to make sure your mask fits properly and has a nice seal. The instructor gave me one with a scuffed seal that I had to keep clearing. Then it filled up all of a sudden and everything went dark. I went to the surface after that happened. I know I should have just stayed calm but I had never swam in the pacific ocean before and the current was unlike anything I had ever felt.
That’s awesome! Stoked for you to get certified and get started in diving! I think the younger you can get started the better, because the certification lasts a lifetime. ☺️
Hasn’t happened to me yet either, but I have had to take it off to try and figure out why the thing was leaking on me once. The strap was folded under the mask seal letting water in constantly. 😂🤣
@@starhawke380guess it depends on what you do and how much you dive. Eventually you'll have a leak or an issue like a rare fog and you need to clear a your mask. Also if you're doing some cave diving or wreck diving its very easy to knock a mask off in a restriction.
I did one of my certification dives near an island with seals and sea lions, on top of them swimming around grabbing my octopus and regulator, one grabbed my mask and pulled it off. Pretty fun experience overall
yeah it’s definitely scary when you suddenly lose vision in the water, but getting the mask back on and blowing out the water isn’t hard with a little practice. depending on the salinity of the water it will definitely sting for a little while tho lmao
@@jhood2052No, it's not. This is a myth and a dumb one at that. Yes Urine reacts with Chlorine but so does **every other bodily fluid**. It's not always or even usually pee that is causing this smell. Other things in the environment also interact with and activate Chlorine without you even getting in the pool. Also yes you probably have pee in your eyes, it's a public pool you get what you pay for~
@@jhood2052 The chlorine reacts with urea, which is present in every bodily fluid including sweat, tears, and indeed urine. Even a pool that has not been pissed in will have the classic pool smell of trichloramine. If it stings, you've either been exposed for too long, or the pool is helplessly over-chlorinated. Please be mindful about spreading misinformation. Thanks.
It’s fundamental and once I got it down once it’s almost second nature after that. It a a bit of trial and error but you can clear you mask with practice. Also, when in salt water DO NOT PANIC. You’re eyes will sting but as my dive certification instructor told me your eyes and the water have the same salt content and you’re eyes will get used to the salt levels after a while so just stay calm and try to surface safely if you’re mask can’t clear or your eyes start hurting as panic can cause complications. Don’t panic, SCUBA divings supposed to be fun and relaxing, just remember to keep cool.
My biggest problem with mask removal is when I breathe in, I sometimes accidentally get water come up my nose and that’s when I start panicking. Water temp here is also 10-12C most of the time so it hits you like a tonne of bricks when it comes off.
@@JohnTitorrrrrr Yeah that makes sense I’m in like 25 I see why that might be a problem for you I’ve always been in nice and warm waters so I haven’t felt that shock of cold like that
Agreed, it is so important no matter what to stay calm. I remember taking classes and when we had to show that we could do it we had to do it in brackish water.
Love this detailed type of guide. I can agree with many of these ideas, the only thing i may see being a problem to people is that some want to just play a normal game and not really need complex tactics. Still, I love what youre doing! Keep it up!
when I was getting my scuba diving license with my brother we had this excersise when we had to go like 10 meters down in the ocean and take off our masks and then put it back on again. AND HOLY MOTHER OF GOD! IT WAS TERRIFYING. The first point he makes of remembering to just breathe is so acurate, you have to calm down, but once you get past that stage, scuba diving is some of the most amazing thing a human can experience!
I remember learning Scuba. We had an activity where we would switch masks with one of the other learners, and if the mask was too big or small, instead of putting on the strap, we would just hold the mask to our face
You make it look so easy! It takes a lot of practice to resist the panicking sensation once the mask comes off. Took me quite a few attempts during my dive cert
Appreciate it. Last time this happened to me I ended up dropping it, and a fish followed me all the way back to my dental practice and caused quite a ruckus. 🙏
We did lessons in the open sea and my eyes are somewhat sensitive to salt water. So doing that i just closed my eyes completely qnd did everything by touch. Later when had some more boring lessons i intentionally "lost" my mask to only put it back on and clear the water for some training/entertainment
My grandma was an old school SAR diver in the days when women were not doing that sort of thing (shes now 70 and still doing shallow dives). She had us do this more times than I can remember with variations. She would pull our masks off than spin us around so we didnt know what direction we were facing and would have to reoriant ourselves and either re-don the mask or surface depending on if it got knocked loose or knocked off. Doing it while maintaining bouancy with one leg, fins and no fins, all sorts of stuff. You really appreciate this stuff being drilled into you when you get into a sketchy situation in the pacific
Never thought I would need to do it in open water back when I did my course. However I was doing behind my dad one time, and he accidentally kicked my mask off, very glad that they teach this skill as part of the standard open water drivers license
That's part of the training, and I gotta say it was the hardest and scariest part of it. After a while you start getting comfortable but the first time is nuts
The hardest part of learning this was maintains steady breath while my nose was exposed to water. Really makes you focus on which muscles you’re exerting to actually inhale.
I took the open water scuba class with my school once and i remember how scared i was when we were training to do that. I was always a very paranoid person, and when it came to me not being able to see under 15m of water i got super scared and thought id drown. I was putting on my mask and because of the pressure, a ton of water got into my nose. I was coughing so bad i was about to go up, but i was lucky to have 2 amazing mentors with me. I learnt that day that all it takes is to breathe and keep calm. Thanks to that I was able to get my scuba degree.
i still remember having to do this for my open water when i was 10, i was so scared, had to wait until the end of the dive where we were at 2 meter depth, my instructor was so patient haha great memories
Another thing that helps prevent panicking, especially in new scuba divers is just holdinf your nose closed for a few seconds, to remind you that everything is fine.
When I got my diver's cert, the instructor was a retired army guy, and he made us jump in with no equipment aside from a vest with 4 lead weights in it, and he'd throw the equipment in the water and we had to put everything on and working without coming back up for air. Actually was a lot of fun.
I remember learning this at an intro PADI class when I was on vacation at like 14. It was just me and one other guy in the class. I've taught it to my kids now and it has been very useful.
Fact people tend to forget is that cast iron may retain heat well but it also heats unevenly. The issue is people often think of these things as synonymous.
It's this initial feeling of drowning I get when water gets up my nose. It's indeed good to practice this skill once in a while just to stay used to it in case it really gets knocked off sometime.
Ya water in your nose is uncomfortable and if you inhale just the tiniest bit (through the nose) it escalates so quickly. I think I unknowingly keep a little positive pressure pushing out my nose just to keep the water pushed out a bit. Idk 🤷♂️
This is also useful for defogging the lenses. Push on the bridge of the mask to let a little water in, look down so it rinses the glass, and then do this. Obviously less recommended if you're in salt water.
Thank you, please keep sharing this education. I enjoy it, and I'll give it to others too. learning how to dive with tanks and scuba. i've been free diving for my entire life. And this is new. Thank you.
Thank you for the nice comment! I’ve been scuba diving for 13 years or so and just learning free diving! So far I think my maximum depth was only 12 or 14 meters. 🤦♂️
My grandpa was a scuba diver for a long time, and let us use his snorkel and mask in the pool. He taught us this and a few other things, like entering the water properly. Happy memories
The first time i learned to do this at the bottom of a pool, i had a panic attack, the entire time trying to communicate to my instructor, in shaky hand signals i had just learned, that i was ok, just needed to breathe through the nerves. Scariest moment of my life at the time, but he waited patiently and let me do the skill. The feeling of completing something that scares you, by yourself is such a confidence boost. Great instruction!
Yes. The first rule of scuba diving. If you are breathing, you are fine. Are you blinded? Disoriented? Stuck? Are you breathing? If so, you are going to figure out a solution.
We had a scuba diving lesson during our swim unit at the pool connected to our high school, they wouldnt let you into the deep end until you could do this (except you had to let the water creep into the mask instead of just taking it right off). It took me a really long time because it felt like the sensation of drowning (and im really familiar and comfortable with water). I was able to do it eventually though
Another thing is to make sure no hair gets into any of the seams otherwise it leaks, spent ages on my first session wondering why it was filling even with a tight seal 🤣
I learned this during my padi license and it’s by far the most terrifying thing for me. Not when I put my respirator upside down and started breathing water and not when I ran out of air. The idea that I could lose my mask is top 1 of fear
This was the single hardest part of my course. I grew up using a hand to plug my nose because water would always shoot straight up my sinuses. I couldn't seem to keep it out. During mask drills, I'd feel the water so far up my nose i went into immediate panic drowning mode. I had to come up with my own strategy to pass.
It helps to practice breathing without a mask entirely. Your brain will be forced to figure it out. Do it in shallow water and even just with a snorkel.
i had actually big problems when earning my divers license with this skill. had to train it in shallow water before performing in the practical exam haha
What I found to be the most important was sharing one breathing equipment whilst swimming with 2 people. To train to share in case one system broke down
This was, weirdly, the scariest part of scuba training for me. I didn't at all mind regulator loss/recovery or even navigation in poor visibility seawater. Having to take my mask off made me feel so exposed.
Few years agoI asked a question on Facebook about taking a mask off underwater(no matter the depth), putting them back on, and having them being full of water, and how to empty it, and my half-brother explained the answer. A friend sometime later asked about misunderstanding the question, and she mentioned goggles, and I explained it to them and the difference between the mask and goggles, then my bro cameback and insulted them and said "You dont dive with goggles" and he went on and on with an attitude for some reason. The discussion went downhill over a stupid misundertanding, to the point he started insulting my dead mom, and brother. Him and I never spoke again. Good riddance if you ask me. This post reminded me of that, kiiind of unrelated to the post, but just +1 comment to the algorithm gods. :D Thanks.
I once got to try out scuba diving on a class trip to Italy. We started out in a swimming pool and had a great instructor, but I barely managed to stay under water for five minutes before I panicked and hyperventilated and had to leave the pool because I felt like I was going to faint, throw up or both 🫡 (I was like half a meter below the surface at that point lol)
This was the hardest skill for me. Every time I would breath I would suck in a little bit of water through my nose and started to choke. The only way I passed the skill was to plug my nose and do it that way. I still don’t feel comfortable with this and need to practice it without plugging my nose so I am 100% confident
when i did my padi license, the 3 things we did most often, was this, continous exhaling exercise while moving up and secondary octopus usage training.
The worse part of the training was when the instructor cuts of you air supply from the tank valve so you have to signal your buddy to give you spare breather.
Knowing these sorts of techniques make a huge difference to me. I'm seriously short-sighted, so need a dive mask fitted with strong lenses (-9/-9.5) or I'm not gonna see squat...
Thanks for telling us all something we had to do to get certified. Also one thing ive learned from dving is snorkels are completely unnecessary, all they do is give you a migraine on your temple and flop around and wreck your streamline.....
I remember going through SCUBA training. They had us swim underwater without our mask for 10 minutes. Every time we went into the water, we did this drill. Years later, I actually had to do this. On a dive rescue in zero visibility at 30 feet in 35 degree water. I was trying to find a submerged vehicle with 5 victims in it on the bottom of a river. I found the car by bashing my face mask into the bumper, dislodging/flooding it. I was able to clear it. I rescued 3 victims. Unfortunately, all 7 people involved did not survive despite long and aggressive resuscitation (cold water drowning). It was one of the worst single vehicle drowning incidents in Michigan. 2 adults and 5 children. May they rest in peace.
Wow, thank you for sharing your story. That sounds like a nightmare. A simple skill like this performed under stress is much more difficult than people think, and I can’t imagine it in your scenario. Great work to help that family and I wish the outcome would have been better. I truly wish you the best moving forward.
My favorite lesson when I got certified for open water diving, was the fact that a “controlled” emergency ascent requires you to constantly scream all the way up. For those curious, the purpose of screaming as you ascend is to rid yourself of oxygen, cause if this man has taught you correctly, youll know that the deeper you go the more oxygen you need, so when you rise you need to get rid of excess oxygen, or you will face a “internal explosion” as I was taught from too much air.
Honestly this is really good information for someone that wants to try going underwater or like me that would love to learn how to weld underwater going to school for welding this is my next step💯🙏Thank you for your time
Most annoying part is ignoring the inevitable stinging of your eyes for a few minutes from the salt water. Only quick fix is to rinse with freshwater and there's none of that you can get to fast. Just have to deal with the stinging
I took a basic scuba class in college and I remember this causing me to panic the first few times it happened, but then you get used to it & remember to breathe
When first getting certified, decades ago, the instructor made use do a lap underwater withe just the reg, and no mask, to let us experience that we could still breath, with our noses exposed. Also, later, when The Abyss was playing in the theaters, to mimic breathing fluid, we'd flood and clear our masks, by not hold the mask, and slowly blowing thru our nose, letting the water level drop slowly, so it kinda looked like that Abyss scene.
that's really clever. only works because of the mask going over the nose and because of the weird usually unimportant quirk of the human body that means we can breathe through two different holes
Best way to demonstrate it is neutrally buoyant...not kneeling on the floor, otherwise students end up doing it vertically and swimming up without thinking as they are multi tasking
One of the most important skills. It is one of the fundamental skills you learn.
Yesss! It’s often people panic when the mask is removed, remembering to breathe is 💯 🤙
@@waywardriley long ago I always had trouble with de-fog not working on my mask. So letting a little water in to clear was habitual.
And I think people need to know when to break and when to just exhale. Mixing those up can lead to a very bad time.
I'd argue the most important skill here Is don't try and breathe with your nose
Never got taught this but knew how to do it.
@@waywardrileywhich diving organisation are you in? I'm in cmas
The most calming thing to me during my training was remembering that i have air and will be ok if I keep calm.
Same for me. I always tell myself I have what I need to survive already with me. And my buddy next to me has a backup.
Same
As a recently qualified OW I couldn’t agree more
We practiced this in apnée and the looked who could empty it the most times 😂
Yeah I had the same thing doing my training. Is whenever I would get air in my mask I would freak out and usually swim to the surface. But one day I just stopped and did the procedure
Again instructions unclear, the mask kept sliding off my head and I ended up needing rescue by a life guard at a children’s pool😢
Hahahaha 😂😂😂 you were scuba diving in a children’s pool?
@@waywardrileydon't judge
Wait
@@waywardrileyfor some reason I imagined a full scuba set diver, flailing around in a kiddie pool, freaking out about their mask falling off, and that they're gonna drown while the pool barely has any water in it anymore due to them being larger than the kiddie pool XD!
Anyone remember that SpongeBob episode where him and Patrick got butt cramp and was drowning when Larry just walked over to pick them up? 😂
When I was in young marines we had to learn how to properly use scuba gear, and our instructor would randomly swim by people and rip off masks to see how they handled the situation. 10/10 would recommend
I wonder what was the typical reaction the first time they experienced that?
@@waywardriley oh it was a lot of panicking 12yo in a swimming pool lol
I mean considering some of the awful and deadly "hazing" the military gets up to, are we _sure_ that was just training and not the instructor being a psychopath? :P
Damn dude, I wish to have experiences like this. My young marines unit is a hot mess of bullshit and stuff not being put into the system. I’ve clocked probably around 50 hours in the 1 and 1/2 years I’ve been there (not many community service events), and in the system I still have 0 hours
@@StalwartTirithshut up
Another thing is to make sure your mask fits properly and has a nice seal. The instructor gave me one with a scuffed seal that I had to keep clearing. Then it filled up all of a sudden and everything went dark. I went to the surface after that happened. I know I should have just stayed calm but I had never swam in the pacific ocean before and the current was unlike anything I had ever felt.
Im saving up to get certified and i find these kinds of videos extremely informative.
That’s awesome! Stoked for you to get certified and get started in diving! I think the younger you can get started the better, because the certification lasts a lifetime. ☺️
@@waywardriley agreed. I'm 33 now and ngl wish I would've done it when I was younger but still got time and I plan on using it lol
An important skill, and one that i do practice on occasion. However, after 40 years of diving, not once has my mask gotten knocked off in a dive.
Hasn’t happened to me yet either, but I have had to take it off to try and figure out why the thing was leaking on me once. The strap was folded under the mask seal letting water in constantly. 😂🤣
@@waywardriley ooh, thats a bad day diving, but still better than a good day at work!
@@starhawke380guess it depends on what you do and how much you dive. Eventually you'll have a leak or an issue like a rare fog and you need to clear a your mask. Also if you're doing some cave diving or wreck diving its very easy to knock a mask off in a restriction.
I did one of my certification dives near an island with seals and sea lions, on top of them swimming around grabbing my octopus and regulator, one grabbed my mask and pulled it off. Pretty fun experience overall
I've never had a mask knocked off but I have had one leak slowly to where I would need to purge it every so often.
yeah it’s definitely scary when you suddenly lose vision in the water, but getting the mask back on and blowing out the water isn’t hard with a little practice. depending on the salinity of the water it will definitely sting for a little while tho lmao
I agree! Practice makes it much less stressful
If the water stings or burns and the pool smells like chlorine. Its a chemical reaction with piss in the pool. Now you know something useful 😊😊
@@jhood2052No, it's not. This is a myth and a dumb one at that. Yes Urine reacts with Chlorine but so does **every other bodily fluid**. It's not always or even usually pee that is causing this smell. Other things in the environment also interact with and activate Chlorine without you even getting in the pool.
Also yes you probably have pee in your eyes, it's a public pool you get what you pay for~
@jhood2052 I think they where also talking about lakes and oceans, where salt or acidic levels can cause eye irritation
@@jhood2052 The chlorine reacts with urea, which is present in every bodily fluid including sweat, tears, and indeed urine.
Even a pool that has not been pissed in will have the classic pool smell of trichloramine. If it stings, you've either been exposed for too long, or the pool is helplessly over-chlorinated.
Please be mindful about spreading misinformation. Thanks.
"Remember that if I breath, everything will be fine"
Me being dumb and breathing in through my nose underwater
It’s fundamental and once I got it down once it’s almost second nature after that. It a a bit of trial and error but you can clear you mask with practice. Also, when in salt water DO NOT PANIC. You’re eyes will sting but as my dive certification instructor told me your eyes and the water have the same salt content and you’re eyes will get used to the salt levels after a while so just stay calm and try to surface safely if you’re mask can’t clear or your eyes start hurting as panic can cause complications. Don’t panic, SCUBA divings supposed to be fun and relaxing, just remember to keep cool.
Imho your eyes sting less in the ocean compared to a swimming pool.
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My biggest problem with mask removal is when I breathe in, I sometimes accidentally get water come up my nose and that’s when I start panicking.
Water temp here is also 10-12C most of the time so it hits you like a tonne of bricks when it comes off.
@@JohnTitorrrrrr
Yeah that makes sense I’m in like 25 I see why that might be a problem for you I’ve always been in nice and warm waters so I haven’t felt that shock of cold like that
Agreed, it is so important no matter what to stay calm. I remember taking classes and when we had to show that we could do it we had to do it in brackish water.
Calm is everything!
It was so fun doing this training for my scuba license. It’s so simple. Had zero problems doing this.
Love this detailed type of guide. I can agree with many of these ideas, the only thing i may see being a problem to people is that some want to just play a normal game and not really need complex tactics. Still, I love what youre doing! Keep it up!
when I was getting my scuba diving license with my brother we had this excersise when we had to go like 10 meters down in the ocean and take off our masks and then put it back on again. AND HOLY MOTHER OF GOD! IT WAS TERRIFYING. The first point he makes of remembering to just breathe is so acurate, you have to calm down, but once you get past that stage, scuba diving is some of the most amazing thing a human can experience!
I remember learning Scuba. We had an activity where we would switch masks with one of the other learners, and if the mask was too big or small, instead of putting on the strap, we would just hold the mask to our face
Thank you for showing this, I’m planning on joining the marines and this is a drill they teach !!
You make it look so easy! It takes a lot of practice to resist the panicking sensation once the mask comes off. Took me quite a few attempts during my dive cert
I'm going scuba diving on new years, so I subbed.
Appreciate it. Last time this happened to me I ended up dropping it, and a fish followed me all the way back to my dental practice and caused quite a ruckus. 🙏
This was the hardest part of my diver training.
It gets easier with practice though, don’t you agree? Eventually second nature.
@@waywardriley Oh I did get it, But I hate opening my eyes underwater, A hangover from an almost drowning incident as a kid.
for me it was the easiest though?
@@elis181 interesting, I found the rest fun and easy, The day I did my exam it was snowing and the water had surface ice brrr.
We did lessons in the open sea and my eyes are somewhat sensitive to salt water. So doing that i just closed my eyes completely qnd did everything by touch. Later when had some more boring lessons i intentionally "lost" my mask to only put it back on and clear the water for some training/entertainment
My grandma was an old school SAR diver in the days when women were not doing that sort of thing (shes now 70 and still doing shallow dives). She had us do this more times than I can remember with variations. She would pull our masks off than spin us around so we didnt know what direction we were facing and would have to reoriant ourselves and either re-don the mask or surface depending on if it got knocked loose or knocked off. Doing it while maintaining bouancy with one leg, fins and no fins, all sorts of stuff. You really appreciate this stuff being drilled into you when you get into a sketchy situation in the pacific
Never thought I would need to do it in open water back when I did my course.
However I was doing behind my dad one time, and he accidentally kicked my mask off, very glad that they teach this skill as part of the standard open water drivers license
Remasking is probably only secondary to knowing how to find your lost reg.
That's part of the training, and I gotta say it was the hardest and scariest part of it. After a while you start getting comfortable but the first time is nuts
That is very important. I remember my first days of training, my mask fell off, and I had a panic attack couldn’t breathe and fainted.😅
“If I breathe everything is gonna be okay” is a hell of a quote
The hardest part of learning this was maintains steady breath while my nose was exposed to water. Really makes you focus on which muscles you’re exerting to actually inhale.
I took the open water scuba class with my school once and i remember how scared i was when we were training to do that. I was always a very paranoid person, and when it came to me not being able to see under 15m of water i got super scared and thought id drown. I was putting on my mask and because of the pressure, a ton of water got into my nose. I was coughing so bad i was about to go up, but i was lucky to have 2 amazing mentors with me. I learnt that day that all it takes is to breathe and keep calm. Thanks to that I was able to get my scuba degree.
That’s awesome!! It’s true you have everything with you that you need to survive so it’s best to solve the problems underwater in most cases.
Cool! I would’ve never known how to get air back in it, although while watching the video I did guess air bubbles.
During training this was probably one of my favorite parts because idk it’s just fun to feel the water over my eyes
Yea its def a difficult and weird thing to do the first couple of times, reminding myself i can still breathe, and taking my time with it helped
I didn't know this thank you for teaching me this and thank you to the comment section for teaching me as well
Happy to help
i still remember having to do this for my open water when i was 10, i was so scared, had to wait until the end of the dive where we were at 2 meter depth, my instructor was so patient haha great memories
Another thing that helps prevent panicking, especially in new scuba divers is just holdinf your nose closed for a few seconds, to remind you that everything is fine.
HAHA “sea ya later”
A pun on many levels
This is some serious zen shit. Def gotta master that calm
Feel like this is info I didn’t know I needed
When I got my diver's cert, the instructor was a retired army guy, and he made us jump in with no equipment aside from a vest with 4 lead weights in it, and he'd throw the equipment in the water and we had to put everything on and working without coming back up for air. Actually was a lot of fun.
Being calm is the most important thing to remember because if you are calm, you can think properly and know what to do
Truth, so important.
Proud to say I learned something today! Thank you!
Happy to help!
I remember learning this at an intro PADI class when I was on vacation at like 14. It was just me and one other guy in the class. I've taught it to my kids now and it has been very useful.
Fact people tend to forget is that cast iron may retain heat well but it also heats unevenly. The issue is people often think of these things as synonymous.
It's this initial feeling of drowning I get when water gets up my nose. It's indeed good to practice this skill once in a while just to stay used to it in case it really gets knocked off sometime.
Ya water in your nose is uncomfortable and if you inhale just the tiniest bit (through the nose) it escalates so quickly. I think I unknowingly keep a little positive pressure pushing out my nose just to keep the water pushed out a bit. Idk 🤷♂️
I did this in my PADI scuba training and its quite simple to do👌
This is also useful for defogging the lenses. Push on the bridge of the mask to let a little water in, look down so it rinses the glass, and then do this. Obviously less recommended if you're in salt water.
This was the most fun part when getting certified, I also thought it was a very cool trick to do in general.
Thank you, please keep sharing this education. I enjoy it, and I'll give it to others too. learning how to dive with tanks and scuba. i've been free diving for my entire life. And this is new. Thank you.
Thank you for the nice comment! I’ve been scuba diving for 13 years or so and just learning free diving! So far I think my maximum depth was only 12 or 14 meters. 🤦♂️
My grandpa was a scuba diver for a long time, and let us use his snorkel and mask in the pool. He taught us this and a few other things, like entering the water properly. Happy memories
When I took my scuba diving course this was one of the first thing I learned, you can't get a diving liscene without this skill
The first time i learned to do this at the bottom of a pool, i had a panic attack, the entire time trying to communicate to my instructor, in shaky hand signals i had just learned, that i was ok, just needed to breathe through the nerves. Scariest moment of my life at the time, but he waited patiently and let me do the skill. The feeling of completing something that scares you, by yourself is such a confidence boost. Great instruction!
Nice job!!
This was so tough to learn but so worth it when you're 50 ft down and fogged up
The SUPERIOR wey is to tilt your head down and to the side, so the mask is less like to float up and gives a better choke point.
You are superior sir.
@@waywardriley Hahaha, thank you for noticing.
Yes. The first rule of scuba diving. If you are breathing, you are fine. Are you blinded? Disoriented? Stuck? Are you breathing? If so, you are going to figure out a solution.
Reminds me of seeing marine training where they had you “embrace the suck” cause you had to deal with a flooded mask
We had a scuba diving lesson during our swim unit at the pool connected to our high school, they wouldnt let you into the deep end until you could do this (except you had to let the water creep into the mask instead of just taking it right off). It took me a really long time because it felt like the sensation of drowning (and im really familiar and comfortable with water). I was able to do it eventually though
I have a separate video for a partially flooded mask 🤙
It's so damn hard. When I was doing the certification I hyperventilated for the first time in my life. I'll get used to it but oh boy
Another thing is to make sure no hair gets into any of the seams otherwise it leaks, spent ages on my first session wondering why it was filling even with a tight seal 🤣
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The most important skill what everyone needs to achieve is to keep yourself calm. A huge milestone for survival.
I learned this during my padi license and it’s by far the most terrifying thing for me. Not when I put my respirator upside down and started breathing water and not when I ran out of air. The idea that I could lose my mask is top 1 of fear
Funnily enough this was probably the part I was most confident in when getting my certification
This was the single hardest part of my course. I grew up using a hand to plug my nose because water would always shoot straight up my sinuses. I couldn't seem to keep it out. During mask drills, I'd feel the water so far up my nose i went into immediate panic drowning mode. I had to come up with my own strategy to pass.
It helps to practice breathing without a mask entirely. Your brain will be forced to figure it out. Do it in shallow water and even just with a snorkel.
Even if you don't have air to breathe, everything is going to be fine! Stressing out is the #1 reason for most scuba diving accidents
I remember doing this in dive school and it’s nice to be reminded how to do it
i had actually big problems when earning my divers license with this skill. had to train it in shallow water before performing in the practical exam haha
What I found to be the most important was sharing one breathing equipment whilst swimming with 2 people. To train to share in case one system broke down
This was, weirdly, the scariest part of scuba training for me. I didn't at all mind regulator loss/recovery or even navigation in poor visibility seawater. Having to take my mask off made me feel so exposed.
It’s definitely something that can be a shock at first!
Few years agoI asked a question on Facebook about taking a mask off underwater(no matter the depth), putting them back on, and having them being full of water, and how to empty it, and my half-brother explained the answer. A friend sometime later asked about misunderstanding the question, and she mentioned goggles, and I explained it to them and the difference between the mask and goggles, then my bro cameback and insulted them and said "You dont dive with goggles" and he went on and on with an attitude for some reason. The discussion went downhill over a stupid misundertanding, to the point he started insulting my dead mom, and brother. Him and I never spoke again. Good riddance if you ask me.
This post reminded me of that, kiiind of unrelated to the post, but just +1 comment to the algorithm gods. :D Thanks.
I once got to try out scuba diving on a class trip to Italy. We started out in a swimming pool and had a great instructor, but I barely managed to stay under water for five minutes before I panicked and hyperventilated and had to leave the pool because I felt like I was going to faint, throw up or both 🫡 (I was like half a meter below the surface at that point lol)
Still remember this as being the most nerve-wracking part of my open water certification. Thirty down and back was easy compared to this.
This was basically the first thing I learned when I got in the pool and hands down one of the most valuable
This was the hardest skill for me. Every time I would breath I would suck in a little bit of water through my nose and started to choke.
The only way I passed the skill was to plug my nose and do it that way.
I still don’t feel comfortable with this and need to practice it without plugging my nose so I am 100% confident
when i did my padi license, the 3 things we did most often, was this, continous exhaling exercise while moving up and secondary octopus usage training.
The worse part of the training was when the instructor cuts of you air supply from the tank valve so you have to signal your buddy to give you spare breather.
Knowing these sorts of techniques make a huge difference to me. I'm seriously short-sighted, so need a dive mask fitted with strong lenses (-9/-9.5) or I'm not gonna see squat...
this was the hardest part of my certification. i couldn’t get it clear. but eventually got it
I’m actually learning how to scuba dive. So this will be valuable information
glad he specified that the nose part should be down i always thought it was supposed to go up
Thanks for telling us all something we had to do to get certified. Also one thing ive learned from dving is snorkels are completely unnecessary, all they do is give you a migraine on your temple and flop around and wreck your streamline.....
I remember going through SCUBA training. They had us swim underwater without our mask for 10 minutes. Every time we went into the water, we did this drill.
Years later, I actually had to do this. On a dive rescue in zero visibility at 30 feet in 35 degree water. I was trying to find a submerged vehicle with 5 victims in it on the bottom of a river.
I found the car by bashing my face mask into the bumper, dislodging/flooding it. I was able to clear it.
I rescued 3 victims. Unfortunately, all 7 people involved did not survive despite long and aggressive resuscitation (cold water drowning).
It was one of the worst single vehicle drowning incidents in Michigan. 2 adults and 5 children. May they rest in peace.
Wow, thank you for sharing your story. That sounds like a nightmare. A simple skill like this performed under stress is much more difficult than people think, and I can’t imagine it in your scenario. Great work to help that family and I wish the outcome would have been better. I truly wish you the best moving forward.
My favorite lesson when I got certified for open water diving, was the fact that a “controlled” emergency ascent requires you to constantly scream all the way up.
For those curious, the purpose of screaming as you ascend is to rid yourself of oxygen, cause if this man has taught you correctly, youll know that the deeper you go the more oxygen you need, so when you rise you need to get rid of excess oxygen, or you will face a “internal explosion” as I was taught from too much air.
After a certain depth, you'll need to re-acclimate anyway to rid of Nitrogen in the bloodstream.
Honestly this is really good information for someone that wants to try going underwater or like me that would love to learn how to weld underwater going to school for welding this is my next step💯🙏Thank you for your time
Thanks for the nice comment, and I'm happy to help. Best of luck on your future underwater goals!
Omg this is so useful!
Secondarily to this being an essential skill to have for diving, it's also a great way to clear a foggy mask. :. )
We learned this in gym class and I’m thankful
I swear to god I thought that snorkel he was holding was just some random stick💀
Most annoying part is ignoring the inevitable stinging of your eyes for a few minutes from the salt water. Only quick fix is to rinse with freshwater and there's none of that you can get to fast. Just have to deal with the stinging
I can remember learning this and I hated it but now, it's a fun memory
Cant imagine panicking because i lost a mask 😂
Worst part of training for me was when theu turn your air off for a few seconds, being able to breathe then suddenly nothing is a bit rough
I took a basic scuba class in college and I remember this causing me to panic the first few times it happened, but then you get used to it & remember to breathe
Free divers can do it. But air is usually more precious. Good to practice in shallow water.
One of the first skills i learnt before i qualified 😂
When first getting certified, decades ago, the instructor made use do a lap underwater withe just the reg, and no mask, to let us experience that we could still breath, with our noses exposed.
Also, later, when The Abyss was playing in the theaters, to mimic breathing fluid, we'd flood and clear our masks, by not hold the mask, and slowly blowing thru our nose, letting the water level drop slowly, so it kinda looked like that Abyss scene.
that's really clever. only works because of the mask going over the nose and because of the weird usually unimportant quirk of the human body that means we can breathe through two different holes
Why can I FEEL the mask on my face? 😂
Good tips! I never knew this before!
Glad it’s helpful! 🤙
Best way to demonstrate it is neutrally buoyant...not kneeling on the floor, otherwise students end up doing it vertically and swimming up without thinking as they are multi tasking
Just did my advanced. Hoping to get dive master soon
That’s rad! Best of luck to you!
@@waywardriley thank you!
When I took my course this was one thing I really struggled with. Did anyone knew I really recommend practising this a few times in very shallow water
My father was a scuba diver for a company and he had to learn this, he was on night shift aswell haha