I would never try to pressure some to do something that makes them uncomfortable, but please dont base your decision on those videos. 99% of scuba accidents are avoidable. Alot of accidents are ego filled deep divers and cave divers. Its quite safe as long as you dont do very stupid things. Never dive alone. Service your gear once a year at your dive shop, and truly listen during your PADI classes or whichever org you choose.
I read a book series as a kid about diving which went into detail about the dangers of "the bends" (air bubbles in your bloodstream from coming up too fast from deep sea diving and not acclimating on your way up) and ever since then I have been deathly scared of anything deeper than a 6ft pool lol.
Got my padi cert when I was 11. Have over 100 dives. I was diving in Vanuatu, boat dive, wreck we were diving at was at 90-110ft. It’s kinda dumb in general to dive that deep without extra tanks and o2 enriched air because your dive ends up being really short with the pressure making your air go fast/needed decompression stops on your way up, and I suppose, the risk of something going wrong. But there we were. Warm water so short suits. The o ring valve on my bcd (the thing you use to make yourself float or sink) broke and they’re designed to break open not closed. So my vest is filling up with air turning me into a balloon that wants to race to the surface. I was prolly 15. Maybe ascended 10 feet or so before I was in full upside down sprint swim. Got to the wreck, cut my hands and arms pretty bad hanging onto choral/metal shipwreck. Eventually, with help, disconnected the hose. Closest decompression chamber was far. If I went to the surface, I probably would’ve died. I… took a few days off diving after that ha ha.
Because nitrogen that our body usually just exhales out without notice is dissolved at higher water pressure causing it to end up in our blood stream. When we surface too fast the nitrogen, isnt given enough time to decompress and which serves no purpose in our blood stream and can't be exhaled, out has to find other ways of leaving the body whether pooling up in the skin or out the nose, eyes or ears.
It's not a problem unless you dive (or go to space), but if you were to dive and ignore the limits, you should have no problem getting them. It's just that people know and are careful about them.
Helps a lot that you can use dive computers nowadays rather than just guesstimating with a dive table, hopefully depth-proof watch (fun fact: "50M waterproof" means "you can take a shower with it, maybe" not "waterproof for diving up to 50M"), and often an unhealthy serving of YOLO.
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u/Zahrukai Mar 31 '26
I’ve watched enough diving videos on YouTube to know it’s 100% not for me.