"Idiosyncrasies of Russian Diving": fatal dive accidents in Red Sea # 1

In 2007 alone,twelve Russian divers died in the Red Sea attracting mass media attention to the issue. What is causing these deadly accidents? Fate, bad luck, misalignments of the starts or the lack of essential skills and the flaws of the training systems? Or does the blame lie with the divers themselves, in the fatal traits of the ever-impulsive Russian character and thirst for reckless adventure? In Elena Konstantinou new documentary "Idiosyncrasies of Russian National Diving" Russian journalist Boris Koltsov investigates the reasons behind the multiple scuba diving accidents and uncovers the risks people take with their lives, often unintentionally, and the dire need to inform Russian divers about safer diving practices and techniques.

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[lukey8661]

Alot of people are blaming PADI training I see! that's a bit unfair, fools are fools no matter who they're trained by. I'm a PADI pro and I agree that PADI is a very money driven society but you can't blame them for dickheads! I've met quite a few morons from BSAC and many other organisations!

[overseasmedia]

@lukey8661: Then these organizations should stop training fools:))

[cay311]

What about the hundreds of russians that died this summer diving drunk into swimming pools and rivers across russia to cool off from the summer heat?

Diving+ vodka=no no!

[overseasmedia]

@cay311 That's why my film is called the "Idiosyncrasies of Russian Diving" , it's very typical for some Russian divers and swimmers to gt drunk before a dive, sorry.

[jrspl]

7:02 - 90 meter on compressed air? That is way beyond plain stupidity - it's a suicide

[overseasmedia]

@jrspl : Exactly!

[theQuestOfHollyGrail]

yeah i agree, i am russian myself, and i should say the last thing those people care about is safety. They always assume that nothing is going to happen.

[devattack]

On the wall off Cozumel in very strong downward currents I got nitrogen narcosis on air at 40-45 meters to the point where i seriously considered taking out my reg. If i had gone another 10 meters I would have been unconscious. i panicked, as a result of the profound disorientation. Luckily I ended the dive buddy breathing at a safety stop. I came up coughing blood anyway. I was very lucky, according to the doc at the chamber, not to have died of decompression sickness. Diving = not a joke.

[JamesKagelberg]

I'm not too worried about this. It's just nature removing unfitting creatures.

To fix this, you should first fix the way of living in russia for example, where they learn this kind of behavior their whole life.

I'm not racist but that's the way it is.

Of course not every one of them are like that, but many.

But that's not the case every time, I'm sure.

[koftaboy]

@omfgsmurf

so if PADI sucks what would be better to teach beginners how to Dive owd???

[koftaboy]

a very simple example is this what would happen if your speeding with ur car and run a red light another car from the side traffic would hit you and u might die or whatever when u dont fallow important rules its extremely risky specially when it comes to people's life's

[Sargethepyromaniac]

@vorkutaman Don't be a pussy.

[sukebokk]

History repeats itself and Russian people never fail to exhibit stupidity / lack of knowledge ... it makes me sad though, because I admire their patriotism to their motherland

[polksalad1234]

so basically russians are stupid ? or idiosyncratic