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Navy Military Training Video - Impressive !

No one who has not seen this Navy Military training would believe it, credible training so its no fault of your own. Someone shared  this comments with me earlier on... And saw this video on FB which should not be shown so openly???

https://www.facebook.com/caio.cranele/videos/1333709143431372/?t=3


The guys in the yellow shirts are US Navy Diving Instructors, the guys in the white shirts are students at US Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center in Panama City Beach Florida. 


This is fairly early in the over 4 months of diving training to make a Navy SCUBA certified diver (6 weeks of training every day) into a Navy Diver Second Class diver. 


They are certified to dive to 190 feet on air in a MK 21 (Kirby Morgan Superlite 17B) helmet. The harassment you are witnessing is a confidence building and problem solving exercise. 


This happens all week during the humorously named "pool week" where there is also a lot of physical training, push ups pool side and other fun. 


One of my favorite exercises is when they have you treading water in the pool in swim suit, they push you into a tight group where you are fighting to stay on the surface.


You grab a breath where you can and just try to stay on the surface. 


The gear you see used in the pool are twin 80 aluminum tanks using the old US Divers one piece manifold with J valve, mask fins and thats about it with a simple harness. As they are almost neutrally buoyant, they dont use a BC for these exercises.


First I like to Extend an Apology to Everyone for conducting a small experiment based on the Navy Military Training Video. 


Posted on my FB wall my bold and audacious comments and wanted to see or know how scuba divers response, reactions and how each can react so strong to this video because this training video itself can give a very strong abusive or violent tendency msg across to the public. Though it's a safe best practices training video but here's my gathered conclusions and feedback : 


Gather many responses just purely on one "video" alone. Some divers whom are new to the industry freaked out or don't even know that and got a rude shock. Got v angry and saw it as abuse. Maybe me too? If I suddenly saw this on FB... Because like them, I'm quite new and not even in Navy Military... Or even know anything about Navy Military... 


Then... Some professional divers knew because they are Veterans or understand a lot about this industry or profession. But their perception also show status quo and acceptance to it. Without thinking should such trainings be still continued or should be improved for the better in future... 


Some other divers came rattled to and even scolded me, trying to tell me off without first understanding why I posted that video, then never read others' comments posted at same time... Told me off not to do this, not to do that... 


That different perception varies with the different generation age gap.... And really, I learnt, understand so much from just one video itself. Really didn't know that this video can cause such a huge mixed of emotions, reactions, perceptions, bias or maybe even dislike towards me just because of this video... See.. 


#OneSituationSoManyPerceptionsOrBias #WhoIsRightOrWrong#CanYouTellOrIdentify #Analysis #SometimesWeWillMisJudgeOrMisCue#NowWeKnow #DontJumpIntoConclusionsOrAssumptionsSoFast

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