De la SAILING PARADISE la Near FATAL DEZASTER

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1. You guys! Absolutely incredible that Fabio just happened to luckily stumble upon them. What a scary situation but so thankful that it all worked out. YIKES!

2. Thanks for another awesome video guys. Loving it !

3. Nice job saving them.That would have been tragic without you! As for the prop defowling story. That was a Fabio flop! lol.
   You must have been worn out after all that. Good info. Thanks

4. Good Jump into the water Fabio😂 …after all you did to help others ,nobody helped you..glad you could get back into the boat by yourself

5. There is no greater privilege than being of service at the most critical moments in life. The experience is sobering in every aspect. Your suggestions are noted.

6. It’s always a good feeling to be able to help someone. Good job Fabio.
   And I recognized that dive into the water. It’s a triple neck backflip screw up.
   (It’s the one dive that I specialize in.)

7. 😀👍👍👍❤

8. Good eyes spotting those divers !. I couldn't see it on the video until you were on top of them. Must feel good !

9. Congratulations for doing the right thing! Fabio is right: carrying a body is FAR from being as easy as on cinema. An inconscious person seems to weight twice its normal weight. And with diving equipment that goes way beyond!
   Thanks for sharing the experience, I agree that it's always important for us to learn from these accidents so we don't put ourselves on risk like this. Education leads to better prevention. Fair winds! See you next week

10. LOL, Fabio…you went A over T!!! as we say in Australia. Which means Arse over Tit.  

    You guys are right SO totally! When you dive, you MUST dive with a safety sausage with you…EVERY DIVE!!! No exceptions!!! You should also take a snorkel with you (keep it on you mask so it's there if you need it – failing that, put it in a pocket!) so if you find yourself at the surface it can make surface swims or time on the surface much more safe and pleasurable without having to keep you head above the waterline! As a scuba instructor, I would also not allow or pass so called "experience' divers to obtain a re-breather licence if they are not willing and able to DITCH their gear when in trouble. Practicing ditching your gear in rough water should be practiced by new re-breather divers so that they are comfortable with the technique to take off your gear in the water. Even if you are unwilling to ditch your $K's of tanks and re-breathers, you MUST AT LEAST be willing to ditch your weight belt!!!! This is one of the FIRST RULES of diving that ALL divers must learn; don't struggle at the surface risking your life; get rid of the bloody thing if you are in difficulty. A weight belt is only worth $150 -200 thereabouts. Gees, you can always get another diver to pop down and pick it up if in shallow enough waters. You can always get another weight belt, you can't get another life! Also, BCD's MUST BE used so that if all else fails you have a life support system to keep you afloat if needed. BCD's must be tested and checked for proper function before EVERY DIVE !!! Thirdly, All re-breather divers should be diving with a totally separate "bailout" bottle, complete with independent regulator, air guage, hoses, etc. Clearly these divers were not all that experienced or they would know these basic facts of life. Either that or they, through sheer contempt – bred from routine (familiarity breeds contempt is the old saying), have grown so proud of their level of diving experience that they think themselves beyond making mistakes – this too can happen, breeding a level of pride and arrogance that itself breeds mistakes. Competent divers are always checking their air guages every couple of minutes…just in case of a malfunction. You should never find yourself suddenly at 500psi – that is when to head for the surface, NOT at 100psi!. Put a compass on your gauge (always a good idea for safety – learn how to use one!!!) and swim with the bloody gauge in you hand so it is always on your mind; and so that it doesn't drag along the bottom and ruin the fish life; or worse – get caught in the reef and get you stuck when you are looking closely at stuff!!! I once helped a diver who blew a tank 'O' ring at 17m (he had NO idea that it happened) and his tank was empty in 90seconds ! So you must keep checking you gauges. Purchase air-integrated gauges if that is what is needed to make it easier to do this check more often!!! A watch computer with air-integration is a great idea. A little money spent here will suit you well. But a decent BCD first – one of good quality with plenty of lift; a cheap weight belt that you are willing to ditch; and a snorkel and safety sausage that work are all MANDATORY! Check your gauges constantly.

    A casual Sunday afternoon read, with a good cup of coffee, of dive industry accidents and mistakes will highlight and reaffirm all the above points I have made, over and over again…

    Thank you HU for making this video to highlight these dangers to others. Hopefully, your video and my instruction will help some people get the message, and make the necessary changes to their diving practices. Fair 💨's and following 🌊's…

11. I'd rate that Triple Lindy a 9.2! The Russian judge gave you a 3…

12. Why do you float the anchor chain?

13. Is it a stuntman… is it a tumbleweed… is it…. Fabio!

14. Wow! What an awesome video. Fabio the Life Saver! you should get an honorary membership to Bondi Rescue 🙂 One thing I would recommend to always carry on any dive or snorkeling trip is a dinghy ladder. There are ladders available that are especially designed for tubed dinghy's like Highfields and make getting in and out so much easier. I was recently snorkeling at a reef and I was a bit tired and if it wasn't for someone being on the dinghy to help me up, I don't think I could have gotten in.

15. Definitely a dive… aka a Fabio flip. 😉

16. HERO!!

17. What a great story…Fabio is a hero saving the divers and jumping in to fix the prop! This just shows how important it is to make friends around the world when sailing. You guys found Delos…how crazy is that? This also shows how wonderful Brian and Karen are to others they meet. They act as if they are regular people but they really are ambassadors to people who dream of sailing around the world. I predict that you guys will become ambassadors to people sailing around the world whether you like it or not and people will be thrilled to meet you guys as heroes of the sea. It doesn't hurt that Fabio is a fabulous cook.

18. Wow what a crazy time. The dive looked so cool.

19. amazing

20. Great video and experience wow. Fabio good on you to seeing this unfortunate event and coming to the rescue. If it wasn't for your egle eyes and seeing these divers things definitely would have turned fatal for likely both of them. Again Fabio thankyou for you quick thinking.
    And by the way Fabio what I saw was you didn't jump in the water from the dinghy you actually slipped in fell off.
    The video graphics of this was excellent great underwater filming and thanks to Brian leaving go pro on Maggie we got to see Fabio's heroic's and falling into the water trying to take line off off prop. Looking forward to next video you two take it easy

21. So glad to hear this story resulted in a positive ending thanks to the quick action and response of Fabio as well as those that came to assist. Your diving takeaways are spot on! Thanks so much for sharing such an important and real life experience. Great job Fabio- BTW, your “hip-roll” water entry off the dinghy was a technical “10” 😜

22. Wow Amazing! They were so lucky that you were there to save them Fabio. I’m sure that in your previous life, pre catamaran sailing, you saved many lives and perhaps you were placed there at that specific moment by some Devine intervention. I hope that you and your lovely wife are having the time of your lives. My best wishes always to you both!

23. Thanks for sharing another adventure. Great Fabio was in the right place and paying attention.

24. Bad ass… Perect place and perfect timming. Good eye, that was life saving. I cant wait to meet you guys…

25. Wow!
    What an intense and incredibly sobering experience!!
    It’s incredible how folks drop what they are doing to help others!
    You two helped a diver in distress and may have had a life ending experience if you hadn’t become involved.
    Thank you both for your awareness and willingness to help others!
    So share with us:
    Did you both become closer as a result of this experience?
    Fabio is an incredibly blessed man!!!
    It was also awesome how others stopped to help when help was needed.
    Great teamwork!
    Fabio and you are a great team!!
    Thanks again for sharing your life-altering experience!!!!
    Be well and blessed….but most of all, love and respect each other.
    Safe travels.

26. During my professional maritime career , twice, I was confronted with a man overboard incident. I was faced with a situation I had emphasized to my students in various boating courses. Locating and bringing persons alongside is a problem but not the primary problem. Bringing the person aboard is THE problem in recreational boating. Unless there are pre rigged hoisting gear, the victim is usually unable to assist because of fatigue.

27. Wow, guys! So incredibly scary. This could have ended much differently if Fabio hadn't jumped into action. Happy to hear the diver had a positive outcome. Also, love the under/over water shots of Yoda! 💙

28. Tack!

29. What a great video.
    Fabio is fantastic!

30. glad u guys are safe.

31. Thank you for sharing!

32. Félicitations Fabio!

33. That was crazy for sure. Goid thing Fabio was there! He could of as easily been diving amd one of the rest of us in the dinghy!

34. Your best episode. I learned so much and will keep everything in mind for our next dive!

35. Excellent job spotting and assisting the 2 divers in distress. While there are many unknowns here, it is clear these 2 rebreather divers were not properly trained or experienced with their equipment nor in self-rescue. This is a large problem in contemporary dive training, with quickie certification classes and less and less time spent on emergency preparedness and self-rescue. While diver injury report statistics may not bare this out as the vast majority of dives are conducted by commercial dive operators, there is a common thread to these kinds of accidents among independent divers. There should have been enough air in their suits to maintain positive buoyancy, they should have ditched their weights immediately upon surfacing, and as buddies the male should have been able to remove the female's gear (to assist with her staying above the surface and making rescue considerably easier). He should also have been able to share air with the female assuming only her second stage had flooded the rebreather scrubber. Your comments regarding having someone monitor your dive from the surface is an excellent idea whenever possible and definitely a plus in difficult environments (e.g., tides, currents, penetration, etc.). With respect to carrying a safety-sausage and some kind of signaling gear (e.g., a whistle), these are considered standard equipment for independent divers. An emergency O2 supply and an AED is required of commercial dive vessels in most countries. While this might not have applied here, an emergency O2 supply (and an AED as you are not getting any younger) is something you might want to consider having aboard your own vessel. Also, when diving from our own boat, we have often hung an emergency air cylinder (with an attached regulator/octopus) overboard at 12-20' for use in an emergency assent situation.

36. Important video. My take away is I need to investigate: How can you pull an unconscious person back aboard or into the dinghy?

37. Scary stuff. You probably saved her life. So easy to be caught out in the sea. A friend and I were surfing on a deserted beach with strong rips and my friend noticed a hand in the water, only about 40 meters away. It was two people out swimming, the girl was going under, we got over to them and gave them the boards and floated them a shore. If my friend hadn't seen them they might haive drowned.
    Like you say you really need to buddy up with others, have two on the surface. Everyone with a safety sausage with a whistle. Sausages are so cheap as well.

38. BRAVO FAVIO ! 👏👏

39. Thank you for sharing the reality !
    This is also the educational video
    Fakarava preserve the wonderful nature and very very beautiful
    I could tell them from your well complicated video
    And we need the caution at the same time thank you I learned from this.
    Life saving experience must be very rare in the life and recording the whole process should be furthermore rare but it showed the reality how difficult managing the suffered diver from the dingy
    Fabio the life-saver is very much appreciated

    Great couple with Yoda!
    Adventure! Keep up!

40. WOW!!! Incredible story and the best possible outcome. Fabio you ARE definitely a hero!

41. What is better than Fabio's hip check Xover dive? Fabio saving lives! That was honorable.

42. Thanks for sharing. Happy everyone is OK and that you both learned some good lessons and address now going to incorporate new equipment to be more easily seen on the surface. The grouper / wall of sharks was amazing ‼️ See you next time.✨ 🌊 💨 ⛵️ 🏝️ 👙 🌞 ✨

43. Fabio Became that lady's and partner's angel.
    Your video message is very important and at a guess will save someone's life the bouncy marker is a good tip.
    I experienced a diving equipment malfunction while cave diving, my air pressure gauge needle showed I had half a Tank of air when in fact I was out of air at 65 feet in a cave.
    My dive partner stalled buddy breathing. I did not wait, I swam out of the cave luckily I had a bouncy vest with an air tank. I cranked it open and did a free ascent exhalling the air from my lungs. The issue was the air pressure gauge needle was loose thereby giving me a bad air pressure misreading, SV Skoiern IV

44. Great you where there and saved their life. So lucky you actually went to check…

    As you can see the first boat clearly things "hallo to you too"….The signals for "help" are not known enough, not practiced enough. and not clear enough to the untrained sailor. I have seen quite a few times that people wave back… and do not check…Maybe we can think of something better for instance all boats including dinghies must be equiped with a turning red light…. or just blinking, blinking navigation lights….(I doo not have the simple solution either) and the handsigns for "help"… just needs to be made more known, more trained..
    Thats my take out.

45. Thank U so much 4 the lesson! The underwater video was beautiful. Safe travels ❤

46. GRANDE FABIO

47. Wow, that was quite the tale. So glad everybody was safe. Something to consider adding to the safety equipment list, I think, would be a portable VHF radio for the person in the dinghy. That would allow for much clearer and more direct communication w/ other vessels in the area (vs. hand waving).

48. Just discovered your channel. Great content. Thank you.

49. Is there a way to contact you via email. I have some man overboard experiences to share. But, i didn't want to detract from Fabio's experience.

    But, I know, it flashed thru his mind that he may have had to make a decision to only concentrate on one individual. An agonizing decision.

50. Fabio, tremendous rescue, you should be issued a "Rescue Driver Award". Thanks again for sharing these very important tips, they will most useful!

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