!!!įor the second question I guess I can see that bottom composition can affect visibility. the motion that get's you an unsportsmanlike conduct flag in the NFL and NCAA FB. I always have taught it as a full palm down horizontal motion with all fingers extended that simulates 'slashing' your own neck with the tips of your fingers. things must have changed for the preferred signal. There was a 4th question that I had an issue with unfortunately I can't recall what it was, perhaps others have had a similar recollection or have comments about what I wrote above.įor the first question regarding OOA.

Rushing an ascent for no good reason can cause other problems when there really wasn't problem to begin with. It's NOT an emergency unless the other buddy is low on gas too and this isn't specified in the question. My choice- considered to be incorrect- was to use your buddy's air and ascend normally would be my choice, the 'correct' answer refers to an emergency procedure which I believe was presented as 'controlled emergency ascent'. The third was in reference to the proper procedure if you run out of air. The correct answer should be one of the other choices, which was 'current', which is certainly affected by bottom structures which can block it or change it's direction. Unless of course the reference is to such large structures that you can't see over or around them but that's not really visibility as the term is generally understood. Visibility won't be affected unless whatever the material the bottom consists of is stirred up.

The second was a question about ground terrain affecting which factor of a dive, the 'supposedly correct' answer was 'visibility'. I don't recall seeing anything remotely close to a single finger slicing across the neck which is the correct signal for that.

The answer - in my opinion- should be 'stay at this depth' and yet the 'correct' answer was 'out of air'. One of them shows a still image with a diver giving a hand signal with a horizontal hand across the chest. I was reviewing the PADI OW final exam questions with my girlfriend and IMHO there are 3 or 4 poorly worded questions or the answers are simply wrong.

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