How to Communicate Underwater When Scuba Diving

Video Transcript

"So, here's how we actually communicate under water. We use hand signals to actually tell people what we need. So, some of the standard hand signals are, this is okay. This means, "I'm out of air". This means, "Share air". This means, "Low on air". If I want to know how much pressure you have in your tank, this is a good hand signal for that. This is actually warning or danger. This is out of air. This is share air. This one is something's wrong. And some of the hand signals we use for actually telling different animals are, this one is actually lobster. This is squid, when it's sideways like this. If we want to tell somebody we saw an octopus, it's kind of like we're like walking across the bottom. And of course everybody knows what this one is, which is shark."