From what I understand there is no way that the jumping fish were redears. They would surely not have missed. They would have taken you straight to the bottom, waited until you were at the brink of drowning, and let you go to the top. Once you had cleared the surface and gotten a breath of air they would have taken you straight back to the bottom and done it all over again.
Unless they are just setting you up to bring some more victims in the water with you next time....
