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Tips To Develop Your Scuba Diving Skills There is no denying the fact that in order to become a skilled scuba diver, you got to learn it from a professio nal but a complete myth underlying this reality is that t here is no learning or scope of improvement outside o f a formal course environment. I would beg to differ. I agree that diving courses are important in order to el evate one’s diving skills to the next level, but the truth is such courses are only a starting point. Mail Us : care@365hops.com , Call Us : +91-7838984471
Tips To Develop Your Scuba Diving Skills They can give you a foundation and you have to build u pon it eventually with practice. Note the key phrase - develop by yourself. Improvemen t is something that happens with every dive. So here is the list of 10 tips for the divers for constantly improving their scuba diving skills.
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Tips To Develop Your Scuba Diving Skills 1.
Engage Your Brain
One should not blindly follow the dive master. A good d iver is the one who uses his own brain. This does not mean that you should ignore what your i nstructor is saying as he knows better that is why he is your master. But make sure, you are not at his mercy for directions a ll the time. You should be well prepared in case he goes out of sight for a while. Mail Us : care@365hops.com , Call Us : +91-7838984471
Tips To Develop Your Scuba Diving Skills 2.
Test Your Weighting
This is important as when you are properly weighted, y ou do not need a lot of air in your BCD. For this you hav e to do a simple exercise - after a dive, run your tank do wn to 30-40 bars. Empty your BCD. Lock your ankles together and fold your arms close to y our chest, so you don’t scull. When you exhale, you sho uld sink and when you inhale, you should come up the same amount. If you are sinking or not coming up whe n you inhale, you are too heavy. Mail Us : care@365hops.com , Call Us : +91-7838984471
Tips To Develop Your Scuba Diving Skills 3.
Know Your Air Usage
This is something that you could acquire with practice. All you need is a routine. Start doing this exercise - Before you begin your ascent, n ote your depth and air. Then notice how much you have when you surface. Main tain a logbook. Also note down whether it was a free ascent or on a line. Mail Us : care@365hops.com , Call Us : +91-7838984471
Tips To Develop Your Scuba Diving Skills With time, you would know exactly how much air you need to ascend from 10, 20 or 30 metres respectively. Double check it by testing yourself. Soon, you would have an exact idea regarding how m uch air you need to surface safely.
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Tips To Develop Your Scuba Diving Skills 4.
Fix Your Buoyancy
So how do you fix it? Simple – after every 5-10 min into your dive, make sure you are over a sandy patch or you have a water column below you and stop kicking. Try to stay more or less where you are, going down wh en you exhale and up when you inhale. If this is not happening, add a small squirt of air and re peat until you get it right. Mail Us : care@365hops.com , Call Us : +91-7838984471
Tips To Develop Your Scuba Diving Skills Here comes the tricky part though. Your muscle memory is still used to kicking in a way that keeps you off the bottom. With the above exercise, you have just sprung a surprise on it. In order to re-train your breathing and kicking style, you will do kick-pause-kick-pause rather than kick-kick-kick. Wait till you start to descend before you exhale. Keep practi cing this till you get better at it.
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Tips To Develop Your Scuba Diving Skills 5.
Dive With A Buddy
I know you are the adventurous type but you have to live a long healthy life, have children, grow old and die. So do not take any chance. Diving solo is always risky. Studies have shown 97% of all fatalities ever have happened when the diver was alone i n the sea.
So a friendly advice, Always dive with a buddy. It is safe a nd fun at the same time. Mail Us : care@365hops.com , Call Us : +91-7838984471
Tips To Develop Your Scuba Diving Skills 6.
Keep Your Eyes And Ears Open
This basically means keen observation.
Observe your dive master, fellow divers and interact wi th them. Ask them questions. This would help you learn some useful little tricks that would help you getting better.
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Tips To Develop Your Scuba Diving Skills 7.
Be Aware Of Your Abilities
You have done 50 successful dives and now you are ove r-confident, nothing can harm you. and overconfidence won’t just bite you in the ass in the sea, it will tear big c hunks out of you. Always be realistic about your capabilities when you ar e under the sea. Mail Us : care@365hops.com , Call Us : +91-7838984471
Tips To Develop Your Scuba Diving Skills 8.
Learn To Say No
Many a times, people travel from far for a fun and adventur ous holiday. But being there, everything is making them ner vous to an extent that they do not want to dive anymore. If you are like a lot others, you may suck it up and go for the dive anyways. And then, if something goes wrong, your stre ss increases significantly till it becomes panic.
I am not saying, don’t push yourself at all but don’t push to an extent that you think you would regret this later. Mail Us : care@365hops.com , Call Us : +91-7838984471
Tips To Develop Your Scuba Diving Skills 9.
No Mask, No Problem
“Practice makes a man perfect.”
So keep diving. It is something you love to do so I don’t think there would be any issue there. Always remember - “Diving is learned in the water and not from books and magazines.”
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Tips To Develop Your Scuba Diving Skills 10.
Dive Often
The biggest reason of injury to beginners is uncontrolled ascent and uncontrolled ascent usually happens when water in the mask leads to inhaling a little water throug h the nose. This causes panic. This skill can be acquired with practice. You can practice it by lying facedown in a bathtub (or sw imming pool) with just a snorkel in your mouth and get used to breathing in and out from the mouth and keepi ng water from going in your nose. Mail Us : care@365hops.com , Call Us : +91-7838984471