Tips To Develop Your Scuba Diving Skills

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Tips To Develop Your Scuba Diving Skills

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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 professional but a complete myth
  underlying this reality is that there is no
  learning or scope of improvement outside of a
  formal course environment. I would beg to differ.
  
• I agree that diving courses are important in
  order to elevate ones diving skills to the next
  level, but the truth is such courses are only a
  starting point.

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Tips To Develop Your Scuba Diving Skills

• They can give you a foundation and you have to
  build upon it eventually with practice.
• Note the key phrase - develop by yourself.
  Improvement 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 diver is the one who uses his own brain.
• This does not mean that you should ignore what
  your instructor is saying as he knows better that
  is why he is your master.
• But make sure, you are not at his mercy for
  directions all the time. You should be well
  prepared in case he goes out of sight for a
  while.

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• 2. Test Your Weighting

• This is important as when you are properly
  weighted, you do not need a lot of air in your
  BCD. For this you have to do a simple exercise -
  after a dive, run your tank down to 30-40 bars.
  Empty your BCD.
• Lock your ankles together and fold your arms
  close to your chest, so you dont scull. When you
  exhale, you should sink and when you inhale, you
  should come up the same amount. If you are
  sinking or not coming up when you inhale, you are
  too heavy.

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• 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, note your depth and air.
• Then notice how much you have when you surface.
  Maintain a logbook.
• Also note down whether it was a free ascent or on
  a line.

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• 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
  much air you need to surface safely.

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• 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 when you exhale and up when you inhale.
• If this is not happening, add a small squirt of
  air and repeat until you get it right.

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• 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 practicing this till you get better at it.

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• 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 in the sea.
• So a friendly advice, Always dive with a buddy.
  It is safe and fun at the same time.

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• 6. Keep Your Eyes And Ears Open

• This basically means keen observation.
• Observe your dive master, fellow divers and
  interact with them. Ask them questions.
• This would help you learn some useful little
  tricks that would help you getting better.

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• 7. Be Aware Of Your Abilities

• You have done 50 successful dives and now you are
  over-confident, nothing can harm you. and
  overconfidence wont just bite you in the ass in
  the sea, it will tear big chunks out of you.
• Always be realistic about your capabilities when
  you are under the sea.

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• 8. Learn To Say No

• Many a times, people travel from far for a fun
  and adventurous holiday. But being there,
  everything is making them nervous 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 stress increases
  significantly till it becomes panic.
• I am not saying, dont push yourself at all but
  dont push to an extent that you think you would
  regret this later.

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• 9. No Mask, No Problem

• Practice makes a man perfect.
• So keep diving. It is something you love to do so
  I dont 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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• 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 through the nose. This
  causes panic. This skill can be acquired with
  practice.
• You can practice it by lying facedown in a
  bathtub (or swimming pool) with just a snorkel in
  your mouth and get used to breathing in and out
  from the mouth and keeping water from going in
  your nose.

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