Usefull skills for your confort and safety
An Open Water diver must have at least a basic decompression method Scuba diving is considered as a sport with risks. This is a fun sport activity for a very large number even for children from 10 years. Beginners completely trust their guides during their first dives and they forget those risks. Especially when the…
For your safety, each diver should know how to deploy a SMB Deploy a Surface Marker Buoy for the first time in open water is not an easy skill. Yet it is very easy to get exercise without risk. Inflate a SMB occasionally brings fun at the end of the dive. Who was never pulled…
Your first SMB come with a tricky rope « I just bought my new Surface Marker Buoy. And surprise, there was only the SMB itself. Where is the rope ? How to keep my SMB underwater ? » Indeed, when you buy your SMB, often it comes alone, and in the best case with a light rope.…
A SMB is a useful device for your safety The surface marker buoy (SMB) is an exercise that may seem complex. Yet if you were to have a permanent safety equipment on your scuba unit, it is a SMB. It allows you to signal your presence on the surface and has the advantage to provide…
Ask an experienced diver how to use a compass You have just bought an underwater compass and there is the drama, because you do not remember what your instructor had explained you during your PADI Open Water course. Reading your Open Water manual is not explicit. Better than words, I invite you to watch a…
The compass could become your best friend Among the equipment of autonomous diver, there is an instrument that everyone scares : the compass. Using a compass underwater is not obvious. Between frustration and fear of making mistakes, how to choose a compass ? The diver tends to ignore this device. The Open Water training does…
