When did you learn Buddy Breathing

[ianr33]

Thats pretty much the way I look at it. While its pretty far fetched that it would ever be needed on a recreational dive (OOA diver and a second stage not working,or 2 OOA divers sharing air off one diver that does have gas ) If a diver is not comfortable Buddy Breathing I would really question if they should be diving at all.

On deco dives it's one of several options to deal with a lost deco gas scenario.

 

[crd_kats]

YMCA OW 1994 - BB, free flow reg, and without a mouthpiece.

 

[emclean]

taught in OW class, PADI, 1/2010.
instructer said something about it being optinal in the book, but not in his class.

 

[Diver0001]

taught in OW class, PADI, 1/2010.
instructer said something about it being optinal in the book, but not in his class.

Kudos to your instructor.

I also believe that students should see every realistically possible variation on this theme.

Very soon a whole generation of divers who find this skill "too dangerous" are going to be hitting the water......

How will this change the way you approach an instabuddy?

R..

 

[captain]

Before I learned it in OW, I learned it by watching Sea Hunt. It seemed to be in every episode!

I also, but there was no such thing as octos or OW in 1970 just YMCA scuba diver.

 

[Darcey]

I never learned it until I decided to become a DM. I realized that I had never done it before and pretty much had to learn it since it was a requirement for DM. A few weeks ago it came to my attention by my insturctor that we didn't need to do any buddy breathing ANYTHING for DM now since PADI changed their requirements for DM. We just now have to "share" a primary air source while doing our equipment exchange and now only have to do the alternate air souce swim (I think?) for DM instead of the buddy breathing swim.

Whatever. While I'm sort of glad we don't have to acutally buddy breathe for DM I'm still sorta pissed that PADI has removed it from any and all training. I will for sure make it a point to teach all of my students how to properly buddy breathe.

 

[UCFKnightDiver]

yes, NAUI OW 2006

 

[Druid]

PADI OW, 1997

BSAC dropped it from their entry level course a few years ago, so very few British divers will be taught this skill in the future.

 

[noreastDIVER84]

I learned it and practiced it in my open water check out dives. I was the last person underwater to demonstrate my "skills" and when I did the buddy breathing the instructor didn't give back my reg, but then signaled to surface together. When we got to the surface he had maybe 50 psi left. So I can say that I have not only learned it but used it in an out of air situation. The instructor knew he was running low on air and let everyone know before we went down, I was the lucky one who got to practice it "for real" though.

 

[bamamedic]

I learned it during my NAUI OW course....from a local independent instructor in November of '07. I don't recall if we had to practice the skill in open water, but we practiced it in the pool a couple of times (and not just a couple of breaths and the skill was over - we did it for at least a minute)