Ok this isn't going to work for everyone and probably isn't the best (or even third best) way to improve air consumption, but I just saw it work a miracle.
I just completed a liveaboard trip. I've dove a few times before with my buddy on the trip with about 50 dives to his credit and his air consumption was significantly higher than mine. His hands continuously sculling or just plain wiggling. First dive of the trip he was his normal sculling high air consumption self.
Second dive he took his brand new GoPro on a pole. Suddenly his hands have something to do. He is thinking about holding the camera steady. No sculling, no wiggling and MUCH better air consumption. The rest of the trip the pattern continues - go pro in hand = less movement = better air.
This is something I am still working on myself and I've made slow steady progress (with hopefully more to come) but never had a dramatic improvement like that.
Anyway I'm not really recommending this as a solution to sucking air like a Hoover, but I found it interesting to watch in action.
I just completed a liveaboard trip. I've dove a few times before with my buddy on the trip with about 50 dives to his credit and his air consumption was significantly higher than mine. His hands continuously sculling or just plain wiggling. First dive of the trip he was his normal sculling high air consumption self.
Second dive he took his brand new GoPro on a pole. Suddenly his hands have something to do. He is thinking about holding the camera steady. No sculling, no wiggling and MUCH better air consumption. The rest of the trip the pattern continues - go pro in hand = less movement = better air.
This is something I am still working on myself and I've made slow steady progress (with hopefully more to come) but never had a dramatic improvement like that.
Anyway I'm not really recommending this as a solution to sucking air like a Hoover, but I found it interesting to watch in action.