OP
Greenie... that is an excellent exercise for fine tuning the non-visual cue receptors.
bouyancy control tip
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Green_Manelishi
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Uncle Pug:
Made all the more interesting if you try switching
masks at the same time !!!
OP
What mask?
Green_Manelishi
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Uncle Pug:
Ooooh, you must be part amphibian (or fish) ... I need a
mask to see underwater. Unless my eyes are closed and then it's moot.
Green_Manelishi::11:
learn to control your bouyancy then close your eyes for
most of the time. open them only to check the gauges.
While I might close my eyes to focus on senses other than sight I like to see what is going on. This in on sport dives where I am down there to see the stuff.
On working dives there is no vis, all (or nearly all) work is done by feel and the tender and dive supervisor are watching and logging the gage readings so it doesn't matter.
Oh, what was THAT?? A man just jumped out yelling, "Silly!"
Sorry, I tried to back up and fell off of the stage.
FredT
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If you don't add air to the BC you don't need to vent it before ascent.
Single tank sport divers should get buoyancy and trim to the point where the diver only needs to add air to offset suit compression.
I spent the last 2 weeks working diving 3 to 4 hour a day in T-shirt and shorts, with both steel and Al tanks. My max depth was 147' with most dives between 10" and 40' deep. I didn't add air to my BC ONCE for buoyancy control.
Tune your weights and rigs, then enjoy the diving.
FT
Single tank sport divers should get buoyancy and trim to the point where the diver only needs to add air to offset suit compression.
I spent the last 2 weeks working diving 3 to 4 hour a day in T-shirt and shorts, with both steel and Al tanks. My max depth was 147' with most dives between 10" and 40' deep. I didn't add air to my BC ONCE for buoyancy control.
Tune your weights and rigs, then enjoy the diving.
FT
Windwalker
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Uncle Pug,
I believe I read a post by someone a long long time ago to that effect. Watching water particles works... most the time. I have had the unfortunate experience where it didn't and I ended up popping to the surface. I was at Mikes Beach resort, over the cabin cruiser in 70 feet of water. I was suspended upside down about 5 feet over the boat watching my buddy (who was not over the boat) bleed green goo into the water (I didn't know that blood looked green) he had failed to wear his gloves and had sliced his palm open on a piece of the boat when he grabbed it. I referenced the blood in the water, and those real cool particles you mentioned to control my boyancy. Very quickly I felt warm, the particals started shooting past me, I thought I was sinking! I looked up at the wreck (I was upside down) and I noticed that the Wreck was shooting away from me. The whole body of water was moving fast to the surface. I started to swim like a mad fiend down back to the wreck. It did not work.. My buddy popped to the surface very quick, I managed to slow my ascent to something a wee bit more reasonable, but the updraft was more then I could over power. That was one time the particle effect can give the wrong impression as to your depth at any given time. It occured to me after the fact that I should have swam for deeper water to get out of the "narrow" updraft area.
I believe I read a post by someone a long long time ago to that effect. Watching water particles works... most the time. I have had the unfortunate experience where it didn't and I ended up popping to the surface. I was at Mikes Beach resort, over the cabin cruiser in 70 feet of water. I was suspended upside down about 5 feet over the boat watching my buddy (who was not over the boat) bleed green goo into the water (I didn't know that blood looked green) he had failed to wear his gloves and had sliced his palm open on a piece of the boat when he grabbed it. I referenced the blood in the water, and those real cool particles you mentioned to control my boyancy. Very quickly I felt warm, the particals started shooting past me, I thought I was sinking! I looked up at the wreck (I was upside down) and I noticed that the Wreck was shooting away from me. The whole body of water was moving fast to the surface. I started to swim like a mad fiend down back to the wreck. It did not work.. My buddy popped to the surface very quick, I managed to slow my ascent to something a wee bit more reasonable, but the updraft was more then I could over power. That was one time the particle effect can give the wrong impression as to your depth at any given time. It occured to me after the fact that I should have swam for deeper water to get out of the "narrow" updraft area.
OP
Uncle Pug:
Just wanted to post to revive this thread so new divers will read it. Between jonnythan's tips on how to use breath control for ascents, and this one on getting a visual reference during a stop (when you don't have a 15 foot jellyfish at hand), I have managed to hold five out of the last five safety stops, which for me, is a huge accomplishment. Thanks to the Scubaboard folks who share these tips!
Diver Dennis
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Uncle Pug:
The one on your forehead of course.
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