Bogie
Contributor
This is typical when new. Fear of having no air so one is afraid to totally exhale. It seems you are shallow breathing. We have the urge to breath because of CO2 accumulation. You need to exhale fully to clean out the CO2 because when you breath shallow you are not getting rid of all the CO2. Shallow breathing can cause shallow water blackout because of CO2 build up. When in panic a diver tends to breath quick and shallow and can get the air starvation feeling so they take more quick/shallow breaths and build up even more CO2 and risk the black out.
Keeping lots of air in the lungs causes buoyancy problems and causes one to use more weight than needed.
Suggestions:
Yoga breathing does work and this would be helpful as it can help get the mind peaceful and trains your body in a no stress environment.
Building trust of your gear.
Trusting your gear.
It took me awhile to get to trust my regulator and gear.
Get your gear checked and make sure it is in top working conditions.
Set-up, suit-up and triple check everything.
Do a complete buddy check.
Dive gear is remarkably robust and reliable if taken care of and set up correctly.
Building trust in your ability to breath.
Dive shallow in a pool or in water you feel comfortable in. Maybe so shallow that you can just stand up if you have a problem. While diving shallow, practice deep slow breathing exhaling fully.
Practice yoga breathing, relax, and calm your mind. It is amazing how relaxed you can get to the state that it is like breathing on the surface. It is extremely relaxing when you get your buoyancy neutral and your just floating weightless breathing slow and deep.
People can tell you stuff to do but ultimately you must feel it and have the experience yourself. That is what I love about scuba the experiential aspect.
While breathing in deeply you will notice your buoyancy will go up, when totally exhaled you will go down.
Dive,dive,dive.
Nothing like lots of experience.
This breathing helps you in 6 ways or more;
1. healthy way to get rid of excess CO2 (safe and efficient)
2. Keeps one from panicking (changes your physiology, calms body and mind) In rescue diver class they teach (stop,breath, think and act) in that order for a reason.
3. Breath control is the major technique for excellent buoyancy control. Instead of depending only on your BC or Drysuit (inflating/deflating) one uses breath control. You can ascend and descend substantially by breath control. Improves air consumption (excess inflate/deflate)
4. Air consumption improvement. You will be amazed how good breathing technique improves buoyancy and hugely increases air consumption skills. It makes sense that the more relaxed and weightless you are, you use less energy and require less oxygen, the easier you breath, your breathing is effective and efficient.
5. Good breathing technique, relaxes you, better buoyancy, less weight, easier diving
6. Makes diving more safe and especially MORE FUN.
Have fun. Happy Diving.
Keeping lots of air in the lungs causes buoyancy problems and causes one to use more weight than needed.
Suggestions:
Yoga breathing does work and this would be helpful as it can help get the mind peaceful and trains your body in a no stress environment.
Building trust of your gear.
Trusting your gear.
It took me awhile to get to trust my regulator and gear.
Get your gear checked and make sure it is in top working conditions.
Set-up, suit-up and triple check everything.
Do a complete buddy check.
Dive gear is remarkably robust and reliable if taken care of and set up correctly.
Building trust in your ability to breath.
Dive shallow in a pool or in water you feel comfortable in. Maybe so shallow that you can just stand up if you have a problem. While diving shallow, practice deep slow breathing exhaling fully.
Practice yoga breathing, relax, and calm your mind. It is amazing how relaxed you can get to the state that it is like breathing on the surface. It is extremely relaxing when you get your buoyancy neutral and your just floating weightless breathing slow and deep.
People can tell you stuff to do but ultimately you must feel it and have the experience yourself. That is what I love about scuba the experiential aspect.
While breathing in deeply you will notice your buoyancy will go up, when totally exhaled you will go down.
Dive,dive,dive.
Nothing like lots of experience.
This breathing helps you in 6 ways or more;
1. healthy way to get rid of excess CO2 (safe and efficient)
2. Keeps one from panicking (changes your physiology, calms body and mind) In rescue diver class they teach (stop,breath, think and act) in that order for a reason.
3. Breath control is the major technique for excellent buoyancy control. Instead of depending only on your BC or Drysuit (inflating/deflating) one uses breath control. You can ascend and descend substantially by breath control. Improves air consumption (excess inflate/deflate)
4. Air consumption improvement. You will be amazed how good breathing technique improves buoyancy and hugely increases air consumption skills. It makes sense that the more relaxed and weightless you are, you use less energy and require less oxygen, the easier you breath, your breathing is effective and efficient.
5. Good breathing technique, relaxes you, better buoyancy, less weight, easier diving
6. Makes diving more safe and especially MORE FUN.
Have fun. Happy Diving.
