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Reading people talk about poorly taught dive students in another thread have led me to wonder, how good at diving should one be immediately after OW?
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--Dan(ger)
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--Dan(ger)
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Reading people talk about poorly taught dive students in another thread have led me to wonder, how good at diving should one be immediately after OW?
Thanks!
--Dan(ger)
Ideally? You should be able to plan and execute a safe dive, with a buddy of similar experience, in conditions similar to or better than those in which you trained. That means a reasonable degree of buoyancy control, the ability to stay together, and enough navigation information to be able to go out and come back.
In my experience, divers just out of OW in Puget Sound are rarely able to do this. They struggle with buoyancy control and find navigating in low viz to be a real challenge. They are so overloaded with the mechanics of diving in cold water that they have trouble keeping track of buddies and keeping track of where they are. Only the most talented students can really execute a simple dive well at the end of OW.