"BP/W for OW students?" is a topic that comes up frequently here on ScubaBoard. Almost as often as "Can new OW divers be expected to be skilled?" or "Do PADI certified divers drag their knuckles when they kneel on the bottom?"
All kidding aside, thought folks might be interested to see a few newly minted OW students trained by Wayne Fisch (of DiveSeekers.com and The Scuba Connection, in Hillsborough NJ). Here we see students doing some dives the weekend immediately following their OW class, during which they were not only taught buoyancy control, proper trim, and efficient propulsion techniques... but they actually trained in Halcyon BP/W rigs right from Dive 1. (Like all of our OW students.)
To stir the pot even further, apparently these students (and their instructor) have the gall to presume that they are ready to take AOW this coming weekend!
Amazing - though shouldn't be surprising - what the combination of great instruction, proper gear, and motivated students can accomplish!
All kidding aside, thought folks might be interested to see a few newly minted OW students trained by Wayne Fisch (of DiveSeekers.com and The Scuba Connection, in Hillsborough NJ). Here we see students doing some dives the weekend immediately following their OW class, during which they were not only taught buoyancy control, proper trim, and efficient propulsion techniques... but they actually trained in Halcyon BP/W rigs right from Dive 1. (Like all of our OW students.)
To stir the pot even further, apparently these students (and their instructor) have the gall to presume that they are ready to take AOW this coming weekend!
Amazing - though shouldn't be surprising - what the combination of great instruction, proper gear, and motivated students can accomplish!