Do they care?
Some people would go for a holiday doing nothing except sun worshipping.
Some would go and do everything.
Is horizontal position really better?
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Some people would go for a holiday doing nothing except sun worshipping.
Some would go and do everything.
Next time when you go diving take a look at your fellow divers. And then raised the question if some of them is not to your standard. Love to hear the reply.
David Novo
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You are making a meal out of nothing!
People still walking on coral, dynamite fishing, harvesting coral etc etc.
Have you ever convinced any stranger to alter their diving technique? I dare not to be honest.
David Novo
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scrane
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You are confusing trim with buoyancy control. Two different things.
I know what has been talking about and this topic has been discussed repeatedly over last 20 yrs. And I really do not see any significant impact on divers that I had met over the same period.
'Better' is the wrong word but it does make some people feeling superior.
I absolutely believe it does.
I did not learn to ski until I was married and my wife taught me as well as she could. In my first years of skiing while living in the ski paradise of Colorado, I stayed on the intermediate slopes and tried to perfect my technique by watching other skiers and imitating what they did. It did not occur to me that the skiers on the intermediate slopes were not my best choice of role models.
I eventually had enough money to take lessons, and I learned that all the stuff I had learned by imitating those skiers was wrong, wrong, wrong! Although I never fully overcame the bad habits I had accumulated over the years, I got much, much better. I learned the thrill of skiing nearly effortlessly down a double black diamond slope, gliding down a new, deep, powder run, and weaving through the trees on a forested slope. That was way, way, way more fun than what I had been doing for the first decade or so of skiing.
When I was working on my instructor certification, we did series of dives off Key Largo. At one point I saw a young woman diving, or, rather, trying to move along on the bottom. She was grossly over-weighted and had no sense of buoyancy. She was nearly crawling. Our eyes met, and the look on her face was "I am not having any fun whatsoever. If I ever get back to the surface, I am going to end this activity forever." At that moment I made an oath that no student of mine would ever look or feel like that.
If I'm carrying a lot of gear (deco and extended range tanks), or I'm in a location that requires good buoyancy control (cave), or I'm in a dry suit, then I like to maintain a fixed horizontal trim so that I'm not always having to deal with air moving around in my wing or dry suit.
Other than that, I adapt to whatever position is required or desired. I like to drift dive standing on my head. I like to do deco and rest stops on my back so that I can blow bubble rings. When I have a camera, I like to be in a head-down position to keep my fins away from the reef.
Other than that, I adapt to whatever position is required or desired. I like to drift dive standing on my head. I like to do deco and rest stops on my back so that I can blow bubble rings. When I have a camera, I like to be in a head-down position to keep my fins away from the reef.
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