Pool practice

[kathydee]

I'd like to start a list of at least 101 things you can practice in the pool.
1. Remove weight belt
2. Replace weight belt
3. Remove mask
4. Swim without mask
5. Replace mask
6. Fin backwards
7. Hover in bud a position
8. Hover horizontal
9. Remove bc
10. Replace bc
11. Buddy breathing
12. Panicked diver rescue
13. Unconscious diver from depth
14. Helicopter turns
15. no mask swim
16. Buddy breathing swim
17. No mask air share swim
18 Hover inverted
19 Hover upside down
20 Regulator recovering
21 Frog kick
22 Modified frog kick
23 Breathing
24 Communications
25 Awareness
26 Kicking with one fin
27 Kicking with no fins
28 Tying knots
29 Deploy a DSMB
30 Use a lift bag
31 Take photos
32 Proper weighting
33 Dof and don
34 Rescue breaths
35 Blowing up a balloon
36 Unlocking a lock
37 Brushing your teeth
38 Forwards rolls
39 backwards rolls
40 search patterns
41 Breathe off your bc inflator for half an hour while maintaining neutral bouyancy.
42 take the tank off your bcd and swim around with your tank under one arm breathing of the reg while maintaining neutral buoyancy
43 get a big group of 6 or so divers sharing one regulator & maintaining neutral buoyancy
44 bare tank breathing.
45 MFS ditch and don
46 scuba bailouts
47 Back kick
48 Line drills (w/ anchors)
49 Oral B.C inflation on surface
50 Gaint leap entry
51 Inflation of SMB
52 Byouancy controle

 

[tracydr]

bare tank breathing. MFS ditch and don, scuba bailouts

What is bare tank breathing?

 

[tracydr]

Ok. Taking all my tanks in tomorrow for hydrostatic. When they get back I hope to have about 101 skills to practice. I can't do the six man drills by myself and only have my husband available every once in awhile. phD programs suck! So, for now I'm pretty much diving solo in the pool until he finishes his degree. That's a long time to do pool drills. That's a lot of fin kicks, hovering and mask drills!!! How exactly do I practice awareness? And what do I take pictures of, the drain? Or the drowning papillon?

 

[knowone]

A breathing option for when the underwater reg mugger steals them.

So be aware and you won't have to breath directly from the regless valve whilst sharing air with the drowning dog as you take a photo of it chasing a butterfly down the drain.

 

[NJScubaSteve]

Breathe from free flowing regulator.

 

[Tropicalwolf]

Pool drills start with chucking all gear into the deep end (only 1st stage attached to tank).

 

[tbone1004]

What is bare tank breathing?

basically what it sounds like. Take a tank, jump in, start breathing. Open valve to breathe, close it when you're done. This is uh, we'll say discouraged by most training agencies... We certify thru NAUI but that's about where our NAUI affiliation stops until we hit ITC's.

This is a really good drill for learning buoyancy without a BC since it's you and a tank. We do it with steel 72's or AL80's. If you're good you can do it one handed with the other behind your back *I'm still working on that one... not quite that coordinated

 

[tracydr]

Got it! And I'll try not to drown the papillon baby while I'm at it. I'll make sure to put her cute little pink lfe jacket on before we start our drills!

 

[Jax]

Ok. Taking all my tanks in tomorrow for hydrostatic. When they get back I hope to have about 101 skills to practice. I can't do the six man drills by myself and only have my husband available every once in awhile. phD programs suck! So, for now I'm pretty much diving solo in the pool until he finishes his degree. That's a long time to do pool drills. That's a lot of fin kicks, hovering and mask drills!!! How exactly do I practice awareness? And what do I take pictures of, the drain? Or the drowning papillon?

Got it! And I'll try not to drown the papillon baby while I'm at it. I'll make sure to put her cute little pink lfe jacket on before we start our drills!

No kidding it's a lot of fin kicks! Are you in a commercial pool? I run a pattern of finning to each floor lane marker, and doing alternate 360* helcopter turns at each marker. I alternate the kicks between the lanes. As for the camera - practice macro shots of whatever you find, and maintain buoyance while shooting; I find that darned difficult. Hovering - it only takes about a half-pound to start tilting you while you hover motionless. You also discover floaty fins, if you have them! I do at least three mask drills - I still hate 'em.

Awareness - where are the swimmers in the pool? Do you know when they are within x meters? Check out the videos on Youtube, and try to immulate them. That SMB one . . .

 

[lowviz]

# wherever we are: Determine how many psi you lose per breath on what you are diving, slightly more fun at depth and half-narced. step two, convert it to a surface value.