CT-Rich
Contributor
Comfort in the water is always important. When I learned to dive a half billion years ago, we learned a bunch of skills to make use more comfortable in the water, including how to snorkel (free dive), ditch and don, buddy breath, etc.
Free diving to 15 meters seems a lot like the swim tests that we did. I was expected to swim the length of an Olympic pool underwater on one breath without pushing off the side of the pool. I was also expected to be able to tread water for 5 minutes holding both index fingers out of the water. While being able to do all those thing wasn’t bad, none of them really contributed to my COMPETENCY as a diver. I was just a diver that could tread water for 5 minutes holding my index fingers up. In the last 40 years, I shave never found a need for it in the wild.
Free diving to 15 meters seems a lot like the swim tests that we did. I was expected to swim the length of an Olympic pool underwater on one breath without pushing off the side of the pool. I was also expected to be able to tread water for 5 minutes holding both index fingers out of the water. While being able to do all those thing wasn’t bad, none of them really contributed to my COMPETENCY as a diver. I was just a diver that could tread water for 5 minutes holding my index fingers up. In the last 40 years, I shave never found a need for it in the wild.