Scuba Trick Tips for New Divers to Advanced Divers?

[TSandM]

Advanced Divers - Please state which 3 skills that you may need a refresher on

Not new things to learn.

 

[The Chairman]

I still can't swim backwards.

 

[Charlie99]

I still can't swim backwards.

Just backpaddle with your hands and hope no DIR guys are watching.

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Even after all low level of mechanics of diving are learned and internalized, there is still a lot to learn in buddy skills, overall situational awareness, and general dive management. That's where my focus is these days, not on how fast or efficiently I can swim backwards.

 

[DeputyDan]

I gotta go with NetDoc on this one.

It's the one thing I would most like to learn next.

 

[Trinigordo]

Just backpaddle with your hands and hope no DIR guys are watching.

I actually do that every once in a while, does that me a stroke?

 

[tedtim]

I still can't swim backwards.

Me either.

New skills
1. swim backwards
2. depoly smb
3. minor regulator repair (not a skill underwater, but a skill!)

Refresher
1. always buoyancy
2. resuce - towing an unconcious diver and removing their equipment
3. ascending while buddy breathing

 

[Rick Inman]

I still can't swim backwards.

Tell me about it.

If you ever see a strange washing machine-ish area of turbulence on the water's surface, that's me working on my back-kick during my stop.

 

[hunter991]

Ok I suppose I consider my self an advanced diver. I think the skills I would most like to master are how to get someone to carry my dive gear, and maybe how to pay for it.

Does this count?

Brent

 

[WetFatCat]

1. Buoyancy control.
2. Navigation.
3. Rescue.

 

[Erik Il Rosso]

1. Mask off diving, and mask replacement and clearing. I don't like it, and I'm not nearly as good at it as I ought to be. I spent a half hour in our pool the other night practicing, trying not to lose control of my depth while replacing and clearing my mask.

I heard that if a DIR-F instructor finds out that one of his student is not confortable with his/her mask off you end up doing most of the class maskless...

Is it true or is it just an urban legend ???

Just to avoid any misunderstanding I am not saying that you did not deserve to pass your DIR-F, I was just curious how you manage to go through it...

Ciao Erik Il Rosso