You have to go out of your way to screw it up, kind of like tripping over your own feet.
Well, I guess I have seen a great many students (including myself) repeatedly tripping over their own feet, then

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You have to go out of your way to screw it up, kind of like tripping over your own feet.
Yeah because they can't walk and chew gum at the same time. This isn't penetrating the Doria, it's blowing up a balloon attached to a fishing reel. You make it sound like a surgical procedure which it obviously isn't.
The diving I do and don't do likely will never require an smb, so it's a moot point anyway.
The diving I do and don't do likely will never require an smb, so it's a moot point anyway.
For the diving I've done so far, I've never needed a SMB, but figure at some time I might. Like a lot of others here, I look at this place as one resource to help improve my diving knowledge and skills. I have dove places where a SMB would have been a smart thing to have and know how to use, but fortunately never needed to. With a trip to Fiji planned later this year with a group of divers I don't know and have never dove with, I think being prepared for more potential situations is probably a good idea. I'm hoping to never need to use a SMB, but someone once told me hope is not a planIt's only a moot point if;It's not moot.The diving I do and don't do likely will never require an smb, so it's a moot point anyway.
OP asked a question.
Honestly, it is an important skill for many of us and for the novice diver who has to shoot one, it is stressful and difficult.
a) you don't consider the original poster's desire for improving valid
AND
b) you intend to do the diving you do now for the rest of your life, don't plan on ever traveling to other world diving localities where a SMB might be neccessary, and stick with narrow horizons.