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"No performance
requirement in SCUBA Diving is
more poorly defined or less often
achieved than....Buoyancy Control."
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OPEN
CIRCUIT SCUBA DIVING
has been around for
more than 70 years....
THAT'S HOW LONG....divers and too many of their
instructors have been ignoring Buoyancy
Control SKILLS and other foundation abilities. Read
almost any tutorial about SCUBA Fundamentals and you will think that
buoyancy control is what is lacking with beginners. The cyber
divers ( who do their best diving on line) call them newbies and are
condescending. The fact is; poor buoyancy control can be found, in
abundance, across all certification and leadership levels.
JUST ABOUT EVERY DIVER....wants to gain "bragging rights" to something more glorious and elite that just having sound basic skills and they skip over "first base" on their path to that perceived reward. |
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WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE STATUS QUO? Underwater skills do not
equal surface swimming skills. This author has
seen magnificent surface swimmers who were hopeless divers and has know
some truly spectacular divers who had surface swimming skills that were
barely
sufficient to keep them alive in an emergency. Equating good
swimmers with GOOD SCUBA Divers
is a profound mistake that has been perpetuated by the "Status Quo"
because they are unable to agree upon or recognize a standard for truly
exceptional foundation skills. These are the same people who
share their less than remarkable buoyancy control prowess.
THE PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENT FOR FUNDAMENTALS
Has it always been surface swimming ability??? john
noftall
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| 70 years of measuring divers by their "crawl stroke" may be the problem? |
 SURFACE SWIMMING SKILLS....ARE ABOUT POSITIVE BUOYANCY |
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STILL PHOTOS
show how good a diver was for a
fraction of a second.... VIDEO IS BETTER!
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"STOP
SCULLING!"
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"LEARN
TO FROG KICK!"
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IMPROVE YOUR SCUBA!"
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YOU WON'T
wear doubles. YOU WON'T
get a C-Card. YOU WILL
improve your buoyancy. YOU WILL
learn to frog kick.
WE WON'T DRESS IN CAVE GEAR TO SHOW YOU HOW....AND YOU WON'T NEED TO DRESS THAT WAY EITHER |
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