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"No performance requirement in SCUBA Diving is more poorly defined or less often achieved than....Buoyancy Control." |
GOOD DIVERS....LOOK
GOOD UNDERWATER....BECAUSE OF GOOD BUOYANCY CONTROL SKILLS "EVERYTHING ELSE IS SECONDARY!" |
STILL
PHOTOGRAPHY: only
records how good a diver looked for a fraction of a second....VIDEO IS BETTER!
WE HAVE VIDEOS!
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GOOD Buoyancy Control
BEGINS WITH A: Symbolic Amputation of the HANDS Using hands "for propulsion or stability" is the.... HALLMARK of a Substandard Diver! |
IF YOU CAN IMAGINE A
WORLD.... Where 199 out of every 200 people stumble around like drunks or toddlers....then you can IMAGINE: HOW THE UNDERWATER WORLD LOOKS TO THE LESS THAN ONE HALF OF ONE PERCENT OF DIVERS..... WHO REALLY HAVE GOOD BUOYANCY SKILLS! |
"STOP SCULLING!"
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"LEARN TO FROG KICK!"
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"IMPROVE YOUR SCUBA!"
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Buoyancy Control Wisdom? ( you decide ) Real Buoyancy Control Ability
is a lot like wisdom; it requires time and effort to acquire and then
it is almost impossible to give away, much less sell. We see many
more divers who are pretending to be elite, than the total of all
divers who have exceptional buoyancy skills. For every cave diver ,
that we see in jet fins, there are dozens of divers wearing jet fins in
order to be mistaken for a tech diver. Some of them put on double
tanks, a dry suit and wear single window frameless black masks
and
don expensive canister lights, with "goodman handles". Some flock to
sidemount classes, the
latest tech diving technique to go viral among a diving population that
has never bothered to master buoyancy control skills. SCUBA Diving is a "Make Believe" or
"dress up and pretend" experience for too many people. Without
having that fundamental ability (aka. good buoyancy), all of the other
equipment and ambitions have no foundation. All of this is true and the
fact that most of the Recreational
SCUBA Diving Community fails to recognize or acknowledge
it....or continues to exist in a state of denial....does not alter that truth.
Most divers think that
their equipment will provide them with all that they need and that
technology will conquer nature. Some others think all that they need to
do to have good buoyancy skills is to "just
go dive" and somehow , "like
magic", better Dive Skills will be the natural result. The
current crop of celebrity divers, within "the status quo",
do not support that notion when they are viewed underwater. How a diver
actually looks underwater, says more about his status than any amount
of c-cards or equipment that he has collected or even how long he has
been diving or how many dives he has done.
Some divers hope that the
big training agencies with their buoyancy certification courses
will direct them to their diving destiny. Most divers who opt for
a two dive buoyancy certification course, end up looking.... "UNDERWATER"....like exactly
what they are.... a person who just
paid for a useless plastic card.
MENTORS: (qualified mentors) who can
demonstrate above average buoyancy skills underwater, are what is
needed! Mentors
can be your friend or dive buddy or they can be a paid
professional but in either case they must be able to focus the
attention on skills rather than toys and they must be able to look like
the diver that you would like to be when you see them underwater. First
and foremost , the goal of the mentor should be to transfer ability to the protégé (I know but I just don't like the term
men~tee).
For profit or from a spirit of fraternity....the mentor must be able to
invest in the other diver even if that pupil might, some day, exceed
the ability of the mentor. Experts
who do not share in order to preserve their own status....are not
mentors.
john noftall
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TEAMWORK
JUST 3 OF THE
INDIVIDUALS THAT MAKE UP OUR TEAM
Left to Right: CESAR (videographer)
JOHN ( BQ's founder )
FERNANDO ( our guide).
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We
call the shots! We don't
just take you to another country and turn you over to another dive
supervisor. We set the agenda for a Frog Kick & Buoyancy SKILLS
Workshop that has real merit. We have colleagues who recognize and
support our efforts. They are mostly Mexican Nationals with years of
experience and much to contribute to your success.
THAT'S
RIGHT!
we recognize the contributions that these very skilled individuals
bring to the;
BuoyancyQuest TEAM
We
would be just another Cozumel
Dive Trip without their efforts. "WE'RE NOT JUST ANY COZUMEL DIVE TRIP!"
A
few years ago, a celebrity diver with a TV Show in the United States
did a Cave Diving episode in Mexico. This well known diver did some
cave training with a Mexican friend of ours. When the piece aired in
the states, another celebrity diver (from the states) was
substituted as "the cave instructor". The message we took from that was; someone didn't think that an audience in the United States, was ready to see their hero learn anything from a Mexican. IF YOU DON'T THINK: you could learn
anything from a Mexican, you'll be happier on everyone else's workshop
or dive trip!
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