SCUBA WATERMANSHIP

"No performance requirement in SCUBA Diving is more poorly defined or less often achieved than__Buoyancy Control."

WATERMANSHIP=

The ability to row a boat or, perhaps, swimming ability....

BUT not a substitute for:

"A MEASURABLE STANDARD FOR BUOYANCY CONTROL SKILLS"

Let's STOP measuring divers by their CRAWL STROKES....

Let's STOP pretending that the leadership corps of Recreational Diving can offer good examples of Neutral Buoyancy.

WHO REALLY WANTS TO LEARN

" Buoyancy Control SKILLS?"

Most divers are in such a hurry to collect c-cards and to buy fancy dive gear and to score bragging rights that they allow the proverbial cart to get in front of the horse.

Make no mistake....

SCUBA Diving is an EGO Sport!

SO FAR....fundamentals such as Buoyancy Control have managed to not become an "ego trip" or attract very much attention from most of the diving community. Perceived STATUS is more important than actual competence with fundamental skills.

WE "ONLY" MENTOR FUNDAMENTAL SKILLS.

We "pull no punches & take no prisoners".

IF you have nothing to learn....we can't help you!

FOR THE RECORD: there are superb swimmers who are hopeless divers & superb divers who posses surface swimming skills that are marginal, at best. It is a mistake to measure SCUBA divers by their crawl strokes.

DO YOU REALLY LOOK AS GOOD UNDERWATER AS YOU LOOK ON PAPER OR PLASTIC?

DO YOU LOOK LIKE THE DIVER THAT ANYONE ELSE WOULD WANT TO BE?

ARE YOU AS PROUD OF YOUR PERSONAL FUNDAMENTAL SKILLS AS YOU ARE OF THAT INSTRUCTOR #....?

MEET US THERE!

< THAT'S RIGHT!
One of us is a cave diver. But just a cave diver....not a cave instructor. AND not even a famous cave diver. NO exploration credits and no pending patents for state of the art dive gadgets. The only thing you can learn here is "above average buoyancy skills" and a pretty good FROG KICK!
CAVE DIVING: isn't the reason that we have good buoyancy . AND being instructors isn't the reason we have good buoyancy skills either. We actually had good buoyancy skills before we embarked on leadership and technical diver training.
THAT'S THE PROBLEM: "almost everyone" skips over that part. They just don't bother to acquire exceptional fundamental skills. They tell themselves that their Buoyancy Control is: "GOOD ENOUGH!" A few try to play "catch up" and some succeed but most never revisit first base. They're the ones who share what they don't know about fundamental skills and the cycle, of substandard buoyancy control skills, across all certification and leadership levels, continues to prevail.
WE DO NOT: dress up in cave diving gear, in our videos, because we want the message to be that "Exceptional Buoyancy Control SKILLS" should be the domain of all divers....not just technical divers. Every diver should settle for nothing less than Tech Diver Skills!
IF YOU STILL BELIEVE IN "THE STATUS QUO":....continue down that path....the path of the "SCUBA CUSTOMER", the path of "THE CASH COW".

BuoyancyQuest: OFFERS AN ALTERNATIVE!

AND FOR THE RECORD: there's no such thing as Buoyancy that's "GOOD ENOUGH!"

Buoyancy Control is not something that you learn in a TECH Diver CLASS....It's something you need just to show up there!

REMEMBER: still photos only record a fraction of a second.... VIDEO IS BETTER!