WHY BUOYANCY CONTROL?

SCUBA BUOYANCY, TRIM & PROPULSION.

Buoyancy Control is the foundation of everything else you will ever do while DIVING!

"No Performance Requirement in SCUBA Diving is more poorly defined or less often achieved than....Buoyancy Control."

WHY SHOULD ALL DIVERS LEARN BETTER BUOYANCY CONTROL SKILLS?

MORE BOTTOM TIME....with LESS OR SMALLER TANKS

GREATER SAFETY FOR DIVERS & THE ENVIRONMENT

A STRONG FOUNDATION to support TECHNICAL GOALS

"GOOD DIVERS"....look good underwater because of:
GOOD BUOYANCY SKILLS!

"EVERYTHING" ELSE IS SECONDARY!

WE PRACTICED OUR BUOYANCY SKILLS FIRST!

( while "most others" placed the emphasis on the neat stuff inside the cart )

"LOOK....NO HANDS!"
Tough talk about SCUBA Buoyancy Control

TTHE REASON: we don't see better

Buoyancy Control SKILLS

is the same reason we don't see more unicycle riders.

DIVERS WITH EXCEPTIONAL BUOYANCY SKILLS.... are as scarce as UNICYCLE RIDERS!
Most divers and their instructors are " like bicycle riders"....and many have yet to remove their training wheels!

WHY NOT CHOOSE QUALITY MENTORING OF FUNDAMENTAL SKILLS....RATHER THAN JUST BUYING ANOTHER PLASTIC C-CARD?
WE DON'T DRESS UP IN TECH GEAR OR TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE LEARNING ANYTHING BUT FUNDAMENTALS

BE MORE:
than just a tourist with a C-CARD in your pocket!

Acquire exceptional buoyancy control skills "FIRST"....then build on that foundation!

HERE'S WHAT WE THINK IS WRONG WITH THE STATUS QUO!

SCUBA INSTRUCTOR TRAINING: There is almost no emphasis on water skills during an instructor development program. Most instructor classes concentrate on selling more agency authored certification courses and more and more equipment, continuing education courses and travel for the agency’s “retail partners” i.e. the resorts and local retail dive centers. The focus is on classroom presentations and on selling! Extra points get scored and extra credit given to those cantidates who mention the agency's name the most times. Cantidates who have elected to attend SCUBA instructor development because of a desire to share dive skills and mentor divers, suffer a rude awakening with the realizatation that they are learning to be salesmen!
IF it quacks and walks like a duck....chances are....it's a duck. Chances are very good that you learned about diving from a salesman and that when you see your instructor on the sales floor of your local dive center, you're likely seeing him/her at their best.!
YOU WILL BE UNLIKELY TO LEARN BUOYANCY SKILLS FROM AN INSTRUCTOR WHO HASN'T ANY!

50 YEARS AGO; diving was depicted in a half hour weekly TV series featuring a well known movie star. The Buoyancy Control , on that show, was awful! At times, it was completely absent. Don't take our word for it, just watch the videos. That's right....50 episodes can be had in a boxed edition at almost any large electronics retailer. Countless big names among the recreational diving community have credited the series with launching their careers. YES, it shows....and is probably another reason for the neglect, that we see, of exceptional buoyancy skills. 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 neglecting buoyancy control.
NUMBER of dives or NUMBER of years diving does not always = a good diver!.

BuoyancyQuest mentors "only" fundamental dive skills......without offering certifications.

Real buoyancy training is harder to sell than "make believe tech training" or easy "eveybody gets certified" buoyancy classes. There are many times more people who are pretending to be elite divers than the total of "all divers" who have exceptional buoyancy control talent. For every cave diver in jet fins there are 100 more "divers who are wearing jet fins" in order to be mistaken for a tech diver. Jet fins were invented 50 years ago....and not because they were "the best" or "the only" choice for frog kicking!

WE DON'T PRETEND TO BE MORE THAN WE ARE....WE PULL NO PUNCHES & WE TAKE NO PRISONERS!

DON'T GET CAUGHT PRETENDING TO BE MORE OF A DIVER THAN YOU ARE!

"IF YOU COMMAND NO BUOYANCY SKILLS ~ YOUR DIVING HAS NO FOUNDATION!"

IDENTIFICATION & RECOGNITION: are the first components of problem solving.

We recognize the problem and it is chronic and not confined to beginner divers. In fact, substandard buoyancy skills are so common among leadership level divers ( instructors & instructor trainers ) that this may identify most of the problem.

We don't offer hints or guidelines on this website because we believe that there are countless cataloged lists and formulas, that are already being touted on the internet for stuff like; (18) ways to be a better diver.....or maybe (17.5 ) ways to better buoyancy.....or was it (14) secrets to make you look like a tech diver? You get the idea! But since there is no evidence that any of this free information has contributed to better dive skills, we know better than to follow that lead and to number and list what we think is wrong about buoyancy skills and to add what we propose as a remedy. Talk is cheap!

You can't learn about buoyancy skills on a blog or in a chat room. And for the record, you won't learn it from just reading what we have here either. If the offer is a buoyancy certification the instructor only needs to deliver a plastic card. Without the promise of certification, the bar is automatically raised and the instructor has no place to hide. We don't need to hide! We promise to share what we have learned and know about SCUBA Fundamentals and we do that within the context of a dive travel vacation in Cozumel. "SHARE" is the operative word because most of the very few leadership level divers who are able to demonstrate superior buoyancy skills, keep that talent to themselves, in order to preserve their personal status.

Our mentoring is personal. We tailor the training to the needs of your group. We recognize a good diver when we see one and we can identify the level of your buoyancy skills "sometimes" even before we see you get wet. We do "only" fundamentals. We don't pretend to be more than we are and we are both confident and comfortable about where we excel.

We'll show you what above average Buoyancy Control looks like & you can adopt it and become one of "The Few".

YOU CAN'T LEARN ABOUT BUOYANCY FROM A BOOK A BLOG OR A WEBSITE....NOT EVEN THIS WEBSITE!

WE THOUGHT ABOUT WRITING A BOOK: about the sad state of Fundamental SCUBA SKILLS & About SCUBA Politics.
THERE ARE ALREADY SEVERAL BOOKS: that expose the Recreational SCUBA Business (we haven't read any of them).

WE HAVE ENOUGH MATERIAL AND OPINIONS TO WRITE A BOOK: but we would be surprised to find many people who read this far down this web page. IF, it's more than a TWEET, most people (including most divers) aren't really interested! Nobody wants to read....especially about how bad buoyancy control is across all certification & "Leadership" levels of SCUBA Diving, because , perhaps, it is just too close to home!

YOU CAN LEARN ABOUT BUOYANCY FROM US IF: YOU MEET US IN MEXICO....AND WATCH US UNDERWATER!

BEING A GOOD DIVER IS NOT ABOUT HOW MANY CREDENTIALS YOU HOLD, HOW LONG YOU HAVE BEEN DIVING, HOW MANY DIVES YOU HAVE DONE, HOW MANY RESORTS YOU HAVE VISITED, HOW MANY T-SHIRTS YOU COLLECT, HOW MUCH "STATE OF THE ART" EQUIPMENT YOU OWN OR WHAT YOUR INSTRUCTOR STATUS IS WITH A PARTICULAR AGENCY. AND IT'S NOT ABOUT HOW BIG YOUR EGO IS OR HOW FAT YOUR WALLET IS EITHER.

" GOOD DIVERS ARE MEASURED BY SKILLS....NOT C-CARDS AND NOT SCUBA GADGETS!"

Good divers look good underwater because they have Good Buoyancy Control. Everything else is secondary!
DIVERS WHO CAN'T AFFORD TO BE JUDGED BY THEIR SKILLS USE MANY EXCUSES:

"Look at my expensive state of the art dive equipment!"....OR
"Look at my antique diving equipment!" (a Mark 5 or two hose regulator and a Fenzy).
"I've been diving for 40 years....I was diving before there were buoyancy control devices!"
"I have 40 C-cards!"
"I have 40 T-shirts from just as many global dive resorts."
"I have 4000 dives....well thousands anyway....well hundreds , for sure!"
"I learned to dive.....in "THE MILITARY"....wink wink.... and didn't get a c-card!"
"My deepest dive was 300 feet!"
"I used to go that deep but "NOW" I can only clear my ears to 30 feet!"
"My husband (or boyfriend) was a Navy Seal and he is going to teach me to "REALLY" dive after I'm certified."
"Don't you want to know how many bodies I have recovered?"
"My dives include the Andrea Doria, everything in Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon & many Florida Caves."

AND SO IT GOES.... there are many more but too many to list here.

THEN YOU SEE THEM UNDERWATER & YOU REALIZE THEY WERE TOO BUSY WITH THE IMPORTANT STUFF

"Buoyancy Control....what's that?"

THERE'S NO NEED to dress in tech gear & pretend to be a cave diver in order to teach or demonstrate GOOD BUOYANCY!

REMEMBER: Still Photos only record how good a diver was for a fraction of a second....VIDEO IS BETTER!

IF you think anyone can change the way you dive in just four hours for less than $200.... you should jump at that!
THAT'S LIKE: " REALITY TV " LIKE: " BEFORE & AFTER "
< like the folks who remodel a whole house or change a person's looks during a one hour program >
WE CAN'T PROMISE THAT!
We didn't learn what we know in four hours and we need more time than that to share what "we want to share" with you!
Maybe 4 HOURS says more about how much importance "they" assign to the activity.

CLICK: to go to WORKSHOP PAGES 1, 2 & 3

Our VIDEOS: show two divers who are different because they have "Above Average Buoyancy Control".
We did not dress up like cave divers, to appeal to the "technical wannabe" personality or element.

Our PURPOSE: is to inspire some imagination within the general diving population and to promote putting the cart back behind the horse, where it belongs, where fundamentals will be recognized as a worthy goal for their own sake. And YES, of course, to promote our workshops as a means to that end.

IF, you think there is a gap between your skills and ours....contact us and we'll help to close that gap!

"IT'S JUST THAT SIMPLE!"

"STOP SCULLING!"

"LEARN TO FROG KICK!"

" IMPROVE YOUR SCUBA!"

We excel at Buoyancy Control Skills and Frog Kick and we don't pretend to be anything more!

ASK ABOUT our SKILLS WORKSHOP

meet us in: MEXICO

BuoyancyQuest@comcast.net

CLICK HERE FOR WORKSHOP PRICES
Buying C-Cards can be more expen$ive than paying for noticeable skills!
We measure divers by how they look underwater and we'll make sure that you can meet that standard.

FEEDBACK: This is from an interested party who visited our website and lingered long enough to actually read.

“I found your site as I was searching for information about buoyancy control, frog kicking and streamlining of our scuba equipment. I've looked at your website over and over and we have a desire to learn skills and not cards, although we both do have the buoyancy C card from ****. I can tell you from that experience we should have simply paid for the plastic and skipped the instruction…it was not worth pennies on the dollar.”