What It Takes to Be a Great Diver

By | Feature Posts, Knowledge Base

Riding an Diver Propulsion Vehicle (DPV)

Leaders are Made

If you are a regular reader of this site, you’ll know that my primary goal is to help you improve your diving skills. Many of you have written to me saying that your diving enjoyment has increased due to some of my tips. I know occasionally I’ll go off on a tangent and babble about things that have nothing to do with your in-water abilities, but the goal stays the same for me. The title line for the home page of this site says “Helping Divers Build Exceptional Diving Skills“. This isn’t some marketing scheme or catch phrase, it’s what motivates me to teach and publish articles on this site. Now I want to give you the Holy Grail of diving education. I want to tell you the one thing that will make you a great scuba diver. [Read more...]

Confessions of the Scuba Anti-Hero: Part 3

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Your Scuba Anti-Hero

Many people haven’t been able to get to know the real me. Many have accused me of being egotistical and other nonsense. Unless you’ve been around me for quite some time, you may not know a few truths about my diving and views on diving. In this series, I want to give a few “confessions” to help people get to know me a little more better. Check back often for more of my confessions. [Read more...]

Gas Management on the Fly

By | Training

Math cartoon

Gas Management on the Fly

If you have been a reader of this site for a while, you probably have read my previous articles on dive planning. In that series, I discussed how to calculate your gas reserves. For those of you not familiar, we must be able to leave an emergency reserve of gas in our tanks in case we need to ascend while sharing air with a buddy. Most call this reserve rock bottom or minimum gas. Either way, every diver should be able to calculate how much gas to leave in reserve for an out of gas emergency. It’s easier than you may think. Let’s take a look. [Read more...]

Practical Application: The Forgotten Component of Scuba Training

By | Training

Tech Instructor - Duane Johnson

The week leading up to each class I teach is always hectic for me. Not only do I need to go over my gear and get it ready, but I have to get organized as to the structure of the class, schedule of lecture topics, order of skills/drills and the list goes on. One of the final components to all of my classes are experience dives. On these dives, my students put into practice what they have learned in the class. At this point, I’m just a spectator and watch them plan and conduct the dives. This is one area that I’m not seeing in many scuba diving classes. [Read more...]

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