If you missed episode 1 you can see it here kzread.info/dash/bejne/o6Zsy7ttiNXeo5M.html

#26: Pick up any plastic you come across under water.

@christosz5

3 жыл бұрын

I'd say trash in general, but agree that plastic is what we find the most!

@leopoldbloom4835

3 жыл бұрын

Christos ZS Right, I once even found a kitchen lamp - in the sea! 🤔

@christosz5

3 жыл бұрын

@@leopoldbloom4835 Yeah, sometimes i'm just like "People!! Whyyy??!". But i get no reply...

@inspirescuba4845

3 жыл бұрын

@@leopoldbloom4835 maybe they were looking for a midnight snack!

@stuartmcconnachie

Жыл бұрын

I found a full size water cooler bottle. It was quite impressive!

And stay hydrated!

All good points - my favorite is the honesty part. If a diver slides on the truth just once, the other divers will eventually find out and view that diver through lens of suspicion. My one piece of advice to new divers is to keep that regulator your face no matter what! I was with a dive group a year ago when one diver had a problem, panicked and spit the mouthpiece out. Fortunately someone was near the diver, provide rescue efforts and get to the surface. I tell new divers, (only two years of diving myself but 66 years of life in my back pocket), that I don’t care if a manatee is trying to give you wet sloppy kisses or if you suffer a panic attack deep down in the water column, “You bite down on that mouthpiece and keep it in your face! Someone will come help.”

One extra tip: Test out your octo second stage occasionally. I like to do it at a safety stop...make sure it works, breathes okay, comes loose from its holder etc. Too many people never test out their safety gear...

@chankwanting

2 жыл бұрын

On my Open Water Referral, first exercise - kit assembly, having just test breath the regulator: Instructor: "Now not everyone bother to test their octo" Me presses the octo purge button * Loud noise, octo freeflow * Yeah, I think I'm going to be one of those that tests the octo every time. 😄

@pbristow

Жыл бұрын

​ @Katie Chan Part of buddy checks as I was taught them is (a) reg in your mouth, (b) gauge in left hand, and (c) right hand on the octo. Breathe in, watch gauge, and press purge simultaneously... while keeping one eye on your buddy to make sure they did all 3 too. So I'm right there with you. That said, don't forget to actually pull a breath from it, not just purge it. You might discover it needs maintenance that way, I believe.

@norman6595

Жыл бұрын

Very sound advice. I’ve only had to do a real buddy assisted ascent once (a free flow at about 20m) and my buddy’s octopus mouthpiece was perished - got air but it was quite unpleasant especially when stressed.

@kates5528

9 ай бұрын

I found this useful, but I really had to get past the commercials. There were lots of ads in this one.

Started diving in 1977, been an instructor, dive master, and support for frightened first-time divers. So may I politely suggest using the term air instead of gas when addressing points for beginners.

The mental part is to me really important. Usually all the folks on the boat have been to that place a bunch of times and can just plop in. I have driven 14 hours then had to get up super early to go to a spot I have never been before. I know some folks will say "suck it up" but I am still getting to that point. Standing over the stern of a boat with 80 pounds of gear on your back and over 100 ft. of water always gets the pulse going.

I really liked several of the topics. I know I won’t be grabbing the boat ladder wrong anymore. Lol

Insurance-wise, I just recommend straight up DAN dive insurance. They're the absolute best to deal with in case of an accident. Calling DAN will generally give you all the most relevant information for your area.

One of my top tips is actually to do with what you do when you are not actually in the water, and that is "organise your storage / carry bags". No matter if you are diving from a boat, or from the shore (potentially out of a car boot!) then having just the right kit, when you need it, without loosing it (especially amongst other divers gear) really makes the difference between a enjoyable, stress free dive and one that could be more stressful. I tend to compartmentalise things into strong waterproof zip lock bags, and then store all those subbags into one or two waterproof day bags. In this way, you know where everything is, and stuff you leave behind (esp on a boat) will not get lost (fall into the bilges....) or wet, or damaged. I typically use a caribiner or spare bolt snap to actually clip my waterproof bag to some part of the boat,like a hand rail, or rope or something (make sure the operators aren't going to need the thing you clip too, so don't clip to a lifeboat/lifering or anchor line etc!!!). When you hall youself out of the water, dripping wet (and probably a bit cold if in the UK), you can access everything you need, from where you left it, straight away! The smaller the boat and the larger the number of other divers diving with you, the more important this becomes..........

@duikmans

3 жыл бұрын

And make a "ritual" of donning your gear: the routine will make sure you don't forget anything.

@ScubaDiverMagazine

3 жыл бұрын

Sage words of wisdom.

"You cannot literally bring two of everything" -> sidemount divers all just smirked, I think?? :)

I'm always learning new ways to dive better and safer. I never thought about looking over things to identify the dive boat. I've never had a problem over my dive career, but I'll add that to my check list now. Good suggestion.

Great information. Myself and most divers I know are nomadic. Just live out of a backpack. I don't have room even for a dive computer.. It would be great to talk about gear with just renting. The overwhelming dives I have been on, has been with everyone having rented gear. I'm going on a liveaboard soon to Egypt so my perspective may change

Thinking about SAC rates, one thing I've found recently, since using Subsurface software is that having an air integrated computer gives you a ton of info about your consumption that is really useful in improving your gas management skills, and really is a window into how I dive that I hadn't seen before. I was kind of heartened to see that my SAC rate isn't that bad, and also has improved quite a bit since I first returned to diving. Nice :)

Amazing video with lots of useful tips for every new diver! I believe everyone can learn something new from everyone on every dive!

I’ve just watched three different channels and seen you on all of them . If you can get on to divers ready, you will complete all four of my diving subscriptions!

@ScubaDiverMagazine

2 жыл бұрын

Ha ha, watch this space, as James and I are planning to try and get together for some dives, etc, as soon as we can.

Thanks for having longer content and covering the points thoroughly

Focus is of the utmost.

Good reminders even for experienced divers

Another great video! As a new diver with only 4 dives, I appreciate the tips. Thanks

@ScubaDiverMagazine

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

@inspirescuba4845

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome to the club! Stay safe out there!

Awesome! I can really appreciate the longer content, seems like there's a huge push these days to keep videos short. 🤔

@ScubaDiverMagazine

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely!

Coming back to diving after a few years and these tips - along with those in the original video - are very handy reminders for us non-pros. Thanks

thanks for the helpful video

Having practiced as an emergency response person it warms my heart that you encouraged people to be aware of their hearts. Thanks so much. 👌💗

@ScubaDiverMagazine

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Drake Learning, glad you enjoyed the video.

Thank you sir.

Another top tip, if going on a dive trip with friends / buddies, is to try to split up your "spares" between people. In a group of say 4 divers doing a week on a liveaboard, you don't each need a spare regulator, but one spare between four of you, might just save one persons dive! Lots of divers have older kit that gets relegated to their spares box, and this kit, could certainly come in usefull. Whilst not perhaps being a shiny and up-to-date as your regular £600 second stage, that old one, the one that saw 5 years of trouble free service before you got reg envy and replaced it with the "latest thing", that old reg makes a perfect spare!

@ScubaDiverMagazine

3 жыл бұрын

Great advice.

For tip 3, as a diver, you shouldn't touch anything. Not because it may hurt you, but most importantly because you're more than likely to hurt marine life (or worst case irreparably damage it)

Excellent list. I only have a few dives under my belt so this was very educational for me.

Great video!!!!!!

I've eaten fire coral. Its awesome 👌

Cool tips! Thank you. I think, your vdeos deserve much more likes and comments.

@ScubaDiverMagazine

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

excellent video!

@ScubaDiverMagazine

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

Love both videos. Thank you! Could you please add more tips for cold water diving and shore diving. You videos did have some and they are much appreciated. Also, how exactly do I prepare my mask before dives? Thanks again!

@ScubaDiverMagazine

3 жыл бұрын

+katiazumba it’s in the video list

I'm a pissed off dragon. 😂 thx

Realistically what caliber of BCD would you recommend for a first bcd. Being an average recreational diver? With all the options out there it is really hard deciding. And of course the dive shop wants to sell me the best scuba pro package there is. 😅😅

By the way: the abundance of commercials would be less annoying if they didn’t always start in the middle of a sentence. I watched until the end, though. Lots of good advice.

@hyrumiv

3 жыл бұрын

I finally paid the money to get you tube premier. Well worth it, I don’t miss the commercials at all.

@ScubaDiverMagazine

3 жыл бұрын

KZread inserts the commercials not us, although yes I know how annoying they can be.

0 29:15 so smart 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽

@ScubaDiverMagazine

3 жыл бұрын

+Fishing Exchange glad you agree

@fishingexchange3742

3 жыл бұрын

@@ScubaDiverMagazine The best thing is that you are delivering a real diver experience and that’s way better beyond the reference books and guidelines! 👌🏽

I wish I could get a few minutes to get in the zone before getting into the water. Usually with a group it’s suit up jump in go here go there get out ….repeat

Do you as an instructor honestly telling me that I get better training parallel to how many stars the center has?

Is the Deep Diver course a good choose as a specialty in advanced?

@rogerdoger9939

Жыл бұрын

As mentioned, your insurance may not cover an accident if you exceeded your formal training. Even though you may have several dives with experienced people.

I thought they were all good except the PADI dive center/resort rating with is not accurate there is no 2, 3 or 4 * PADI dive resort only PADI dive center or 5 * dive resort as far I know and basically you pay to receive those ratings.

I just got my OWD certification. One of the training dives I got a nose bleed and equalizing was difficult. Any advice? Should I give up or is this just growing pains for some?

@ScubaDiverMagazine

3 ай бұрын

It could be a range of things that are making it hard to equalise. The best advice is that you should never need to force an equalise. Trying to equalise harder will only hurt yourself. One trick to equalising is to start equalising early, I start on the car journey to loosen the tissues in my throat. If you dive too deep you can reach a depth where even if you equalise perfectly, the pressure around you will prevent your ears from equalising. So early and often with equalising. If they don't equalise then shallow up and try again. There are also different equialsing techniques to try. If you were only taught to pinch your nose and blow, there are other techniques that you can try that might work better. There are plenty of videos online to explain them if you search for equalsing techniques.

@mrmeme177

3 ай бұрын

@@ScubaDiverMagazine thanks for the advice. I I’ll keep practicing.

Tip 26: install ad blocker

@ScubaDiverMagazine

3 жыл бұрын

ad blocker = less funding to make new content to watch

@fadi9340

3 жыл бұрын

Scuba Diver Magazine I’d literally rather send you some money directly than the frequency of ads throughout the video.

@fadi9340

3 жыл бұрын

I believe you should benefit financially from your content but I have 13 ads in this video, I think that’s excessive. Maybe you could test on audience retention showing ads up front only versus every few minutes during.

I spent over 8 hours using toothpaste on my atomic venom mask. It still is susceptible to heavy condensation. Any tips? Thanks for sharing this great content! Safe diving!

@duncanburgess9935

11 ай бұрын

Baby shampoo

@albertbell7120

6 ай бұрын

I use baby shampoo every dive just a drop and a quick swill … ready to go

Too many ads! But still good.

@ScubaDiverMagazine

3 жыл бұрын

KZread picks the number of ads, but its what helps us create new content.

Pro tip: do not poo in your wet suit.

please don’t touch the coral

Whilst

Can someone summarize the video? He’s a nice guy but he talks a lot :)

@robbiesweeney9972

3 жыл бұрын

No

@christosz5

3 жыл бұрын

It's all about how much you want to learn..

@ScubaDiverMagazine

3 жыл бұрын

YES. Do these things and you'll be a better diver.