Essential and fundamental skills! I saved this video and I am looking forward to the next one! :-)

@pinnacledivingco

2 жыл бұрын

I’ll be making part 2 soon. Need a few people willing to join in to do some of the skills for it. 😎👍🏻

I love what you are doing on the regulator retrieval. I think it is great that you also put your secondary second stage in your mouth during the retrieval process. I have big arguments with some of my instructor colleagues on this. They tell me, that they think people should retrieve it without the secondary second stage in the mouth. I totally disagree as in case of an emergency and maybe empty lung, people who might not catch it on the first try will panic and shoot up as they will not think of the octopus anymore. If you learn it the way you show it, people will remember it and put the octopus in the mouth and then go for recovery. As we learned during the instructor course, first learned will be remembered.... Thank you putting it this way into the video.

@pinnacledivingco

Жыл бұрын

100%, absolutely! It is exactly like you pointed out. Law of Primacy. First learned, best remembered. I have a belief that all dive instruction--exactly the same as flight instruction--should be developed in a progressive manner, that places the foundational skills necessary for real-world use in diving as primacy. To this end, I teach everyone "neutral from the start" (NO KNEES!!!), and design skills so they apply to emergency procedures in an intuitive and safe way. Sure, the ability to locate the regulator while blowing bubbles can demonstrate a degree of water confidence and capability, but little else. I want 100% of all MY divers to be "thinking" divers, not "robots". So why NOT use the tools you have to address an emergency when encountered? The secondary second stage is your personal regulator, why not use it? Once you put it in your mouth, congratulations! The "emergency" is now over! At this point, you can take your time to address recovering the lost regulator from your perfectly neutral position, and carry on with the dive. Instilling these skills right away from the very beginning will ensure these new divers go on to become "amazing" divers later on, capable of thinking and acting independently, and being truly self-reliant divers as they should be. Thanks for the comment Alex! 😎🤙

@alexg.994

Жыл бұрын

@@pinnacledivingco I agree so much with you. The "emergency" is indeed over when the secondary second stage is in the mouth. Regarding doing the skills while hoovering. I agree with you as soon as they have done it a first time while being on the ground and have a little bit improved hoovering skills. Are you still planning to do additional NAUI skills video? I like them and for me as a NAUI instructor it gives me a different perspective of how to do it. I believe all of us can learn from each other. Best regards Alex

@pinnacledivingco

Жыл бұрын

@@alexg.994 Yes. I’m still planning to continue making these demonstration videos, starting with part 2 of the OWSD skills. It will include things such as: all surface swimmer skills, recovery of an unconscious diver at the surface and underwater, pushes and tows, cramp releases, shared air ascent, ESA, and more. I just haven’t been able to film it yet. I makes these videos specifically for use in conjunction with my courses. As a part of their academics, I have my students watch and study these videos at home before the actual course. This way, during the course it’s not the first time they are seeing the very skills they will be expected to perform, and this method has been proven to be more effective at preparing students for success than waiting until the course to introduce students to skills for the first time. Finally, I do strongly disagree with ever having any student on the bottom. Not even during confined water. All students should be focusing on their development of neutral buoyancy from day one. It’s all about Primacy. You put a student on the ground first, and you ruin them for life. From that point on, even after they learn to be neutral later on, Primacy for them is forever more “on their knees”, and every time, without fail, if you stress them enough to force them to react on instinct, their primacy will take over, and without ever thinking about it, and without ever knowing they’re doing it either, they’ll go to their knees while attending to address the problem. There is a MASSIVE safety issue with going to your knees. If you’re neutral, going to your knees changes your buoyancy characteristics, and will make you negative. If you’re already task saturated and dealing with an emergency, now you just compounded the problem by adding an additional problem to deal with. The next instinct for most is to grab the inflator and add air, making them rise, further compounding their problems. And what follows is a continuous spiral of progressively out of control sequences of events making things worse, which all could have been avoided had the diver stayed perfectly in trim, which also would have happened had their primacy been that in trim neutral position. No... Absolutely no knees. No skills on the bottom, no instruction from the bottom, not in confined water, not in open water. Just no. 100% neutral from the start, all skills performed from neutral. That’s how I teach. Of course no student is perfect, and not everyone picks up neutral by the end of confined water. Many struggle with it and rise and fall until they figure it out. I also teach breathing techniques and minimum weighting from day one as well, and these help greatly toward new student’s development of neutral early on. By the end of my OWSD course, nearly all my students have a good development of neutral buoyancy skills, and they get complimented quite often by divers from other agencies.

@alexg.994

Жыл бұрын

@@pinnacledivingco I do agree with you on doing as much as possible in neutral buoyancy. It would interesting to hear how you do that on the first shallow confined water dive. I think I could learn here something.

@pinnacledivingco

Жыл бұрын

@@alexg.994 It's nothing special really. I start off by making sure all students have the best equipment for actually "diving" (backplate and wing with long hose regulator setup), then work to find their minimum weighting, brief students on expectations, brief the students on the proper techniques, and lead by example, reinforcing the expectations and standards along the way. Of course this is simplifying the explanation, as it would fill the comments section if I attempted to detail the whole process of getting students to start from neutral on their first dive, let alone explaining the details on how I assess each individual student's comfort, learning needs, and best methods of instruction to use for them during the course. I'd be happy to discuss it over another format/medium at some point if you like. Besides being the highest standards in the industry, the granting of full academic freedom is one of the main reasons why I choose and stick with NAUI as an instructor. I have full authority to design my courses and the curriculum, as well as to adapt them as necessary, to meet the learning needs of each and every student in order for them to achieve the required standards. And let's not forget, exceeding the "standard", is "the standard". Needless to say, I have not yet had a single student who couldn't start in a horizontal trim position, begin learning to find neutral from session one, who couldn't complete all skills from session one and then throughout the entire course in that horizontal position, and who couldn't perform a whole dive from neutral by the end of their basic course.

Great video! For the next one, it would be great to see you use light colored gloves on both sides, to enhance the visibility! Thank you!

@pinnacledivingco

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! And thank you for the suggestion. I’ll see what I can find, specifically for use only with these types of videos. 😎🤙🏻

Great video AJ, and I have to say I love the attention to detail on these exercises! I don't know if it's specific to NAUI, but practices such as breathing from the backup regulator while retrieving the primary regulator just make so much sense, and seem to add an extra layer of safety that I don't see taught by other training agencies? Really enjoying this content, also loved the videos on the Triton rebreather, we literally didn't know there was a mechanical CCR that was so small, and chest mounted until we saw that video!! We're in the US, so it might be tricky finding someone to help us do a try-dive, but we're looking!

@pinnacledivingco

2 жыл бұрын

Sean, thank you for the compliment. It means a lot. Attention to detail is just as important in providing quality instruction as using correct terminology is, or teaching to the learning needs of the individual student is. Switching to the secondary regulator after losing the primary is not a "standard" per say. It is taught when using a long-hose regulator configuration, which is all I teach from the basic level and up. Most people learn to dive using the older and considered "more traditional" recreational regulator configuration, which typically has a short hose you breath off of and a long, often "yellow" [supposed] "safe-second" or "octo" secured to your side. The problem with this setup is that it doesn't actually work in real-life full-on panic situations. A person in full-panic mode will not take that yellow hose, but instead, they will see the regulator in your mouth, their brain will tell them "you have air and it WORKS", and they will fight you tooth and nail to take it away so they can breath off of it. Thus, the long-hose, which originated in cave diving, solves this problem--and a long lists of other problems. When learning off of the traditional regulator configuration, students are taught to simply blow bubbles (to show they aren't holding their breath) and perform either of TWO methods for retrieval (reach back and sweep). With a long hose, you're absolutely right! It makes TOTAL SENSE to simply put your secondary (aka, "personal" or "backup") regulator in and breath normally (now it's no longer an "emergency", now is it?), then retrieve your primary using any of THREE different methods possible (reach back, sweep, pull). May I ask, are you at the level where you can move on to CC? Or do you mean "try-dive" as in just getting into diving? If so, where are you located? I might know a NAUI shop who can help. :)

@seanlotz9581

2 жыл бұрын

@@pinnacledivingco Thanks AJ, I was away from diving for 28 years and returned in 2020. I started all over just like I'd never done it before, since it had been so long; my girlfriend and I got certified together with a TDI/SDI instructor in Miami where we planned a week of vacation around our certification. Because we're in Ohio, we are limited to quarries while we are here, and then travel three times a year to Florida + 2 Caribbean trips typically. Together, we are about 25 dives in, and I recently became interested in rebreathers along the way, as some of our diving friends and acquaintances now use rebreathers for purely recreational diving, as well as for added comfort in the colder waters. We fully understand that we have to pick up our nitrox cert prior to doing anything with a rebreather, and are also very much aware of the increased level of detail, complexity and associated risks that are there with rebreather technology. On a side note, I was very conflicted about regulator set up when re-entering SCUBA, and very much agree with your thoughts on regulator configuration, as I've never been fully comfortable with the traditional, yellow hose octo (having learned to primary donate in my original certification in the late '80s). I know there is a LinkedIn page for your business over there; can I correspond/DM with you there at any future point (or somewhere else if you prefer)? Thanks again, AJ!

@pinnacledivingco

2 жыл бұрын

@@seanlotz9581 No worries at all! And yes, Linkedin and Instagram are both options used routinely for direct messaging. Whichever you prefer.

SPG on crotch strap? I have a 24" HP hose that always clips to the left hip D-Ring.

@pinnacledivingco

Жыл бұрын

That’s a good way to do it. It’s very common too. My hose is 32”, and all the hoses on all my rental sets are the same. 32” long. The goal is to keep the hose as close to the body and as streamlined as possible, while at the same time, keeping it secure. 24” would only be long enough for the hip. I like them a little longer so they can be up front. If for any reason you are in a situation where you can’t use your hands to grab it, you can still look down and see your pressure. Putting it on the crotch strap also guarantees both hands can reach it if necessary, and it keeps the hose straight and close to the body, preventing it from becoming a snag hazard.

Any advice on an smb for class?

@pinnacledivingco

Ай бұрын

SMB’s should be provided to all students who are taking an Open Water course, and they should deploy it several times, from depth, during the course. For other courses, SMB’s should be made available to students if they do not have their own by that point. For recreational divers, a single SMB is fine. Orange is a good color as it is contrasted against the water and easily seen. An open bottom design with a flapper valve inside will allow for 4 different filling methods. For your reel and line, use a delrin reel, not a metal one. Metal sinks if you drop it, but delrin will stay put in the water for a few moments, giving you time to grab it if you accidentally let go of it. And you really don’t need more than 30m of line.

@Burritosarebetterthantacos

Ай бұрын

@@pinnacledivingco wow thanks for the huge explanation. It really helped.