As you said, it's been so long since I took my training (and diving with electronic compasses), that I needed a refresher. I tried looking at 4 or 5 other videos but this was the only one that made it very clear, step by step.

@AndytheNorthernDiver

Жыл бұрын

Awesome thanks so glad it helped

Watched 5 videos till yours showing how it is actually used in an example. thank you sir

@AndytheNorthernDiver

7 ай бұрын

Great thanks for watching glad it helped

This is the best video on youtube if you type in "how to use a diving compass," or "How to use a dive compass." Thank you kind sir!

@AndytheNorthernDiver

Жыл бұрын

Fantastic mate thanks - share it so everyone who needs it gets to see it

@matth3708

Жыл бұрын

@@AndytheNorthernDiver Yes Sir

I'm currently lost in the water as I'm watching this.

@AndytheNorthernDiver

11 ай бұрын

Hahahah good luck 🤞🏼

Aye, you've got it dead on, Groundskeeper Willie.

@AndytheNorthernDiver

2 жыл бұрын

Hahahah not sure if I’m looking bald, or you’ve noticed my ripped abs yo call me that, or maybe it’s the beard 🧔‍♂️

Great Video Andy, will share this video with my students, thanks, Josh

@AndytheNorthernDiver

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome mate hope it helps them cheers for watching

Probably the most important "compass" learning point, esp for divers in poor viz, is actually not to do with working out your bearing, but working out how far you have travelled along that bearing! I REALLY recommend next time you do a pool practice session where you know the length of an, er, length to do a few lengths and count your fin strokes (in all of your kick styles), so you can roughtly say "i take x strokes to do 10m" or whatever. Yes, currents and trim and gear set up all affect your actual on-dive propulisve efficiency, but at least you have a chance of knowing if yo have travelled 10m or 100m along your bearing!. Also, i think unless you are really dialled in, if there are obvious currents, it's better to simply swim a pure bearing, accept the current WILL push you away from your true target,but then you know that your target must be UPCURRENT at the end of your leg. If you try to correct for currents by deliberatly swimming into the current, ie off the ture bearing abit, you might end up on one side or the other of your target,and then you don't know which way to go to get there! Having said all that, i can get lost on a simple shore dive and end up on a different beach from where i started, so probably best not to listen to anything i say.......... ;-)

@AndytheNorthernDiver

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahahah thanks for watching

Thank you Andy.

@AndytheNorthernDiver

9 ай бұрын

Very welcome mate thanks for watching

Awesome vid, really helpful

@AndytheNorthernDiver

3 жыл бұрын

Cheers Tom

Very impressed ❤️

@AndytheNorthernDiver

2 жыл бұрын

Hope it was helpful

Thank you

@AndytheNorthernDiver

10 ай бұрын

Hope it was useful mate

Hi, when do we know if we use the compass clockwise or counter-clockwise? Does it matter?

@AndytheNorthernDiver

Жыл бұрын

Hahahah good question

@lucii348

Жыл бұрын

Interesting

what brand of the compass you are using with the bungee cord? Its the first time seeing such a low profile compass.

@AndytheNorthernDiver

2 жыл бұрын

I pulled it off an old console and then got the attachment from Underwater Explorers aka DIRDirect

@odnin

2 жыл бұрын

@@AndytheNorthernDiver thank you for sharing. great videos. keep it up

Can that compass read on land.

@AndytheNorthernDiver

8 ай бұрын

Yeah

You left me more confused than I were

@AndytheNorthernDiver

Жыл бұрын

It’s not rocket science mate

@mas1158

Жыл бұрын

@@AndytheNorthernDiver That’s the thing. You made it seem to be 🤣

@AndytheNorthernDiver

Жыл бұрын

Out of all the people who’ve watched it all but 1 seemed to think the other way. What would you do differently?

@mas1158

Жыл бұрын

@@AndytheNorthernDiver An outdoor explanation along with an illustration would be great. I watched another video where they did that an I now understand. It’s not rocket science like you said. English isn’t my first language and so sometimes I find it difficult to keep following and I’m sure many non-English speakers face the same problem. You’d say watch a video in your mother tongue…not too many options are there. Anyways mate, thank you so much and keep up the good work. Appreciate it 👊🏻

@AndytheNorthernDiver

Жыл бұрын

@@mas1158 no worries mate yeah they’re good ideas hope you master it one way or another

You said heading 300 deg then turn around to 120...half of 300 is 150 deg.....is that what u meant to say?

@AndytheNorthernDiver

Жыл бұрын

No I meant 120, there’s 360 degrees on a compass face therefore half of that is 180. 300-180=120 thanks for watching