Many beginner divers may encounter difficulties when learning to scuba dive for the first time. Start with nervousness about breathing underwater and concluding loss of buoyancy control. These obstacles shouldn’t prevent you from participating in a once-in-a-lifetime activity like scuba diving, since we are here to explain to you the most challenging aspect of learning to dive and how to get beyond it.

 

Every sport needs a bundle of skills you should work on. To be able to turn from a beginner to a master, even if you  just want to enjoy it and stay safe you have to trim and be knowledgeable about the basic skills. When you are about to learn scuba diving, your instructor will show you the roadmap of the basic diving skills and how to control it. In this article we will give you an insightful brief about the skills you shall practise in an open water diving course.

 

Padi open water course to learn scuba diving

 

The Padi open water course is considered a milestone course for beginners. It’s a remarkable step to start, whether it’s for recreational divers, diving technicians or scuba diving amateurs.

 

The basic course which opens the gate to the scuba diving world, consists of three basic components: theoretical study to illustrate what you need to know to become a diver, pool sessions to securely practise the practical skills you must master in order to be a safe and capable diver, and open water dives to allow you to use those same abilities in a real diving environment.

So far, let’s discuss some of the course’s most crucial abilities and what you may anticipate undergoing during your Open Water Diver course with a Drar dive centre blog.

 

buoyancy control skills in scuba diving

 

Do you think fishes swim all the time? Actually we could call it partially swimming. What makes fishes move in ease underwater is their natural buoyancy control. And in the paid scuba diving course, you shall realise that buoyancy is the most important skill you need to master, and the hardest one too.

 

For safe and simple diving, it is essential to understand buoyancy. We examine how buoyancy impacts scuba dives and what knowledge divers need to have to appropriately control them.

 

• Buoyancy: is the floating ability of a body (or diver). You can think of buoyancy as the “float” of an object. In scuba diving, we use the term buoyancy to describe not only an object’s ability to float in water, but its tendency to sink or not to do either. as it has a direct correlation with the diver weight equalisation.

 

• Positive buoyancy: An object or person floats upward in water or remains floating on the surface.

 

•  Passive buoyancy: the object or person sinks into the water or remains at the bottom.

 

•  Neutral buoyancy: The object or person does not sink to the bottom and does not float to the top, but remains suspended in the water at one depth.

 

How does buoyancy happen?

 

When something (or a diver) gets submerged, the water moves away to make place for the thing. For instance, if you drop your new Phone in it while holding a full glass of water, you will not only experience major connection issues, but also a little leak from the water that spilled over the edge of the glass.

 

The volume of the Phone is exactly equal to the volume of water that was moved to create room for it (which is currently pouring onto the floor).

 

When an item or diver moves water, the water around often tries to fill the empty area left by the moved water.The body is pushed against by the water, which applies pressure to it. The buoyant force is the force that propels the item upward under this pressure.

 

In the scuba diving open water course, you shall practise and study in detail about the factors affecting the diver’s buoyancy like (Buoyancy Control Device (BCD),Weights, Exposure protection, Other diving gear, Tank Pressure, Air in the lungs). And also how to maintain your neutral buoyancy to stay safe, and to protect the environment surrounding you, like corals and other aquatic creatures.

 

The crystal clear fact is that although buoyancy might seem hard at the beginning, it will make you more indulged in the diving experience, imagine you will be like stepping over the moon, and float like a fish!

 

Breathe control

 

This process could be done perfectly, when you keep managing your air supply, and learn how to breathe in a proper way. The most effective breathing technique underwater is breathe like if you are meditating, deep and slow breathes. maintain taking deep, deliberate breaths, that are controlled and at a slower rate. And remember to take long, deep breaths to fill your lungs. Don’t merely force the air out of your lungs when it’s time to exhale; instead, breathe out once more slowly and deliberately.

This might seem hard at first, but by the time you will use it, it will be easier.

 

 

 

The right timing

 

Underwater the beginner divers’ reactions may vary on a very strange scale. the smart diver have the sense of the good timing, and did not let himself overwhelmed by what he feel, or what he see, this skill will conduct a good communication with your instructor,  diving buddies, and a mentality of observation  to keep an eye on your air tank, regulator, your body strength capacity.

 

As the first rule underwater is always to stay safe, so be insightful enough and attended to observe the scene,  get off your nervousness, and learn to send the right signals whenever in an emergency situation. All this is related to the skill of right timing, through the padi open water you will learn how to measure time, and act according to it, and that’s one of the many perks, you shall taste by getting into the scuba diving world.

 

And for now, we tried to hit the nails on one of the hardest diving skills, people might find it difficult to manage at the beginning, but as we always say everything with a good instructor becomes like a piece of cake. We shall continue hitting other crucial skills in the upcoming articles, for now stay safe and bubble with enjoyment.