Scuba Diving: Underwater Skills and Lessons

I’m Scott Martin IDC staff instructor a
total diving today my colleague Jennifer
Brown and I are working with
watchmojo.com to show you six basic
skills that you could learn in your pati
open water scuba diver course all right
one of the skills are going to be doing
today is regulate a recovery using the
arm sweep method this is an important
skill to learn in case by chance your
regulator could get knocked out of your
mouth it’s an easy way for you to
recover it and continue your dive
another skill we’re going to do is mask
removal and replacement this is a
valuable skill in case you should ever
lose your mask underwater and need to
regain it put it on purge it of water
and continue your dive without surfacing
today we’re also going to cover the fin
pivot this is a valuable technique to
help you set neutral buoyancy at the
beginning of your dive or reset neutral
buoyancy during a dive to keep off the
bottom and protect aquatic life
one of the most important skills in
scuba diving is buoyancy control so
today we’re also going to look at
hovering an exercise that will help you
attain perfect buoyancy hovering in mid
water without sculling or thinning this
will help you become a better diver on
every dive that you do
another skill we’re going to do today is
alternate air source breathing this is
going to be very valuable to you and
your go-to technique in the unlikely
event that you or your buddy has an out
of air emergency
scuba-diving equipment is designed to be
failsafe what that means is that should
an equipment failure occur it’s going to
constantly deliver you a stream of air
so for this extreme circumstance we’re
going to cover a free flow regulator
exercise which will teach you how to
breathe from a regulator that is
free-flowing underwater