Doing it better

Diving is often advertised as an almost effortless activity. Underwater, with good trim, it really can be that peaceful: the water bears the weight, movements are slow and balanced, and everything seems virtually meditative. The problem is that diving begins and ends on land, where buoyancy doesn’t come into play. Gravity, unlike a cave current, never takes a day off. Does your physical fitness give you enough reserve when something goes wrong?

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to breathe. As a matter of fact, I started to breathe quite young and it quickly became a daily habit that I intent to keep doing until late in my life. Of course, as I’ve been teaching scuba diving for 45 years now, I know that most divers enjoy breathing on a regular basis, usually around 20.000 times a day, but it’s only recently – as I discovered the Buteyko method and Patrick McKeown’s Oxygen Advantage – that I realized that we don’t always breathe as efficiently as we should. And that, my friend, could be a problem underwater!

Diving with partner certainly is the preferred way of diving. It is described as a safe form of practicing this type of sport. But is this certainly a true statement?

What are checklists and what is their role in diving? What are the pros and cons of checklists? Are they helpful or is it a waste of pre-dive time? How to introduce checklists into your diving practice and what should they contain? You can find the answers to these questions in the latest post by our instructor Daria. We invite you to read.