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SCUBA Travel; SCUBA
Training; SCUBA Travel with Training; SCUBA Frog Kick & Buoyancy
Control SKILL
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"No performance requirement in SCUBA Diving is more poorly defined or less often achieved than....Buoyancy Control. |
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IF YOUR LOCAL
DIVE SHOP offers you training during a DIVE TRAVEL ADVENTURE,
it will likely take the form of collecting more Specialty C-Cards from
the training agency that they are affiliated with.
You can read more about what we think of C-Cards
BELOW*
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Learning better Buoyancy
Control while
on a DIVE
TRAVEL ADVENTURE....
"WHAT
A CONCEPT!"
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 A GROUP JUST BEFORE A NIGHT DIVE Everyone is wearing their trip T-shirt. |
 A GROUP ENJOYING A FIELD TRIP TO: Cozumel's less populated East Side Beaches. |
THAT'S
RIGHT!
It's a FROG KICK & Buoyancy SKILLS CLINIC It's a COZUMEL DIVE
TRAVEL ADVENTURE
IT'S BOTH!
Buoyancy Control is what we are good at
so....
Buoyancy Control Skills are what we share.... AND....an introduction
to
FROG KICK!
THAT'S RIGHT ....THAT'S ALL THAT
WE DO!
Because WE
CAN!
& NO PAPER OR
PLASTIC REWARDS.
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IF
a SCUBA Instructor or Instructor Trainer has not perfected a skill
he/she has nothing to share with pupils. So it is with Buoyancy Control
Skills. All the way back to the guys who invented "open circuit diving"
and all the way back to the heros of the 1950s 1/2 hour Televison Show,
we see examples [actual moving examples] of the neglect of
Buoyancy Control.
NO
"the
old timers" did not know about using breath control. They did not have
BCDs and they did not have a clue about the role that breathing played
in Buoyancy Control. CAVE DIVERS
[as early as the 1970s] may be the first divers to pay much attention
to the kind of Buoyancy Control SKILLS that we are talking about.
THE
OLD TIMERS that we know did not have good buoyancy
either before or after acquiring "ready made, store bought" BCDs.
TODAY'S
DIVE LEADERS are a chip off that block! EGO is what
cuts it! Bragging Rights, stacks of C-CARDS, "State of the Art
EQUIPMENT" or feats like "BUG CATCHING"
and harvesting artifacts from ship wrecks are all worthy goals.
EVEN BODY RECOVERY: that's right, there are divers out there who use body recovery as a credential and expect to be measured "as a diver" by that standard. Buoyancy Control Skills
most
divers think that theirs are:
"GOOD ENOUGH!"
perhaps you think that also? THAT'S WHY sometimes but not always when we see you underwater....we laugh at you!** THAT'S WHY
we know there is a market for
someone who is qualified and
talented enough to teach "ONLY"
Buoyancy Control.
OF COURSE such a mentor must be willing to teach such a difficult but..... "MUNDANE SKILL!" |
 STILL PHOTOGRAPHY
only records a fraction of a second. For some purposes this is
perfect....an image frozen in time. BUT for the assessment of SCUBA
Diving SKILLS, still photography comes up short because we only know
how good the diver was or looked for about 1/250th of a second.
THAT'S WHY
next time you see an image of a diver Buddha Hovering....you might want
to consider it a poor credential for promoting, what may be an even
poorer, Buoyancy CERTIFICATION COURSE.
THAT'S WHY we show you VIDEO [ moving pictures] of what we look like underwater. We want you to decide on training with us because of what we look like UNDERWATER in motion....rather than choosing us because of our agency acronym or our instructor number. OR Least of all....BECAUSE OF OUR:
rhetoric! |
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*THE VALUE OF
C-CARDS
C-CARDS: only have a value if someone [anyone] might ask you to show them the card in return for consideration. An Open Water
Diver
Card will get you on most dive boats and allow you to rent gear
and to purchase tank fills. [4 dives]
Some operators will ask to see an Advanced Open Water C-Card if the dives will be deeper than 60 feet. [5 more dives] Nitrox C-Cards are required if you will want to use Enriched Air. [some agencies require 2 dives....some do not]. SO NOW: you've done about 11 dives
that allow you to get on a boat and do an 80 foot dive on NITROX.
AND [ if you are like most divers ] you won't have a clue about Buoyancy Control for 900 more dives [ if ever ]. One
of the very "last" entities to offer EAN Certifications, dressed their
course up to give the appearance that it was better or more
comprehensive than the training that was offered by the pioneers of
enriched air diving..
There's
more than a little bit of "FLUFF" associated with C-CARDS!
HERE ARE SOME CARDS
THAT YOU WILL PAY GOOD MONEY FOR THAT WILL "NEVER" BE ASKED FOR:
That is only a partial list of the "useless plastic" that is FOR $ALE. |
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**Are we
"MEAN
SPIRITED"?....maybe just a
little bit
BECAUSE: WE'RE TIRED OF WATCHING TOO MANY PHONIES
GET AWAY WITH TOO MUCH FOR TOO LONG!
THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE THINK IT IS
FUNNY....IT'S NOT FUNNY!
IF you get to see other VIDEOS......Watch
the diver's hands!
Because SCULLING with the hands is the "HALLMARK" of a Substandard Diver. |
| STILL
PHOTOS: only show what happened for a fraction of a second....VIDEO IS
BETTER! |
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STOP SCULLING
with your hands!
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LEARN TO: FROG KICK
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PERFECT YOUR BUOYANCY!
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| We invite
your questions and comments about Buoyancy Control....even those
contrary to our own. We know that you are free to seek Buoyancy Skills Training here or elsewhere...and you should!. LEARN YOUR FUNDAMENTAL SCUBA SKILLS [ especilly buoyancy control ] "FIRST" |
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| WE PROMISE: that you will learn
"CAVE DIVER QUALITY" Buoyancy Control Skills...WITH US! |
| THAT'S RIGHT..... you'll learn
buoyancy skills that most open water instructors don't have on their
first day of Cave Training. |
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