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"Look......No Hands ! "
Tough Talk about Buoyancy Control
 

• Using the hands for scooping water to propel oneself or to change direction while SCUBA Diving is called SCULLING.
• SCULLING is the signature of poor diving skills.
• If you use your hands for this purpose, even once a year, you are guilty of SCULLING.
• If you resort to using your hands while diving, regardless of how famous or experienced you may be, you are using a crutch and you have much to learn.

Poor buoyancy skills are epidemic in scope and are not limited to beginners. If you use your hands chances are good that your instructor or some other person that you looked to as a mentor used their hands. Television has no shortage of examples either real or depicted for entertainment of "so called" expert divers thrashing about in a frenzy of dog paddling hands seeking some semblance of control. Many of SCUBA's most famous names have reputations that greatly outweigh their basic foundation skills.

We were all told at some point in our training, that using the hands to swim is taboo in SCUBA Diving, but if the person who delivers that message violates the very rule , only moments later, the message and its value are lost. If the people at the very pinnacle of Diving’s hierarchy, perpetrate, a bad habit, it will prevail over everything. If you use your hands for swimming while SCUBA Diving, regardless of how experienced or important you may think you are, this is about you and you have much to learn.

At BuoyancyQuest we practice what we preach!

"WE NEVER USE OUR HANDS"
 

We offer custom buoyancy clinics for:

• Public Service Dive Teams.
• Clubs and other interested groups.
• Instructors and DiveMasters who desire to present the best possible example to their students.

We can share with you some of the secrets on how to achieve mastery of this often overlooked aspect of diving. We are in the business of breaking bad habits and building new skills. It is much like quitting smoking, "you can do it by yourself" but, we know a few short cuts that will put you on the correct path.

We will go anywhere in North America to conduct these workshops. Contact us for information and price quotes.
 

CONTACT US:

BuoyancyQuest@comcast.net

john@buoyancyquest.com  maureen@buoyancyquest.com
 

MAUREEN MILLER exhibits perfect form as she cruises La Francesa Reef in Cozumel, Mexico. Note how the camera has captured how her fins mirror each other as she performs a very pretty frog kick. video by - Cesar Medina

 

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