Scuba Diving Tips - Born to Chill - Why Moving Slowly is So Important
One of the most important concepts when Scuba Diving is moving slowly. It always amazes me to see divers swim as fast as they can, wasting air, and valuable potential memories behind them. What's the rush?
I lay it out to my students whenever I let them lead me on the dive, to get some experience. I always find myself breathing heavily trying to catch up. You see, my idea of a quality dive is one you hardly move on, relax, work on your buoyancy, and allow things to happen in front of you.
1. When diving, moving slowly helps you conserve energy, thus wasting less air and increasing bottom time. As we move fast three things contribute to increased air loss: A: moving faster simply takes more effort; we use our muscles harder and demand more oxygen, thus breathing harder and emptying our tanks faster.
B: By moving faster we increase water drug on our buddy, it actually becomes harder to dive, and again, our tank is emptied sooner than planned...
C. You might not realize your buoyancy isn't neutral till you slow down and stop propelling yourself. Slow down, fine tune your buoyancy and see how much easier scuba diving can be.
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