In this episode of The Dive Locker Podcast we learn about teaching scuba diving skills while neutrally buoyant vs kneeling.
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So the Internet is a buzz with banter regarding teaching scuba diving skills while neutrally buoyant from the beginning versus kneeling from the beginning. In fact, the debate is quite heated in some cases. Now it’s true that we all want to make the best divers possible, but how to get there varies by dive pro and even agencies in some cases.
So obviously all open water divers will at some point during an open water diver course need to demonstrate proficiency in neutral buoyancy. For some that mastery is quicker than others. And for some of us Instructors, seeing students demonstrating neutral buoyancy or hovering for 30 seconds or a minute is not mastery. But that’s a whole other soapbox. So what is at debate is how we get them there and how quickly should we introduce neutral buoyancy.
James Blackman is host of the wildly popular YouTube channel Divers Ready. And during an interview with him he mentioned how he was doing training for a young lady who wanted to become a Technical diver. So he started off with an assessment Dive and when he asked her to do mask clears she immediately deflated her BC and kneeled in the sand to do her skills. This blew his mind and it was proof that her training never involved doing these exercises, to mastery, while neutrally buoyant.
So in this episode we are going to breakdown the pro’s and con’s of teaching skills neutrally buoyant vs kneeling.
Items In This Episode
- Pro’s and con’s of kneeling on the bottom
- Pro’s and con’s of neutrally buoyant
- Examples of skills
- Overall benefits of teaching all skills while in neutral buoyancy
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