So true my friend! Breathing, Buoyancy, Trim & Propulsion! Something I always work on! This is the most important skill set you can teach a new diver! As Usual, you are 100 % !!
I took Padi 2002 then 2003 ssi for my adavnaced then rescue i never ever did get my Breathing, Buoyancy, Trim & Propulsion! none of that! but i dove lot but never really got those things down dove until 2007 then out for 13 years until 2020! finally git my stuff togther after 3 years! Your channel has beeb a great help that for sure
I took my BoE with Juan last March (www.youtube.com/@appliedtechnicaldiving6198/featured) and I only can confirm, it was the most important SCUBA class I ever took! My last certification was with PADI over 20 years ago. I thought I'm an experience diver and even argued why I should take the BoE, "just show me sidemount and advance straight to tek"... I could not have been more wrong. As Achim said, already at the circle of basics I struggled... just to remain still in the water was already super difficult and the challenges grew with every day. It was a great experience and opened up a whole new universe for me.
Hello. I totally agree with your skills advices. I just wonder why deploying the smb is not on your list Deploying the smb and keeping boyancy is also difficult skill to master. Best regards and many thanks for your videos :)
Having recently completed the PADI Peak Performance which was excellent and I learnt so much from it, included the items you mention in the ISE BOE is this your take on it? Highly recommend this kind of training and I am still working hard on improving my skills. Jan who was my instructor took great pains to configure all my equipment, D rings positioned correctly and every detail of my gear. Best money ever spent. I am sure your course will be pure GOLD
Achim, thank you very much for this video! I totally agree with your opinion. A few days ago I answered a question of a young diver in a Facebook diving group. The diver said that he is an OWD with limited experience in salt water and would like to start diving in German lakes to gain experience, would like to do an AOWD and that he is already knowing that he will get into technical diving one day. He asked for equipment recommandations and if he should buy a BCD or backplate/wing config right away because of his tech diving intentions. I recommended him to go for a DIR config right away (to save money) and should consider taking a BOE/Tec Fundamental/Intro to Tec Course to get recommandations for good equipment, to learn how to set it up and how to use it and to get a training which will bring him to an experience level which he most propably will never ever achieve with an AOWD Course only. Instantaniously other divers were starting giving me shit for my recommandations in particular to start with a BOE training. They said with the divers experience level this would be suicidal for him to do so. Thanks Achim for bringing it up that you tought inexperienced divers in your BOE courses as well! The BOE content is "just" basic diver skills tought in a safe environment under supervision/instruction of a very experienced instructor but this "basic" content will bring you to a next level. I did my BOE with Instructor Stefan L. at the Attersee some years ago.
I'm interested in real world gas equipment failures with a dive buddy. I've had two blown hoses on the surface, and makes me curious to know statistics on time to recover in such a scenario at depth, and also impact to dive parameters like buoyancy if your hose bursts for example. The gas exchange drills I've learned are so controlled and calm, I'm very curious to understand unexpected gas failure timelines and unexpected variables.
Logistically it's difficult for me to do a BoE. I almost had one organised to be done in Egypt this year but it looks like it's going to fall through... So in the end I might just end up going the Fundies route so I can get a bit of an equivalent done in Australia. Totally agree with the premise of the BOE. The fact is that most can't do it even though they should be able to do it.
Hey! Great video as always. I had a question, when you mention mask removal and clearing, how does it go with contact lenses? Every time I've done the drill I removed my lenses prior... Any advice? Will I loose them? Is it safe? Should I consider custom lenses for my mask? Thanks. PS: my question comes from a safety perspective
I also used to wear soft lenses, but due to extreme measures of the left one, not sitting properly from the get-go, I used to lose mine every time. So for me personal I took the road of having prescription lenses in my mask. So I can remove my mask at any time without thinking bout my somewhat costly lenses. Yet now I think more about not to lose my more expensive primary mask at all. So everything comes at it’s price. 😅
Let us know here in the comments if you did you BoE already.
Besides your history with the organization, how does this compare, objectively, with a GUE Fundamentals course?
I think this a good question. I took Fundies and this rings a lot of bells!
So true my friend! Breathing, Buoyancy, Trim & Propulsion! Something I always work on! This is the most important skill set you can teach a new diver! As Usual, you are 100 % !!
I took Padi 2002 then 2003 ssi for my adavnaced then rescue i never ever did get my Breathing, Buoyancy, Trim & Propulsion! none of that! but i dove lot but never really got those things down dove until 2007 then out for 13 years until 2020! finally git my stuff togther after 3 years! Your channel has beeb a great help that for sure
I took my BoE with Juan last March (www.youtube.com/@appliedtechnicaldiving6198/featured) and I only can confirm, it was the most important SCUBA class I ever took!
My last certification was with PADI over 20 years ago. I thought I'm an experience diver and even argued why I should take the BoE, "just show me sidemount and advance straight to tek"... I could not have been more wrong. As Achim said, already at the circle of basics I struggled... just to remain still in the water was already super difficult and the challenges grew with every day. It was a great experience and opened up a whole new universe for me.
Hello. I totally agree with your skills advices. I just wonder why deploying the smb is not on your list Deploying the smb and keeping boyancy is also difficult skill to master.
Best regards and many thanks for your videos :)
Having recently completed the PADI Peak Performance which was excellent and I learnt so much from it, included the items you mention in the ISE BOE is this your take on it?
Highly recommend this kind of training and I am still working hard on improving my skills. Jan who was my instructor took great pains to configure all my equipment, D rings positioned correctly and every detail of my gear. Best money ever spent.
I am sure your course will be pure GOLD
Achim, thank you very much for this video! I totally agree with your opinion. A few days ago I answered a question of a young diver in a Facebook diving group. The diver said that he is an OWD with limited experience in salt water and would like to start diving in German lakes to gain experience, would like to do an AOWD and that he is already knowing that he will get into technical diving one day. He asked for equipment recommandations and if he should buy a BCD or backplate/wing config right away because of his tech diving intentions.
I recommended him to go for a DIR config right away (to save money) and should consider taking a BOE/Tec Fundamental/Intro to Tec Course to get recommandations for good equipment, to learn how to set it up and how to use it and to get a training which will bring him to an experience level which he most propably will never ever achieve with an AOWD Course only. Instantaniously other divers were starting giving me shit for my recommandations in particular to start with a BOE training. They said with the divers experience level this would be suicidal for him to do so.
Thanks Achim for bringing it up that you tought inexperienced divers in your BOE courses as well!
The BOE content is "just" basic diver skills tought in a safe environment under supervision/instruction of a very experienced instructor but this "basic" content will bring you to a next level.
I did my BOE with Instructor Stefan L. at the Attersee some years ago.
Wow, with most of the agencies out there, finning will be very interesting. I know at least 5 instructor that are unable of finning backwards.😂
I'm interested in real world gas equipment failures with a dive buddy. I've had two blown hoses on the surface, and makes me curious to know statistics on time to recover in such a scenario at depth, and also impact to dive parameters like buoyancy if your hose bursts for example. The gas exchange drills I've learned are so controlled and calm, I'm very curious to understand unexpected gas failure timelines and unexpected variables.
Logistically it's difficult for me to do a BoE. I almost had one organised to be done in Egypt this year but it looks like it's going to fall through... So in the end I might just end up going the Fundies route so I can get a bit of an equivalent done in Australia.
Totally agree with the premise of the BOE. The fact is that most can't do it even though they should be able to do it.
I'm an ISE IT, and I'm Australian - I'm in Australia fairly often. :)
@@icejakeyjakewhere do you teach? Your links on your UA-cam channel are all broken.
There's something heavily flawed if a trimix instructor trainer doesn't have all this already mastered.
Yes!, but there are PLENtY of these..:-(
@@CoastalDevelopment but there shouldn't be.
@@Agranellno shit
I like it
Makes sense
Ich habe vor kurzem den Fundi bei einer anderen Organisation gemacht, wenn man die Bestandteile so liest, kommt es aufs gleiche hinaus, oder?
Jo 😂
Hey! Great video as always. I had a question, when you mention mask removal and clearing, how does it go with contact lenses? Every time I've done the drill I removed my lenses prior... Any advice? Will I loose them? Is it safe? Should I consider custom lenses for my mask? Thanks. PS: my question comes from a safety perspective
I wear lenses always and never lost any while without a mask. I use soft lenses and was told hard lenses are more problematic.
@@CoastalDevelopment Thanks you very much! Be safe!
I also used to wear soft lenses, but due to extreme measures of the left one, not sitting properly from the get-go, I used to lose mine every time. So for me personal I took the road of having prescription lenses in my mask. So I can remove my mask at any time without thinking bout my somewhat costly lenses. Yet now I think more about not to lose my more expensive primary mask at all. So everything comes at it’s price. 😅
How long does the class take?
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