As you said, it's been so long since I took my training (and diving with electronic compasses), that I needed a refresher. I tried looking at 4 or 5 other videos but this was the only one that made it very clear, step by step.
Probably the most important "compass" learning point, esp for divers in poor viz, is actually not to do with working out your bearing, but working out how far you have travelled along that bearing! I REALLY recommend next time you do a pool practice session where you know the length of an, er, length to do a few lengths and count your fin strokes (in all of your kick styles), so you can roughtly say "i take x strokes to do 10m" or whatever. Yes, currents and trim and gear set up all affect your actual on-dive propulisve efficiency, but at least you have a chance of knowing if yo have travelled 10m or 100m along your bearing!. Also, i think unless you are really dialled in, if there are obvious currents, it's better to simply swim a pure bearing, accept the current WILL push you away from your true target,but then you know that your target must be UPCURRENT at the end of your leg. If you try to correct for currents by deliberatly swimming into the current, ie off the ture bearing abit, you might end up on one side or the other of your target,and then you don't know which way to go to get there! Having said all that, i can get lost on a simple shore dive and end up on a different beach from where i started, so probably best not to listen to anything i say.......... ;-)
@@AndytheNorthernDiver An outdoor explanation along with an illustration would be great. I watched another video where they did that an I now understand. It’s not rocket science like you said. English isn’t my first language and so sometimes I find it difficult to keep following and I’m sure many non-English speakers face the same problem. You’d say watch a video in your mother tongue…not too many options are there. Anyways mate, thank you so much and keep up the good work. Appreciate it 👊🏻
As you said, it's been so long since I took my training (and diving with electronic compasses), that I needed a refresher. I tried looking at 4 or 5 other videos but this was the only one that made it very clear, step by step.
Awesome thanks so glad it helped
Watched 5 videos till yours showing how it is actually used in an example. thank you sir
Great thanks for watching glad it helped
thank you for the great video.
Glad it helped
Probably the most important "compass" learning point, esp for divers in poor viz, is actually not to do with working out your bearing, but working out how far you have travelled along that bearing! I REALLY recommend next time you do a pool practice session where you know the length of an, er, length to do a few lengths and count your fin strokes (in all of your kick styles), so you can roughtly say "i take x strokes to do 10m" or whatever. Yes, currents and trim and gear set up all affect your actual on-dive propulisve efficiency, but at least you have a chance of knowing if yo have travelled 10m or 100m along your bearing!.
Also, i think unless you are really dialled in, if there are obvious currents, it's better to simply swim a pure bearing, accept the current WILL push you away from your true target,but then you know that your target must be UPCURRENT at the end of your leg. If you try to correct for currents by deliberatly swimming into the current, ie off the ture bearing abit, you might end up on one side or the other of your target,and then you don't know which way to go to get there!
Having said all that, i can get lost on a simple shore dive and end up on a different beach from where i started, so probably best not to listen to anything i say.......... ;-)
Hahahahah thanks for watching
Aye, you've got it dead on, Groundskeeper Willie.
Hahahah not sure if I’m looking bald, or you’ve noticed my ripped abs yo call me that, or maybe it’s the beard 🧔♂️
Great Video Andy, will share this video with my students, thanks, Josh
Awesome mate hope it helps them cheers for watching
Thank you Andy.
Very welcome mate thanks for watching
I'm currently lost in the water as I'm watching this.
Hahahah good luck 🤞🏼
Very impressed ❤️
Hope it was helpful
Awesome vid, really helpful
Cheers Tom
Hi, when do we know if we use the compass clockwise or counter-clockwise? Does it matter?
Hahahah good question
Interesting
what brand of the compass you are using with the bungee cord? Its the first time seeing such a low profile compass.
I pulled it off an old console and then got the attachment from Underwater Explorers aka DIRDirect
@@AndytheNorthernDiver thank you for sharing. great videos. keep it up
Thank you
Hope it was useful mate
Can that compass read on land.
Yeah
You left me more confused than I were
It’s not rocket science mate
@@AndytheNorthernDiver That’s the thing. You made it seem to be 🤣
Out of all the people who’ve watched it all but 1 seemed to think the other way. What would you do differently?
@@AndytheNorthernDiver An outdoor explanation along with an illustration would be great. I watched another video where they did that an I now understand. It’s not rocket science like you said. English isn’t my first language and so sometimes I find it difficult to keep following and I’m sure many non-English speakers face the same problem. You’d say watch a video in your mother tongue…not too many options are there. Anyways mate, thank you so much and keep up the good work. Appreciate it 👊🏻
@@mas1158 no worries mate yeah they’re good ideas hope you master it one way or another
still confused ..need this for damn AOWD cert
What’s confusing you?
What’s confusing you?
You said heading 300 deg then turn around to 120...half of 300 is 150 deg.....is that what u meant to say?
No I meant 120, there’s 360 degrees on a compass face therefore half of that is 180. 300-180=120 thanks for watching