From before my first breath underwater to 4 years later today as a certified air diluent mccr diver I’ve been here watching you mark first on simply scuba then to your personal channel safe diving then scuba diver magazine you’ve helped me and so many other divers thanks again buddy
Love your 'how to get into a rib'. We have a rib, but also a ladder. Might try your way next time, but at 63yrs old, could be comical. Love all your tips.
Hi Mark, getting into the RIB after diving is getting harder for me I’ve never been able to pull myself up and turn and sit … it’s like the beached whale for me 🤣🤣 I’m 70 and think as you get a little older top body strength starts to go … like your videos 🇬🇧🏴
Same here. I get grabbed by the arms and arse and get hauled in the rib where I flop around on the floor like neoprene wrapped dugong. Still, scuba isn't exactly a glamorous sport so who cares.
If you struggle getting in to tight gloves or tight legs use a dab of waterbased lube to make things glide easier. More environmentally friendly than using plastic bags or shampoo.
One thing i see new divers struggling with is getting their equipment setup and donned correctly. New divers, and some experienced ones, need to be intimately familiar with their own equipment and how they are going to get it on their body. Come up with a system or an order on how to get dressed. The several panicked/distressed divers I've seen were not sure of their equipment and used too much energy getting dressed. Know your equipment inside and out.
a small suggestion about getting lost; why not paint the name of the boat on the bottom of the boat or some sort of graphic or symbol? this may be helpful if you are around a lot of other boats? do dive computers have a gps feature? sort of light a way point that is your starting point?
Some dive boats have their name on the hull for that reason and some drop a flag with the hang tank so that you can see which boat to come back to. Lights, strobes and glow sticks are often added at night. We don't really have underwater GPS yet. Many are working on systems but, the current signals from satellites doesn't penetrate very well through water so they often need a submerged beacon tethered to the surface. We'll get there one day...
After realizing that the amount of weight I need to get down and my own lack of ass to keep it secured over wasn't working I recently switched to a BCD vest with integrated weight pockets. However for some reason I now keep falling forward whilst at the surface and backwards whilst under the water line. And though I try to compensate with the fins a bit, I'm not comfortable enough in the water to really to it adeptly and still end up 'falling' in the wrong direction. I think it might help to redistribute some of the weight to the back if that is possible (I need 10+ Kg to sink properly in my 7mm wetsuit). But I'd like some advice about what to do instead if that is not the right way to go about it.
Buy some trim pockets (with room for 3 kg in each) for the cam bands and play with the position and weight distribution. Further upwards to your shoulders pushes you forward.
I'm on 18kg at the moment . Everyone keeps telling me that's alot of weight, I say I know I'm the one carrying it😅😅I'm just using hire equipment at the moment, neoprene drysuit
@@iainsomerfield That's..... a lot of weight. 😅 Difficulty with rental gear is that it's different every time, makes getting the correct weighting difficult.
I suspect a lot of newer dry suit divers are doing their weight check / struggling to get down so add more weight because they're not fully vented of air inside their suit when they first get into the water. There's only so much squeezing air out on land, one of the first step after getting into water is get of rid of any remaining air inside with the help of the water pressure.
@@chankwanting I own all my own gear. It's what it takes for me to dive my neoprene drysuit, base layer, thicc 450g weight thermals, dry gloves, and hood. I have absolutely zero cold tolerance and we dive water as low as 1.5c.
@@chankwanting This is typically seen with new dry suit divers, yes. That is why doing comprehensive weight checks, both in and out of the pool, with dry suits is important.
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From before my first breath underwater to 4 years later today as a certified air diluent mccr diver I’ve been here watching you mark first on simply scuba then to your personal channel safe diving then scuba diver magazine you’ve helped me and so many other divers thanks again buddy
10 years of diving, and STILL picked up a couple of tips. Great stuff Mark.
As a new diver I really appreciate this. So many useful tips
very good explanation. great instructor. appriciated this as a master instructor from germany. kind regards.
Excellent video
Love your 'how to get into a rib'. We have a rib, but also a ladder. Might try your way next time, but at 63yrs old, could be comical.
Love all your tips.
A ladder is far more civilised.
I struggle with scuba diving is controlled descend and ascend.
Good tips as usual
Hi Mark, getting into the RIB after diving is getting harder for me I’ve never been able to pull myself up and turn and sit … it’s like the beached whale for me 🤣🤣 I’m 70 and think as you get a little older top body strength starts to go … like your videos 🇬🇧🏴
Same here. I get grabbed by the arms and arse and get hauled in the rib where I flop around on the floor like neoprene wrapped dugong. Still, scuba isn't exactly a glamorous sport so who cares.
If you struggle getting in to tight gloves or tight legs use a dab of waterbased lube to make things glide easier. More environmentally friendly than using plastic bags or shampoo.
One thing i see new divers struggling with is getting their equipment setup and donned correctly. New divers, and some experienced ones, need to be intimately familiar with their own equipment and how they are going to get it on their body. Come up with a system or an order on how to get dressed. The several panicked/distressed divers I've seen were not sure of their equipment and used too much energy getting dressed.
Know your equipment inside and out.
a small suggestion about getting lost; why not paint the name of the boat on the bottom of the boat or some sort of graphic or symbol? this may be helpful if you are around a lot of other boats? do dive computers have a gps feature? sort of light a way point that is your starting point?
Some dive boats have their name on the hull for that reason and some drop a flag with the hang tank so that you can see which boat to come back to. Lights, strobes and glow sticks are often added at night.
We don't really have underwater GPS yet. Many are working on systems but, the current signals from satellites doesn't penetrate very well through water so they often need a submerged beacon tethered to the surface. We'll get there one day...
After realizing that the amount of weight I need to get down and my own lack of ass to keep it secured over wasn't working I recently switched to a BCD vest with integrated weight pockets. However for some reason I now keep falling forward whilst at the surface and backwards whilst under the water line. And though I try to compensate with the fins a bit, I'm not comfortable enough in the water to really to it adeptly and still end up 'falling' in the wrong direction.
I think it might help to redistribute some of the weight to the back if that is possible (I need 10+ Kg to sink properly in my 7mm wetsuit). But I'd like some advice about what to do instead if that is not the right way to go about it.
Buy some trim pockets (with room for 3 kg in each) for the cam bands and play with the position and weight distribution. Further upwards to your shoulders pushes you forward.
There's always something to learn from Mark
On weighting; where are my (cold) dry suit divers at? I'm checking in with 17Kg.
I'm on 18kg at the moment . Everyone keeps telling me that's alot of weight, I say I know I'm the one carrying it😅😅I'm just using hire equipment at the moment, neoprene drysuit
@@iainsomerfield That's..... a lot of weight. 😅 Difficulty with rental gear is that it's different every time, makes getting the correct weighting difficult.
I suspect a lot of newer dry suit divers are doing their weight check / struggling to get down so add more weight because they're not fully vented of air inside their suit when they first get into the water. There's only so much squeezing air out on land, one of the first step after getting into water is get of rid of any remaining air inside with the help of the water pressure.
@@chankwanting I own all my own gear. It's what it takes for me to dive my neoprene drysuit, base layer, thicc 450g weight thermals, dry gloves, and hood. I have absolutely zero cold tolerance and we dive water as low as 1.5c.
@@chankwanting This is typically seen with new dry suit divers, yes. That is why doing comprehensive weight checks, both in and out of the pool, with dry suits is important.