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I’m in the US military and a lot of the same tricks apply to underwater as well. The one I find the most useful is to set “catching features”. “If I hit the stream past a finger I know I’ve gone too far”. For underwater nav, I typically use depth as my catching feature. I try to use coral crags similarly to fingers and draws on land so I can terrain orient vice going from one heading to the other. Just like in a patrol, my dive group (who is all military more often than not) has a leader(typically a dive master), nav man, and a pace counter. Of course this becomes less necessary as we do repeated dives of the same sites.
I rewatched your video here is a tip ! After you establish your bearing and set your baseline Attach your reel to the bottom at your starting point and swim out 20 ft on your heading laying line on the bottom sit your reel down Go back to your starting point hold the compass on your heading note the direction the line is laying on the bottom That is your drift angle Note the number of degrees the line on the bottom is from your heading Turn your bezel to the same number of degrees as the line on the opposite side of your heading That is your drift correction angle and new heading Retrieve your reel go back to your starting point and head out on your new bearing. For distance if you can lay a line on the bottom with marks on it measure 100ft Practice swimming the line without exertion and check your time to see what your speed is Then you will know your rate Something to do while you are diving and if you ever need it it will be there Without tooting my horn to much here is what happened to me In the 1970s I was a commercial gas diver in lake Erie when ever we got any new equipment it had to be tested in the Sarina river on a trip to the monarch in 9 knots of current We could have just taken the boat out in the lake and tested it but every trip to the monarch ended at the strip club afterwards I wasn't really old enough to be there but since I was a diver and the other guys were regulars and good tippers I sat with the guys sipped a soda and enjoyed the show ! Over the years I have been to the monarch over 50 times Some days the water is clear other days you can only see a foot So this day vis was a foot the guys are heading to the monarch been there done that today I am going to navigate to the channel marker in the center of the river across the current the idea is to have zero drift on the bottom I take a bearingfrom shore I take our 1000 ft reel of 750lb test line used for measuring pipe and surveying attached it to shore and head out. 200 ft outyou get past the debris and into undulating sand dunes 800 feet out I come across a excavator tire buried flush with the bottom 900 ft out I figure I must be getting close Then I hear WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP Holy crap ! Steam boat (The water is nominal 55 feet deep ) So I go hand overhand down the line as fast as possible To the excavator tire dump my air and hang on ! (Dual tanks and clipped the reel on for a anchor) WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP Is getting louder and louder All the fish in the river are right beside me a shadow passover suction builds passes over me a suction builds up all of a sudden the school of gobies in front of my face are gone! I can feel myself being lifted up off the bottom Then the wash hit I was driven flat face mask flooded then things went back to normal I could hear
Sent to soon icoul hear it blow its while going round the bend the it was holy crap I didn't have time to reel the line in it was going up in an arc it must have slid right by the keel so I blew myself up 10 ft off the bottom and the current took me into the bank Have a great dive
How about a heads up display ! in your face mask with side scan sonar and GPS ! One time myself and 3 other divers dove on a paddle wheelers in 65 feet of water off a beach we took a compass bearing off the beach before we left When we came back up fog has set in you could see 4 feet the waves also chsnged direction Following the compass we could hear the waves on a the beach
Always always always have an escape azimuth and submit a GOTWA before leaving especially if it’s off shore or a dive site you’ve never done before. GOTWA: Where I’m going, others I’m taking with me, time of my return, what to do if I don’t return, actions if I or you receive enemy contact (please leave a story below if A ever applies in recreational scuba diving 😂)
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What tips do you have for navigating? Let us know below! Don't forget to use the promo code:*SURFACE15* at checkout to get 15% off your spring order.
Could you make a video about getting started in scuba while on a budget if you haven’t already? Thanks, love the content!
I’m in the US military and a lot of the same tricks apply to underwater as well. The one I find the most useful is to set “catching features”. “If I hit the stream past a finger I know I’ve gone too far”. For underwater nav, I typically use depth as my catching feature. I try to use coral crags similarly to fingers and draws on land so I can terrain orient vice going from one heading to the other. Just like in a patrol, my dive group (who is all military more often than not) has a leader(typically a dive master), nav man, and a pace counter. Of course this becomes less necessary as we do repeated dives of the same sites.
Thanks for the tips... I still new in scuba diving
As helpful as usual, thanks.
I rewatched your video here is a tip !
After you establish your bearing and set your baseline
Attach your reel to the bottom at your starting point and swim out 20 ft on your heading laying line on the bottom sit your reel down
Go back to your starting point hold the compass on your heading note the direction the line is laying on the bottom
That is your drift angle
Note the number of degrees the line on the bottom is from your heading
Turn your bezel to the same number of degrees as the line on the opposite side of your heading
That is your drift correction angle and new heading
Retrieve your reel go back to your starting point and head out on your new bearing.
For distance if you can lay a line on the bottom with marks on it measure 100ft
Practice swimming the line without exertion and check your time to see what your speed is
Then you will know your rate
Something to do while you are diving and if you ever need it it will be there
Without tooting my horn to much here is what happened to me
In the 1970s I was a commercial gas diver in lake Erie when ever we got any new equipment it had to be tested in the Sarina river on a trip to the monarch in 9 knots of current
We could have just taken the boat out in the lake and tested it but every trip to the monarch ended at the strip club afterwards
I wasn't really old enough to be there but since I was a diver and the other guys were regulars and good tippers
I sat with the guys sipped a soda and enjoyed the show !
Over the years I have been to the monarch over 50 times
Some days the water is clear other days you can only see a foot
So this day vis was a foot the guys are heading to the monarch been there done that today I am going to navigate to the channel marker in the center of the river across the current the idea is to have zero drift on the bottom I take a bearingfrom shore
I take our 1000 ft reel of 750lb test line used for measuring pipe and surveying attached it to shore and head out. 200 ft outyou get past the debris and into undulating sand dunes 800 feet out I come across a excavator tire buried flush with the bottom 900 ft out I figure I must be getting close
Then I hear WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP
Holy crap ! Steam boat
(The water is nominal 55 feet deep )
So I go hand overhand down the line as fast as possible To the excavator tire dump my air and hang on !
(Dual tanks and clipped the reel on for a anchor)
WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP Is getting louder and louder
All the fish in the river are right beside me a shadow passover suction builds passes over me a suction builds up all of a sudden the school of gobies in front of my face are gone!
I can feel myself being lifted up off the bottom
Then the wash hit I was driven flat face mask flooded then things went back to normal I could hear
Sent to soon icoul hear it blow its while going round the bend the it was holy crap I didn't have time to reel the line in it was going up in an arc it must have slid right by the keel so I blew myself up 10 ft off the bottom and the current took me into the bank
Have a great dive
"Inspired by Hansel and Gretel"? I guess you wanted to say "Inspired by Theseus" :))
How about a heads up display !
in your face mask with side scan sonar and GPS !
One time myself and 3 other divers dove on a paddle wheelers in 65 feet of water off a beach we took a compass bearing off the beach before we left
When we came back up fog has set in you could see 4 feet the waves also chsnged direction
Following the compass we could hear the waves on a the beach
Always always always have an escape azimuth and submit a GOTWA before leaving especially if it’s off shore or a dive site you’ve never done before. GOTWA: Where I’m going, others I’m taking with me, time of my return, what to do if I don’t return, actions if I or you receive enemy contact (please leave a story below if A ever applies in recreational scuba diving 😂)