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How To Instruct Scuba Diving Techniques

By Mark Jenner

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Published: 25Feb2010
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Scuba Diving is a very exciting and rewarding sport. If taught properly it can provide years of adventure and new experiences. However, it can be very dangerous if safety and rescue skills are not fully understood.

Every year there are only a handful of deaths of people scuba diving. When the statistics are reviewed it seems that most of these could have been prevented if the casualty had known what to do - or not to do. Diver training by the popular agencies including the British Sub Aqua Club, the Sub Aqua Association and the Professional Association of Diving Instructors and many others is of a very high standard. This includes the excellent standard of training given to instructors in order to pass on the training to students. However, other agencies around the world may not reach the highest of standards and there are always small pockets of underperformance even within the best agencies.

When a new diver approaches a club or school wanting to learn to dive this is the optimum time for instilling the safety ethos. A fresh canvas is always ready to absorb a culture of safety first whereas an old self taught hand has bad habits that are difficult to change.

Every lesson will begin with a briefing, whether it is a dry practical lesson on land, the first sheltered water session probably in a swimming pool or an open water training session in the sea. The briefing itself will commence with a number of safety aspects, such as fitness to dive and safety issues relating to the skills being taught and the diving site being used. For example, when teaching the removal and replacement of the regulator from the mouth it may seem obvious but the student is warned that they will not be able to breathe for a moment! Safety warnings may seem like overkill at times and may be repeated but they do have the desired effect.

One of the key elements of teaching a practical skill to a new student, such as removing and replacing a face mask while underwater or donating a regulator to a buddy in an out of air situation, is to break down the skill into small bite sized parts that can be individually understood easily before putting them together for the complete procedure. Each part of the skill must be taught in a way that it is safe to execute. By starting with small chunks and building up this is more easily achievable.

Mark Jenner is a British Sub Aqua Club dive leader and open water diving instructor. He has dived abroad a number of times and enjoys writing about his scuba diving experiences.

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