Becoming a Better Diver: Tips from a seasoned dive pro

DiverWire · Mar 5, 2013

(DiverWire) Contributing Instructor Szilvia Gogh wants to make divers safer. Here's a first-person story she wrote about a recent incident with a fellow diver.I was already in the water waiting for my girlfriends to join me for our first dive while on our Miss Scuba vacation in Malta when I spotted an undoubtedly distressed diver on the surface a short distance away. He appeared out of nowhere, well not really out of from nowhere. I knew that about a 100ft below him lay wreck Rozi. He mostlikely lost control of his buoyancy during his ascend and shot to the surface.As a scuba instructor my job is to bring people back alive from their dive trips. Even though I was on my holiday, I felt I had to help the distressed diver...
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TSandM · Mar 5, 2013

I thought this would be an interesting article with tips on better diving, but it is an ad for the poster's workshop.

Jim Lapenta · Mar 5, 2013

Not worth reading then.

maldievsresorts · Mar 7, 2013

Mainly In summer session traveler want underwater scuba diving but safety is must need so hire travel guide or trainer for your first dive.

chillyinCanada · Mar 7, 2013

Szylvia says that everywhere she goes, she finds divers in trouble and she has to save them. SB members, does this happen to each of you everywhere you dive?

DCBC · Mar 7, 2013

chillyinCanada:
Szylvia says that everywhere she goes, she finds divers in trouble and she has to save them. SB members, does this happen to each of you everywhere you dive?

Given the instruction provided by many Instructors today, Divers are not prepared in the same way as they once were. This lower level of competence cannot help but be reflected in how Divers dive. I've witnessed a large increase in poor skills, lack of knowledge and a lack of safe diving practices over the years. There are those who would say that the students just forget, or put aside what they were taught. Although this may be true to a point (skills can get rusty over time), I don't think that this argument is a valid one as this has always been the case. The training standards are lower and so is the quality of diver being produced. When profit trumps quality, this is often the expected result.

Hawkwood · Mar 7, 2013

chillyinCanada:
Szylvia says that everywhere she goes, she finds divers in trouble and she has to save them. SB members, does this happen to each of you everywhere you dive?

Honestly, no.

TSandM · Mar 7, 2013

I've seen a lot of bad diving practices, but I have never had to intervene to save anybody.

AfterDark · Mar 8, 2013

chillyinCanada:
Szylvia says that everywhere she goes, she finds divers in trouble and she has to save them. SB members, does this happen to each of you everywhere you dive?

Three times out of 2000 dives and none were due to a diver's lack of training.

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