Weird skills your instructor thought you needed

[rstofer]

Our instructor had us sit and ride our BC with tank and all rigged on the surface then slip your arms in slide off the end and right into your bc. Never have used it in real diving or ever seen it done anywhere else.

My grandson was taught this technique when he did the PADI Jr OW last November.

Richard

 

[=C=]

Did someone mention breathing off a tank valve?

How about reading an SPG/comp in an air bubble? (cupped hands)

 

[Pelagic Penguin]

For my swimming test, we had to swim in bathing suits, which wouldn't have been so bad...

...if the water wasn't 62 degrees Fahrenheit!

 

[John_B]

For my swimming test, we had to swim in bathing suits, which wouldn't have been so bad...

...if the water wasn't 62 degrees Fahrenheit!

Uhmmm, was that for your benefit or the instructor's?

 

[Steve50]

For my swimming test, we had to swim in bathing suits, which wouldn't have been so bad...

...if the water wasn't 62 degrees Fahrenheit!

Lyssa - was that in open water in NJ ?

 

[Jafo123]

Not on a regulator anyway!

 

[tvtech-diver]

For my swimming test, we had to swim in bathing suits, which wouldn't have been so bad...

...if the water wasn't 62 degrees Fahrenheit!

yea those few hundred yards of swimming never felt so long before till then, and it didnt help that i had been bobbing in the water for 10 min before i had to do the swim either

 

[Pelagic Penguin]

Lyssa - was that in open water in NJ ?

No, that was in Virginia at Lake Rawlings in late November..in the morning. A little chilly!

 

[jpsexton]

Kneeling on the bottom. I honestly haven't had the need to do that since OW class. In fact it was so uncomfortable it distracted me from the class.

 

[DwayneJ]

Kneeling on the bottom. I honestly haven't had the need to do that since OW class. In fact it was so uncomfortable it distracted me from the class.

I agree - probably the dumbest part of the class. My instructor only had us do this so that we has a group could observe him and his lessons. It was easier then just to stand with feet on the bottom which is what I did.