It's a mandatory skill according to the major dive instruction agencies for basic certification.
While I agree with planning it's an emergency skill that shouldn't be commonly used I'm not going advocate ignoring it or allowing myself to lose "mastery" of it.
With this in mind I regularly practice a controlled emergency swimming ascent whenever I've been dry a while (month or more without diving) or twice a year when diving regularly.
I no longer practice it from beyond recreational depths and now adhere to "modern" safe ascent rates.
Until CESA has been dropped from the agency's training manuals and no longer considered standard practice in our hobby I intend to keep my toolbox supplied with the normal abilities.
Cameron
While I agree with planning it's an emergency skill that shouldn't be commonly used I'm not going advocate ignoring it or allowing myself to lose "mastery" of it.
With this in mind I regularly practice a controlled emergency swimming ascent whenever I've been dry a while (month or more without diving) or twice a year when diving regularly.
I no longer practice it from beyond recreational depths and now adhere to "modern" safe ascent rates.
Until CESA has been dropped from the agency's training manuals and no longer considered standard practice in our hobby I intend to keep my toolbox supplied with the normal abilities.
Cameron