Hi everyone!
So i'm a recently certified diver out of San Diego. I'm truly lucky to have La Jolla to go diving in but I have a question about surviving the surface swim. In order to not freeze during the dive I'm I'm wearing a ton of neoprene, however to get to the dive sites we like (my gf and I that is) it requires pretty good surface swims. By the time we get to were we think we want to go, I'm melting (hood/gloves off, letting water into my wetsuit as best as I can). Obviously the problem gets worse the later in the day it goes (first morning dive usually isn't that bad honestly) but after the dive and a surface interval the second dive sucks, or if we started late. We have just started descending early and staying relatively close to the surface, which kinda sucks since we are using air that could have been used for the main part of the dive. We stay close to the surface since we use landmarks from the surface to figure out our dive site (from here Divebums - A San Diego Dive Website), so we don't want to just descend and guess. Also our instructor said doing lots of ups and downs were bad and increased our chances of getting bent. We have tried kicking out on our backs/stomachs, while we prefer to be face down in the water I think we are better quicker/more efficient on our backs kicking.
Any tips or tricks for a better/easier surface swim that don't involve spending tons of cash?
So i'm a recently certified diver out of San Diego. I'm truly lucky to have La Jolla to go diving in but I have a question about surviving the surface swim. In order to not freeze during the dive I'm I'm wearing a ton of neoprene, however to get to the dive sites we like (my gf and I that is) it requires pretty good surface swims. By the time we get to were we think we want to go, I'm melting (hood/gloves off, letting water into my wetsuit as best as I can). Obviously the problem gets worse the later in the day it goes (first morning dive usually isn't that bad honestly) but after the dive and a surface interval the second dive sucks, or if we started late. We have just started descending early and staying relatively close to the surface, which kinda sucks since we are using air that could have been used for the main part of the dive. We stay close to the surface since we use landmarks from the surface to figure out our dive site (from here Divebums - A San Diego Dive Website), so we don't want to just descend and guess. Also our instructor said doing lots of ups and downs were bad and increased our chances of getting bent. We have tried kicking out on our backs/stomachs, while we prefer to be face down in the water I think we are better quicker/more efficient on our backs kicking.
Any tips or tricks for a better/easier surface swim that don't involve spending tons of cash?