Ideas for exercising skills and fun in a swimmingpool

[Pandit]

Hello everyone


I am a member of an active diving club in the Netherlands. Weekly we rent a swimming pool for courses and exercises for novice and advanced divers. Examples are, freeing yourself from a fishing net or putting on your belongings underwater.


I've been giving this kind of exercise for a few months now, it's hard to come up with a new exercise. The last time I had the divers blindfolded in buddy teams assembling cylinders with bolts, washers and nuts.


I'm out of ideas. Maybe I can get some new ideas here. The exercises should fit in an hour and be suitable for advanced and novice divers. The group size is between 4 and 8 people.


Me and my budies will be very happy to do something completely new. Maybe there are some on this board (I haven't found it yet).


Friendly greetings from The Netherlands

 

[Doc]

Breathing right out of a tank nipple.

A skill of negligible real-world application. Feather the valve, sip the air.

It is a “task loading” kind of thing. You can do it without a mask on… then you can ask them to just paddle around the pool, hugging the tank to their breast, sipping air.

It’s quite a “task”…that teaches confidence.

 

[rongoodman]

Work on trim, precise positioning kicks, helicopter turns, back kicks.

 

[Pandit]

Thanks for your ideas so far.In our club we have an specialist on TRIM, He give workshops on buoyancy control but the helicopter turn and the back kicks are good ideas.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

Rebuilding a reg underwater while breathing off a tank valve, blindfolded with no mask on, while having someone harass you the whole time, all done off the bottom in perfect trim in neutral buoyancy.

 

[steinbil]

What about the good old S-drill, gas sharing ascent, recovery of unconscious diver, mask replacement - all the while holding perfect buoyancy, trim and position in the water and team? Also buoyancy exercises with passing tanks or weights from one diver to another sounds like fun. And back kicking across the pool right over the bottom without touching it.

 

[Rob9876]

Warhammer maneuver

But seriously, seems many divers could improve their smoothness in deploying a DSMB while maintaining position in the water column and finning (as if against current). I've seen divers have to cut their spool line after getting themselves entangled with an inflated DSMB