The Fundamentals of Better Diving

If you want to say no to dangling hoses, an unreliable 'octopus', bulky consoles and gauges, loose fitting jacket style BCs and all that excess drag created by disproportionate "bits and pieces" while laying a solid foundation to your newly found safety, streamlining and fun, Jarrod Jablonski's The Fundamentals of Better Diving is where to begin... Covering everything from full kit configuration and hose routing to essential skills and techniques for sound diving and all the central elements of a holistic approach - Highly Recommended !!!

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From augmenting dive safety to increasing the enjoyment of your family's Caribbean diving trip or planning deep cave exploration, The Fundamentals of Better Diving is an essential resource for a new foundation for all diving practices.

This book outlines not only the essential skills and techniques constituting sound diving practice but also the central elements of a holistic approach to diving.

Publisher: Global Underwater Explorers. Paperback. 164 pages.
 
CONTENTS

Chapter 1:
What Am I Missing?.......16
The Real Story.......18
What Makes a Good Diver?.......19
Diving Experience.......19
Diving Ability.......20
The Purpose of this Book: Having Fun.......21

Chapter 2:
Learning How to Learn.......23
Why is it So Hard to Find a Good Diving Educator?.......23
What is the instructor’s personal diving history?.......24
How Often does the Instructor Teach and/or Dive?.......25
Educate Yourself.......26
Don’t be Fooled by the Discount Structure.......26
The Agency.......26

Chapter 3:
Building a Solid Foundation.......29
Basic Diving Skills.......29
Aquatic Comfort.......30
Where Do You Rank in Any or All of the Following Categories?.......32
Mask Clearing.......32
How are Your Mask Clearing Skills?.......33
Buoyancy Control.......33
How is Your Buoyancy?.......34
Trim.......35
How is Your Trim?.......37
Gas Management.......37
How Effectively do You Manage Your Breathing Supply?.......37
Propulsion Techniques.......38
How are Your Propulsion Techniques?.......38
Types of Propulsion Techniques.......39
Directional Awareness.......41
Do You Have Good Directional Awareness?.......41
Buddy Skills.......41
How Are your buddy skills?.......42
Communication.......43
Numerical Hand Signals.......47
Equipment Management.......49
How Well Do You Manage Your Equipment?.......49

Chapter 4:
DIR Philosophy.......53
Poor Technique Is A Real Drag.......53
Doing-It-Right.......54

Chapter 5:
An Overview of the DIR Equipment Configuration.......66
DIR vs. Other Equipment “Styles”.......67
The Doing It Right System .......68
The Bungee StyleDonating from One’s Retaining Device.......68
DIRDonating from One’s Mouth.......69
What About Open Water Diving? .......69
Can I Still Dive DIR While Using a Short Hose on my primary
Regulator?.......70
Minimalism and the Streamlined Diver.......70

Chapter 6:
The Doing It Right Equipment Configuration.......75
DIR Details.......79
Wearing a SCUBA Tank.......81
The Harness and Backplate .......81
Buoyancy Compensators.......84
Regulators.......86
Regulator Configuration.......93
Gauges.......98
Mask .......98
Snorkel.......99
Fins.......100
Valves.......100
Knobs .......101
Manifolds.......102
Isolator Valves.......103
Cylinders .......104
Dive Lights.......109
Stage/Decompression Bottles.......112
Scooter Diving.......115
Computer Diving.......118
A Baker’s Dozen: Problems With Computer Diving.......119
The Body .......121

Chapter 7:
Are You Ready for Technical Diving?.......124
How Much Experience Should I Have Before Taking a Technical Diving Course?.......125
What buoyancy skills should I master before taking a technical diving course?.......126
How Important is Physical Fitness to the Technical Diver?.......127

Chapter 8:
Alternate Breathing Mixtures.......130
Why Add Oxygen To Air?.......130
What Is Nitrox?.......130
Advantages of Breathing Nitrox.......130
Complications of Using Nitrox.......131
Nitrox Summary.......132
Helium-Based Diving Gases.......132
Gas Narcosis.......134

Chapter 9:
Diving Environments.......137
Cave Diving.......138
Cold Water.......138
Ice Diving.......140
Wreck Diving.......140
Diving From a Boat.......141
Anchor Diving.......142
Drift Diving with a Surface Marker.......142
Drifting into a Fixed Point.......143
Getting Back to the Boat.......143
Unable to Return to the Up-line.......144
Surface Support.......145

Chapter 10:
Rescue Diving.......148
The Non-Rescue .......148
Assisting Tired Divers.......150
Rescue Diving Skills.......150
Panicked Divers.......151
Unconscious Divers.......152
Ventilating an Apneic Victim with a SCUBA regulator.......156
Ventilation Basics.......156
Ventilation Complications.......156
Techniques.......157
Clinical experience.......158
Complications.......158

Chapter 11:
Accident Analysis: Are You at Risk?.......161
How Do Cave Fatalities Relate To Recreational
Diving?.......162
Exceeding One’s Level of Training.......163
Going Beyond One’s Personal Level of Comfort.......163
Diving Beyond the Range of One’s Gas Mixture.......163
Using Improper or Insufficient Equipment.......164
Stress on the Diver.......165
Recognizing Stress.......165
Coping with Stress.......166
Panic.......167
Conclusion: Doing it Right.......169
Index.......171

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