ENG I´m a dive instructor teaching at Windhoek Underwater Club, in Namibia. I have ample experience on teaching, from Open Water to Technical Diving, including most specialties, creating even one of my own (Limited Visibility Diver). After diving for years I found that some basics of diving are unknown for most divers. This blog intends to help divers, experienced or not, to understand better some aspects of diving. ESP Soy un instructor de buceo que enseña en el Windhoek Underwater Club, en Namibia. Tengo una amplia experiencia enseñando todos los niveles, desde básico hasta buceo técnico, incluyendo la mayor parte de las especialidades. Incluso cree la mía propia (buceo en visibilidad limitada). Después de años de buceo he observado que la mayor parte de los buceadores desconocen algunos básicos del buceo. Este blog pretende ayudar a los buceadores, con experiencia o no, a entender mejor el buceo
English, Español sigue tras el texto en inglés I know nowadays there is a huge tendency of using small reels for diving. The advantage s that nowadays is easy to use very strong and thin lines that doesn´t need a big reel to be on, they weight less so you can use them for a … More Big or small reels for deco, that is the question / Carretes ¿pequeños o grandes?
English, Español sigue tras el texto en inglés I know this post is not only about diving since you could apply it to any traumatic event in life. However, in diving, I´ve known some people traumatized for event lived while diving (a dead buddy, and close to death accident, etc.) that deny that this has … More Post traumatic stress disorder/ Sindrome de estress post traumatico
English, Español sigue tras el texto en inglés Most PADI professionals I know, from Instructors to Course Directors complains about the rigidity of the Knowledge Presentation during the Instructor Development Course. For those that doesn´t know how it works, new instructors have to do presentations and will be note if they fulfill certain points, like … More PADI knowledge presentation for instructors (IDC)/ Presentaciones de temario de PADI en el IDC
English, Español sigue tras el texto en inglés It wouldn´t be the first time I certify a Padi Adventure Diver not willing to finalize his Padi Advanced Open Water Diver. For those that doesn´t know much how PADI works, an Adventure Diver is a diver that do any three adventure dives (no mandatory dive). That … More Padi Adventure Diver: why not? / PADI Adventure Diver: ¿por qué no?
English, Español sigue tras el texto en inglés There are lots of diving boots in the market and some divers just choose whatever is in front of them and follow what the sales man says. However, there a few features that I consider important in any diving boot: Try it with your wet suit; you … More Choosing diving boots / Elegir botas de buceo
English, Español sigue tras el texto en inglés. This is one of the courses most people feel unnecessary. When it was created as a Distinctive Specialty, it was not mandatory in PADI to deploy a DSMB in Open Water course, so it was the only course that actually used to teach how to us a … More PADI SMB Diver course / Buceador con boya de PADI: un curso muy interesante
English, Español sigue tras el texto en inglés I know some people are kind of forced to do these Project Aware courses in order to get their Master Scuba Diver rating: they are cheap, easy and fast to do and it´s a good way of getting away with one more specialty for your MSD rating. … More AWARE Coral Reef Conservation course: a waste of time? / Curso AWARE de Conservación de Corales: ¿una pérdida de tiempo?
English, Español sigue tras el texto en inglés I know most people think gas blending is a tec course and, if they just dive for fun, may no be so useful. However, I really think it´s an important course for everybody really interested in diving, tec or recreational diver (as long as he dives nitrox). … More Home made gas blending / Cómo mezclar gases con equipos no profesionales
English, Español sigue tras el texto en inglés As most of you already know, I had an experience with a student that ended up in passive panic: it looks like the cold (13 degrees celsius) the lack of visibility (1 m max) and the darkness (it looked like diving in a cave) where too much … More Passive panic: working on it/ Pánico pasivo: qué hacer
English, Español sigue tras texto en inglés. Dive from shore is a good exercise: it´s simpler, cheaper and faster than jumping into a boat and get to the dive place. However, sometimes we may have some surf that may complicate our entry into the water. A big surge it´s always a big NO because if … More Dive from shore with surf/ Bucear desde la costa con olas
Improve your diving / Mejora tu buceo 