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. In a previous post we already talked about when to leave connected and disconected the secondary bladder and why we do not recommend the use of a dry suit as a backup in deep tec dives. However, some people showed a lack of information about how to … More How to use a double bladder wing / Como utilizar un ala con doble vejiga
English, Español sigue tras el texto en inglés I know some people may think that night diver specialty course doesn´t offer much: you only have to dive at night, learn a couple of things (that are already included in your advanced diver manual) and you are sorted. To some extend, this is true. But we … More Night diver course: somethings to learn / Curso de buceo nocturno: algunas cosas que apender
English, Español sigue tras el texto en inglés Jonas Samuelson and Andy Anderson, PADI members, wrote a couple of years ago what I consider a key point in tec diver education: a tec rescue course. It was fast approved by PADI as a Distinctive Specialty. I think it´s a course all tec divers should end … More PADI TEC Rescue curse / Curso de rescate técnico de PADI
English, Español sigue tras el texto en inglés More than a new post, this one is only a remembering of what divers should and easily forget. If there is a descent line, then use it… It seams logical, but we not always follow the idea… A couple of years ago I was doing a tmx … More Using ascent and descent lines / Utilizar líneas de ascenso y de descenso
English, Español sigue tras el texto en inglés If OW course is done properly and you are in the average of all new divers, you may think this course is not for you. If you had lots of problems with your buoyancy, the options are that your instructor didn´t spend enough time with you in … More Peak Performance Buyancy course and sesions/ Curso y sesiones de flotabilidad perfecta
English, Español sigue tras el texto en inglés Since this doesn´t follow any diving rules, I´m just writing this in case you decide to do what you were not supposed to do. But he truth is that it´s a pity to go on a diving vacation, having your dive computer fails in a deep dive … More How to back up a dive 18 to 25 m when your computer fails / Cómo continuar una inmersión si tu ordenador falla entre 18 y 25 m
English, Español sigue tras el texto en inglés. We already talked in a previous post about which courses can be done in your vacations without wasting them. In this occasion I´m going to talk about the, for me, ideal conditions for doing a diving course. It sounds logic that the best places would always be … More Which are the best conditions for doing a diving course?/¿Cuáles son las mejores condiciones para hacer un curso de buceo?
English, Español sigue tras el texto en inglés In PADI Tec50 (unless the student and the instructor decides/can do it with TMX -the instructor should have the TMX rating instructor also), has to be done with air and eanx. As an instructor and diver I feel not so narcked at 50 m with air but … More Teaching Tec50 with TMX only for the instructor / Enseñar Tec50 con TMX sólo para el instructor
English, Español sigue tras el teto en inglés As you know, the more relaxed you dive, better is your gas consumption. Gas consumption is one of the things in diving that improves with time and experience: more you dive, more relaxed you are going to be in the water and less air are you going … More How to improve your gas consumption: relaxation/ Cómo mejorar tu consumo de gases: relajación
English, Español sigue tras el texto en inglés. One of the things I have some trouble doing with students is when I tell them that I´m not going to certify them as PADI Open Water Diver but as PADI Scuba Diver. As most of you know, PADI scuba diver is half the way the PADI … More PADI Scuba diver: a valid choice to make by instructors and to accept by divers/ PADI Scuba Diver: una elección válida para instructores y buceadores
Improve your diving / Mejora tu buceo 