Mask Clearing Underwater - Neutrally Buoyant vs Kneeling 🔥 3 Versions TRIM / FIN PIVOT / KNEELING

Neutrally Buoyant VS Kneeling whilst teaching Scuba Diving skills is for some people this is a very hot topic. Whether or not it is better to teach scuba diving skills on your knees on the bottom or when being neutrally buoyant in confined water?

Timestamps for key moments in this video:

00:00 Neurally buoyant
01:42 Fin Pivot
03:24 Kneeling

Some Scuba Divers and Professionals fanatically say that you have to teach new scuba divers from the start to be neutrally buoyant, others say the opposite and believe that new scuba divers should first feel relaxed practicing skills on their knees first before moving on to buoyancy skills, while others are anywhere in-between with their opinions about teaching skills kneeling or neutrally buoyant whilst scuba diving in confined water.

There are so many heated debates about which is better, neutral buoyancy or teaching people skills kneeling on the bottom. These debates are discussed in dive shops, pubs and mostly on social media. Sadly, sometimes in a very aggressive way. You meet a lot of people that only think “Black or white” and one way. That by itself says a lot about that person as I believe that neutrally buoyancy has its pros and cons, and kneeling also has its pros and cons.

When I read opinions around being Neutrally Buoyant vs Kneeling on forums and social media, most of the time I see people talking about the environment - like confined water, the pool or during diving in general. But I rarely hear people discuss what confined dive they are conducting.

There is a big difference in student comfort level between confined dive 1 and 5. Personally I believe that during confined water dive 1 we should focus more on making student divers feel comfortable in the water, focusing on breathing and practicing some basic skills on their knees as that is easier and more comfortable to achieve. Again this is just confined Dive 1.

Then during confined dive 2, 3 or 4 we should introduce teaching neutral buoyancy diving skills. Then when the student divers have mastered the skills on their knees and mastered being neutrally buoyant, then we can combine performing / repeating some skills neutrally buoyant on a simulated dive in confined water dive 5.

I am a strong believer when teaching anything that “babies should learn to crawl before they walk, before they run, before they ride a bicycle and before they fly a F-16 Jet fighter!”

It just really depends on so many different factors and situations that you can’t really say if being neutrally buoyant or kneeling is better in the first moments when teaching people to scuba dive in confined water.

You just read my opinion in this article, but that doesn’t mean it is the right opinion.

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[abromalytv]

I love the way you teach us
# a boy from ZANZIBAR ISLAND

[dutchscubadiver]

Definitely kneeling when it comes to teaching freshly new OW students.

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Is it better to teach scuba diving skills on your knees on the bottom or when being neutrally buoyant in confined water?

Please share your opinion in the comments below 👇

[koishiikitty]

The video that shows for me is mask removal and clearing

[jayschier]

Only the first demo is acceptable, the second isn’t neutral and kneeling is an abomination. If an instructor can’t remain neutral they should either quit or learn properly.

[addohm]

Change the name of the video yo mask removal and replacement.