NAUI Open Water SCUBA Diver Skills by Pinnacle Diving Company - Part 1

If you are registered to take your NAUI Open Water SCUBA Diver Course from Pinnacle Diving Company, then this video is for you.

This video will be Part 1 of the OWSD course skills demonstration videos, and part of a series of skills demonstration videos covering diving skills across several NAUI courses offered by PDC.

In this video, we will cover a number of core diving skills you will be required to learn and internalize during your course.

The point of these demonstrations is to provide a brief explanation, and some visual aids for your reference, so you are familiar with these skills prior to the course, and to aid in your learning experience.

It is highly suggested to pause the video at each description, and during each demonstration, to both read the progression of the skill, as well as to be able to better see the movements performed better.

The skills demonstrated in this video are:

- Entering the water holding fins

- Putting fins on at the surface

- Breathing underwater at the surface without a mask

- Descent while using Bare Minimum Weighting

- Regulator clearing (methods 1 and 2)

- Regulator retrieval (methods 1, 2, and 3)

- Mask clearing

- S-Drill (Long-Hose Extension)

- Share air drill

- Frog Kick (Minimalist version)

- Removal/Replacement of BC underwater

- Launch/deploy SMB

Look forward to Part 2 for the OWSD course skills soon.

I look forward to constructive comments, and any ideas of future skill demo videos you might want to see.

0:00 Introduction
0:20 OPEN WATER SCUBA DIVER SKILLS DEMONSTRATIONS PART 1
1:09 ENTERING THE WATER HOLDING FINS
1:34 PUTTING FINS ON AT THE SURFACE
1:53 BREATHING AT THE SURFACE WITHOUT A MASK
2:32 DESCEND WITH MINIMUM WEIGHT
3:10 REGULATOR CLEARING
3:43 REGULATOR RETRIEVAL
5:04 MASK REMOVAL AND REPLACEMENT
6:01 OC RECREATIONAL SKILLS "S-DRILL" (LONG HOSE EXTENSION)
7:09 SHARE AIR DRILL / OUT OF AIR DRILL
7:47 FROG KICK (MINIMALIST VERSION)
8:24 REMOVAL AND REPLACEMENT OF BC UNDERWATER
11:26 LAUNCH / DEPLOY SMB
12:35 THANK'S FOR WATCHING!

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[alexg.]

I love what you are doing on the regulator retrieval. I think it is great that you also put your secondary second stage in your mouth during the retrieval process. I have big arguments with some of my instructor colleagues on this. They tell me, that they think people should retrieve it without the secondary second stage in the mouth. I totally disagree as in case of an emergency and maybe empty lung, people who might not catch it on the first try will panic and shoot up as they will not think of the octopus anymore. If you learn it the way you show it, people will remember it and put the octopus in the mouth and then go for recovery. As we learned during the instructor course, first learned will be remembered.... Thank you putting it this way into the video.

[siaguena]

Essential and fundamental skills! I saved this video and I am looking forward to the next one! :-)

[seanlotz]

Great video AJ, and I have to say I love the attention to detail on these exercises! I don't know if it's specific to NAUI, but practices such as breathing from the backup regulator while retrieving the primary regulator just make so much sense, and seem to add an extra layer of safety that I don't see taught by other training agencies? Really enjoying this content, also loved the videos on the Triton rebreather, we literally didn't know there was a mechanical CCR that was so small, and chest mounted until we saw that video!! We're in the US, so it might be tricky finding someone to help us do a try-dive, but we're looking!

[vfxjohan]

Great video!
For the next one, it would be great to see you use light colored gloves on both sides, to enhance the visibility!
Thank you!

[harambeexpress]

SPG on crotch strap? I have a 24" HP hose that always clips to the left hip D-Ring.