Hardest Skill in Scuba Diving Solved - Easily Pass Your dive course!

[Flyingwalrus]

Hardest skill in diving isn’t clearing your mask or putting it on after it comes off. The hardest and most important skill in diving is maintaining mental composure and staying aware of everything from your equipment to your environment.

[kenzyhowell]

During our certification (husband and I) our instructor made us sit on our knees on the sea floor (40+ feet below) remove our regulators plus the slack (tossing our regulators behind us) followed by removing our masks totally (as seen in video) put mask back on, retrieve our regulators, clear regulators, then finally clear the mask. In the moment we just did it, it wasn’t a piece of cake (for me anyway) but did it. Then we continued on. Thinking back on it, it’s terrifying 😂 but so worth it. Our instructor did a really good job at testing us in high pressure situations. Albeit, Highest pressure during an amazing dive anyway. We also had to “lose” our regulators, “run out of air” (he slowly turned off our air) signal to our partner and get air from them etc. we also had to take every bit of our gear off in open sea 😆 then put it back on, swim 60 feet away alone and use compass to return back to starting point. I’m glad Ceres are for life bc idk if my anxiety could do it today.

[musicpawns]

When I was taking classes for the certification I kept choking during this skill and it was a terrible feeling 😩 Took me like 5 tries to finally get it. Luckily it was only in the pool and not in the ocean

[calkelpdiver]

First step, slowly let water in from the top of the mask. Breaking the seal at the bottom can cause water to shoot up your nose. If needed close the eyes doing this. Everything else is correct. This skill is hard for most students.

I was an Instructor for 15 years. Been diving for 40 years.

[okayxander]

Loved the instructional video! This was a skill that quite a few people in my open water diving class found very difficult to perform correctly. However, the hardest thing for me to do was either the buddy breathing exercise or the emergency surfacing techniques. Many people don’t see and appreciate the amount of things Scuba Divers need to learn to be certified. But in the end, getting to go diving is a life-changing experience.

[_Max_bs_]

I completly freaked out when i needed to do this

[tamisthewizard]

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who had an awful time doing this

[beaneater]

I always believed this was the easiest of the skills mostly because im really comfortable in water but also because there are instructors that wont let me die lol my struggle was taking the gear off and putting it back on I kept struggling to find the straps lol

[muhammadhazim]

This is the most hardest part during my last certification test

[Smoothjaswi]

I just had to do it for my OW. No big deal for me but some people had issues. Of coarse we were doing it in cold water with 7mm hood and gloves, so that didn't make it any easier

[ahti]

I legit did this today and I’m searching for scuba tips and this popped up. I surprising (as a 14 year old) did this first try which was amazing because my instructor told me that he had I guy completely fail and just keep surfacing so they just ended the lesson and returned to it later.

[Ghosty_SS]

I'm 17, took a diving certificate this summer. When he said we're going 15 meters on the boat, panic set in. Had to remove the mask, put it back, and clear it underwater for the first time under 15 meters. Took it off fine, but struggled blowing out after putting it back. Failed multiple times, started drowning as water went from my nose to my mouth, pointed to go up while choking. Somehow made it underwater.

[Derbyyy]

I remember doing this for an intro training course in the pool! It made sense to me right away but my mom was having some trouble 😂 great skill to learn though, because when we got out in the real ocean and were 30 feet deep, I could easily clear any water from my mask.

[riker]

I just exhale as I’m putting the mask on and it clears itself usually. The harder part imo is simply breathing without the mask on. I’m usually a nose breather but to make it worse the bubbles from your exhale mess with your nose

[UncleT]

Not sure about everyone else but I did this in salt water and we had to have our eyes open in salt water. it actually hurt less in salt water unless your close to shore.

[leclercj]

Watching my equipment and paying attention to depth and air was the most difficult

[vilmakrstevska]

This was very easy exercise for me since the first day, I was always having little bit water touching my nose the first day and I didn’t react at all on that because it wasn’t on my eyes. When I needed to take it off and put it back I didn’t have any problem also when you have very good instructor and you feel safe with him since the day 1 there will be no problems at all.

The only hard thing for me was controlled emergency swimming 9m horizontal but the vertical was very easy. It was hard for me to swim 9m horizontal with one breath.

Can’t wait for more dives and get more certificates so finally I can become instructor ☺️

[GraeHam]

Hardest part for me was trying not to panic as the salt water hit my eye's, but it is my
favourite skill!

[kieranrchelsea]

This was helpful before I did this yesterday in my open water diver. Also it helped to practice fitting the mask over my face out of water before hand so I grasped the technical skill of actually doing it, when I got in the water it was pretty easy

[nugetocka]

Im thirteen and when i first did this on a lake i nearly had an panic attack because water ran up my nose ( we were 5 meters under the water ) and obviously i couldnt see. I managed to calm myself down and do it right and i passed! It was my third worst experience because i stopped breathing because of the water traveled trough my nose to my mouth and i needed to cough it out. It was fricking scary because, once again i couldnt see. 😬