Perfect Your Buoyancy (Scuba Skills to Master Neutral Buoyancy Control!)

Perfect Your Buoyancy. (Scuba skills to master your neutral buoyancy control!)

In the continuing series on the five fundamentals of scuba diving, Lyell will introduce you to some of the skills that you’ll learn as a new scuba diver, and will continue to practice and master as an established scuba diver to have full control over your neutral buoyancy, to dive safely and gain the full enjoyment out of your scuba lifestyle!

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[thedoublet]

Just recently did my refresher. I’m trying to remember all the skills I learned 10-11 years ago. This video has been the most helpful for buoyancy control!

[samhennies]

It had been quite a few years since I dived. Were in the Dominican Republic last week. My 17 yr old daughter had her first open water dive. She was great. I’m usually a bit stressed the first few minutes. The dive master was chewing me out with hand signals to get more parallel and use breathing for buoyancy and not the BCD so much. I eventually got the hang of it. He even clapped underwater eventually. Your video was excellent. I really enjoyed the 2 nd dive and used breathing for the neutral buoyancy joist of things. Excited to do more of it. Thanks, Sam

[ttb]

2:20 "by adding air to your BCD/dry suit, you are creating more volume, displacing more water, displacing more weight of water, increasing the upward force"
I had not thought or understood of it that way. The true explanation. Thanks!

[WordizbonDon]

I only have 4 dives under my belt as an OW diver and a refresher course but I definitely must say watching all of these makes me way more confident. I am heading to Cancun to dive this weekend and now I really can't wait.

[jeffreyschmidt]

Learned way more than I did than in some portions of my paid classes. You are a very thorough and knowledgeable teacher. I wish PADI courses covered some of these topics. Thank you so much for helping educate and keep us safe

[aubreybaker]

Great video Lyell! Thanks for inviting me to help out on this one. :-) It's always a great time diving with you.

[lyndataylor]

You are a brilliant teacher. Clear and calm. I wish you’d taught me! I’ve learnt so much from your videos and am looking forward to putting it all into practice on my next dive holiday. Thanks 😁

[noriwklee]

Thanks, after 50+ dives, I'm still trying to sharpen my buoyancy and trimming skill. eagerly to try sooner

[papperlapapp]

Thanks a lot... It's great explained... love to learn from expierienced divers.... looking forward to the next dives so much.... 🙂

[yuriorozco]

You are so good at explaining scuba terms and I can finally say that now I understand buoyancy :)

[pablorivera]

This is my favorite scuba channel, your explanations are excellent.

[arnoldbenedictforlales]

Great vid. Im going to have my OW training in a week. This vid helps a lot. 😊

[ianpercival]

Wow. As a recently qualified open water diver (12 months ) I thought I was reasonably competent. This is the back to basics that every diver, new or old should learn . I think that knowing the "why" is just as important as knowing the "how"" . like many people watching this serious of video by you I wish that this was part of my training.

[subjektobjektpradikat]

very helpfull for me as a newly certified owd with 8 dives and two try dives in total.

[everythingscuba]

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[markeaster]

Will you continue this series? Seems you haven't posted #4 Propulsion and #5 Breathing Control? My OCD compels me to watch all 5 in the series!

[pablorivera]

It is interesting to watch the videos of Jacques Cousteau, he managed to dive not using BCD.

[danieldawson]

Love your videos!! Always informative.

[katiaricci]

Amazing video! It's so great that you share your love for the ocean. Scuba diving is such an amazing water activity and it's lovely to see you enjoy it, keep going with these great videos. If it doesn't bother you, I'd like to give you a suggestion, a tip for the next videos: Basically, you could try inserting some comic and funny stuff... to give everyone a pinch of humor that, in the world of diving, can never be missing. Now, I don't think much of it, but the first thing I could think of in your sport might be peeing in the water. Once, my uncle, who is a scuba diver, peed in his wetsuit during a long diving session and that moment was absolutely funny, he even wrote "I’m peeing" on a waterproof notebook during the session. He has always been telling me that there are 2 types of divers and swimmers: those who pee in the water and those who lie. I know it may sound strange as a request but, in my opinion, these are moments of happiness and carefree that always make everyone smile. I hope you like the idea and I hope you have a wonderful day!

[lukedudgeon]

such a great resource.
i find it very hard to control buoyancy in the top 10m due to the percentage of volume change.
will definitely have to try these exercises when i can access some water(has been 3 years).
very much appreciate these videos.
keep up the great work.