There are many factors involved to improve your air consumption but after this video, I hope you have a good list to move forward on and you nail you air consumption goals! What are some other things you've had struggles with in SCUBA diving?
As a perpetually overstressed engineer, I found that even when I thought that I was completely relaxed during dives I was still a gas hog and would dive 100’s to keep from limiting the other divers dive time. When I switched to an AI computer and turned on SAC rate tracking, that gave me real time feedback on my level of relaxation during the dive. This gave me the information needed to tell when I was actually relaxed and breathing well vs just thinking I was. Within a handful of dives I’ve dropped my avg SAC rate from the high 30’s to the mid teens. Shared my trick with another engineer who was sharing the dive boat and he said that he was able to noticeably improve his air consumption after just one dive.
Love this tip, and I am glad it worked for you. We are eyeballing getting a Perdix this winter after the wallet cools off from buying a dry suit and other cold water gear but will be giving that integrated air a try and exploring my SAC more!
Really glad to hear you enjoyed it! I have another video dedicated to current diving here: ruclips.net/video/Ej9ovxr8kOs/видео.html Check it out! In short with current diving, your goal will be to use terrain to block current if you can. Pull yourself with the rocks on the ground as opposed to finning, and strategically moving between points that you can use to break the current. Fighting the current for an extended time will only wear you out, elevate your heart rate, destroy your air consumption, and likely give you a carbon dioxide headache like no other. You want to be calm and relaxed in current and be as lazy as possible. If you do a short spurt of finny against current, slow down and take a rest when you can and let the heart rate slow.
Great video! It blows my mind to see extremely overweight divers all the time, so out of shape and sedentary that they become a danger in the water, a lot of people don't see scuba diving as a sport, they think they're just looking at a fishbowl.
Definitely, of course there is a casual end to the sport, something everyone can enjoy and honestly has a lot of life to see. To that end obesity does hurt the air consumption and comes with higher risks of decompression sickness so knowing the limits is important if obese (otherwise it becomes dangerous).
I’m really fit but a large guy (6’8”, 220 lb). I do ok with air consumption but wonder if my sheer size hurts me. Seems like they should have bigger tanks for bigger people 😂
No sweat! There are many things from trim, buoyancy, and calmness you can learn along and improve your air time significantly. There are a number of things to improve. They do have bigger tanks, and I have seen folks explore using double tanks! These can be crutches, though, so start with improving your skills and then explore using additional equipment.
So this guy went down with you without a full tank, how else could he be out of gas before you? And no one checked his tank before the dive? Or maybe hi is a heavy breather 😂
There are many factors, there was some current and that creates anxiety for some which spikes the air consumption and you likely work harder than you need. He is a bit of a heavy breather, too, haha.
@@itravelwisely If I sounded a bit harsh I apologise and as my own sac-rate is more on the high side than low my dives tends to be a bit shorter than I would like, my solution, when I need to extend my dive time, is to bring a “pony” 12 along, litre’s that is😁. Stay wet and a close watch at the time🤿🇸🇪
Definitely appreciate your thoughts! Improving airtime is something we can all work on and it's interesting to see how much we can improve the SAC rate and what factors into it from dive to dive. Always fun haha. I try not to make up for it with gear but having a pony bottle is never a bad idea if you can manage to bring it with your kit everywhere!
I'm trying to be respectful but have to ask this question. What makes a novice diver like yourself think that it's a good idea to teach' others ? First of all, you are sharing things literally lifted from the OW booklet mixed in with some common sense advice but the footage you are using shows that you are basically a beginner diver.
You're free to believe what you will, I've been diving throughout the world, challenged myself on plenty of dives and have been a respectable diver. I can teach because I have a lot of experience. A lot of unique experience as I am able to travel often and to some of the more rate and hard to see places on the planet. Now it's worth noting, I an not a tech or cave diver, I diver recreational. I take footage during and through years of recreational diving. I don't remember most of these things taught to me when I went through open water. They were learned over time and experience. Of course, learning from many others along the way.
Fair enough haha, it is footage I had of our recreational diving. We've always been recognized for our great air consumption. Some footage is overs too. I will do better to clearly demonstrate specific things in the future but also want to keep things real, where we are doing some interesting diving and enjoying ourselves. Haha, I need to find folk that can challenge me to improve from where I am, at this point I don't have a dive buddy that can outlast me so I am limited on my dive time to their own.
Ah yes, that too is more than I normally talk haha. I do it on camera to hopefully not look super dull when I speak. Likely overdoing it at times haha.
Haha, exactly, I've seen a lot of drama or bad decisions from dive buddies who've been mismatched with folk that are not about equal in terms of air consumption. It's always one of those things you can expect to be a little eventful in my many trips, haha.
There are many factors involved to improve your air consumption but after this video, I hope you have a good list to move forward on and you nail you air consumption goals! What are some other things you've had struggles with in SCUBA diving?
As a perpetually overstressed engineer, I found that even when I thought that I was completely relaxed during dives I was still a gas hog and would dive 100’s to keep from limiting the other divers dive time. When I switched to an AI computer and turned on SAC rate tracking, that gave me real time feedback on my level of relaxation during the dive. This gave me the information needed to tell when I was actually relaxed and breathing well vs just thinking I was. Within a handful of dives I’ve dropped my avg SAC rate from the high 30’s to the mid teens. Shared my trick with another engineer who was sharing the dive boat and he said that he was able to noticeably improve his air consumption after just one dive.
Love this tip, and I am glad it worked for you. We are eyeballing getting a Perdix this winter after the wallet cools off from buying a dry suit and other cold water gear but will be giving that integrated air a try and exploring my SAC more!
Awesome video, I did my open water cert 2 weeks ago. Any tips for if the current is stronger than expected?
Really glad to hear you enjoyed it! I have another video dedicated to current diving here:
ruclips.net/video/Ej9ovxr8kOs/видео.html
Check it out! In short with current diving, your goal will be to use terrain to block current if you can. Pull yourself with the rocks on the ground as opposed to finning, and strategically moving between points that you can use to break the current.
Fighting the current for an extended time will only wear you out, elevate your heart rate, destroy your air consumption, and likely give you a carbon dioxide headache like no other.
You want to be calm and relaxed in current and be as lazy as possible. If you do a short spurt of finny against current, slow down and take a rest when you can and let the heart rate slow.
Great video! It blows my mind to see extremely overweight divers all the time, so out of shape and sedentary that they become a danger in the water, a lot of people don't see scuba diving as a sport, they think they're just looking at a fishbowl.
Definitely, of course there is a casual end to the sport, something everyone can enjoy and honestly has a lot of life to see. To that end obesity does hurt the air consumption and comes with higher risks of decompression sickness so knowing the limits is important if obese (otherwise it becomes dangerous).
I’m really fit but a large guy (6’8”, 220 lb). I do ok with air consumption but wonder if my sheer size hurts me. Seems like they should have bigger tanks for bigger people 😂
No sweat! There are many things from trim, buoyancy, and calmness you can learn along and improve your air time significantly. There are a number of things to improve. They do have bigger tanks, and I have seen folks explore using double tanks! These can be crutches, though, so start with improving your skills and then explore using additional equipment.
you can buy (or maybe hire) 15L, 18K or a 20L faber steel cylinder; or use a Twinset
You should try diving steel HP120 or HP133 cylinders.
So this guy went down with you without a full tank, how else could he be out of gas before you? And no one checked his tank before the dive? Or maybe hi is a heavy breather 😂
There are many factors, there was some current and that creates anxiety for some which spikes the air consumption and you likely work harder than you need. He is a bit of a heavy breather, too, haha.
@@itravelwisely If I sounded a bit harsh I apologise and as my own sac-rate is more on the high side than low my dives tends to be a bit shorter than I would like, my solution, when I need to extend my dive time, is to bring a “pony” 12 along, litre’s that is😁. Stay wet and a close watch at the time🤿🇸🇪
Definitely appreciate your thoughts! Improving airtime is something we can all work on and it's interesting to see how much we can improve the SAC rate and what factors into it from dive to dive. Always fun haha. I try not to make up for it with gear but having a pony bottle is never a bad idea if you can manage to bring it with your kit everywhere!
Buy a rebreather 💁♂️
Haha, true, but ideally, we shouldn't look to gear to solve gaps in things we can improve without it. Rebreather will help, though!
👍😎🤿🇵🇭,
Thank you, glad you liked it!
I'm trying to be respectful but have to ask this question. What makes a novice diver like yourself think that it's a good idea to teach' others ? First of all, you are sharing things literally lifted from the OW booklet mixed in with some common sense advice but the footage you are using shows that you are basically a beginner diver.
You're free to believe what you will, I've been diving throughout the world, challenged myself on plenty of dives and have been a respectable diver. I can teach because I have a lot of experience. A lot of unique experience as I am able to travel often and to some of the more rate and hard to see places on the planet. Now it's worth noting, I an not a tech or cave diver, I diver recreational. I take footage during and through years of recreational diving.
I don't remember most of these things taught to me when I went through open water. They were learned over time and experience. Of course, learning from many others along the way.
agree but you move too much in the video LOL
Fair enough haha, it is footage I had of our recreational diving. We've always been recognized for our great air consumption. Some footage is overs too.
I will do better to clearly demonstrate specific things in the future but also want to keep things real, where we are doing some interesting diving and enjoying ourselves. Haha, I need to find folk that can challenge me to improve from where I am, at this point I don't have a dive buddy that can outlast me so I am limited on my dive time to their own.
@@itravelwisely I meant in the room lol
Ah yes, that too is more than I normally talk haha. I do it on camera to hopefully not look super dull when I speak. Likely overdoing it at times haha.
Gauge reading 50, ascent ascent ascent! 🤿
Haha, exactly, I've seen a lot of drama or bad decisions from dive buddies who've been mismatched with folk that are not about equal in terms of air consumption. It's always one of those things you can expect to be a little eventful in my many trips, haha.
@@itravelwisely Socialising on the surface is hard enough and bloody risky at 60 feet 🤣