I live in the center of the US and all we have is dirty lakes and rivers. So diving in poor viz is a common thing for us. All very helpful tips. Love your videos. Keep them coming.
Great video and very informative. I am a totally blind certified scuba diver and one technique we learn how to do and practice often is how to ascend solo safely, without a diving computer or depth gauge. This is in case we do lose our diving buddy.
My husband and I just got certified in June and we are New England divers from the USA…we have very poor visibility here… 15-20 ft on a really good day…..I’m claustrophobic so it has been a challenge but I think it has been good for learning and experience! Can’t wait for our cruise to the Caribbean in November to dive in some warmer and much clearer water! Love your videos!
Diver from Cape Town, South Africa. 90% of my dives in False Bay have been of poor visibility. On a good day we get a real treat an get about 3-6 meter's viz. But.... Fantastic visibility also has its accompanied dangers.
hello simply scuba I think your great! for low visibility with student divers I recomend to use FLASY from scuba pro. On top of using your lights, One on each tank realy helps! greatings from the Netherlands!
I did some work for the county repairing a boat launch a while back. There is no option to not touch the bottom with that work, so after a few minutes everything I saw was just black, and I was sunk in a few feet of silt. Couldn’t wait to get home and get into a hot shower haha
Nice tips ! Just yesterday I dove and lost my buddy with horrible visibility. We're talking 30-60cm (1-2 ft)... All things considered we should have thumbed the dive earlier as the dive was stressful and not that enjoyable.... Good lesson though
Ask Mark : what is your opinion of Kraken double hose regulator? I have not dove with a double hose regulator since the 60’s. It appears the Kraken has overcome the shortcomings of the earlier double hose regulators.
Hi, I make myself go to the nearby lake almost every weekend to try and get rid of my fears using the "exposure" therapy, lol... In crystal clear waters I'm pretty good, but in low visibility I tend to get in my head so badly that my fears surface up so crazily. I'm afraid when I lose my buddy and I feel all alone in the water, I'm afraid that I won't figure out which is the top and instead go down even further without knowing. I also get flustered and lose my bearings and don't know top from bottom :( I would love some pointers on how to deal with them, and I know that these issues are not addressed in any class I've been to, so any tips and advice would be greatly appreciated!
Hi! As a totally blind diver, I'm used to being in the water by myself and always have the fear of being lost. You mentioned that you get flustered and don't know which way is up or down. Of course, the first thing is to try to stay calm. The second thing is when you exhale from your regulator, you can feel generally which way the bubbles go. The bubbles will always go up. As long as you follow the bubbles, you will always know in which direction the surface is. Don't go faster than the bubbles and you'll generally ascend at a safe rate.
Living in central Italy I literally learnt to dive in low visibility, good visibility is the exception not the rule, so everything else looks easy to me 😅
I have the same experience in Romania. I dive in good visibility, only in Red Sea… in my country I dive only in 1-2 m. visibility. 😀 For us, they need to make a diving speciality for good visibility 🤣🥳
Your videos are always very informative, but maybe you could incorporate more footage of diving during the videos. Otherwise we are watching a video of a guy just talking about scuba diving. It would increase the entertainment value significantly!
It would but don't you think it's a bit much. For a start he'd need the footage to be in line with the subject. People are gonna expect British waters too. For a video just giving some pointers on low visibility waters. A bit much.
@@pauldawson2902 I'm making a recommendation to allow for both to happen at the same time. Entertainment and information sharing does not necessarily need to be exclusive of one another!
I have Legend Elite from may 22, from my point of view, you can’t make any diference in water between Elite & MBS…you’ll have the same air delivery sistem. It’s very important for you to know what type of diving you will do in the next years, Aqualung Legend Elite or MBS it’s a good regulator for recreational diving in cold&warm open water, if you want to make some tech diving in the future, you can check Apeks xtx50 …Apeks xtx40 for nitrox, etc.
Was it a real course or some of those stupid 3 days course for tourists made just to give out what I consider a fake certification? And yes I know OWD is a real certification, just I don't consider it rightfully given when those are the conditions. Also it depends a lot on where you dive and if the instructor is really a qualified one or not, not all instructors are good at their job. There's also the chance that maybe it's just you not feeling comfortable in the water...
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I live in the center of the US and all we have is dirty lakes and rivers. So diving in poor viz is a common thing for us. All very helpful tips. Love your videos. Keep them coming.
I totally agree we are happy to see our hand in front of our mask on most days in cold quarries.
Great video and very informative. I am a totally blind certified scuba diver and one technique we learn how to do and practice often is how to ascend solo safely, without a diving computer or depth gauge. This is in case we do lose our diving buddy.
My husband and I just got certified in June and we are New England divers from the USA…we have very poor visibility here… 15-20 ft on a really good day…..I’m claustrophobic so it has been a challenge but I think it has been good for learning and experience! Can’t wait for our cruise to the Caribbean in November to dive in some warmer and much clearer water! Love your videos!
Diver from Cape Town, South Africa. 90% of my dives in False Bay have been of poor visibility. On a good day we get a real treat an get about 3-6 meter's viz. But.... Fantastic visibility also has its accompanied dangers.
hello simply scuba I think your great! for low visibility with student divers I recomend to use FLASY from scuba pro. On top of using your lights, One on each tank realy helps! greatings from the Netherlands!
Thank you for sharing
Superb Explanation 🥇🥇🥇👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
I did some work for the county repairing a boat launch a while back. There is no option to not touch the bottom with that work, so after a few minutes everything I saw was just black, and I was sunk in a few feet of silt. Couldn’t wait to get home and get into a hot shower haha
Nice tips ! Just yesterday I dove and lost my buddy with horrible visibility. We're talking 30-60cm (1-2 ft)... All things considered we should have thumbed the dive earlier as the dive was stressful and not that enjoyable.... Good lesson though
Line laying is super useful in poor visibility, especially if you need to return to a shot line.
Ask Mark : what is your opinion of Kraken double hose regulator? I have not dove with a double hose regulator since the 60’s. It appears the Kraken has overcome the shortcomings of the earlier double hose regulators.
Hi, I make myself go to the nearby lake almost every weekend to try and get rid of my fears using the "exposure" therapy, lol... In crystal clear waters I'm pretty good, but in low visibility I tend to get in my head so badly that my fears surface up so crazily. I'm afraid when I lose my buddy and I feel all alone in the water, I'm afraid that I won't figure out which is the top and instead go down even further without knowing. I also get flustered and lose my bearings and don't know top from bottom :( I would love some pointers on how to deal with them, and I know that these issues are not addressed in any class I've been to, so any tips and advice would be greatly appreciated!
Hi! As a totally blind diver, I'm used to being in the water by myself and always have the fear of being lost. You mentioned that you get flustered and don't know which way is up or down. Of course, the first thing is to try to stay calm. The second thing is when you exhale from your regulator, you can feel generally which way the bubbles go. The bubbles will always go up. As long as you follow the bubbles, you will always know in which direction the surface is. Don't go faster than the bubbles and you'll generally ascend at a safe rate.
Living in central Italy I literally learnt to dive in low visibility, good visibility is the exception not the rule, so everything else looks easy to me 😅
I have the same experience in Romania. I dive in good visibility, only in Red Sea… in my country I dive only in 1-2 m. visibility. 😀 For us, they need to make a diving speciality for good visibility 🤣🥳
When you dive in cold, dark Polish lakes ... there's no such thing like "poor visibility" or visibility at all ;)
In UK every dive deeper than 30m turns into a poor visibility night dive.
Your videos are always very informative, but maybe you could incorporate more footage of diving during the videos. Otherwise we are watching a video of a guy just talking about scuba diving. It would increase the entertainment value significantly!
It would but don't you think it's a bit much. For a start he'd need the footage to be in line with the subject. People are gonna expect British waters too. For a video just giving some pointers on low visibility waters. A bit much.
Do you want to be informed or entertained?
@@pauldawson2902 I'm making a recommendation to allow for both to happen at the same time. Entertainment and information sharing does not necessarily need to be exclusive of one another!
@@13guns87 for this subject it may be difficult to find decent footage but would you rather stare at him or scuba footage?
Can anyone recommend which regulator is better between the Aqualung Legend Elite vs MBS? Can't decide between them
I have Legend Elite from may 22, from my point of view, you can’t make any diference in water between Elite & MBS…you’ll have the same air delivery sistem. It’s very important for you to know what type of diving you will do in the next years, Aqualung Legend Elite or MBS it’s a good regulator for recreational diving in cold&warm open water, if you want to make some tech diving in the future, you can check Apeks xtx50 …Apeks xtx40 for nitrox, etc.
Did my first night dive recently. Viz was terrible.
Ha Ha.
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I had a "pleasure" of taking OWD course in SSI. My instructor did a fantastic job of making me hate diving with all my heart!
Was it a real course or some of those stupid 3 days course for tourists made just to give out what I consider a fake certification? And yes I know OWD is a real certification, just I don't consider it rightfully given when those are the conditions. Also it depends a lot on where you dive and if the instructor is really a qualified one or not, not all instructors are good at their job. There's also the chance that maybe it's just you not feeling comfortable in the water...