How to Get Neutral Buoyancy (Scuba Diving Skills) 🤿 PADI IDC Skills Dive

🌊 Mastering Neutral Buoyancy: Learn Essential Skills for Scuba Diving! 🤿
Welcome, fellow divers! In this enlightening video, we're delving into the crucial skill of achieving neutral buoyancy, straight from the PADI IDC Skills Dive curriculum. Join us as we guide you through understanding the impact of lung volume changes on buoyancy and using low-pressure BCD inflation to achieve neutral buoyancy.
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Key Steps for Achieving Neutral Buoyancy:
1. Begin with a fully deflated BCD to accurately gauge air requirements for neutral buoyancy.
2. Utilize low-pressure BCD inflation to achieve neutral buoyancy, avoiding the use of hands.
3. Experiment with lung volume changes during inhalation and exhalation to control buoyancy.
4. Gently rise and fall in a controlled manner, maintaining buoyancy equilibrium.
5. Avoid using hands to perform the skill, ensuring proper technique and mastery.
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[@hdi53]

Quality demonstration hand signals-but why are we starting from the bottom? Shouldn't it be taught to get neutral on the decent from the beginning? E.g., divers should not be kneeling nor on the ocean floor-to protect the aquatic environment and also reinforce delta trim position and a streamlined diver.

[@IDCKohTao]

Thank-you so much for your comment. We definitely agree with you when it comes to neutral buoyancy and if you take a look, we have re-filmed our Divemaster skill videos to be done with no bottom contact.
Check them out and let us know what you think! We are also now conducting all of our pro-level training completely neutrally buoyant, so we are doing our best to provide quality training.
The reason you will see this skill starting from the bottom, is due to the fact this is the first buoyancy skill in the PADI open water diver course.
As a PADI instructor, you must follow a certain sequencing order when it comes to Confined Water training and skill development.
As this skill comes at the beginning, it is there to show the students how to become neutral. So, they start off negative and learn how get off the bottom.
Later on, once they become more comfortable, they practice descending and staying completely off the bottom.
In a perfect world, we would of course want all of our beginner students to progress quickly when it comes to buoyancy skills and be able to do every skill completely neutral.
Unfortunately, every student is different and some students are too overwhelmed at the beginning when it comes to just breathing or even clearing their mask.
In this case they may need to start off at a much slower and simpler pace. I hope that makes sense, and you enjoy our new videos😊

[@hdi53]

Thank you for your reply. It’s always interesting to see how other Agencies conduct their instruction. You all look great and I hope you are enjoying the wonderful weather and ocean out there :)

[@aaronb8884]

So, you add air until you become nuetrally bouyant, and then you release all of the air from the BCD- why?

[@rubiksfaq9214]

When you first descend from the surface, you should have no air in your BCD and to achieve neutral buoyancy, you breathe in to add air to your lungs; to supplement this, you can add a little air to your BCD, this is especially important when you descend deep as you lose buoyancy the deeper you go due to pressure.
As you go up, you need to release that air you had in your gear/lungs or it can burst as you ascend when the pressure lessens and gas volume expands out.