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Teaching Neutrally buoyant and trimmed
I wrote a 3-part series published by SDI on how I teach my open water students neutrally buoyant and trimmed from the start to finish on the course. The difference in confidence and skill that my students acquire compared to the way I first taught when I became an instructor are dramatic to say the…
Diving Keystone Jetty
Here is some information I read from Eric Askilsrud on when to dive Keystone Jetty, my favorite shore dive in the Seattle area:“If you want to make the drive up there more worth it with multiple dives with less current, go on days when the flood is ~1.5 knots or less at Admiralty. Splash an…
Simple exercises for students not completely comfortable with having their faces in the water
One of the common challenges that instructors face is helping open water students overcome any discomfort they feel by having their faces in the water without a mask. I received this set of exercises from Peter Rothschild, a PADI instructor who co-authored in 2011 the article “Early Transition to Neutral Buoyancy in Instruction.” That article…
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