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Snorkeling and Diving Safety

1. Always dive with a buddy or in a group and be aware of safety equipment, distance from shore, and currents. 2. Proper snorkeling techniques include relaxing breathing, clearing water from your snorkel with short exhales, and avoiding full breaths before descending. 3. Scuba diving requires knowledge of equipment like regulators, BCDs, and tanks as well as following dive plans, buddy systems, and hand signals for communication underwater.

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Snorkeling and Diving Safety

1. Always dive with a buddy or in a group and be aware of safety equipment, distance from shore, and currents. 2. Proper snorkeling techniques include relaxing breathing, clearing water from your snorkel with short exhales, and avoiding full breaths before descending. 3. Scuba diving requires knowledge of equipment like regulators, BCDs, and tanks as well as following dive plans, buddy systems, and hand signals for communication underwater.

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Snorkeling Safety

1. Know the equipment you are using


• Mask
• Fins
• Snorkel
• Safety vest
2. Always dive with a buddy or in a group
3. Be aware of distance from shore at all
times, and potential offshore currents
Clearing and de-fogging your mask
• Place palm on top center of mask and
exhale with a constant breathe until water
is completely forced out.
• Or grasp edges of mask and tilt head back
slightly lifting the bottom egde while
exhaling
• If mask fogs up , flood your mask to
remove condensation and then clear.
Snorkels Styles
Snorkel breathing
• Don’t’ bite down hard on mouth piece it will
only cause jaws to fatigue quickly.
• Relax and slowly inhale and exhale.
• If water enters the snorkel give a short
hard exhale to blow water out of tube and
through purge valve at bottom of snorkel.
• First breath after clearing should be gentle
to check for any remaining water the may
be inhaled.
Diving and breathing
• When diving during snorkeling try to avoid
taking full breathes before descending as
the buoyancy from the breath makes
diving much harder.
• Try to take just a little more than half a
breath, and be sure your snorkel is above
the water surface before clearing and
breathing again.
Fins
• Fin motion should be fluid, not a bicycle up and
down motion.
• Try and keep fins slightly submerged to increase
performance instead of splashing surface.
• If a cramp occurs, grab the fin tip and pull back
towards body to stretch your muscle.
• If you are close to coral don’t kick, the force
from your fins will destroy the organism easily.
Safety vest
• All students will wear
a snorkeling vest at
all times in the water.
• Vest help diver
visibility
• Can be used as
floatation device in
case of emergency.
Dive buddy system
• Always stay close to your dive buddy
• If anyone in the snorkel group needs to
return to the shore the buddy needs to go
in too.
• No one should swim away from or toward
the shore alone.
Scuba Diving
• Know the usage and procedures involved
with all equipment.
• BCD (buoyancy compensator device)
• Regulator (1st and 2nd stage)
• Regulator and tank set-up
• Gauges
• Mask
• Snorkel
• Fins
BCD

Emergency dump valve


Low pressure inflator

Adjustment straps
Air release button

Self-inflating mouth
piece
Integrated weight release
handle
Regulator and tank set-up
• With the tank placed in front of you the
valve should face away from you and the
knob should be on the right.
• BC should be strapped tight to the tank
before putting on regulator set
• The 1st stage should be placed so that the
regulator and octopus fall to the right and
the gauges and low pressure hose fall to
the left.
Pre-dive
• All divers should enter water from shore
and find what amount of lead is needed for
neutral buoyancy.
• All equipment should be checked for
proper function prior to leaving the dock.
• Dive plan,location and buddy groups will
be discussed before each dive.
Buddy groups
• All divers will be placed into groups of
three divers including a rescue diver.
• The divers in each group will stay together
and routinely check air pressure, depth
and comfort of each member.
• NO member of a group will stray off by
themselves for any reason.
Giant stride
Seated Roll Entry
Underwater Hand Signals

Basic hand signals


Are You Okay? / Yes, I’m Okay.
Let’s Go Up.
I’m Cold.
Ascending from dives
• Never ascend quicker than your lowest air
bubble
• Decompression stops will be made at 15ft.
for 3 minutes for every dive.
• Divers will enter boat one by one with
assistance from another diver.
Main thing!
• Have fun and dive your limits.

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