Category: PADI Open Water Diver Course
Everything you need to know about the PADI Open Water Diver certification.
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PADI Confined Water Dive 2
PADI Confined Water Dive 2 will be your next experience after passing Confined Dive 1. During Confined Dive 2 you will be focussing mostly on the scuba mask skills to get ready for deeper water skills. A lot of Dive Instructor will first teach dive 1 and go straight into teaching dive 2, but in
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PADI Confined Water Dive 4
PADI Confined Water Dive 4 is one of the last Confined Water Dives, your are almost there! During PADI Confined Water Dive 4 you will focus on finishing the last scuba diving skills before you are ready to learn how to plan a dive in confined dive 5. Mostly deep water skills in PADI Confined
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PADI Confined Water Dive 5
The PADI Confined Water Dive 5 is the final dive of your confined water training sessions. Successfully completing PADI Confined Water Dive 5 will get you ready for the real open water dive of the PADI Open Water course. During this dive you will finishing a few scuba skills before learning how to plan and execute
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Fin Pivot – How To Establish Neutral Buoyancy
The Fin Pivot is one of the oldest techniques that you can use to practice controlling your buoyancy with your lungs. It is very important to have great buoyancy while scuba diving and try to use our lungs as the main part to control that buoyancy. The Fin Pivot is perfect to learn to use
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Giant Stride Entry
The Giant Stride entry is one of the safest and most comfortable entries when you are scuba diving from a bigger boat. It depends on the size and hight of a boat what entry you choose. The Giant Stride entry is one of the best options especially if you are nervous to enter the water
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Buddy Check Diving BWRAF
The Buddy Check Diving is a check we do every time before we go scuba diving. It is easy to remember the steps for the buddy check by using the scuba acronym BWRAF. You learn the Buddy Check BWRAF during your PADI Open Water Diver Course. This is such and important skill that you will
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How To Clear a Fully Flooded Mask While Scuba Diving
Knowing How To Clear a Fully Flooded Mask Underwater can help you to solve a foggy mask underwater or clear the mask if it ever get’s flooded on a scuba dive. It is very rare for a scuba mask to fully flood on a dive and even rarer remove your mask underwater. It can happen
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How to release a cramp underwater while scuba diving
This Cramp Release Scuba Diving Skill video explains in an easy way how to remove a cramp while scuba diving underwater for the PADI Open Water Diver Course. Marcel van den Berg a highly awarded PADI Platinum Course Director shows you on a PADI Open Water Diver Course student level how to perform the Cramp
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PADI Loose Cylinder Band Skill
The PADI Loose Cylinder Band (also called Loose Tank Strap) skill is a great skill to learn as it sometimes happens that the Scuba Cylinder Band gets loose. It is very unlikely that it happens, but if it does, it is usually because of entering the water or lousy preparation before the dive. New scuba
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PADI Mask Removal, Replacement and Clearing Skill
The PADI Mask Removal, Replacement and Clearing skill is for some people the hardest skill to complete in the PADI Open Water Diver Course. On the other hand it also gives a great feeling of accomplishment after mastering the PADI Mask Removal, Replacement and Clearing skill. Some new scuba divers have absolutely no issues with the Mask
