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buoyancy check surface

PADI ​Buoyancy Check Scuba at the Surface

How to check your buoyancy and weight distribution at the surface for the PADI Open Water Diver Course is easy. Doing a good buoyancy check scuba is important to make sure that you enjoy your dive better. Having great buoyancy helps to stay of the bottom, not damage aquatic life, is better for your air consumption and so much more.
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Buoyancy control has a lot to do with having the right weight distribution. By performing this padi buoyancy check you can easily find out if you have this right buoyancy and weights.

PADI Buoyancy Check steps

1. Make sure your have your scuba mask on your face
2. Put your regulator in your mouth
3. At the surface deflate your BCD fully, while holding a full breath (holding your breath at the surface is ok, make sure you NEVER do this underwater)
4. While holding a full breath, with a deflated BCD, you should float at eye level

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It is important to do a buoyancy check before every dive. Just remember that you have a full scuba cylinder that is more heavier before the dive than after the dive. It also depends if you are diving on a steel tank or Aluminum tank. Some people prefer to do a second buoyancy check after the scuba dive as they say it is better on an almost empty cylinder. Try different styles yourself to see what is best.

You will practice the PADI Buoyancy Check during confined water dive 1 of the PADI Open Water Diver Course. This is the Performance Requirement of the PADI Instructor Manual:

Adjust for proper weighting – float at eye level at the surface with no or minimal air in the BCD and while holding a normal breath.

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