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regulator r / r

Regulator Recovery and Clearing

The Regulator Recovery and Clearing is another famous PADI Open water Diver course skill. It is also one of the first skills that you will do in Confined Water Dive 1. The PADI Regulator Recovery and Clearing skill is surprisingly easy to do, however many new scuba divers are nervous for this skill.
Regulator Removal and Clearing
Regulator Removal and Clearing
The reason why some new scuba divers are nervous to perform the Regulator Recovery and Clearing skills that it involves taking your regulator second stage out and dropping it next to you. For the first time you have no mouth piece in your mouth, and you feel a bit out of control not holding it in your hands like in the previous regulator clearing 2 Methods skill.

Don't worry as you will find out that the Regulator Recovery and Clearing is easy to perform and you will have a lot of time to recover your regulator. The trick is to blow small bubbles from your mouth when you remove the scuba regulator. 

The smaller the bubbles the longer you have to recover the second stage. The reason why we blow small bubble is that you can never hold your breath underwater. We solves this by exhaling small bubble instead of holding our breath.

Learn here how to teach the PADI Regulator Removal, Recovery and Clearing Skill as a PADI Dive Instructor

Check out this video about the PADI Regulator Removal and Recovery Briefing:

Steps for the PADI Regulator Recovery and Clearing Skill

1. Take a deep breath in
2. Take out the regulator, have the mouth piece down and blow bubbles
3. Move your hand to the right and drop the regulator behind the shoulder
4. Lean right, stretch your right arm, touch your knee, the tank and slide your arm in a sweep forward
5. Catch your regulator on your right arm
6. Recover the regulator, make sure it's the right way up
7. Replace the regulator in your mouth
8. Clear it either way you like it, by exhaling or purging
9. Resume breathing

Check out the Regulator Recovery and Clearing video here:
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