How to exist the Padi Open Water Diver course

How to exist the Padi Open Water Diver course

A step-by-step instruction for Mit divers who are a bit nervous in front of the Padi Open Water Diver.

I know what it is like to almost cancel the first dive and cancel the course completely. I also know how to get it back.

Five months after my first attempt I passed the Padi Open Water Diver course.

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Here is a step-by-step instruction for Mit divers who are a bit nervous before the course. I go into the theory first and then to the hard things: the confined water tests and the open water tests, whereby I address some difficult points on the way.

selection of a course

All Padi courses include the following:

• Development of knowledge: Theoretical work to help them understand the basic principles of the device diving. This is checked in a final test in which you have to achieve 75 % or more. If you do not exist, you can repeat the test. See 'Padi test questions' below for more.
• dives in the limited open water: This is usually carried out in a pool or flat water in the sea in order to teach you basic diving skills. See 'Padi Confined Water Tests' further below for more.
• open water dives: You have to complete four open -air dives where you demonstrate your skills. See 'Padi Open Water Tests' further below for more.

Padi test questions

The practical side of the diving will be much easier for you if you first read through the theory. Your diving base will provide you with a book and a DVD with five different chapters. If you can safely answer the tests in the chapters and the knowledge reviews at the end of each chapter, you will probably pass the exam without difficulty.

Depending on your learning style, it is possible to flash the chapter 1-3 in one evening and chapters 4-5 on the second. If you have more time to play, you can of course continue to split the learning.

to prepare for the PADI test questions:

• go through the knowledge reviews through
• practice with learning cards
• revise the diving signals
• practice all the above with the Open Water Diver Course eBook (PDF, 2.99 $)

tips:

• replace the chunky Padi-Akronym ("Begin with Review and Friend") with "Bruce Willis Ruins All Films" for the "BWRAF" check. It is of course not true, but it's much easier to remember it.
• Use the acronym Sorted: Signal, Orientate, Regulator, Time, Equalize and Descend.
for the five-point descent.
• There is no standard acronym for the different types of ascents (normal ascent, ascent with an alternative air source, controlled emergency swimming, buddy climbing, Buoyanter Emergency promotion), but they will appear, so use mine: NACBB for "Not All Children Break". Bad - it's anything but perfect, but it works for me!
• don't let the diving tables intimidate. They appear complicated at first glance, but they are simple as soon as they have worked through the booklet. In your instructor, inquire whether you will use the manual tables or electronic. In the latter case you only need a gross understanding of the former.

Padi Confined Water Tests

The following is a list of tests in limited open water (or "pool tests") that you have to complete. According to my diving instructor, most nervous divers have difficulty cleaning the mask (I definitely had it!). If you have a snorkel and a mask, practice this skill before the course.

• 200 meters swimming
• 10 minutes of water to step
Assemble the diving equipment, create and adjust
• security check before diving (BWRAF)
inflate
• bcd and empty
• Clean the snorkel on the climb by exhaling sharply and breathe on without lifting the face out of the water
• Switch from breathing controller to snorkel, snorkeling several times to a respiratory controller without lifting the face out of the water
• dive under water (sorted)
• clear water from your breathing controller (exhale heavily and use rinsing button)
• Use your SPG and signal your remaining air
• fetch your breathing regulator behind your shoulder
• Recognize the hand signal under water and react to it
• Delete a partially flooded mask
• Delete a fully flooded mask
• Take off the mask and breathe a standstill for a minute, put on the mask and clean it
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• mask and swim at least 15 meters, put on and clean mask
• breathe out of a freely flowing breathing controller for 30 seconds (air flows out of the air regulator and forces you to "sip" of air from it)
• Show neutral buoyancy: hover at eye level on the surface, without or with minimal air in the BCD and while you stop a normal breath; swivel from the horizontal to the vertical several times under water; Float for 30 seconds in the "Buddha" posture
• Take off the diving equipment and put it back on the surface and in depth
• pull a loose bottle tape firm
• Separate the low-pressure inflator on the surface and in the depth and connect it back to
• swimming and navigating with a compass on the surface and in the depth
• Remove and replace weights on the surface and in the depth
• weight drop in an emergency on the surface and in the depth
• Solve cramps on the buddy and in itself on the surface and in the depth
• bcd oral inflation on the surface and in the depth
• Exercises without air: Use an alternative air source, provide an alternative air source, practice buddy breathing for a minute when swimming
• practice a controlled emergency swimming ascent (CESA)
• climb to
during the pressure equalization
• tired diving towing for 25 meters
• Use an inflatable signal device
• Remove weights, diving unit and flow into water that is too deep to stand in it and get out of
• care of the diving equipment after the dive

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padi open water tests

You have to complete four open water dives to pass the course. Dive 1 will orient them, familiarize them with the diving equipment and test some of the above skills. The dives 2 and 3 will test the above -mentioned skills rigorously, while dive 4 is usually a more relaxed affair that enables them to use and enjoy their newly developed skills.

last word

The most important thing you should remember is to continue breathing and never stop the air. If you feel how panic rises, just breathe keep breathing. If you can't think of your flooded mask, just breathe keep breathing. If you want to shoot up, just breathe.

The second most important is to practice, practice, practice. The more time you spend in the water, the safer you become.

If I can do it after I have vomited five meters deep into the breathing controller and then on top of that with a whopping 8kg around the hip on the boat, then you can do that too.

good luck!

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