New Year's Dive Resolutions--5 Steps to Better Diving

The key to equipment is the same for other aspects of no-impact diving: Keep it simple. The less equipment the better. There is no excuse for dangling gauges and gear. Nothing attached to you should come in contact with the reef. Streamline all your gear. Be sure your mask fits properly so it and your regulator stay dry in the proper head-down fin-up position. Masks and regulators that flood can prevent proper buoyancy and body control over the reef.

Know Where Your Feet Are. . .Always

Make a New Year's Resolution to keep your fins from touching anything but water. Observe your dive masters and instructors who seem motionless and can put themselves in almost any position with hardly the flutter of a fin. It's harder than you think--Practice and concentrate so you know exactly where your fin tips are in relation to the coral reef and fellow divers. . .always. Happy New Year Diving!
© 1998 Linda Gettmann

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