Perhaps the most crucial skill to continue improving your confidence as an amateur diver is mastering the ability to control one’s buoyancy while underwater. Due to the body’s naturally conditioned reactions to gravity while on the surface, the conversely disorienting lack of gravity while diving with a buoyancy control device may prove challenging for novice divers. This nuanced skill may be constantly improved upon for many years.

Because our safety in diving is directly affected by our control over the buoyant forces acting upon us, it is paramount to be able to maintain our maximum allowable depth, proper ascend rates and safety stops. Proper buoyancy control is our first defense against dive related injuries.

Following completion of the performance Buoyancy specialty course, divers will have developed a thorough comprehension of how to adjust their equipment for proper weight distribution, how to streamline their equipment and body positioning to save energy and preserve air, and how to fine-tune their buoyancy to hover weightlessly in any fixed position.

PREREQUISITES:

• Min. age 10 years old.
• Open Water certification