by admin | May 14, 2024 | Advanced Open Water Diver
Visualization is a technique used to mentally practice an exercise or series of actions without actually performing them. Visualization is popular among athletes of all disciplines including scuba divers. A diver can identify areas that he may be deficient in or...
by admin | Apr 22, 2024 | Advanced Open Water Diver
Equipment plays a primary role in controlling buoyancy. In fact, everything worn during a dive and the way it is used has an effect on the diver’s buoyancy, and ultimately the ability to establish neutral buoyancy. Understanding how to optimize and streamline...
by admin | Mar 13, 2024 | Advanced Open Water Diver
Water is necessary for life to exist.It is a very simple chemical compound that most people are familiar with: H2O. A water molecule is made up of two Hydrogen atoms (chemical symbol “H”) and one Oxygen atom (chemical symbol “O”).Water molecules have relatively unique...
by admin | Mar 13, 2024 | Advanced Open Water Diver
The reason that an iron ingot sinks and a ship built from iron floats are described by Archimedes’ Principle. Archimedes, a scholar from Syracuse, Italy explained, “Any object, totally or partially, immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of...
by admin | Mar 13, 2024 | Advanced Open Water Diver
01.INTRODUCTION It has been said that the human body and the subconscious mind remember the prenatal sensation of floating weightlessly in the womb. It has also been said that this may be one of the unconscious motivations for a person to want to become a...