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Top Tips for Safe Diving
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Top Tips for Safe Diving - Before the Dive
Be well rested. Your body needs to be in prime physical condition, poor decisions are made with a sleepy head.
Stay hydrated, Dehydration is a huge contributing factor to decompression sickness, drink water!
Avoid drinking alcohol the day before. You wanted to lose some of those extra pounds anyway.
Don’t dive when sick, better to stay in bed and watch into the blue.
Check with your doctor if you are currently prescribed any medications.
Have a diving medical check annually, not only when you are an ‘older’ diver.
Make sure you have some sort of surface support, your dog does not count.
Dive in good sea/weather conditions.
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Top Tips for Safe Diving - Equipment and Breathing gases
Have your equipment serviced annually or after the recommended number of dives, when you rent make sure it is with a reputable shop.
Always check your and your buddy’s equipment before each dive (buddy check).
Always dive with a dive computer.
Stay warm or cool enough, no need for a 7mm semi-dry in 25 Celsius.
If you are diving any gas other than air, always, always check your gas yourself and know its limits.
Carry a delayed SMB (Surface Marker Buoy), a whistle and a Personal Location Beacon.
Carry a compass, no road signs or GPS available underwater.
Do not overweight yourself. You do not want to sink like a rock.
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Top Tips for Safe Diving - During the Dive
Equalise your ears while descending, that beeping noise is not supposed to be there.
Practice good buoyancy. Nobody likes to see someone flail around. Also, you might harm your environment.
Stay close to your buddy. Even if you don’t like him, he might save your life one day.
Dive within your limits, unless you are with an instructor and he is teaching you.
Don’t exhaust yourself. Diving is for lazy people 🙂
Avoid yo-yo dive profiles, even if marine life does it.
Never hold your breath, just relax, there is so much to see and if not, relax anyway.
Do not touch anything, including corals and wildlife, sharks are of the least concern try touching a stonefish or even a cone shell, no really DON\'T.
Do not go into overhangs or caves when not properly trained. Seriously you may not find your way out!
Ascent 9-10 meters per minute, what is the rush anyway.
Deploy a delayed SMB. You don’t need a haircut just yet.
Do not swim towards a boat while underwater, get to the surface first.
Accept help getting on the boat, take your gear off before entering, that’s why you brought your friends anyway.
Update our medical kit, essential as you can’t just pop over to a pharmacy. We are not doctors that can give you prescribed medication, but we can patch you up if you have a scrape or a cut.
Some of us have special abilities, like photography, marine biology, engineer or yoga teacher. I could keep going, but that would get a little boring. But all these skills do come in handy when living and working on a liveaboard.
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Top Tips for Safe Diving - After the Dive
Avoid heavy exercise, like I said diving is for lazy people.
Do not drink alcohol. There are other days for that.
In case of suspected DCI, immediately take 100% oxygen with a suitable regulator, and for the necessary time. Do not attempt in-water recompression procedures.
Before flying, follow DAN (Divers Alert Network) recommendations for surface time. This means at least 12 hours after a single dive. Or at least 24 hours after repetitive dives and/or deco diving.
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