Scuba Diving Basics: 25 Top Tips That Will Make You A Better Scuba Diver

1. To extend dives, steal air from any stray octopus.
2. If you buddy with a heavy breather, make sure your secure your octopus with a padlock and make sure your knife is well honed.
3. When spear fishing in tropical waters, find an idiot to carry the catch bag. It keeps you safe from sharks.
4. Make sure the idiot doesn’t have a spear gun, that way you can shoot in any direction and always be safe. They on the other hand will probably survive but if they stupidly get in the way, at least you have them safely on tow.
5. Avoid Chinese dive buddies who are only interested in how deep and how fast they can sink. You won’t keep up and may not even be there when they tell their tales later after sinking industrial quantities of alcohol.
6. When diving with Chinese divers always remember, gauge pressure is binary. You have air or your don’t. When you breath in and out normally and then there’s nothing when you inhale, its good idea to consider ascending.
7. PADI Open Water takes weeks to learn, two day holiday courses are worthless.
8. When you travel, the assumption is that two day PADI Open Water courses are normal. YOU WILL be accompanied by baby sitters who may have done the two day course and few week later will be be PADI Dive Masters or Instructors most likely working illegally.
9. Pay And Die Instantly is real and something I’ve witnessed.
10. If you cant achieve 100% in the module questions, where are you going to get answers from when actually diving? Advanced, demonstrates how nitrogen narcosis impairs judgment so what then when you scrape through?
11. Beware of areas where dynamite fishing is used. Your ears will ring for days if you’re anywhere close.
12. Carry a good pair of wire cutters and keep them cleaned and oiled after each dive. When you come across illegal traps in a marine park you can release all the fish and cut the wires the fishermen use to recover then leaving them starving.
13. Same as 12 but bring the traps up and take all the fish. Then cut the recovery wires. The fishermen still starve so much the same thing.
14. Practice spear fishing using Crown of Thorns starfish or Lionfish.
15. Beware of clownfish, they’re deadly.
16. Drinking and diving go hand in hand but if you’re still walking sideways like a crab and having to shut one eye to avoid seeing double, its probably best to avoid that first morning dive if the water’s choppy. It may make you feel sick.
17. Don’t piss off sea snakes, they usually take the upper hand and you generally miss using your speargun.
18. Avoid diving with male Japanese divers. That is unless you’re Chinese and extremely brave. Possibly suicidal.
19. Fastest and most efficient method of spearing fish. Carry LOTS of weight. Empty your BCD by squishing it before putting on your tank. Breath out as deeply as your can and only then roll/jump into the water. You can then descend far more quickly than your would think.
20. Buddy checks are probably not necessary to do everything wrong but a second opinion may help.
21. Buddy checks, in my experience, are never used in the thousands of dives I’ve done in South East Asia. Just check yourself twice.
22. Be wary of dead divers (always PADI), when they’re on your boat they become your problem and you’ll never recover expenses,
23. As per point 15. They’re not called clownfish for nothing. Freediving and laughing when they attack you is not a good combination and the nearest I’ve come to drowning. Am empty tank is nothing in comparison.
24. Find rich friends or better yet, get one to employ you. Free Diving then becomes something that really is.
25. When travelling to far flung dive destinations be careful of trusting “white people” divemasters/instructors. Be aware they most likely have little knowledge of local conditions, the boat will have no communications, there’s no helicopter support and the nearest hyperbaric chamber maybe hundreds of miles away.

Apart from that, its all great fun.

The Underwater vision boat on Utila Islands had a motor hatch two inches thick between the diver’s bench and the ”diving board”. I didn’t see anybody stumble during my trip but it is a guaranty that it most happens on a regular basis.

How many YouTube channels is this guy on?

Please order your tips according to most important to less. I think you can shorten it to 10 or 15 tips. Thanks

Can you do a review on the dui Cortez