How to MASTER Buoyancy for Scuba Diving

Here are several tips and techniques to help you perfect your buoyancy control for scuba diving.
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Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
0:30 - Disclaimer
1:04 - Tip #1
2:16 - Tip #2
3:59 - Tip #3
6:37 - Tip #4
8:44 - Tips #5
10:01 - Tip #6
11:05 - Outro
11:52 - Bloopers
12:24 - Subscribe!

[@JimZamichieli]

I recently got certified and found your video so incredibly helpful. It’s very well done-concise info with a natural delivery. Thank you for taking the time to put this together.

[@trinitysprucepine7841]

Excellent, thank you. Have returned after 40 years and am excited to get back in the water.

[@andreasmitropoulos]

Greetings from Greece! Very well explained ! All in all, the idea is NOT having to inflate the BCD more than a couple of times during the whole dive

[@arianna6845]

I love your videos! Thank you

[@FullySubmerged]

Hope they're helpful for you!

[@lonestripediver]

Smashing video. Greetings from Texas.

[@semiradravu872]

❤ thanks wonderful inspiration,

[@Taylor-op2xb]

You seemed really natural and relaxed in this video!

[@FullySubmerged]

Thank you! Hopefully I continue to get better and better being in front of the camera.

[@MerchantIvoryfilms]

Great video! Sadly last November a poor girl died diving because of issues that went wrong because of her buoyancy. There were many factors, she was still newly certified, but her instructors disregarded a lot of things that never should have happened and she sunk to the bottom of the lake. A diver trying to rescue her said he tried to hard to get the weights out of her drysuit but run out of air. After reading this i told myself that i want "all" weights to be able to be removed with in seconds. Not looking forward to the uncomfortable part of a weight belt.

[@FullySubmerged]

Yeah, I heard about this 🙁 really unfortunate situation all around.

[@MerchantIvoryfilms]

@@FullySubmerged Sorry, didn't mean to damper the mood. I love your content. Im still building up the courage to get certed but in the meantime your videos help alot with getting me prepared with all the info they will throw at me. Thanks for the knowlage!

[@andrewhopper7902]

Iam being taught by ScotSac in Scotland and first thing we did was how to remove gear underwater quickly. I wouldnt be comfortable diving without knowing that. Not to detract from your situation. Just iam new to diving and gives me fear hearing things like that

[@kimberleyp7999]

Weight belts should be removable in one move

[@arturoborski5909]

Excellent... :)

[@lyndonbailey7647]

Navigating and compass reading

[@dejavu2706]

Thank yoy

[@YouTube_user3333]

Get to know what weights you need for a certain dive. Correctly weighted is different depending on what your doing. A balanced rig is optimal, generally speaking.

[@ivoryjohnson4662]

Thank you for bringing this out I I try to learn as much as I can to be better . Please continue these videos.What do you recommend when your leg feet heavy? That’s with no weight

[@FullySubmerged]

Absolutely! Glad you're learning from them :)

[@FullySubmerged]

Do you wear fins with booties? The neoprene might help add lift to your feet!

[@ivoryjohnson4662]

Yes 5 mil I swim with my arms stretched out almost start to level out

[@FullySubmerged]

Try to arch your back like a skydiving position. If you let your legs go limp like a noodle they're going to sink no matter how perfect your buoyancy is.

[@seansummers1066]

I've gotten pretty good with buoyancy , but I still am not comfortable when I do my safety stop, kinda weird. Where do you dive at by the way?

[@FullySubmerged]

The Midwest!

[@henryjones8636]

Today was my first day of confined water and my fins kept flying forward, rolling me onto my back. Any tips for this? I was thinking maybe ankle weights

[@FullySubmerged]

Ankle weights can help to begin with but the root of the problem is your body position. It's a totally new experience but you really have to engage your muscles. If you let your lower half be a limp noodle it's going to act like one. If you know what position a skydiver is in when they jump out of the plane, that's similar to what you're going for. Squeeze your core and arch your back.

[@henryjones8636]

@@FullySubmerged Gotcha. I had no idea my muscles were really even a factor. Like you said I basically just let me legs go limp. I'll give that a try, thank you!

[@diverlife2668]

So no matter what I do I’m always somehow over weight and or under weight despite what people tell me to use. And then I been trying to do a pbb course but after talking to instructors it goes nowhere and never happens 😅

[@FullySubmerged]

Hmmm well that's frustrating.

[@diverlife2668]

@@FullySubmerged yeah it is trust me so I'm never perfect weighted snd every dive I just gotta guess and hope I'm not under weighted and not over weighted

[@FullySubmerged]

@@diverlife2668 No guessing! Always do your weight check!

[@diverlife2668]

@@FullySubmerged springs are easier to do but off a boat I be lucky if I get a chance

[@FullySubmerged]

@@diverlife2668 Is there somewhere in the ocean near a dock or beach where you could do a weight check before a boat dive? That way you have accounted for the extra buoyancy in salt water but don't have to keep the boat waiting.

[@juantorres9636]

If you are properly weighted, why do you need ditchable weights? You should have enough weight to keep you down at the end of the dive when you are the lightest. Therefore shouldn’t your weight check be done at the end of the dive?

[@FullySubmerged]

Ditchable refers to being able to release weight quickly in an emergency not to correct buoyancy

[@juantorres9636]

@@FullySubmerged, agreed, having ditchable weight at the surface and during an emergency can be very convenient, and should not be used as a means of correcting buoyancy underwater. My point is that it is better to do you weight check both at the beginning so you can go down, and most importantly at the end of the dive when you are at your lightest (with minimal gas).

[@elvislagonda4738]

this is really useful. but i wish there wasn't some idiot whistling in the background. it is very offputting

[@ahmedsamy8406]

I believe with the right weight you can come all the way up with just kicking up am I right ?

[@FullySubmerged]

If by "come all the way up" you mean ascending, then yes. You always kick to ascend. You never inflate your BCD for ascent.

[@ahmedsamy8406]

@@FullySubmerged thanks so much I just finished my 9th dive last week and couldn’t believe myself that I was actually capable of ascending from 22 meters just by kicking I used to keep Inflating my bcd then deflating it to control my ascend that made my previous dives so uncomfortable and almost uncontrollable ,, I weight 125 kg my height 183 cm I used to use 16 kg of lead then 14 kg then tried 12 kg at my 8th dive at the begging of the dive everything was ok till I reached 80 bars then started to ascend like a balloon 🎈 I took extra 2kg from the dive master and next dive I used 14 kg and I felt much better controlling my boyonce