Re: Question about diving certification

"ivk" <ivk2000@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Consider why you could not do a 500 yard swim.

I can't swim 500m, or even 100m, in fresh water or in choppy seas
without any equipment, because my natural buoyancy is lousy and I have
to spend too much effort keeping my head above the water. If this
disqualifies me from scuba diving, then it certainly should've
disqualified me from snorkelling, but nobody told me about it. When
snorkelling, I had a deflated vest on me, and I would inflated it had
I lost the mask and fins, or snorkel and fins. I would not survive if
I lost all the equipment, including the vest. But this seems to me
like requiring a sailor to be able to swim to a shore from any place
in the ocean...

Yes, I do live in Bay Area, 30 miles from SF and 80 from Monterey.

My scuba instructor, who also teaches swimming, is also naturally negatively
bouyant.
It can be overcome.

Being naturally negatively bouyant is a usually good thing in scuba - less
weight that has to be carried to overcome the bouyancy of the
equipment/wetsuit/drysuit/etc.

You're not required to swim back to shore from the boat if you lose all
equipment.
However, if by some chance you lost mask, snorkel, fins, it'd be a good
thing if
a) you could swim back to the boat, or
b) stay afloat long enough to get rescued by the crew.

Dennis


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