I'm an SSI Dive master and a PADI Rescue Diver, and I've been diving around the world for about 10 years now

And I've to see that the one main concern of the beginners are the air consumption

During the divethey are always afraid that

They are going to be a burden for the group because they use their air very quickly they want to explore more

But they can't because of the air consumption

So I know that air consumption depends a lot of things

Could depend of your lung capacity could depend the depth of the dive

The way I breathe in the water the what we call the breathing rate

That can calculate at the end of the dive

But I want to give you the tips that I use

To reduce my air consumption and be able to do a 1 hour and a half foot dive by using

half of my tank in a twenty meters deep dive

So my first tip would be to be aware of how you breathe

because you're underwater

Your brain is going to say "stop! Hold your breath! It's underwater

You can't breathe!"

so you really have to train it to just make that switch and say ok

I'm underwater. I can breathe.

it can be just

consciously breathing

in and out

Usually what I do is, I breath in

I hild my breath for just let's say two seconds and

Then let it go

But I don't do that when I go up and down

Because it could be realy dangerous for your lungs to just hold your breath

but if you're stable and

and enjoying your dive you can train yourself to do that

or you just go in the pool and train yourself to just

consciously breathe the more efficient way

Don't breathe how to breath until your brain says BREATHE

Then go

you just inhale

Exhale

sometimes you can

practice it

when going to sleep

It helps me a lot

To put me to sleep when I consciously concentrate on the way I breath

It helps me relax, and enjoy more my dive to

concentrate on the way breathe

Just try and get used to do that because I know it's not the regular way for people to breathe

There is a popular belief that smokers are

Better diver in the way that they don't use as much

air as others that just because they already know how to

Take deep breath

not consciously in the way of diving

But they come to see breath in, hold and then exhale.

You don't need to start smoking

To have a better air consumption. It just depends on the way that you think of breathing

My second tip would be to

work on your buoyancy

I started diving when I was a teenager and

Honestly, I was all over the place. I kicked the bottom. I was up and down all the time, and it's just

When I started to work on my buoyancy

that my air consumption started decreasing

simply because when you put air on your jacket.

You are using the same air that you are breathing

So that's air that you are not gonna use to breathe

That you put on your jacket

the best way to reduce the air comsuption is by having a neutral buoyancy

Which means just the right amount of weight

So that you'll be able to be comfortable in a dive

that could be tricky because it depends on every

situation, but over the time you'll learn how much weight you need

But buoyancy is not just being overweight or

Just having the right amount of weight. It's also

The way your body is under water.

One of my tricks to be neutraly buoyant

is to contract my abdominals and just

Have a very flat body

by contracting that

Part of my body, I allow my back to be completely straight and to my fin to be

natural extent of my body when I'm

Diving.

I also not kick up and down I frog kick most of the time

That way if I need to go up or down. I just use my breath or my lungs as

My buoyancy device

if I need to go up. I just take a deep breath

if I want to go down, I just

exhale.

I know it sounds really complicated right now

But try it in a pool!

Once you get the trick when you once you get that feeling in your body that you are completely

flat I think you might understand what I'm talking about

One exercise I had myself do a lot of times

is that on the pool you know you have theses

Square things that make lines and I try to stay at the depth of that line for five to ten minutes

Just to make sure that my buoyancy is perfect, and I won't have any issue in the water

It won't be perfect for the first time I've been diving for ten years

I get some tricks

and I

grew up diving so I think it was more easy for me to just adapt and grew up diving than for some people to

conciously make the effort for their body to

Take the diving position

So I know I was verry lucky to start diving young so maybe what I'm telling you is like

Nonsense and you say you're never gonna be able to do it. Just try it and

Talk to your divemaster of what you could do

If you're not able to have a flat back

for any reason

Maybe they have an alternative or other tricks that they could provide you

Finally my last tip is

Completely on the way to breathe

It might sound a bit crazy

Also, but I'm gonna add some videos of me

Demonstrating it so it makes a little more sense

Maybe you already know that there is different ways of breathing for

Example I can inhale from my belly or my side

and what I do underwater is mainly

Breathing from this part of my body not this part.

That way I can be wider

But not deeper

by getting myself wider

I also allow myself to be neutrally buoyant in the way i breathe.

Of course if I really wants my lungs to be

The device that put me up. I'm not gonna do that but if I wanna breathe and not move

I'm gonna breathe this way.

It might take you a couple of attempt to do this

I know it's not that easy to do but once you get the trick you know

again try this technique

While being on the commute or

trying to get asleep because it's not

irrrelevant time to do it and once you get the

distinction

try it on the pool, and you'll see how different it is

So I am aware that these are not the easiest tricks

You've seen you have to work on your body you have to understand. How it work is where the best tricks

I had during my diving career

So I hope they helped you at least give you a bit of a clue of

What you could change in your way of diving

If you have any other tricks that you used and that worked a lot for you

please let

them on the comment section

because

Everybody is different everybody

evolved on the diving differently so if

this worked for me it might not work for you, but

Something that someone else experienced could be the best match for you

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