Tips for Diving: Air Savings

Tips for Diving: Air Savings

Do not breathe in the tank faster than your partner? Here are 5 tips to help keep oxygen diving and extend your bottom time.

1. Fix small leaksEven a small stream of bubbles of a pump O-ring or rotary, adds more than 40 minutes, and can be a sign of more serious problems ahead anyway. A mask that does not seal losses else who must blow constantly the air in it to clean the water. It 'also a source of stress, which unnecessarily increases the respiratory rate and therefore reduces the efficiency of your breathing. Your octo free flow easily? Which you can download a lot of air quickly. DETUNE or mount carefully so that the nozzle pointing downwards.

2. diveInexperienced divers are known to burn through its supply air at a furious pace, as one of the best tips for saving diving air is just dive more often. You can not be a sub again, but unless you dive almost every week is still an unnatural. When submerged more, your body gets used to the idea, and you breathe less.

3. swim slowlyThe energy cost of speed is more than you think: Swim half as fast as it does now, and you will use less air.

4. Keep ShallowThanks to its controller must supply the same water pressure, a gust of 33 feet (two atmospheres) performs twice as the tank does the same on the surface. A 99 feet (four atmospheres) it takes twice as much 33 feet. There is absolutely nothing you can do except avoid deeper than it should be. If you make a transition to a sand floor uninteresting to reach the edge of the slope, which are 15 meters instead of 40 feet, and save the air.

5. Reduce leadIf you are overweight, you have to put more air into his jacket to float and to be neutral. The inflation BC is larger and requires more energy and oxygen to pass the water. A further eight pounds of lead means that BC is a gallon bigger when inflated enough to make you neutral.