Tips for Scuba Diver

Beating Stress

1. Practice skills under stressful and task-loaded condition in a benign environment.
2. Always make sure you dive within your own comfort zone. Only you really know its limits.
3. Thoroughly prepare for every dive and thoroughly plan every one of your dives.
4. Deal with small problems as they arise to prevent lots of small problems becoming one big one.
5. Test out only one item of new equipment at a time. No extreme dives with unfamiliar kit.
6. Don't dive if it doesn't feel right. Nervous excitement is not to be confuse with real concern.
7. Dive with a skilled buddy when extending your personal experience.
8. If you get a problem underwater remember to STOP... BREATHE...THINK...ACT.
9.Be fit to dive. Both physically and mentally-particularly after a longish lay-off.
10. No diving with hangovers! Don't let a Saturday night binge ruin the dives.

How to help a panicking buddy

You need to help reduce the level of stress and bring your buddy back from the brink of panic.
Put one hand on their shoulder.
Establish good eye contact.
Signal for them to stop and breath deeply.
Often a reassuring squeeze of the hand that lets your buddy know you're there for them is enough to calm them down.

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