How to use a COMPASS 🧭 - For BEGINNERS
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- Learn about the compass, its features and most importantly, HOW TO ACTUALLY USE A COMPASS with Sarah on the beach in California.
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Every new diver has loads of experience being completely lost underwater... no? Just us? Well, we're here to try to help you avoid some of those embarrassing moments of coming up waaaaaaaaaaaaaay far away from your desired exit point. Let's go over how to use a compass in the most simple to use instructions we can come up - that means no numbers and no calculations to determine how to get from point A to point B. Why do we teach you how to use the compass this way? Because, as Sarah says in this video... 'math is hard.'
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6:20 I have it on good authority that Sharks are Nazi's.
I cannot thank you enough for your clear instructions and demonstrations. I am required to obtain PADI certification for Advanced Open Water and your instruction is 1000% better. You are a gift to all of us. Thank You Thank You!!!! (Not going to diss PADI, but their e-learning is HORRIBLE and EXPENSIVE)
Oh wow! Thank you so much for the compliment.
YES!!! Someone finally explained the square pattern so I can understand it. N, E, S, W in the index marker! Thank you so much!!!
Glad it was helpful! hahaha
A lot of people has problems with the square but one is explained in a easy way, is super simple.
I wish I'd seen this video first! Much better than 30min of dudebros going off on tangents.
Thanks so much! I try my best to make good usable content that is direct and to the point.
This was one of the most basic and easy video's I have seen. She really reduced the topic for us who are not so comfortable and are learning how to use a compass. Thanks!
So glad I could help! We all need a starting point with compass work :)
Love you folks
Keep up the great videos
Thank you! Will do!
Just came across your channel.. and absolutely the best compass instruction for beginners. You were on point, didn't drift off and made it click in my head. Thank you, def subscribing. Sept 10th 22 I actually go dive for completion of my advanced class. And I was always a lil nervous on compass. Not anymore..
So glad I could help and thanks for subscribing!
Im looking to get back into diving after a long period of time dry on land. Super useful video with simple explanations. Probably better than the instruction on my actual course tbh. Great video. Cheers
Thank you so much! That's so kind, I'm glad I could help. Be safe out there!
the most practical video on TH-cam! Thank you.
Aww thank you! Really appreciate it💙🙏
The distance estimation was actually a question I had in mind.
Thank you for answering it
Glad to be of help! Hope you're getting out and diving these days!
Just found your site, thanks, love your clear explanation. I'm a beginner diver working on my advanced cert and I love diving, can't wait to do more!
Welcome aboard! and congratulations for your Open Water certification, also I´m so sorry because from now on most of your days off and vacations will be wet days.... diving, diving, diving!!
Enjoy the journey and dive safe.
Excellent video! You're fun and energetic and your videos aren't boring.
Aww thanks🙏 i appreciate you watching!
Great Video! I remember doing my navigation training in my advanced course both my buddy and myself got side tracked by a massive lions mane jellyfish... needless to say we had to redo that drill haha. Keep up the great work!!
Hahhaha as a beginner and after my Open Water/Advance I had the impression that the reason for the compass to exist was to make people confuse and get loss!!
Love your content. You are a natural teacher...
aww thank you so much! I just love learning and love sharing what i know 💙 thanks for being here.
Wonderful video! Great to understand whether on land or sea!
Glad it was helpful!
So helpful!! I just passed the knowledge development through e-learning for OW and this was the area I had soooo many questions about. Gracias!!
Aw yay! So glad it was helpful. I'm a big fan of making things easy to understand. Let me know how the rest of your course goes! You'll love it.
Goooosh! This is so much clear now. Thanks!
So glad it helped! Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
Outstanding good teaching
Thank you very much!
Love this vid!
Thanks! Had a lot of fun putting it together 😆
Thanks for making this helpful video!
You’re very welcome! 😁🤙
Great video ,Thank you
Thanks for watching and leaving a comment 🙏 Glad to help
Simple, clear and every useful. In a few days, First dive after 5 years and your video is so useful For me and For US. Thanks
So glad to be able to help! Enjoy your dives🙂
Thank you again for video. Went out and got mine from diving store. Again you made it easy to understand. 10 out of 10. Got a suunto 8
Sweet! So happy I could help 🤙
Charming in your own way and knowledgeable 😉 well done and keep it up. Good things will happen for you
Thank you so much 😁
Great Video!! Thank You!
Glad you liked it!
Excellent video. Thanks 👍
You are welcome!
Super great video!
Awesome! Thanks for watching 🤙
Took the course for Explorer Search and Rescue. March 1980.Ran the course thru a frozen beaver pond. I was at Sedro Woolley, North Cascades National Park.
Rad. But it sounds chilly🤪
I’m doing my advanced course this Saturday and your video helped me so much!!!
Thanks!!!
Awesome! So glad it was helpful. Let me know how it goes!!
@@AzulUnlimited we did the reciprocal and square navigation! Thanks to you, it was quite easy! It was my first time using my dive computer as well, I couldn’t be happier!
Tomorrow we are passing the 20m mark 💪🏻
@@ArthurRissoni Yeeeeesssss!!! I love it. How was the deep dive???
This was awesome! Thank you! I am taking my final dive for Advanced this weekend and I am a little panicked about the nav but this made it a lot easier!
You'll do great! I want to hear about it 🤙
@@AzulUnlimited Thank you! I’ll make sure to message you after 😊
Nice. Very similar to how I teach navigation for my open waters. I usually end with it’s not GPS 😅
Love that!
Great video... 👍
Thanks so much 🤙
I love it❤️
Thanks so much friend!
Thank you for the videos, they are very useful, and you are very good and nice, I am Italian and a beginner diver and I am doing a ssi underwater navigation course, your video has helped me further, I hope to pass the practical test that I will have between some day.👍👌
So glad to hear it! Good luck with your training and please keep in touch. I’m taking a group to the Los Cabos are in Baja, Mexico in December. Beginner friendly and excellent diving! Would love to see you there. azulunlimited.com/baja-dive-expedition-2023/
Great, thanks 🌺🌸♥️
You're welcome 😊
Good refresher for me after a 5 year exodus. Very clear and eloquent explanation. Thank you.
Happy you’re back diving! Thanks for watching🙏
Visibility being what it is here in The Netherlands, I've finally learned to appreciate a compass. Quite a different experience from tropical waters.
Absofreakinglutely! The compass is the only thing keeping you from going in circles (i've done that in low viz 😂)
Love it 😍
I'm glad you like it
@@AzulUnlimited thank you. Just came out of a dive in Gloucester Massachusetts .
Have fun .
Great video! The square patterns and straight line, work of course, when there is no currents, and this is rarely the case. With the currents you would have to adjust, but this should still be based on some natural reference. One time I remember I dived with a compass that was wrong at almost 30 degrees, as I held it near my torches and it was de-(mis)magnetized, so I knew the numbers to return to the shore, but didn't realised the compass was really wrong. Lucky my buddy had correct readings. And another thing - is I almost always use the compass to get to some point or to return back, but never for planning complex routes, as I never remember them. I know some other guy who regardless of currents always could find the boat anchor line after quite a complex dive in an unknown site in quite a bad visibility. Thanks for the video!
Those people are magicians. Love it. Whenever I have to do complex navigation (or cave dive), i take a little wrist notepad so I don't forget. Otherwise I would 100% get lost. Thanks for sharing your story!
@@AzulUnlimited It is actually a good point to write down the navigation in a notepad. I might try it next time somewhere in the sand area, the only problem with the sand area is there are little reference points or they might all look the same! 🙂
@@alexeyzolotarev741 That's when you just do your best and say a little prayer :D
Great! 👍
Thank youuuuu!
Even when you believe you have nailed with 130 dives under your belt , it's great to just watch the basics again , thank you guys
hehe always going back to basics. Can't go wrong! Thanks for watching :)
I have just found your channel, love it! I have ‘a thing’ about numbers and was scared about compasses. Since I started diving again (by accident, long story), the compass came back to haunt me for the AOW and then Rescue Diver. I bought the PADI manual, compass and started to do the basic exercises. When I did my Rescue a diver course, I told my instructor about my ‘block’ in advance. His teaching technique was just to shout at me louder! As an instructor in another field, I hope that it is a ‘technique I will never and have never used! 😂
So, I live in a ski resort and I have been practicing in a nearby snow covered meadow with my compass and PADI manual and I am just going over the basic exercises over and over again, helped by my neighbour’s Basset Hound Ethel! The snow is really useful as I see the patterns that I have made, for someone like me that has really helped! So, for several days I have been just repeating the exercises until it embed in my head! I am making my way through your videos! Good luck!
I will never understand the 'talk louder if they don't understand' teaching technique... Sorry you had to go through that! Stoked to hear you're back at it and using the resources you have to get better. That's what it's all about. Enjoy the snow! Thanks for subscribing :)
@@AzulUnlimited thank you! It brought back memories of being taught arithmetic! I was able to deal with the instructor and didn’t take it personally l I just saw it as a weakness in his ‘ teaching methods’. I know my ways of learning now……having recognized my own needs for learning a long time ago . I get such a kick out of overcoming these challenges now!
@@moolo1061 absolutely. that's fantastic :)
Great video, really good explanation of underwater navigation, especially for those of us who are novices on the subject. And by the way, love the pants!!!😂
Thanks so much!
You are really, really weird. I like it. Enjoying your videos; very easy as a beginner to understand. Thanks for what you do!
Diving world is full of weirdos!!
@@AzulUnlimited Not true…he’s the ______
When heading for a specific point like a wreck I like to have the captain call out the bearing # s off the gps when we get in the water so if you've drifted a bit you know exactly what direction to go
That's a great way to get back on track.... great tip tho!
That $25 Amazon compass is $15 at Decathlon Sports here in Phuket. A good intro to using an UW compass 🧭
Good tip about where to find it at a better price!!
Muy buen video super útil , gracias por mostrar tus habilidades en artes marciales fue muy divertido min6:08 jaja :)
jajaja muchisimas gracias. me gusta hacerme la tonta. me divierto mucho :D
Drift currents made a complete fool out of me for my AOW nav exercise, over a featureless sandy bottom so no landmarks to cross check by. Instructor said just make allowance for the current, which didn't help in practice. Felt bad about that exercise but it got worse. Last dive of the day I forgot to put my weight belt on and couldn't figure why it was so difficult staying trim at depth. Instructor gives me all his weight (all credit to him) and we proceed. He is out front and stops, throwing his arms out like he is having some sort of an episode. A juvenile humpback steams through right to left at 5 metres distance. That was a day and a course i'll never forget!
Getting lost is so worth moments like that!!!! How amazing. Even advanced divers would find that kind of sandy bottom navigation hard so don't beat yourself up for that one. We've all been there :)
During my Divemaster training, my friends and I got distracted by a turtle in Koh Tao and ended up in 4m of water next to the shore. Thought my instructor would kill us 🤣🤣🤣
Ah Koh Tao... The land of zero to heroes 🤪
i also took my dive master in koh tao😅 think it was. in 2015
@@AzulUnlimited not for everyone.
Valeu!
¿Qué? 😁
Useful video.😎🤙What brand is your compass and does the face also glow?
I have a cheap compass. I believe most of them glow, but here's mine: amzn.to/3clqvyQ
Liked. Subbed . Good class... (Sting underwater currents drifting??? Off course?). Do a class on how to handle that type of challenge underwater that's always a big deal when ur 65 feet down in murky waters or Kelp Forrest and there's a current..pushing u off course ...
Thanks so much! Absolutely, that's a great topic to talk about. We'll add it to our line up. We appreciate you 💪
As a part of my Advanced Open Water, doing the Navigation, we went to a pinnacle and for the reciprocal navigation I set the compass, the Divemaster in training was acting as my buddy and both of us head into the blue away from the pinnacle... Before turning back a bull shark showed up and both of us just swim like crazy toward the shark until we realized how lost we were..... mmmmmm 5 minutes later we found the pinnacle but not because the compass, i guess was our lucky day!
Thanks for your comment!
Hi, would you mind explaining triangle navigation, please.
Hi there!! I will put it on my list for future videos.
Great suggestion tho! If you need on the meantime some more info you can always send a DM on IG or Facebook to chat with me.
This seemed pretty much like the basic navigation stuff you get in the PADI courses but I thought it was better explained in your video. I'd be interested in a video with the more advanced techniques you mentioned if you have one out there?
I actually haven't made one yet... It has been on my list to record, so maybe I'll get to it soon :) Glad this was helpful!
Excellent intro to basic navigation and compass usage! Very helpful with the ease of application description!
Glad it was helpful! Now go and navigate the world my child!!!
What wrist compass would you recommend? Great video and made simple to understand. Many thanks..
Thank you! I've had one of these for a while: amzn.to/3NcQ6Yx You could definitely spend more and get something nicer, but if you're just getting started or have a limited budget, this should be fine.
If you could spend a little more, which would you recommend for retired couple with about 18 dives ?
Thanks for replying please advise me what is better for me online courses or should go for physical directly
I would contact the shop where you want to do the course and they’ll set you up with online materials
@@AzulUnlimited ok thanks
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Regarding trimming watch bands - just replace the strap for a nato or normal sized watch strap. takes seconds and opens up ability to use nice bright colours. keep your original strap if you ever come to sell or use in cold water.
Excellent tip!! And yeah keep the original strap to use over thick wetsuit or drysuit.
Thanks for sharing.
I have been looking at some diving compasses. One that I like is called an "indirect reading compass"...where the dial numbers are backwards or reversed. Im not sure of the advantages or disadvantages of using an indirect reading compass for diving? Please give me advice?
To be honest, I haven't ever used one or know anything about it. I have always used standard compasses. Good luck!
I use the same compass. Not very accurate but it does point in the right direction. PADI advocates you move the bezel when using it to navigate in a square.
sweet, my guy. useful info
Big numbers are degrees on the compass. Since you're navigating with a compass without a map, you don't need to compensate and/ or convert magnetic north to azimuth North deflection on your map.
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Help. Is my compass still useable if there is air pocket in it the side of a walnut? Or shoulf i replace it?
It may cause the head to get stuck but tapping it will usually fix that. Just make sure to check that it's reading correctly before each dive
I once had to do a dive with a PADI employee who was a Master Scuba Diver...I led the dive and entered the water in one spot and came up in exactly the same spot using time/shoreline natural technique navigation. He dived the WHOLE dive with his arm out and compass in front of him...I have NO idea of what he saw during the dive (compass perhaps)? Admittedly, we only had 3-4 meters of vis, but it was an enjoyable dive for the most part. He did ask me how was I able to bring us back to the same spot. Uh I said, just naturally I guess (years of experience - timing is my key).
Yeah, compass should be use to help the main navigation or just to double check the main direction, reciprocal etc but not as a main way of orientation for the whole dive. Natural references, timing, aquatic life, lights and shadows etc should be enough and then compass to make sure (unless you have really bad vis)
Thanks for sharing tho!
In theory, using a compass is simple. In practice, not so much. I did my basic scuba class over the summer. On the open water dives, they actually take us out on the ocean in a boat. Apparently, this area is tough - less than 8' visibility on a good day, strong currents, etc. Anyways, we were to navigate to the lighthouse, then back to the boat underwater-Easy breezy. Just go back the opposite way you went. Somehow, I ended up about 50 yards shy of the boat.
Yep. Current is a big factor with accurate navigation. Great practice though! Makes regular nav days super easy
@@AzulUnlimited yea, they basically said they take people out in this area because if you can handle the ocean around here, diving elsewhere in the clear, calm water will be easy. Interestingly, he did say that in super clear water, distance is sometimes more difficult to judge.
5:45 Me diving with 1-2 m vis.
(I just prefer a compass bungee strap instead of wrist mounted)
Whatever is best for what you need. I know some people like to have their compasses attached to their bcd with a retractable line.
I got 8 dives in 328 mins give or take. It's only been in Florida fresh water lakes and some springs so peaceful down there. But I'm scared to go in the ocean sharks terrify me I live near Boca grande and sometimes we'll park the boat up on the beach and I'll put stick poles to hold the boat in place and I've had bull sharks go by me not even a foot apart feeding on fish do you have any ideas how to get over that fear cuz I really want to go to the keys and go diving this summer. Also what do you prefer more a wrist mount compass or on your spg?
Honestly, just going with an experienced dive guide at a really simple dive site (shallow, no surge or current, good visibility) is the way to do it. Once you see that sharks are SO NOT INTERESTED in divers, you will hopefully relax and just enjoy how incredible they are. Sharks are actually usually scared of divers (although in florida they might do more shark feeding so the sharks may be used to divers and know that they get food when we show up - but all they want are the fishes!) As for compass, i prefer wrist mount. Easier to keep it flat and more simple to just glance at it.
@@AzulUnlimited Thanks for the advice.
Hey madam azul please can you help me with easy way to used the sample compass
I wanna to go from Morocco to Spain just in kayak and i wanna to know easy why for i can know im going in the right way
Thank you i wish to help me if can .
Sounds like a pretty tough plan. Can't really help you there. Good luck!
@@AzulUnlimited thank you for your time
I never understand all this lubber line stuff and setting a reference marker. If my dive site is north-east of where I start, when i want to go back I just just turn around and swim south west by my compass back to the start point. If I'm diving out west I return east...no lubber line or reference points necessary. 900 dives and never got lost 😊
Great for you 👍
Remember you also can mount it with a hose mount with I like more. 🇺🇲👌🏼
Yeah I like it that way too
@@AzulUnlimited Dive safe. 🇺🇲👌🏼😊
I remember me writing on a friend's pad: "we either came out in the wrong cove or they stole the van".
Oh noooo! Hahaha that's the stuff of good stories 😂
Another question is if the compass refuses to function what can you do
You can use natural navigation to get back to your entry point or surface to get a better idea of where you are (we sometimes call that periscoping 😂)
My question is if the engine goes of does the compass really work?
Sorry, i don't quite understand your question. try again?
Shell out the extra money for a shinto
compass, won't hang up if it's a bit off level
Suunto not shinto dam auto correct
Hehhee Digital diving computers are great but I normally use them as a back up but I have another one integrated on my console, just in case, plan B is a great plan to have.
I m 62y old fit and healthy I want to learn scuba diving to be a professional scuba diving I want to do these courses in maxico what u surges to me thanks a lot
good luck on your journey! Let me know if you have questions.
I feel like if I attempt a square I would end up making a big dipper
I'm positive I've done that 😂 we all mess it up, that's why we have to practice to get better.
Honestly i still cannot figure out how to use the compas,how do i get back to my staring point etc?
Tomorrow is my first compas usage and i can't seem to figure it out
It takes practice. Just review the steps, do your best, get lost, try again. It'll come 🤙
using the numbers is easy 90, 180, 270, 360 or 0 degrees.
You do you boo
Small correction, unless you cause severe mechanical damage (needle gets stuck, unreadable face...)
Or place it near a strong magnetic field.
While they are pretty simple and extremely hard to break.
A check once in a while doesn't hurt.
Also, yes it's probably your brain playing tricks on you.
Great point and totally true! Thanks for watching.
Wait...DON’T use a fish as a reference point?
I know right? why not??? hahaha Thanks for watching!
Still dont get it..gonna watch it again in slow motion...dont judge please
I do tend to talk fast 😆 Send any questions you have!
Not everyone lives near Salt water !!!
So reefs , tide change etc do not apply.
That's a good point.