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Great video, love it🤗 I never understood, why simple mapping is not introduced and emphasized much earlier in the dive-educational system, considering that divers are told, that they can dive independent with a buddy, after being barely 5 hours underwater. My logbook is full with small maps of divesite-maps, when I dive it the first time. Yeah, I am still old fashioned and write logbook with the hand (since 2001).... so do my two ladies. Writing logbook after a day of diving at the bar having a beer or 5 together, going through the dives again together is so much more fun, than starring at little camera screens at n-million blurry picture of tails of fish or turtles, or empty space, when the photographer explains, that there was something 2 seconds before, but he/she can't remember....
I absolutely agree with this - diving independently requires a good grasp of navigation and mapping skills, and it's something that we are gradually losing above water due to the ease of GPS, so all the more reason to focus hugely on it below water, much earlier in dive education. Good job on this video.
I cant agree more as something that should be added in earlier, even as an overview to give a basic understanding. Haha yeah I am the same as we both still log all our dives.
Thank you Lydia! We have been working hard on new series and what we think would be good and helpful. As we get asked this question a lot by DMTs we thought let’s make video on it
I agree. There are not enough of these instructional type videos out there. Tips like how to find the boat, how to control a group underwater, and how to read a current are invaluable for dive guides. Unfortunately these are skills we often have to learn “on the fly” from other instructors and guides
Awesome video Mark and Holly thank you so much for sharing mapping a dive site is so important especially for search-and-rescue or search-and-recovery diving
One kick cycle tends to be equivalent to one meter if conditions are good (no current). You can always work out how far one kick cycle for you is prior to mapping as well by counting kicks for a known distance. For example if you do 5 kick cycles over a known 10 meters, you will know that one of your kick cycles is 2 meters. For the average person, 1 kick cycle does tend to be 1 meter. Hope this helps!
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Excellent Dive briefing Holly. I would be able to enjoy that dive with that information
Thank you 😊 we are trying different videos and hopefully more to come
Great video, love it🤗
I never understood, why simple mapping is not introduced and emphasized much earlier in the dive-educational system, considering that divers are told, that they can dive independent with a buddy, after being barely 5 hours underwater. My logbook is full with small maps of divesite-maps, when I dive it the first time.
Yeah, I am still old fashioned and write logbook with the hand (since 2001).... so do my two ladies.
Writing logbook after a day of diving at the bar having a beer or 5 together, going through the dives again together is so much more fun, than starring at little camera screens at n-million blurry picture of tails of fish or turtles, or empty space, when the photographer explains, that there was something 2 seconds before, but he/she can't remember....
I absolutely agree with this - diving independently requires a good grasp of navigation and mapping skills, and it's something that we are gradually losing above water due to the ease of GPS, so all the more reason to focus hugely on it below water, much earlier in dive education. Good job on this video.
I cant agree more as something that should be added in earlier, even as an overview to give a basic understanding.
Haha yeah I am the same as we both still log all our dives.
Thank you Catherine and we completely agree too
Great mapping video you two! This is the first time I am seeing this kind of information in a TH-cam video. A lot of food information - thanks! 😁
Thank you Lydia!
We have been working hard on new series and what we think would be good and helpful.
As we get asked this question a lot by DMTs we thought let’s make video on it
Very nice “how to make a map” instruction guys. We really liked the duo presentation.
Thank you 😊
Great tips guys! Wish this was around when I did my mapping project!
I agree. There are not enough of these instructional type videos out there. Tips like how to find the boat, how to control a group underwater, and how to read a current are invaluable for dive guides. Unfortunately these are skills we often have to learn “on the fly” from other instructors and guides
Same here as we couldn’t really find anything and thought let’s do it
So so true Dave.
Really helpful video guys - thanks 🙏🏻
You are welcome 🙏
Awesome video Mark and Holly thank you so much for sharing mapping a dive site is so important especially for search-and-rescue or search-and-recovery diving
So very true and a skill that is normally missed or not considered valuable
Helpful & nice presenting skills
Thank you so much!!
Great video, guys! Any chance you'll do more Divemaster related content?
Thank you Nick! Yeah we plan to release more videos on diving tips from OW to Instructor level with lots on DM
How do translate kick circle back to a map for distance ?
One kick cycle tends to be equivalent to one meter if conditions are good (no current). You can always work out how far one kick cycle for you is prior to mapping as well by counting kicks for a known distance. For example if you do 5 kick cycles over a known 10 meters, you will know that one of your kick cycles is 2 meters. For the average person, 1 kick cycle does tend to be 1 meter. Hope this helps!
Good videos
Thank you 😊