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Chapter 3- Diving Skills Diving Skills 87 3. Hold the free end of the weight belt in your right hand and pull the weight belt around your right side to your front as you are rotating in the water to your left. Remember that you want to keep your body between the weight belt and the bottom. 4. Make your modifications to your weight belt. 5. Hold the weight belt with the buckle in your left hand, the free end in your right hand, and be sure that there are no twists in the belt. 6. Transfer the buckle to your right hand and move the entire weight belt down so that your right thigh supports it. 7. Drop the buckle and rotate your body to the left. The weight belt will drape across your thighs. 8. Reach down your left side with your left hand and feel for the buckle. 9. Slide the weight belt up your back and position it under your cylinder and BC at your waist. 10. Re-buckle the weight belt securely. If you use a left-hand release to your weight belt, you can use the previous procedure with the opposite hand and rotating in the opposite direction. Verify What You Have Learned Review the following questions about handling your scuba equipment in the water: 33. The primary difference between donning your cylinder at the surface and donning your cylinder under water is _____________________________ _____________________________. 34. You can keep your regulator hose from becoming trapped when you don your cylinder over your head by _____________________________ _____________________________. 35. Handling your weight belt is easier if you remember to ____________________ and __________________________. NAVIGATION SKILLS When you are out of the water, you are constantly using navigation skills. Maps, street signs, and landmarks help you locate a destination and return you to your starting point. There are no street signs under water, but you can use a combination of natural and compass navigation to keep track of your location and travel during a dive. This section will introduce you to some of the fundamentals of underwater navigation. You can learn more about this necessary skill in a NAUI Underwater Navigation Specialty course. Natural Navigation You can avoid long surface swims by ending your dives at predetermined locations. To know where you are and be able to get where you want to go and back, is the objective of underwater navigation. By recognizing and using natural aids to navigation, you can achieve this objective. Natural aids under water will soon become as useful to you as street signs. Ripple marks in the sand on the bottom form parallel to the shore. As you get FIGURE 3-63. ALWAYS PULL THE WEIGHT BELT COMPLETELY CLEAR OF YOUR BODY BEFORE DROPPING IT.


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