If you would like to become a better recreational diver, a confident diver, a diver that keeps cool when task loading, a diver that keeps cool when handling a distressed diver, a diver that keeps cool in a current, a diver that keeps cool in low visibility and a diver that keeps cool whilst finding lost gear and saving the day, then think no further than fulfilling your dreams through a PADI course via Scubaversity. 

I have completed these courses and feel better equipped to handle uncomfortable situations through learning the theory as well as participating in the practical scenarios. The latest course that I have completed is Search and Recovery…

Search and Recovery is a course that teaches a diver to visualise the dive and to plan well, execute well, communicate well, navigate well, work with reels, lines and ropes, whilst watching buoyancy, and air, in a very task loaded scenario whilst searching for lost items. I can’t tell you the exhilaration you feel as a diver when you find that lost item...

Finding the item is part of the plan, however, getting every diver back to safety is the ultimate plan. There were personal new achievements for me such as buoyancy around search lines, diving backward to better control the unwinding of line from the reel to prevent entanglement, navigating in the direction of the lost item instead of navigating to the exit, as well as tying lines together with knots. 

Nabeel and I also learned from our mistakes, such as kicking up silt so badly that we were right next to the item and didn't see it, to losing reference and missing a part of the  search area and also then missing the item.

Mandy taught us an additional search pattern, called the Sweep Search Pattern. It's quick to implement, and is highly effective in finding an object easily and effectively, for most terrains. 

Sign up for the Search and Recovery course and share with me your underwater findings...

Warm regards

Farzana

PADI Master Scuba Diver