Learn how to scuba dive The 5 essential diving skills

Learn how to scuba dive The 5 essential diving skills

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Scuba diving lessons essentially hinge on 5 basic skills or theories

1. Don't hold your breath
2. Equalise early and often
3. Clearing your mask
4. Clearing your regulator
5. Neutral Buoyancy


When you take scuba diving lessons, these are the first skills you will learn and the same skills you will use in every dive after that for the rest of your life.