Dive community

14. Facilities or people involved in scuba

diving
15. Without these, you won’t fulfill a good
dive
Benedict Reyes
Example: Dive camp, resorts that has
1. CMAS 3-star instructor dive leaders, dive masters, and
2. Course director equipment.
3. PAUA founder
*Everything you see underwater is 25%
PAUA
bigger or closer because of the mask.
4. Philippine Association on Underwater Water magnifies the size of the things
Activities that you see
5. Member of CMAS
6. A representative of CMAS in the *The colors disappear when you go
Philippines deeper in water because the ultraviolet
rays cannot penetrate the water that
CMAS
easily
7. Confédération Mondiale Des Activités
Subaquatiques *The red color goes out first then the
8. French organization mainly for orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet
underwater sports
9. Founded by Jacques-Yves Cousteau *We could still see red up to 80 to 90
10. Also called “World Underwater feet deep
Organization”
*Sound travels faster underwater and the
Jacques-Yves Cousteau sound will be omnidirectional. You
11. French underwater archaeologist wouldn’t know where the sound is
12. Responsible for inventing the regulator coming from. (Water conducts sound)

*In the Philippines, 90% of accidents

Underwater sports happens at the surface
13. Mainly sports registered with the
international committee and the
international world games
Example: Underwater hockey,
Underwater photography,
underwater videography,
scuba diving, fin swimming,
underwater rugby TWO GOLDEN RULES
IN DIVING
 1. NEVER EVER HOLD YOUR
BREATH. Always continuously  Since we can’t stop; we can’t
breathe deep and slow. Do not speak underwater we have
hyperventilate. signals

2. NEVER ASCEND FAST. MEANING OF SCUBA

The allowable ascend rate is 60 ft.
per minute or with the CMAS or
PAUA we have 30 ft. per minute. SELF
The slower the better. C O N TAI N E D
U N D E R WAT E R
*The air is not oxygen, the proper B R EATH I N G
way to say it is air; simple air. It is A P PA R AT U S
consisting of 21% or to 70%
nitrogen; 1% argon
 A scuba unit consists of the PCV
or the jacket, the tank
*We can’t go deep because the body
(hardware), SCBA
doesn’t consume nitrogen.

*When you dive, your throat will get
dry because the air inside the tank is
dry. It doesn’t have any moisture
because it’s purified. Also, moisture
will allow fungus to enter.
*We try to maintain dry air by
mainting compressors.
 An 80 cubic feet tank with the
average depth of 30-60 ft can
last you an hour.
 A bigger person consumes more
air than a petite person.

Breathing compressor Checkout dive

- Fills out the air inside the tank - Compiling all the things you’ve
- The maximum capacity of a tank learned underwater. It’s like a
is around 3500 PSI but we make it practical exam underwater.
a point to
maintain it at 3000 PSI to give an
allowance to heat and heat would
expand air inside the tank. ASSEMBLY
Regulator
- Softens the air that we breathe so
we could be breathe
BCD
R E G U LAT O R
I N F LAT O R H O S E
TANK
1. Stand behind your tank with the
opening facing away from you.
2. Attach your BCD to the tank. If your
BCD has a carrier strap put it to the
valve and tigten it.
3. To check the position of the BCD,
ensure the BCD is centered with the
opening of the tank. The BCD should
be around the same height as the
tank.
4. Unscrew the yoke screw to remove
the dust cap
(right - tight