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Practicing (and successfully remediating) this scenario is required for PADI OWD certification. My instructor removed our masks and breathing gear one at a time
by chm 11y ago
Practicing (and successfully remediating) this scenario is required for PADI OWD certification. My instructor removed our masks and breathing gear one at a time. We had to reposition the mouthpiece, fetch the mask, perform X number of breaths without a mask, put the mask back on and clear it all while keeping calm and staying level. Doing it in a lake at ~ 20f depth wasn't much more hostile than doing it in a pool. However I wouldn't want to lose my mask during a drift dive, as it could very well be gone quite fast.
- pcl 11y agoYeah, but taking off my mask still makes my eyes sting, and I certainly wouldn't want to panic 80 feet down. So... despite having done it a number of times, it's heartening to hear that I might be able to get past the sting. If I could just take off my mask at will and not worry about it, that'd be one less thing to worry about.