Chapter 3: Diving Skills
What We'll Cover
This chapter includes the following lessons:
Preparing to Dive
In this lesson, you'll learn about the buddy system, hand signals, gear assembly and disassembly, and donning your gear.
Skin Diving Skills
Skin diving is the foundation of scuba diving. This lesson covers entries and exits, using your snorkel and fins, and surface dives.
Scuba Skills
In this lesson, you'll learn how to perform the basic scuba diving skills that will be practiced during your pool sessions.
Problem Solving
This lesson covers the skills that are used to solve minor and serious problems. These include minor incidents, out-of-air situations, and unconscious divers.