Save Your Breath: Improve your air consumption and get longer dive times

By Nigel Coles

With the help of many real-life examples, this book will help you improve your scuba diving air consumption, leading to longer dive times, more relaxing dives and a happier dive buddy.
Why do you need a book about how to improve your air consumption for scuba diving?

* If you regularly get back on the boat first, second, third or fourth and have to wait around for all the other divers, then this book is for you.
* If you find yourself stressing out about the amount of air you use, which leads to you using more air, then this book is for you.
* If you are a relatively new diver then unless you took to this sport like a fish to water, then this book is for you.
* If you dive with a camera and are back on the boat quicker than you would like, often missing out on cool things that came by late in the dive, then this book is for you.
* If you have completed dozens of dives and you are not one of the last divers back on the boat, then this book is for you.
* If when you go hunting, you find yourself back on the boat first, and your pals return much later with a bigger catch bag, then this book is for you.
* Or if you just want to impress your dive guide or buddy with how much air you have left, then this is for you too!
Can you really learn how to breathe less air while diving just from a book?
The methods, tips and advice I give you in this book have been tried and tested in the field by real divers. Start your vacation first back to the boat, then read this book, practice the techniques and advice, and by the end of the week you could have almost doubled your dive time. I have plenty of happy dive customers who get much better value for money from their dive packages now they can stay down much longer. You can too.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nigel Coles
• Release date: Dec 24, 2018

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Introduction

I have seen this scenario time and time again as captain on the boat; in fact, many times a week. It is a problem that does not have to exist, or at least not quite to this extent. Yes, most of the time the man is bigger than their partner, with bigger lungs, but improvements can easily be made. It is just a case of learning new skills in life. It is not just What it is, or, I’m a big guy and I suck down a lot of air. That may well be true, but changes can be made that can bring real positive results to a diver’s air consumption.

Where I see this happening, I’ll try to offer advice and the benefit of my experience to help customers enjoy their dives more. I have had numerous cases like John and Debbie where, by the end of the week, John gets back on the boat at 60 minutes with a huge, beaming smile on his face, having doubled his bottom time. Debbie also feels awesome as their dive time has been massively extended and she has picked up a few tips along the way to make her a better diver with even better air consumption. They are more relaxed during their dive now that the risk of running low on air has been taken away. Marital bliss is resumed and they can’t wait to book their next dive trip.

So how can you stop being an air sucker or an air hog and become a scuba breathing god? Well, there are many areas in which you can improve and I will highlight the changes you need to make in the following chapters.

Some of these chapters highlight areas in which you can make very big changes in your dive times. Some chapters will only result in a small step forward, while other chapters won’t necessarily improve your air consumption at all. However, they will point out incidents where you won’t allow it to get worse, which also is very important.

Now, put all the ideas together and you can improve your air consumption amazingly. I have spoken to many customers over the years who can now get back on our dive boat after their hour’s dive and still have over 1000 psi in their tank (a third of their tank). Some have been delighted to find they can now dive as long as some of our Divemasters.

Why is that? Because they listened to the advice and tips given and really wanted to improve.

What makes me qualified to help?

My wife got me into scuba diving back in 1992 when we travelled to Hurghada in Egypt, and we

Reviews for Save Your Breath

[Joseph Mankowski · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Even as an experienced diver, this is a "must-read" and you will learn new things!!