{"id":439,"date":"2012-01-20T11:59:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T11:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetwindsurfholidays.com\/blog\/?p=63"},"modified":"2016-05-20T12:30:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T12:30:24","slug":"beginners-diving-holidays-conserving-your-air-5-top-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/beginners-diving-holidays-conserving-your-air-5-top-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginners Diving Holidays: Conserving your air: 5 top tips"},"content":{"rendered":"

The air in our tanks is our most important resource in the underwater world, and conserving it will result in more bottom time and a longer dive. After-all, the last thing you want to do when you\u2019ve just forked out on a once in a lifetime Maldives liveaboard<\/a> adventure, or you\u2019re moments away from finning alongside a giant manta-ray whilst diving off a Red Sea Liveaboard<\/a>, is to cut your dive short due to lack of air.<\/p>\n

Take a read of our top tips to help you to maximise your time under water:<\/p>\n

Just relax. This mantra should be applied to every aspect of your dive. The most efficient way to breathe is by taking long, deep breaths, allowing your body to absorb plenty of oxygen each time. Breathing should also feel natural, so never try to purposefully lower your intake. Hand-in-hand with relaxed breathing comes slow and steady movements; you should never over-exert yourself or feel out of breath when diving. If you do, take a pause, chill out and wait until your breathing becomes slow and regular.<\/p>\n

Buoyancy Control. You don\u2019t need to continuously fill your BCD and dump air to control your buoyancy; filling your lungs gives you a natural lift and breathing out will help you to sink by up to four or five feet. Impatient divers who constantly have their fingers on their inflation\/deflation hose will find themselves forever floating to the surface or struggling to keep off the seabed, resulting in an air supply that drops dramatically.<\/p>\n

Be a good buddy. Avoid straying too far from your buddy, as the energy you\u2019ll use to swim after them and communicate will use up valuable oxygen. You could also agree with your buddy to stay shallow where possible \u2013 by staying a metre or so higher above the coral, you\u2019ll see just as much but will use less air.<\/p>\n

Be Streamlined. Creating less drag underwater will help to make air consumption more efficient. Make sure your gear is secure and fits well \u2013 particularly if you\u2019ve hired it – and keep a check on any dangling hoses or gauges during the dive. Swimming horizontally and keeping your arms close to your body will also help you to stay streamlined and become more air-efficient during your dive.<\/p>\n

Snorkel on the Surface. So long as the surface of the water isn\u2019t too choppy, then there\u2019s no need to keep your regulator in whilst you\u2019re swimming to an anchor line, or waiting at the surface for the rest of the dive team. Swap your reg for your snorkel to stay swimming on the surface without draining your tank.<\/p>\n

Aside from conserving air, these top tips all make good diving sense and will help you to fine tune your scuba skills so that you get far more out of that Maldives liveaboard holiday<\/a> or Red Sea holiday adventure<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tags: Red Sea Liveaboards<\/a>, Red Sea Live Aboards<\/a>, Maldives Liveaboards<\/a>, Maldives Live Aboards<\/a>, Red Sea Diving<\/a>, Maldives Diving<\/a>, Egypt Diving<\/a>, Egypt Dive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The air in our tanks is our most important resource in the underwater world, and conserving it will…","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[80,81,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-travel-tips","8":"tag-beginners-dive-holidays","9":"tag-beginners-diving-holidays","10":"tag-diving-tips-for-beginners","11":"cs-entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":724,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}