Free-Diving Tips & Techniques for Beginners

Video Transcript

" On behalf of expertvillage.com, my name is Raymond Temeyer with Lost Island Voyages, and we also have with us Valerie Kevorkian from Tarpoon Lagoon Dive Center in Miami Beach. We’re going to talk about snorkeling today and all the opportunities that it provides. A lot of snorkeling is done right on the surface, but a little more advanced technique is free diving where you want to get down to the bottom of the water and a little bit deeper water. Ben is going to demonstrate a surface dive on the surface to help you get down to the bottom. Okay Ben, let’s see the surface dive. By sticking his feet up in the air, it helps drive his body down so he can get down to the bottom. Ben, come over here. Also, when you’re diving you need to clear your ears, because pressure from the water will build up in your ears when you get down more than just a few feet. If you start going down deeper, you’ll start to feel discomfort in your ears. To clear your ears, Ben is going to show how to pinch his nose through his mask and then try to blow out through his nose, which will equalize the pressure in his sinuses and his head so that he’ll be able to do a little bit deeper free diving. Demonstrate Ben. Show us one more surface dive and how you’re going to clear your ears. You want to start clearing your ears as soon as you start your surface dives. So as soon as you start down, you grab your nose and start to exhale through your nose, there by equalizing the pressure in your sinuses. "