Some Safety Precautions to be followed

A float or buoy should be used by every individual or group of skin divers. An inflated rubber inner tube painted yellow is highly visible and serves as a resting place, an assembly point, and emergency buoy. The tube should be anchored. In large-group skin diving, one such float should be provided for every 4 divers.

The skin diver’s warning flag has been recognized by the boating laws of many states and in Canada. It is a red flag with a diagonal white band, flying from any floating object. The flag signifies to boatmen that a skin diver is in the general area. Boats are required to avoid the area, or if they must pass through it, to do so at very reduced speeds and to keep a sharp lookout to avoid swimmers, floating objects, or passing through air bubbles. Skin divers are required by law to display the flag in some areas.

Hyperventilation-the practice of taking several deep breaths before swimming under water can endanger life. Repeated deep breathing will not provide the diver with an additional supply of usable air. Instead, this type of breathing may cause a swimmer to become dizzy or even unconscious after submersion. Another effect of hyperventilation is that it seems to turn off the body’s built-in safety regulators which normally indicate when it is necessary to come up for air.

The basic safety practices for skin diving are:

-> Have your general physical condition checked by a physician before undertaking skin diving.
-> Know the area where you are diving. Avoid murky water or diving amid pilings or other obstacles.
-> Never dive alone.
-> Avoid fatigue or chill from too long periods of diving.
-> Always use a float with line and diver’s flag.
-> Always enter water feetfirst.
-> Do not swim under water for long distances or periods of time.
-> Do not skin dive in rivers with strong currents or in ocean inlets.
-> Avoid diving in boat channels or where there is any boat traffic.
-> Always look up when surfacing.

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