Drill

Enjoying diving with a full face mask in cold environment (Happurger Baggersee, BY/D).

Know the Drill

Good information about safety-aware handling of full face masks may not easily be found. There are some drill anecdotes floating around, but are these sufficient? What I've found and read usually covers the simple basics where you typically train in a confined environment, kind of «tile certification». But what about real-world situations? Do we need to bring our own tiles then...?

Full Face Masks Overview

Enjoying diving with a full face mask. (In Murner See, BY/D)

This is my incomplete list of full face masks of interest to SCUBA divers. Please understand that information given here is without any guarantee for accurateness and without any warranty; you know, errors are human. Nevertheless, this list may give you a first and (at least slightly) organized overview on the field of diving full face masks. It is in no way complete and comprehensive.

     

Drill Rounds and Exercises

Safety-aware drill can even be fun. Not only to spectators and mockers.
(In Sauerkraut Factory, Aufkirchen, BY/D)

So let us now, well, dive to the details of a safety-aware full face mask drill. This article breaks down the previously described drill concept into concrete bits and pieces, in our case, these are rounds and exercises. Remember that the overall idea here is that with each round the (simulated) «environmental and equipment difficulties» increase in order to improve your skills. In contrast, the exercises are basically the same constant set across all rounds.

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PS: Axel Eisele did this phantastic shot in Lake Blindsee (T/A). He waited for the right moment and then pushed the trigger. And I thought he was looking for the camouflage loach so I was waiting for him.