When it comes to swimming in places such as the sea or pool, how you dive into the water is entirely up to your creativity. In this context, a wide range of dives, from dives where you enter the water perpendicularly and often takes the form of ‘nailing’, to different somersaults, opens before you.
But when it comes to professionalism and no more fun, you need to review every single factor and make every step efficient. While this is exactly what professional divers do, most people don’t know exactly how well divers get by by pushing themselves back.
Why aren’t they jumping as we already know?
There are several reasons for this, but let’s sort by event flow. Jumping out of the boat in the first place can upset the balance of the boat and put other divers at risk of diving incorrectly and injuring themselves.
After that, when you jump into the water, there is a risk that the equipment that is on you but not tightly fastened will be thrown under the influence of the water.
This in itself can cause injury. Let’s say you jumped face down.
In this scenario, your mask comes into direct contact with water, so there is a risk of it coming off your head. Even if it does not come off, the mask will hit your face and apply pressure due to the rapid and direct contact with water.
This prevents a healthy diving experience and may cause problems in the long run.
So what happens when you dive backstroke?
First of all, the boat that the divers are on experiences the least possible jolt. On the other hand, we know that divers have oxygen cylinders on their backs with considerable weight.
When they let themselves go backwards, the tubes first come into contact with the water and, in a way, pave the way for the rest of the body. When jumping forward, these tubes add weight.
In this way, the masks do not come into direct contact with water.
Before diving, divers hold their masks with one hand and their equipment with the other. As we said in a prone dive, the mask can damage the face and the risk of falling from the face increases.
There is another method used
This method, which you may be familiar with from movies, resembles children who close their nostrils and enter the water upright.
In this method, the divers still hold their masks and equipment as they do while sitting, but this time they climb onto a fixed platform on the boat and take a big step into the water.
In this method, it is important that the step is large. Because it is necessary to open a distance so that the oxygen cylinder does not hit the boat. For this reason, it is not seen that amateur divers prefer it.
As we said at the beginning, these are known as the most efficient diving methods for professional divers. But you can be as creative as you want with your diving methods (as long as you don’t put your health at risk). If you have your own unusual methods, you can share them in the comment section.
- Sources: Underwater Kinetics, Koox Diving, Dressel Divers, The Sydney Morning Herald
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