Underwater Navigation Part 2 

Bryan, I watched this navigation series a few days before my certification/checkout dives for Open Water. This past weekend during the certification dive the instructor wanted us to do an underwater swim using the compass, and asked who would lead the dive. I volunteered. He gave me the heading on the surface, I set the compass, we went down to about 30' and then I followed my heading and led the group directly to the designated spot. I received a fist bump from the instructor. Granted there were no obstacles to navigate around, just a straight line swim but I would have been less confident had I not watched your videos. I always learn something from them, and they are going to practical use so thank you!

one thing I learned in the military with land nav, before I joined the fire service was exactly what you said about "markers", we called those rally points, from there, you use the degrees and head to the next rally point for "X" amount of minutes. so, lets say..... you're in the water, you want to pinpoint where the boat is, you turn to the boat, note the degree heading( land nav would be writing it down on a piece of paper, or if you can remember it, great. i would assume under water, divers carry a slate, I have one and it was the best investment I ever made) then on your watch, note the time( even set a timer ) so if let's say you're swimming towards a wreck in the opposite direction or where ever..... you know the boat is at, lets say heading 285 degrees for 32 minutes. that's what shooting the azimuth is. :)

Part 2 of great instruction - as always. I just want to come to spend a week taking classes with you. ;-)

Its Always nice with these kind of videos even for more experienced divers, we forget stuff and sometimes can get hints on other ways of doing stuff. I love your videos and that they touch so many areas of the diving! Keep up the good work! Dan in Sweden =)

Thank you for the part 2, reinforces in us all an essential skill ...

Great info looking forward to part 3

Good series, informative

Love the new intro

Thanks for the interesting video! By the way, what is the theme music. I love it ✌️🎸

What song is that playing in the intro...pretty bad ass

Bryan, what you're talking about is called "shooting the azimuth"

Hey Brian, I am not very mathmatical. I can do math, but certainly not very quickly. Is there a trick to calculating a reciprocal course (like a triangle ), without having to break out the calculator?

I appreciate the artwork I think he's missing a tank though