Definition:
Extreme Scuba Makeover, n.
A one-day confined water Scuba class
that will change your diving and your life.
ESM
– Extreme Scuba Makeover: just three letters to describe a huge opportunity for change. If you think the
name is exaggerated, maybe it’s time to try one!
One lecture, a few dry runs and a load of fun in the pool, that’s
all it takes to go from a sea horse position to being flat, from
kneeling on the bottom to neutral buoyancy, from ‘kick-up-thesand’ finning to an ocean friendly frog kick. All our students
have made some very serious progress towards these goals
during their ESM courses.
The ESM is a powerful toolkit that can be used for beginners
as well as experienced divers to learn or improve buoyancy,
propulsion, trim and weighting.
UTD Instructor Marine Owen.
The reason I call it a toolkit is because as an instructor you’re
always looking for ways to make the course interesting for
the student, whatever their level of experience. I try to adapt
the exercises to emphasize the areas that matter to each of my
students rather than just going through a checklist.
That usually means I have to identify opportunities to improve
very quickly. We only have a day to get finished and there is a
lot to do! For one it might be breathing, for another it may be
propulsion. It’s always possible to find something to improve
which delivers that “ah hah” moment and gets them asking
about the next UTD course. Or even about teaching! A few