– UTD TECHNIQUES –
Working with Students who are
Uncomfortable in the Water
1. Use the building
block technique when
teaching.
3. Establish proper weighting – get
the students neutrally buoyant
in a bathing suit.
2. Start with the simplest
thing...snorkel, no mask,
no wetsuit, no tank, no BCD,
nothing. Get them breathing with no mask first.
4. Teach buoyancy
with the snorkel
– after properly
weighting a
student, have
them descend by
exhaling.
5. Then add a
regulator and
have them descend
and ascend by
exhaling and
inhaling.