Buoyancy is the ability to float in a liquid or to rise in a fluid. There are 3 types of buoyancy, which are: Positive Buoyancy, Neutral Buoyancy and Negative Buoyancy.
Positive Buoyancy is when an object stays floating on the surface, Neutral Buoyancy is when an object floating in middle of the water, neither sinking to the bottom nor floating on the surface and Negative Buoyancy is when an object tends to sink into the bottom.
In the diving world, divers would learn on how to manage a neutral buoyancy, it will gives an ease during the diving time. To have a neutral buoyancy, a diver should know how many weight he should carry, what kind of equipment he would use, so he can manage to control his buoyancy under water.
Buoyancy control improves your safety, reduces fatigue and giving you the enjoyment of diving. It also enables you to avoid destroying the underwater environment.
I was just getting my PADI Open Water Certificate recently and haven’t had any dive log other than the first dives for the certification and the pool session dives, so I’m not going to elaborate all the technical knowledge that should properly be taught by a professional and certified dive instructor. But I’d like to use the knowledge to imply my points about life.
Life - just like diving- needs a perfect balance and learning from diving we would notice few things :
1. Don’t carry the weight that you don’t need
In order to be neutrally buoyant and enjoying the dive, we need to adjust the proper weight system. We can’t be too lighter or too heavy. In life, it’s pretty much the same. The burdens (considerable as weights) in our lives are always measured in the perfect size for us. They’re not light enough to keep our feet off the ground and not heavy enough to sink us to the bottom. But sometimes, we carry the weight that we don’t need that would eventually drag us down.
What kind of weight is that? The weight we don’t need to carry comes in many names, such as: Guilt, Jealousy, Grudge, Pain, Self-hatred, Bitterness and such negative emotions. That kind of weight will give you a negative buoyancy in life, it will sink you down to the bottom and it’ll be very dangerous for you. Trying to let go all the negativity will help you to breathe at ease and floating around without any burden and life will be lighter and happier.
2. Stop kicking!
Since I’m used to swim and used to do some kicking to stay afloat, there is always one thing that my instructor and my diver friend always tell me: STOP KICKING! – different from the regular swim, when diving you would wear a jacket called the BCD or Buoyancy Control Device. It’s a jacket that you can fill with air to ascend and empty to descend. When you are descending, you will need to empty the air inside your BCD and be still until you slowly descending. My habit: I automatically do the kicking and that makes it harder for me to descend, and for sure, my instructor would give me the sign to STOP KICKING! :D. I need to be calm and trust my BCD and weight system to help me ascending and descending properly.
Kicking is also a sign of panicking and doing a lot of kicking would also damage the underwater environment.
In life, we might stop kicking as well, be calm and rather trust our “BCD and weight system” to keep us safe. Whatever condition we are in, we need to stay calm. If we start panicking and kicking uncontrollably we might injured ourselves and also causing damage to the underwater environment around us. when overwhelming things are coming, don’t panic and stop kicking, stop kicking away those people who love you and care enough for you and stop kicking other people just to save yourself. Be calm and trust your “safety” equipment, GOD and the family and friends that you have. They are the support system that will help you in keeping your feet to the ground and will help you from falling apart. If you keep on kicking, you’re keeping everyone away and you’re creating an even worse damage. BE STILL and everything will eventually be okay, keep the faith and keep your “safety” equipment intact with you.
Have a safe diving and enjoy discovering your life! ;)
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