Quote Originally Posted by Tigerbeach View Post

If you take your own reg and purge it with one hand, while tilting your students mask with your other hand, you will trap enough air to clear it.

With practice, you can get almost all of the water out.

Thanks TB, Combined with hands free mask clearing this gives me a few little things to practice during safety stops.


As to why do we do it, I can't speak for anyone else but the smile on somebodys face when they finally achieve a skill that has been giving them trouble or even the simple "thank you" at the end of the course is more than enough to get me looking forward to the next time.