Currents

Currents are very easy to get used to if you employ a couple of simple tips. First of all, like all diving, buoyancy is key! If you can maintain proper buoyancy and avoid any excessive kicking, you’ll move much more slowly.

Fighting the current is pointless, rather, those that do best in the current are those that embrace it. Unlike other types of diving, drift diving is the time to embrace stillness and let the ocean do all the work for you.

Staying perpendicular to the current will also keep your speed down as well as staying near any bottom topography where the friction results in a slightly slower current.