When descending while diving, you should orient yourself to:

When descending while diving, orienting yourself to your travel direction is essential for maintaining awareness and managing your dive safely. This approach helps ensure that you are moving deliberately toward your intended destination and allows you to monitor your depth and descent rate more effectively. By focusing on the travel direction, you can better navigate underwater environments and avoid potential hazards.

Although factors like the current, nearby divers, and surface landmarks can provide helpful information, they should not be your primary orientation during descent. The current may impact your position or trajectory, which could lead to drifting away from your planned route. Nearby divers are vital to be aware of for safety, but relying only on them for orientation might lead to misalignment with your own dive plan or travel direction. Surface landmarks can be useful for identifying ascent points but are rarely visible or reliable while descending underwater. Using your travel direction as the primary guide helps ensure a safer and more controlled dive experience.