aftershock109
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Hey long time reader first time poster, I have a bit of a Dilemma at the moment I am diving 12 months and have 70 dives under my belt and I love it, its such a fantastic sport so much to see enjoy and get from the sport, I started diving in Egypt last year did my open and advanced there and swiftly came back to Ireland and started diving regularly over here and continued to get more certifications to gain experience and explore further into the underwater world. I than did my rescue course which was really enjoyable and very eye opening to the reality of what can happen.
Soon after the Rescue course we were diving in a new location that was well known for its currents and we ended up on a drift dive which was part of the plan, and deployed our Dsmbs and continued to drift for a few minutes and surfaced normally, unknown to us we had surfaced at lease 700m away from our Dive boat and we drifting extremely fast away from the boat we drifted about 5 miles away and were picked up by another boat that heard the mayday call from our skipper, we all made it back to land safe little shook up but safe none the less, an unfortunate incident that really was nobodys fault but gave me a scare, However got over that fairly quick and was just allot more cautious on future dives.
Couple of weeks after that I started to train as a Divemaster done all my pool sessions and the likes was really enjoying the experience and working with the students. Not long into the training we were down at a Quarry to do some deep training to practice for an upcoming weekend away, there was a few students around taking part in a number of different courses, I was asked to help out of a Deep cert as part of my training, and I had no problems doing so I felt competent and ready, we all swam to the shot line to descend to 25 meters swim through a swim through down to 33meters there was four divers 1 very experienced instructor, myself trainee Divemaster, and 2 students, we all descended down the shot together and we reached the 25 meters mark and started the swim towards the 33m mark our positions were instructor leading the way 2 students directly behind him and me hovering slightly above the two students, when one of the students seemed to be very un comfortable under the water, Had had gotten a free flow due to the low temp in the Quarry, he was attempting to breath the reg but was start to show signs of panic in his face so I immediately offered up my octo which within a couple of seconds has caused both my regs to free flow the instructor at this stage was beside me and I tool his alterative and unluckily both his started free flowing causing a mess under the water bubbles were everywhere and we could see noting at some stage the reg that was in my mouth was knocked out and my mask was badly flooded I started to Panic, All the training in the world I just couldnt cope with the mess that has started, short of breath and unable to retrieve my reg I preformed a CESA assent (I know it was too deep but at this stage i Just had to get to the surface. We all made it to the surface and the forth diver was still down there but had sent up his dsmb from 5meters to say he was okay and was just doing his safety stop. We all went onto O2 and were DCi free we were very lucky that the incident happened as soon as we dropped down the whole dive was 6minutes from descent to breaking the surface.
A week or two on a did 2 dives one shallow @10m and one @27m and they went well was very aware of the previous incident but was reasonably confident after practicing all my drills over and over to try help me and others out if a situation ever arose like before, The following weekend I went on a dive and dropped down the shot and was feeling like i couldnt get enough air and wasnt liking it, i was on the verge of panicking again i reached the bottom @26meters said to my buddy i want to surface so we surface normally and done our 5m safety stop and broke the surface didnt want to keep the dive going and get into panic when i knew i didnt feel comfortable and endangering me or my buddy so taught it was best to end the dive.
My problem is now i am a bit of a nervous wreck I really want to get back in to the water and continue the sport i love and enjoy, but i am a bit afraid and dont know how to overcome this, how to gain my confidence back in my equipment and myself has anybody any suggestions, I dont want to end my diving here, I need to get over this for my own sake and the sake on my sanity. I really would appreciate peoples suggestions and past experiences and ideas on how to overcome this
I hope somebody can help me
Thanks in advance
Soon after the Rescue course we were diving in a new location that was well known for its currents and we ended up on a drift dive which was part of the plan, and deployed our Dsmbs and continued to drift for a few minutes and surfaced normally, unknown to us we had surfaced at lease 700m away from our Dive boat and we drifting extremely fast away from the boat we drifted about 5 miles away and were picked up by another boat that heard the mayday call from our skipper, we all made it back to land safe little shook up but safe none the less, an unfortunate incident that really was nobodys fault but gave me a scare, However got over that fairly quick and was just allot more cautious on future dives.
Couple of weeks after that I started to train as a Divemaster done all my pool sessions and the likes was really enjoying the experience and working with the students. Not long into the training we were down at a Quarry to do some deep training to practice for an upcoming weekend away, there was a few students around taking part in a number of different courses, I was asked to help out of a Deep cert as part of my training, and I had no problems doing so I felt competent and ready, we all swam to the shot line to descend to 25 meters swim through a swim through down to 33meters there was four divers 1 very experienced instructor, myself trainee Divemaster, and 2 students, we all descended down the shot together and we reached the 25 meters mark and started the swim towards the 33m mark our positions were instructor leading the way 2 students directly behind him and me hovering slightly above the two students, when one of the students seemed to be very un comfortable under the water, Had had gotten a free flow due to the low temp in the Quarry, he was attempting to breath the reg but was start to show signs of panic in his face so I immediately offered up my octo which within a couple of seconds has caused both my regs to free flow the instructor at this stage was beside me and I tool his alterative and unluckily both his started free flowing causing a mess under the water bubbles were everywhere and we could see noting at some stage the reg that was in my mouth was knocked out and my mask was badly flooded I started to Panic, All the training in the world I just couldnt cope with the mess that has started, short of breath and unable to retrieve my reg I preformed a CESA assent (I know it was too deep but at this stage i Just had to get to the surface. We all made it to the surface and the forth diver was still down there but had sent up his dsmb from 5meters to say he was okay and was just doing his safety stop. We all went onto O2 and were DCi free we were very lucky that the incident happened as soon as we dropped down the whole dive was 6minutes from descent to breaking the surface.
A week or two on a did 2 dives one shallow @10m and one @27m and they went well was very aware of the previous incident but was reasonably confident after practicing all my drills over and over to try help me and others out if a situation ever arose like before, The following weekend I went on a dive and dropped down the shot and was feeling like i couldnt get enough air and wasnt liking it, i was on the verge of panicking again i reached the bottom @26meters said to my buddy i want to surface so we surface normally and done our 5m safety stop and broke the surface didnt want to keep the dive going and get into panic when i knew i didnt feel comfortable and endangering me or my buddy so taught it was best to end the dive.
My problem is now i am a bit of a nervous wreck I really want to get back in to the water and continue the sport i love and enjoy, but i am a bit afraid and dont know how to overcome this, how to gain my confidence back in my equipment and myself has anybody any suggestions, I dont want to end my diving here, I need to get over this for my own sake and the sake on my sanity. I really would appreciate peoples suggestions and past experiences and ideas on how to overcome this
I hope somebody can help me
Thanks in advance