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I appreciate all of the advice gang!! I am green to this forum. I prefer to look at things and not worry about a buddy, all to often it feels like it becomes a dive on focusing where your buddy is than the dive itself. I have dove there twice, can still see it in my head. I am not a diver with 50+ dives, but I am overly cautious and respectful of my environments (case in point, I dove the Blue Grotto, even with the OK from a dive master, I made my buddy stay at 60 ft. as that was my certification at the time lol) and I ALWAYS keep tabs on air and surroundings lol. I have been with some experienced divers but were to reckless for me.
Going to try to find some buddies, then after a few more dives there possibly move to solo after reading up more on Solo practices.
What I didn't learn in my initial training, though, was how to be a really good dive buddy. We learned to buddy dive, but not dive as the beautiful unified team
Amen!!! I've always wondered why, if buddy diving was so extremely important, it's taught at such a completely superficial level.
All dive buddies moved, want to dive. I enjoy Blue Heron Bridge in Florida. A shore dive with lots of life. Max depth is 25', most areas are at 20' so ditching would be easy. I do trust my gear and ALWAYS dive safe, never exceeding my certifications.
i have the buddy system in my head, but often we would split up anyway. What are people's thoughts on this? Is a site like this ok for solo diving?
Most things taught in OW are taught at a completely superficial level. It's due in part to the rather short duration of the class, in part to the broad range of things that need to be taught, and in part because learning anything at more than a superficial level is going to take more than four or five dives.
For whatever it may be worth, the new PADI standards and procedures for OW instruction to increase the training emphasis on the buddy system.