Just curious as to who all feels that by learning to scuba they became a better water person. Swimming, treading water and even skin diving and snorkling. Here is why I ask and my story
I took a Discover Scuba Class in Hawaii in 2007 long before I could even swim. I was as one can imagined a little nervous but kind of figured I have been in shootings and high speed chases so if they did not kill me water wouldnt LOL. (Seriously) any way I had confidence as well in the gear because people dive all the time and live so all I would have to do is relax right? As I started my adventure I became addicted also . Well when I got home and went down to the dive shop with my new love in life I signed up and paid my money and went home. as I was sitting at the house reading over the material I realized it stated there was a mask fins and snorkle requirement (No problem there I could snorkle all the time) but this 10 minute tread water???? Oh lordy so I went back to the shop to demand a refund. The owner was awesome in that he took me in to the pool and worked with me and got me to floating away So I took the test and passed somehow LOL. Now comes the part that I said (Probably foolishly but still said it) I wont ever take gear off in the water so why learn to swim? So a couple years passed and I was ready for the DiveMaster class (So I thought LOL)
As I was taking the divemaster class I discovered unwittingly I had learned how to swim by just playing in the water. I passed the swim though it was no record time I still passed it I then took a swimming school class to work on the fundies and found that I was not even scared to venture out in the deep end. The mere thought of going out in the deep would scare me years ago if I could not touch a rail or have a life jacket on. Now I found I was just swimming and floating away having the time of my life. The neat things they would do to encourage people like throwing rings in the deep and getting you to go see if you could get them was a blast too.
The purpose of the skills is to asess water confidence for diving. Something I passed years ago but really was at best barely able too. I found though diving presented me with everything I needed to be confident. I became comfortable in the water over time. I became happy to swim rather then to be scared of it.
Is it just me or has anyone else found that diving has made all the difference in their confidence?
I took a Discover Scuba Class in Hawaii in 2007 long before I could even swim. I was as one can imagined a little nervous but kind of figured I have been in shootings and high speed chases so if they did not kill me water wouldnt LOL. (Seriously) any way I had confidence as well in the gear because people dive all the time and live so all I would have to do is relax right? As I started my adventure I became addicted also . Well when I got home and went down to the dive shop with my new love in life I signed up and paid my money and went home. as I was sitting at the house reading over the material I realized it stated there was a mask fins and snorkle requirement (No problem there I could snorkle all the time) but this 10 minute tread water???? Oh lordy so I went back to the shop to demand a refund. The owner was awesome in that he took me in to the pool and worked with me and got me to floating away So I took the test and passed somehow LOL. Now comes the part that I said (Probably foolishly but still said it) I wont ever take gear off in the water so why learn to swim? So a couple years passed and I was ready for the DiveMaster class (So I thought LOL)
As I was taking the divemaster class I discovered unwittingly I had learned how to swim by just playing in the water. I passed the swim though it was no record time I still passed it I then took a swimming school class to work on the fundies and found that I was not even scared to venture out in the deep end. The mere thought of going out in the deep would scare me years ago if I could not touch a rail or have a life jacket on. Now I found I was just swimming and floating away having the time of my life. The neat things they would do to encourage people like throwing rings in the deep and getting you to go see if you could get them was a blast too.
The purpose of the skills is to asess water confidence for diving. Something I passed years ago but really was at best barely able too. I found though diving presented me with everything I needed to be confident. I became comfortable in the water over time. I became happy to swim rather then to be scared of it.
Is it just me or has anyone else found that diving has made all the difference in their confidence?