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In a way yes. I started scuba on my own. Eric and I discussed it many times but he never agreed to the class. I finally decided I would do it by myself and signed up. Two weeks later he decided he would do it too. We completed OW together.Frankly, some of you guys just flabbergast me. If your wife or girlfriend said she didn't want to go X depth, would you just poo poo her concerns and force her down to the depth she didn't want to go to?
Hi Maria,
I hesitate to write but we have conversed a bit by pm about gear so I thought I would share a few thoughts here.
First, you are absolutely right to cancel this trip with your current uncertainty and misgivings. I do wonder why your friend is hounding you to go. Is her trip dependent on you going?
In a way yes. I started scuba on my own. Eric and I discussed it many times but he never agreed to the class. I finally decided I would do it by myself and signed up. Two weeks later he decided he would do it too. We completed OW together.
Our first trip was to the Florida Keys. Nothing deeper then 40 feet. It went ok and I started planning our next trip. He reminded me he would not go deeper then 45 feet. I ignored him and planned a trip to West Palm Beach Florida. Fast forward 7 years and he not only dives routinely to 100 plus, he dives solo, completed cavern and dove the cenotes in Mexico and swimthroughs in Coz (he also said he would never dive overhead, travel to Mexico or do deco) and is even looking at a AN/DP course.
And while I haven't "forced" him other than planning the trips and willing to do it alone if needed, I also have not accepted his self imposed restrictions since I knew he was quite capable of doing the dives. The only thing holding him back was his own tendency to stick with his familiar and restrictive comfortable zone.
So I guess in a way I would be like your friend. I might tend to push if I thought the situation was similar to Eric and I. Never anything that I thought you could not handle or was beyond your skills. Its a tough call. But for me if you don't push yourself and test your limits, well, might as well just sit on the couch and watch the world pass by.
Obviously you want this or you would not be where you are. So I guess I am just trying to say be safe but also let yourself go a bit and just enjoy the experience.
And when that mask floods, no worries, just use it to clear any fog on the glass!
Doing entry level dives on a reef in warm water is so much nicer and easier than lake and quarry diving. Seem like this trip is not going to happen but IMHO you're missing out on great diving.No "we're diving a wall to 100 ft and hard bottom is 200 ft" (just an example).
Sounds a bit like you're not well informed about sharks and rays. No need to be worried, almost all of the stuff you see on TV about sharks is balony. I this case you can do 'trust me dives'. As mentioned earlier in this thread, fear of reef sharks and especially of rays is unwarranted.I'm also not particularly fond (understatement) of sharks and rays. No way, no how.
I just got back from Grand Cayman a couple of weeks ago. I stayed at the Cobalt Coast Resort/Reef Divers.