Mantasscareme
Contributor
I was diving off of Catalina, California this sunday when I had a disturbing experience. The first dive of the day was at a site called Ship Rock. It was an exciting pinnacle dive complete with schooling fish and a shark encounter (okay, so it was a three foot horn shark, still a shark). I surfaced after 40 minutes and couldn't wait to off-gas, top off my tank, and get back in the water. The second and third dive of the day were in a shallow kelp forest which was beautiful, if not really as exciting. Anyway, here's my concern: I was underenthusiastic through the second dive and yawning by the third. Afterwords, I felt guilty about belittling two awsome dives that most true divers would have been envious of. Now, I had only recently celebrated my fifteenth dive, so I'm not a "jaded" diver by any stretch of the imagination. I want to keep diving, but I still find it strange that I was able to actually be bored on a long-anticipated trip to a destination I had never been to. Has anyone out there had a similar experience, and did they regain their enthusiam in time for the next trip? Is taking a warm water trip asap the solution, or would that just make matters worse?
Thanks everyone
-Mantasscareme
Thanks everyone
-Mantasscareme