Scary Slate & Deep Diving

[wreckchick]

.... that diving within your training and diving within your comfort level are 2 totally different things. Even if I was "trained" for that dive, which I'm not yet, I wouldn't be comfortable doing it with new buddies on a "dive deep because we can" plan.

I'll probably be "allowed" to do 100' after this weekend but that doesn't mean I'll do it in a lake or quarry anytime soon. My comfort level hasn't caught up with my training. It would be a mistake for me to do it.

My $0.02

Rachel

 

[Uncle Pug]

I know that shouldn't be funny... but I thought it was hilarious!

Wish I had found that slate... what a funny souvenir

 

[j-valve]

I just did my 20th dive last night. I have done deep diving, wreck, drift, night dives. I'm comfortable planning and dealing with problems that have come up so far, but I'm still not comfortable at a dive a site that I don't know without someone that knows the area. Mabey this will change with experience...

VW- good going and dive safe

J

 

[WVMike]

No, not a slam on PADI. I did not mean it that way. I do not know enough to slam anyone. PADI training tells us not to dive beyond our training and to check with locals anytime you go to a new site.

I agree it is the instructors and how they execute, plus how the students apply what they learn. In my case I dove this lake 10 times with my instructors before I felt comfortable enough to do it on my own. And my mistake was to let the others talk me into what I did not want to do. That mistake is mine alone.

With all that said though, I am now studying the adventures in diving book in prep for the AOW and I cannot help feeling much of the info in this book should have been part of the Basic training, especially the altitude, deep, buoyancy, and navigation training.

 

[j-valve]

Sorry Mike!

The Ws and Vs all start to look the same after you stare at your monitor all day

I had a great instructor and I still want more training on planning my dives. For now if it doesn't feel right, I don't do it

J