wavethrash
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I mean this when I preface my comment With all Due Respect, but my humble opinion is that with an open water certification...irrespective of your instructor's and the guide's opinions, you had no business being inside that wreck either.
Confidence without proper training can be a killer.
Congratulations for making it back.
I agree now that I've started looking into the safety side of diving, and that's a major reason in why I joined the scubaboard forums. Coming into that dive, I didn't even know what I didn't know. Yes I was aware that a semi-enclosed space increases the normal dangers of diving, but I didn't, and still probably don't, understand the 'how' of that fully. The only confidence I had was that I knew if anything went wrong with myself, I could control myself to tap my guide who was always within arms reach to signal for help. I do respect that danger much more now, and plan to go on many, many more guided dives with PADI professionals, as well as ensuring I have proper certification before even thinking of attempting anything remotely similar. Thank you for your honesty though, I didn't come to this site for anything less.
boulderjohn; the interior was stripped of all non hull/walls (at least to an untrained eye), and the dive shop knew about my situation and also had me do 2 dives with their crew before the wreck. The wreck is also fairly new, and visibility was about 80', swimming inside stirred up very little silt, though I was able to navigate without kicking any floors/walls or bumping into them.