t4e
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We are in mostly sunny and somewhat rainy Riviera Maya for a week.
Of course we booked some diving during this time.
Being new divers we opted to hire a personal DM.
First day comes along and I had trouble equalizing my ears so not wanting to waste too much time i decided to head back on the boat and at least let my husband go ahead and enjoy the dive.
Thinking back now i think was more of a psychological issue, since the rough seas made me quite uncomfortable even on the way to the dive site but more so once i jumped in the water.
Next day was all nice and calm and we had a good dive at 11.30.
On the way back we decided to stick around and do one more at 2.30, on which just before the dive he asked us if we are OK if there is one more person other than us two.
The DM was great, the briefing i felt was adequate.
The plan was to let him know when we are on 700psi and we would be heading up to our safety stop.
On the 11.30 dive all worked according to plan, once we motioned that we are on 700psi he deployed the sausage, which tbh i thought it definitely needed some viagra, and we made our way up.
Second dive was a different story.
700psi come along and we motioned to him, at this point i am expecting to see him reach for the sausage but its not happening. Being a new divers you can perhaps imagine our confusion.
Next thing i know he gets close to me, looks at my gauge and proceeds to hand me his spare and we go along for a while sharing air.
I have to admit that this confused the hell out of me. At first i thought wth is he doing, is he gonna let me run our of air and i'll be resting here with the tortugas?
Eventually he handed me back my own regulator, at this point 500psi were left.
During the time i was breathing from his spare i tried to make sense of what was going on and all i could think of was that he wanted me to save the air i had left for the safety stop and to safely get back up...but that didn't quite make sense since my husband was on 700psi at the same time as me, so at this point scary thoughts were going through my head, meanwhile we are being "attacked" by some big fish that was very attracted to the yellow of the spare and insisted on nibbling on it, he hung around us all the way to the surface. At one point when i turned around I had this fish with a big open mouth right in my face lol.
So back on the boat the DM said that actually the reason we shared air was because he still had 2000psi and to prolong the dive a bit longer.
So here comes the question...is this OK, is it common practice?
Of course we booked some diving during this time.
Being new divers we opted to hire a personal DM.
First day comes along and I had trouble equalizing my ears so not wanting to waste too much time i decided to head back on the boat and at least let my husband go ahead and enjoy the dive.
Thinking back now i think was more of a psychological issue, since the rough seas made me quite uncomfortable even on the way to the dive site but more so once i jumped in the water.
Next day was all nice and calm and we had a good dive at 11.30.
On the way back we decided to stick around and do one more at 2.30, on which just before the dive he asked us if we are OK if there is one more person other than us two.
The DM was great, the briefing i felt was adequate.
The plan was to let him know when we are on 700psi and we would be heading up to our safety stop.
On the 11.30 dive all worked according to plan, once we motioned that we are on 700psi he deployed the sausage, which tbh i thought it definitely needed some viagra, and we made our way up.
Second dive was a different story.
700psi come along and we motioned to him, at this point i am expecting to see him reach for the sausage but its not happening. Being a new divers you can perhaps imagine our confusion.
Next thing i know he gets close to me, looks at my gauge and proceeds to hand me his spare and we go along for a while sharing air.
I have to admit that this confused the hell out of me. At first i thought wth is he doing, is he gonna let me run our of air and i'll be resting here with the tortugas?
Eventually he handed me back my own regulator, at this point 500psi were left.
During the time i was breathing from his spare i tried to make sense of what was going on and all i could think of was that he wanted me to save the air i had left for the safety stop and to safely get back up...but that didn't quite make sense since my husband was on 700psi at the same time as me, so at this point scary thoughts were going through my head, meanwhile we are being "attacked" by some big fish that was very attracted to the yellow of the spare and insisted on nibbling on it, he hung around us all the way to the surface. At one point when i turned around I had this fish with a big open mouth right in my face lol.
So back on the boat the DM said that actually the reason we shared air was because he still had 2000psi and to prolong the dive a bit longer.
So here comes the question...is this OK, is it common practice?
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