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Solo diving can be wonderful but the first step is being a good buddy diver. Skills, awareness and decision making that you need for good buddy diving will be your foundation... then you need to adapt/add other skills necessary for solo diving. Dive with someone experienced with good skills and practices so you build these into your core as habits. Good habits really make good divers. I like to solo dive but honestly, I would prefer to dive with someone (who is a good buddy and in sync with the way I dive) to share the experience of the dive and be able to talk about it and experience it together. It's just more fun.
My usual reply re this subject is to say what I do. First, I agree that depending on a buddy can be very limiting depending on your location.
1. I stay well away from any possiblilty of entanglement.
2. I TRY not to go deeper than 30', as I know I can do a CESA easily from there and practise it all the time.
4. I usually go to benign places that I know. Little current, etc.
3. My wife knows where I'm diving and I call after each of the 2 dives.
My usual reply re this subject is to say what I do.
Let's save those replies for the appropriate forum.
Solo diving has a dedicated discussion area. Basic Scuba is not an ideal location for such discussions - beyond the prudent advice already given in this thread - namely that the activity requires skill and experience beyond basic... that effective training is available... and that it is a specialist activity that has benefits applicable in all aspects of diving, not just when alone.
Let's save those replies for the appropriate forum.
Solo diving has a dedicated discussion area. Basic Scuba is not an ideal location for such discussions - beyond the prudent advice already given in this thread - namely that the activity requires skill and experience beyond basic... that effective training is available... and that it is a specialist activity that has benefits applicable in all aspects of diving, not just when alone.
It doesn't hurt to leave a 'trail' here in Basic Scuba... as it might show up in subsequent searches for future users interested in the topic - there was also some very good points, relevant to novice divers, about the nature and 'level' of solo diving.
Although I agree that solo diving isn't appropriate for this forum, people with barely basic skills are going to be curious about it. And for that reason I wrote an article that gives those who make it a goal something to work with. You can find that article on my website ... NWGratefulDiver.com
It neither advocates nor discourages solo diving ... it merely provides you with some insight into what you should be able to do before considering it ...
It was just below freezing and snow was falling steadily. As we stepped toward that portal separating a cold and dreary world from the tranquility and wonder of another dimension teeming with life and color a passer-by shook his head and muttered "crazy". Poor fool. If he only knew. (Airsix)
To the Op.
Many SB'ers have given some very good advice here.
Drop down to the solo section and read and learn as much as you can.
As to why I solo dive. I like to just hover in one spot for 20 minutes and watch the fish or hang on to a kelp stalk and just stay put and watch all the action. Most buddies want to swim. swim, swim.
As to when I started, it was back in the 60's solo freediving PV or Laguna during the weekdays because no one else had the time off.
I often solo scuba now in PV, Laguna, and the dive park, again during those weekdays when my usual buddies are at work.
...As to why I solo dive. I like to just hover in one spot for 20 minutes and watch the fish or hang on to a kelp stalk and just stay put and watch all the action. Most buddies want to swim. swim, swim.
Wow! Too bad you're not closer to me. That what I love to do too!... Hard to find a buddy who likes to dive like that.
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