LoveTheMuck
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I’ve been reading the SB forum for years and just decided to join.
I got my OWC in Bonaire in 1997, dove once in Key Largo a couple of years later, then hit it hard in 2004 - new hubs was a diver! Hawaii, Bonaire, PNG (South New Britain and Kimbe Bay), Flower Gardens and Stetson Bank, Bonaire, Bonaire, Costa Rica...I have about 100 logged dives and 50 unlogged.
After a 10 year hiatus, I’m headed to the Red Sea next week and I’m freaking out. I booked a one-day boat dive with a local instructor - just him and me (but on a boat that belongs to a dive charter company). This was a last minute decision. I was just planning to float in the hotel pool.
I felt reasonably confident until I started reading Accidents and Incidents, almost none of which have anything in common with me, except that now I feel old (57), fat (I’m pretty round but I always have been as a diver), and COVID out-of-shape. The instructor assured me he would not take me on technically challenging dives. Great. I’ve done technically challenging dives - ripping current, 4’ chop at the surface, deep but not deco deep, night dives with bad vis and current, etc., but I am not and have no desire to become anything more than a competent, conservative diver.
Any tips on calming the eff down? The instructor knows my experience and I’m sure he’ll be checking my skills. I messed up by reading A&I, didn’t I?
I got my OWC in Bonaire in 1997, dove once in Key Largo a couple of years later, then hit it hard in 2004 - new hubs was a diver! Hawaii, Bonaire, PNG (South New Britain and Kimbe Bay), Flower Gardens and Stetson Bank, Bonaire, Bonaire, Costa Rica...I have about 100 logged dives and 50 unlogged.
After a 10 year hiatus, I’m headed to the Red Sea next week and I’m freaking out. I booked a one-day boat dive with a local instructor - just him and me (but on a boat that belongs to a dive charter company). This was a last minute decision. I was just planning to float in the hotel pool.
I felt reasonably confident until I started reading Accidents and Incidents, almost none of which have anything in common with me, except that now I feel old (57), fat (I’m pretty round but I always have been as a diver), and COVID out-of-shape. The instructor assured me he would not take me on technically challenging dives. Great. I’ve done technically challenging dives - ripping current, 4’ chop at the surface, deep but not deco deep, night dives with bad vis and current, etc., but I am not and have no desire to become anything more than a competent, conservative diver.
Any tips on calming the eff down? The instructor knows my experience and I’m sure he’ll be checking my skills. I messed up by reading A&I, didn’t I?