When my son was 2 years old my wife insisted I go with my cave diving buddies to Akumal for a two week trip laying new cave line.
After all of that, I am ready to send you anywhere you want for a whole month!!
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When my son was 2 years old my wife insisted I go with my cave diving buddies to Akumal for a two week trip laying new cave line.
Hey Ho- "Watboy" I have an answer based on Experience. I was single when I began diving. As soon as I gained a wife, I lost a sport. She did not dive, nor even swim much.
Some say 'Save you gear'! Do Not Do It. I stored mine for more than 04 decades, and what the rodents did not ruin, is completely out of date.
My advice, and Mine Alone--- sell the gear, enjoy the child at lest till it becomes a teenage, and beyond. When the kid [s} are out of the house and fly on their own; THEN take the wife and thee; go buy the Newest and Best, re train if needed- and 'swim out gently into that Good Night".
What is the philosophy" "To everything there is a Season and time to every purpose under heaven'
So I'm 45 and just had my first child, beautiful baby girl. With the way the world is right now, I'm not sure when I can go diving again. Maybe everyone will be on rebreathers and people can take anti DCI pills by then, who knows. What to do w my gear? Only dove once in the last year with it. I don't think I could get much value selling it, the most recent gear is still a 4 year old Shearwater w 300 dives on it. The rest, Mk17 regs, halcyons backplate wing and SMBs, are all 10+ years with 1k dives on it. Just seems a waste to just have it sit in storage for years and years...
Oh, the I can still go diving... my wife is my dive buddy, and she's made it very clear I cannot dive without her. We've seen couples on liveaboards take turns diving while the other takes care of the baby. But she won't dive without me, and she won't let me dive alone out of this new paranoia that I won't surface and leave her a single mom.
Hey Ho- "Watboy" I have an answer based on Experience. I was single when I began diving. As soon as I gained a wife, I lost a sport. She did not dive, nor even swim much.
Some say 'Save you gear'! Do Not Do It. I stored mine for more than 04 decades, and what the rodents did not ruin, is completely out of date.
My advice, and Mine Alone--- sell the gear, enjoy the child at lest till it becomes a teenage, and beyond. When the kid [s} are out of the house and fly on their own; THEN take the wife and thee; go buy the Newest and Best, re train if needed- and 'swim out gently into that Good Night".
What is the philosophy" "To everything there is a Season and time to every purpose under heaven'
While I agree with you, re-read his post. His wife is not letting him dive without her. Not about diving alone, but diving with not her.Who said you’d be diving alone. Find a dive buddy for you and one for the wife. Go diving separately. The other watches the kid(s).
Don’t sell the gear.