danielle
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junko once bubbled...
Is it common for someone to pass the confined water dives but get flunked on the check out dives? I'm not talking about someone who gives up on their own and doesn't complete all the dives, but someone who tries and gets flunked anyways.
yeah its possible ... sometimes you just panic underwater.. i know a lot of people who are freaked out about taking their mask of under water... and they just cannot complete it and they fail. I am lucky that i have a pool in my backyard and my dad is a divemaster and i had equipment and i would practice with him every single day because i was one of those people who even in the confined water sessions did not like to take the mask off.... if i didnt do that i probably would have failed my OW ... but now i completely comfortable with taking my mask off underwater.
i know there was one person in my class who completed all the skills but should have failed... she was not comfortable in the water...and for one dive she was my dive buddy and she started to panic a bit becuase some how her reg fell out of her mouth and u wanna know what she did... she basically pulled mine out of my mouth and put it in hers.....so i really didnt know what to do... so i grapped my octopus and put it in my mouth ... calmed my dive buddy down .... and we surfaced. I dont think she dives anymore though...she only was diving because her then boyfriend was a diver and he basically forced her to dive.