PittCaleb
Registered
I was certified last October and have been diving at Dutch almost exclusively with the exception being a couple dives at Devil's Den in FL after being blown out on a Florida trip in January.
Took the academics and Quarry check-outs for Deep & Wreck diving through my LDS and finally went out Sunday. Last time I was on a small boat (i.e. not cruise) I did get sick. As suggested, the trans dermal patch worked wonders. The motor out was fine, the half-hour gearing up before jumping in was fine and the first hour of our SI was fine, but the last 20-30 mins, not so much.
I was starting to feel quite green and putting my gloves on, I was seriously considering bailing on the dive, just didn't even want to move or think of anything. Then I thought, if I didn't dive, I'd be stuck on the boat getting sicker. As soon as I hit the water, I felt fine! No more random rocking, 2nd dive was great.
We did a wreck in only 70' and it was scattered, but it was neat looking at all the different fish off the Jersey shore - didn't expect such a variety - especially the starfish.
Worst part of the ocean boat dive was line back up - waiting wasn't difficult, the waiting while hanging on the line and buffeting up and down was the problem. But it was all good.
So happy I 'survived' the seasickness part of my first boat trip. Not ready yet for a longer boat stay, but happy I did as well as I did. Limiting my SI between dives would be a good thing though!
PittCaleb
Took the academics and Quarry check-outs for Deep & Wreck diving through my LDS and finally went out Sunday. Last time I was on a small boat (i.e. not cruise) I did get sick. As suggested, the trans dermal patch worked wonders. The motor out was fine, the half-hour gearing up before jumping in was fine and the first hour of our SI was fine, but the last 20-30 mins, not so much.
I was starting to feel quite green and putting my gloves on, I was seriously considering bailing on the dive, just didn't even want to move or think of anything. Then I thought, if I didn't dive, I'd be stuck on the boat getting sicker. As soon as I hit the water, I felt fine! No more random rocking, 2nd dive was great.
We did a wreck in only 70' and it was scattered, but it was neat looking at all the different fish off the Jersey shore - didn't expect such a variety - especially the starfish.
Worst part of the ocean boat dive was line back up - waiting wasn't difficult, the waiting while hanging on the line and buffeting up and down was the problem. But it was all good.
So happy I 'survived' the seasickness part of my first boat trip. Not ready yet for a longer boat stay, but happy I did as well as I did. Limiting my SI between dives would be a good thing though!
PittCaleb