Tank4507
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Let's face it, it's time to stop viewing the "ADVANCED" course as a course that is making someone a advanced diver. It's not. In all actuality it is a certification card that gets new divers MORE DIVES UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF A INSTRUCTOR. I'm sure everyone has different opinions on this, some people say that it's stupid that a new diver can complete Open Water and roll right into the Advanced Open Water course the same day. And there is plenty of sound arguments as to the opinion that a diver needs more dives before they should even be able to take that course.
The truth is the wording on the certifcation card is wrong. The course alone doesn't make you a advanced diver. 5 dives doesn't get you there.... sorry. Now what it does is it gets your 5 more dives under the supervision of a instructor. SO DO IT. You mentioned that you only made one dive after your course. So you are talking about getting 5 more dives with a instructor, GO FOR IT. Any time spent with a pro is going to make you a better diver.
Now, as far as is it to much diving for you? I think some of the comments that have already be thrown out there at you like the comment about how if you don't already know your body well enough to know on your own then you shouldn't do it are misleading. It's easy for people that have been through their classes years ago to sit back and make comments like that, however, the question that you are asking is no different then the same questions we all asked ourselves when we were in your position. NO ONE KNOWS HOW THEIR BODY IS GOING TO REACT BEFORE THEY DO IT. Thats part of learning!
So go for it, you might get through it fine, then again maybe on dive 5 you realize it's to much for you, and that is where you have to have the maturity to say NO. Any diver can end any dive for any reason. That is what you have to remember.
Are you going to get tired? Probably, but we all did. I didn't go through the classes and then on the next day could i run out and do a two tank trip in the morning followed by a two tank trip in the afternoon, followed by a night dive and NOT GET TIRED. I had to work up to that lifestyle.
Even now, working for a dive shop, doing two trips a day 5 days a week (weather depending) and sometimes 6 and that is if we get lucky and don't have a night dive thrown in there, you get tired. It's part of it, but after doing it for awhile your body responds better to it.
So don't let anything on here discourage you, go for it, you need the 5 dives with an instructor. The rest of the dives you will know if you are ready for, and if you aren't, then don't to it.
The truth is the wording on the certifcation card is wrong. The course alone doesn't make you a advanced diver. 5 dives doesn't get you there.... sorry. Now what it does is it gets your 5 more dives under the supervision of a instructor. SO DO IT. You mentioned that you only made one dive after your course. So you are talking about getting 5 more dives with a instructor, GO FOR IT. Any time spent with a pro is going to make you a better diver.
Now, as far as is it to much diving for you? I think some of the comments that have already be thrown out there at you like the comment about how if you don't already know your body well enough to know on your own then you shouldn't do it are misleading. It's easy for people that have been through their classes years ago to sit back and make comments like that, however, the question that you are asking is no different then the same questions we all asked ourselves when we were in your position. NO ONE KNOWS HOW THEIR BODY IS GOING TO REACT BEFORE THEY DO IT. Thats part of learning!
So go for it, you might get through it fine, then again maybe on dive 5 you realize it's to much for you, and that is where you have to have the maturity to say NO. Any diver can end any dive for any reason. That is what you have to remember.
Are you going to get tired? Probably, but we all did. I didn't go through the classes and then on the next day could i run out and do a two tank trip in the morning followed by a two tank trip in the afternoon, followed by a night dive and NOT GET TIRED. I had to work up to that lifestyle.
Even now, working for a dive shop, doing two trips a day 5 days a week (weather depending) and sometimes 6 and that is if we get lucky and don't have a night dive thrown in there, you get tired. It's part of it, but after doing it for awhile your body responds better to it.
So don't let anything on here discourage you, go for it, you need the 5 dives with an instructor. The rest of the dives you will know if you are ready for, and if you aren't, then don't to it.