Scott L
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Last week I did a solo,sidemount dive wearing a drysuit.
Don't have training in any of those things.
Who was I trusting?
Jax to show up?
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Last week I did a solo,sidemount dive wearing a drysuit.
Don't have training in any of those things.
Who was I trusting?
Jax to show up?
you just hit the flaming trifecta!
Hi, Dr Bill!
You made me think of an interesting question - suppose I were to go out to CA and dive with some SBers there? Never dove CA, kelp forests, that cold-@$$ water, etc.
Is it a "trust me" dive?
I think there is a fine line between stretching your limits, or a mentoring dive, and a trust-me dive.
Going to California, doing one's first surf entry and diving in kelp for the first time is diving in a very new environment. If you just get in the water and go, that could well be a trust-me dive. If you have talked to the person who is leading you to get information about how to disentangle yourself, about surf entry strategies, about not trying to surface swim in the kelp canopy, etc., and you have assessed the dive and decided it sounds like something for which you have the appropriate resources (whether that's gas or the ability to stay calm), then it's just a mentoring or new experience dive.
On some of these dives people are writing about (especially the very deep ones) they didn't even know the right questions to ask, or perhaps that they SHOULD be asking questions. That's the essence of a trust-me dive.
I've given this a bit or thought, what is the difference between a "trust-me" dive and a mentoring dive. I've made lots of dives over the years that I was not qualified to do with people whom I sought out, as THE EXPERT in what I wanted learn, Rich Pyle, Parker Turner, Greg Stanton, Peter Gimbel, Walt Hendricks Sr., Jeff Bozanic, Lloyd Austin, and lots of others. So I've made lots and lots of "trust-me" dives ... but they were planed from the get-go, they just weren't "formal" classes.
You guys are way to hung up on cards. I don't need a card, I don't want a card, all I ever needed was a vote of my Diving Control Board.
Then I guess some of my dives were "trust-me."...
Tell me Thal, if they were planned from the get go, then you weren't blindly following your buddy and you were aware of the potential risks and had a pretty good idea how to get yourself out safely if your buddy had a heart attack, no? If so, then not quite the same thing in my book.
I think there is a fine line between stretching your limits, or a mentoring dive, and a trust-me dive.
Going to California, doing one's first surf entry and diving in kelp for the first time is diving in a very new environment. If you just get in the water and go, that could well be a trust-me dive. If you have talked to the person who is leading you to get information about how to disentangle yourself, about surf entry strategies, about not trying to surface swim in the kelp canopy, etc., and you have assessed the dive and decided it sounds like something for which you have the appropriate resources (whether that's gas or the ability to stay calm), then it's just a mentoring or new experience dive.
On some of these dives people are writing about (especially the very deep ones) they didn't even know the right questions to ask, or perhaps that they SHOULD be asking questions. That's the essence of a trust-me dive.
Then I guess some of my dives were "trust-me."