Okay, wife and I went to Saipan over the long Chinese holiday this past week. On day three of our dives, we went out to Naftan and did a dive where we dropped off the edge of the reef and went down to 30m/100f with our guide.
I'm still learning I admit, but I've probably go 30% of my dives that have been deep dives, I think I have a pretty good feeling for being at 25-30 meters and what being narc'd is like.
The problem with this dive was my wife, who is working on her 25th dive... as we go down to depth on the wall, our guide has leveled off at 30m just as the dive brief was given.
My wife is level at first, but then she starts going down lower and lower, I'm concerned so i go down after her, grab her arm, look her in the eyes and give her a thumbs up sign to go back up... she nods and I start to go up and she looks at me, and follows for a second and then starts down again.
I am again more concerned, this is the same woman who has told me she is frightened of deep diving and being on a wall and she is diving down into the blue. So, I go back down after her again, grab her arm, show her my computer readings at 34.7m, and again point up and kind of pull her along.. she nods and starts to follow me, but 30 seconds later is again motoring downward.
Now, I've burned 500psi chasing her, and I'm already concerned so the third time, I grab her, give her my best angry look and basically push her up and point at the dive guide and sign to her we are going LEVEL with him.
I'm convinced she was narc'd and feeling overconfident. It's also possible that at that point, I'm feeling a little more anxiety than normal at that depth, along with worrying about how to explain to my kids that Mom decided to swim off and test the depth of the Marriannes trench on her own.
We normally communicate well over dive issues when we review a dive, but she claims she doesn't remember the first two times I warned her, even though I can show her clearly on my dive watch and the printed profile that I went from 30m to 33m the first time, then back to 30m and down to 34 meters the second time, and again the 3rd time. It's all very clear... but she thinks I over-reacted.
Anyone?
And the answer is NO, she hasn't completed AOW, but she has completed deep dive knowledge review information (for what that's worth). And we won't be doing another deep dive together until she takes her AOW course in December.
I'm still learning I admit, but I've probably go 30% of my dives that have been deep dives, I think I have a pretty good feeling for being at 25-30 meters and what being narc'd is like.
The problem with this dive was my wife, who is working on her 25th dive... as we go down to depth on the wall, our guide has leveled off at 30m just as the dive brief was given.
My wife is level at first, but then she starts going down lower and lower, I'm concerned so i go down after her, grab her arm, look her in the eyes and give her a thumbs up sign to go back up... she nods and I start to go up and she looks at me, and follows for a second and then starts down again.
I am again more concerned, this is the same woman who has told me she is frightened of deep diving and being on a wall and she is diving down into the blue. So, I go back down after her again, grab her arm, show her my computer readings at 34.7m, and again point up and kind of pull her along.. she nods and starts to follow me, but 30 seconds later is again motoring downward.
Now, I've burned 500psi chasing her, and I'm already concerned so the third time, I grab her, give her my best angry look and basically push her up and point at the dive guide and sign to her we are going LEVEL with him.
I'm convinced she was narc'd and feeling overconfident. It's also possible that at that point, I'm feeling a little more anxiety than normal at that depth, along with worrying about how to explain to my kids that Mom decided to swim off and test the depth of the Marriannes trench on her own.
We normally communicate well over dive issues when we review a dive, but she claims she doesn't remember the first two times I warned her, even though I can show her clearly on my dive watch and the printed profile that I went from 30m to 33m the first time, then back to 30m and down to 34 meters the second time, and again the 3rd time. It's all very clear... but she thinks I over-reacted.
Anyone?
And the answer is NO, she hasn't completed AOW, but she has completed deep dive knowledge review information (for what that's worth). And we won't be doing another deep dive together until she takes her AOW course in December.