InTheDrink
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I'll keep this quick.
#1. About a month ago I got too close to fishermen, and got wrapped up in line and a grand total of 6 hooks in my wetsuit. One I got out myself, the other 5 my kindly buddies sorted out. No big deal.
#2. A guy I work with fishes and advised me last week that mackerel hooks are nasty bastards and generally require a trip to the hospital to get them removed. Getting one in the face would leave nasty scarring.
#3. Last week my buddy, and then I, got caught in line yet again. I had my shears at the ready and with a couple of snips it was a non-event. Except that I didn't have a compass and was relying on my buddy to understand to go east, and away from the wall/fishermen. Which it turns out he didn't. Vis was 1ft, maybe 1.5ft being generous so even navigation was difficult. Anyhow, we stayed far too close to line, hooks and stress inducing sundries.
Anyhow, my breathing went way up. I was pretty annoyed with myself. I don't think I got out of shape or lost buoyancy more than 2ft max but my breathing definitely went up a lot. I had to work hard to relax.
This has led me to thinking even more that adding deliberate stress to dives in safe environments is highly desirable. I just don't see how else you can train and know your body enough to know how it will respond when the doo doo hits the fan.
I know that in many training courses some or a lot of stress is added to ensure you can cope. But I believe that it should be an essential part of (safeish) dives on an ongoing basis. I just don't think you can rely on how you are going to respond to stress otherwise. Perhaps I'm not the cool cat that others are but in this I'm sure I'm not alone.
Discuss.
J
#1. About a month ago I got too close to fishermen, and got wrapped up in line and a grand total of 6 hooks in my wetsuit. One I got out myself, the other 5 my kindly buddies sorted out. No big deal.
#2. A guy I work with fishes and advised me last week that mackerel hooks are nasty bastards and generally require a trip to the hospital to get them removed. Getting one in the face would leave nasty scarring.
#3. Last week my buddy, and then I, got caught in line yet again. I had my shears at the ready and with a couple of snips it was a non-event. Except that I didn't have a compass and was relying on my buddy to understand to go east, and away from the wall/fishermen. Which it turns out he didn't. Vis was 1ft, maybe 1.5ft being generous so even navigation was difficult. Anyhow, we stayed far too close to line, hooks and stress inducing sundries.
Anyhow, my breathing went way up. I was pretty annoyed with myself. I don't think I got out of shape or lost buoyancy more than 2ft max but my breathing definitely went up a lot. I had to work hard to relax.
This has led me to thinking even more that adding deliberate stress to dives in safe environments is highly desirable. I just don't see how else you can train and know your body enough to know how it will respond when the doo doo hits the fan.
I know that in many training courses some or a lot of stress is added to ensure you can cope. But I believe that it should be an essential part of (safeish) dives on an ongoing basis. I just don't think you can rely on how you are going to respond to stress otherwise. Perhaps I'm not the cool cat that others are but in this I'm sure I'm not alone.
Discuss.
J