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I decided to try my advanced open water this weekend and oh boy what an experience.
To boot it was my first time in a wetsuit.
I went diving in my first lake and it was like tea. Not used to such dirty water.
1. Had a hard time to adjust my mask, inflator etc with the gloves on.
2. The rental regs wouldn’t fit the adapter on my bcd so had to borrow one from another student .The dive shop also forgot to send out gloves and the top part of the wetsuit.
3. I had a hard time to descend with the 31 lb belt they supplied. It was nothing like at the pool when I deflate. I would just descend nicely. I had to actually work hard to swim to the bottom. the instructor actually pushed me down. he grabbed the back of my tank and and pushed not telling me and not giving me a chance to pop my ears.
4. The wetsuit was so tight I found it very difficult to move.
5. My anxiety levels where nothing like I had ever experienced. everything was so rushed and with all this new equipment on I didn’t feel comfortable at all.
6. The instructor was in such a bad mood because he had so many students before hand and hadn’t had a break after 5 dives and was mad because he hadn’t had lunch etc.He ended up canceling my first dive and whole weekend trip withen 5 minutes in the water.??said I wasn’t ready.Then told me to right down in my log book that we went down to 40 feet when we actually only 20 feet max??
Keeping in mind it was the dive master who I was working with the instuctor was no where to be found.
Any words of advice for me I’m just really turned off of diving right now. And have no desire to to it again anytime soon.
To boot it was my first time in a wetsuit.
I went diving in my first lake and it was like tea. Not used to such dirty water.
1. Had a hard time to adjust my mask, inflator etc with the gloves on.
2. The rental regs wouldn’t fit the adapter on my bcd so had to borrow one from another student .The dive shop also forgot to send out gloves and the top part of the wetsuit.
3. I had a hard time to descend with the 31 lb belt they supplied. It was nothing like at the pool when I deflate. I would just descend nicely. I had to actually work hard to swim to the bottom. the instructor actually pushed me down. he grabbed the back of my tank and and pushed not telling me and not giving me a chance to pop my ears.
4. The wetsuit was so tight I found it very difficult to move.
5. My anxiety levels where nothing like I had ever experienced. everything was so rushed and with all this new equipment on I didn’t feel comfortable at all.
6. The instructor was in such a bad mood because he had so many students before hand and hadn’t had a break after 5 dives and was mad because he hadn’t had lunch etc.He ended up canceling my first dive and whole weekend trip withen 5 minutes in the water.??said I wasn’t ready.Then told me to right down in my log book that we went down to 40 feet when we actually only 20 feet max??
Keeping in mind it was the dive master who I was working with the instuctor was no where to be found.
Any words of advice for me I’m just really turned off of diving right now. And have no desire to to it again anytime soon.