Graeme Tolton
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Slow down, you are going to get yourself killed.
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Everything depends upon the quality of the dives that lead up to it. Although David Shaw did die on his last dive, he was at about 900 feet doing a dive few people on the planet could even contemplate. He was a very celebrated cave diver then, and I believe his last dive was number 336. (If I am wrong, I am not far off.)I dont buy the whole I need 500 dives before I can go into caves. I am doing the right path, found the best instructors and dive with them all the time.
Everything depends upon the quality of the dives that lead up to it. Although David Shaw did die on his last dive, he was at about 900 feet doing a dive few people on the planet could even contemplate. He was a very celebrated cave diver then, and I believe his last dive was number 336. (If I am wrong, I am not far off.)
Why rush into something that you (he) are (is) not ready.
I fell in love with wreck diving on my very first dives out of OW. I knew I wanted to dive wrecks, and it quickly became apparent that the only way (safely) was by going tech. That's my motivation for wanting to go tech.
So with only 40 dives in my logbook, I did Fundies. Only got a rec pass (all I wanted anyway) but it gave me the base skills that I need to start down the tech path.
So rather than having to unlearn or re-learn anything, the basic underwater skills are now being practiced the way that i will need to use in the future.
To the poster that said that people need to have shed loads more dives before even thinking about it, I disagree. Doing a cave course yeah sure, but doing an intro to tech style course where they teach you proper trim, propulsion, and how to do skills mid-water is an advantage for a novice diver. I've only managed to get in 30 dives post fundies, but I reckon my general comfort and ability under water is 10 times that it would have been if I had just done that same number of dives trying to learn on my own.
Care to back that up?
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I guess it is a good thing you are not my instructor then
I dont buy the whole I need 500 dives before I can go into caves. I am doing the right path, found the best instructors and dive with them all the time.
I do not have anyone elses life in my hands, just my own.
But if you want to come judge my skills yourself, I will be in Tobermory at the end of September doing my final AOW dives
I'm curious what skills you think you would have had difficulty unlearning or relearning? Can you name one please.