When and how to "trust your instincts".

[ev780]

After getting bent once, your intuition will get a lot better. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.


Bob

There is a saying in medicine......

Good results are based on experience.
Experience is based on bad results.

When a rookie has that weird feeling I don't care too much. When someone with a little grey in their beard has that feeling I double check everything.

 

[glassbottom]

When a rookie has that weird feeling I don't care too much. When someone with a little grey in their beard has that feeling I double check everything.

This is one of the hardest things for me as a rookie. I played a lot of sports as a kid so I have some nagging injuries in my joints (wrists, ankles and knees). I have no frame of reference for what DCS feels like or where I sit on the scale. No idea if I have a pfo etc. I'm a little heavier than I'd like to be (BMI of 30 at 6'4).

When I was younger I had almost none of these risk factors (sans an unknown pfo)and would dive with less.....caution. I was cautious for my age and the time, but today it would be almost risky (faster ascent times, less conservative tables etc) As I'm older, married and with kids I feel like that fool from Along Came Polly, constantly acting like every decision needs a chart to weight the cost benefit. It's a part of growing older I suppose but dang if it ain't exhausting sometimes.