mcohen1021
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When should I stop referring to myself as a beginner? 50 dives? 100 dives?
Once you grow gills
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When should I stop referring to myself as a beginner? 50 dives? 100 dives?
In your instance if there's a safety pre-req then this makes sense. Otherwise it's I think it's unnecessary info to divulge to people. When I'm on livaboard trips, I always get asked how many dives I have as part of the preliminary paperwork process. I tell them WTF knows as I've stopped logging dives 4 years ago. I just give them a random range.Thanks for all the comments - most insightful.
There is a practical reason why I’ve asked this. Whenever I initiate correspondence with a dive op who don’t know me, or when I post here and want to put what I say into the proper context, I often will say that I’m a beginner. I think that sets the right context for my opinions in SB and the dive ops will know not to expect too much of me in terms of skills (as an aside, I have a lot of diving knowledge which I got here, but not skills because I literally haven’t dived enough). But after say, 50 dives, if I still think I’m not “good enough”, can I still legitimately call myself a beginner or will people start thinking I’m full of BS?