Feeling pretty deflated heading home from Wraysbury without completing my dry suit course.
So I got to Wraysbury (muddy bottomed reservoir in the UK) at 9am and it took until 11am to finally get kitted up and into the water. I just wasn't sinking so had 18kg added to my pockets!! When we made our way down suddenly a guy surface under my legs.This place was crazy - so hectic, too many people so I think this started making me nervous.
As we went down I realized I could barely see half a meter. I've only done 4 open water dives in 20m viz. I was trying to hover on a platform but started ascending. Managed to get control but then was totally freaking out about the viz so signaled that I wanted to surface. I took 5 mins floating on surface then agreed to go back down. I managed to do a bit of a fin pivot then had a swim around this platform staying really close so I could see it. Then I started feeling a trickle down my neck so had to surface again. Instructor was surprised I was leaking, but I had pointed out my neck seal wasn't that tight before we went in but was told it was ok. It's not like I could just swim around the platform and I was soaking wet, so the thought of getting back in and having to swim in the open with no point of reference terrified me.
Any words of encouragement or similar stories or am I just a big jessy??I'm going to Malta for a week of diving, I think I'll rebuild my confidence and then try again at a better location. Feel utterly deflated :-(
So I got to Wraysbury (muddy bottomed reservoir in the UK) at 9am and it took until 11am to finally get kitted up and into the water. I just wasn't sinking so had 18kg added to my pockets!! When we made our way down suddenly a guy surface under my legs.This place was crazy - so hectic, too many people so I think this started making me nervous.
As we went down I realized I could barely see half a meter. I've only done 4 open water dives in 20m viz. I was trying to hover on a platform but started ascending. Managed to get control but then was totally freaking out about the viz so signaled that I wanted to surface. I took 5 mins floating on surface then agreed to go back down. I managed to do a bit of a fin pivot then had a swim around this platform staying really close so I could see it. Then I started feeling a trickle down my neck so had to surface again. Instructor was surprised I was leaking, but I had pointed out my neck seal wasn't that tight before we went in but was told it was ok. It's not like I could just swim around the platform and I was soaking wet, so the thought of getting back in and having to swim in the open with no point of reference terrified me.
Any words of encouragement or similar stories or am I just a big jessy??I'm going to Malta for a week of diving, I think I'll rebuild my confidence and then try again at a better location. Feel utterly deflated :-(
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