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If it really bothers you, which it appears to on at least two levels, I just would save this issue for later, rather than mix dealing with it in with your last class. Then you can work on it later. In the end, you either practice from a low edge of a pool and then up through more and more height...

Of course, it's not really how deep a diver usually goes but how deep a diver usually comes back from.

Getting a bit off-topic, but it's a matter of propriety. What's appropriate in the U.S. may not be appropriate in, for instance, France. There is a distinct difference between normal behavior for waiters. I rather like the more common French conduct, which is unobtrusive. One may come to have a...

Yes. In this sort of case, a jury would be charged with apportioning fault. A percent to each party. I would be amazed if it came to that in this case. It's just not enough money for an insurer to spend money fighting about. Some specialty insurers sometimes start fighting even smaller claims...

Right. Search on the local and nearby Craiglist sites by searching "SCUBA" in the Sporting Goods section. However, while most of the risk on Craigslist is to sellers inviting people to their homes to see goods (also nearly always being hit by those wanting to send money orders and get change...

Divers suing divers is not very common. Anything can happen and does or will at some time. If someone had a burning desire to sue over a diving incident where you could in any way be even imagined to be responsible, it's possible they might reflect on your very limited assets and try to attack...

It's interesting. It looks to me like the inverted cone defensive zone thing, when it's referenced, usually refers back to a 1990 article in the Journal of Wilderness Medicine. After looking at a lot of videos of attacking triggerfish, it looks like if the cone thing is correct, it's a real wide...

The story implies the instructors were employees, and since the resort offers instruction, that seems likely. They are not being sued for their attempted rescue, so it has nothing to do with other people attempting rescues. They just happen to be the agents of the resort who were there at the...

Wow. Been going on a while. Did you try being more conservative about the pressure used to equalize that was suggested last time? That was sure sounding likely. I think you need to get by a physician, preferably an ENT, while they're inflamed, so they can take a look inside and see what's...

I suspect this is much more a mental issue than a strength issue. The most immediate bodily expression of tension/stress/anxiety is to lift the shoulders. If you just sit there and try it right now, you see that once you reach the maximum extent of shoulder lift, the effort starts arching the...

I've done it both ways. I ended up mostly using an Rx mask. The contacts worked, and I can wear them fine, but my eyes are such that if I wear contacts, I need reading glasses to read menus and such. I read small print perfectly with no correction. And I can read gauges just fine with...

Yes. Certainly nothing of what we relate of dealing with such things suggests you shouldn't see a physician. But know that most physicians have few therapies that don't involved medications. They're approach if often to prescribe something to relieve anxiety and hope it passes. The medications...

We shouldn't forget that fish, too, have varying personalities. Shyness, aggressiveness, risk-taking, etc., traits that apparently can also be modified by experiences such as losing a fight. So it's not entirely unreasonable that it might have been an encounter with a congenitally grumpy eel...

Although the accident report won't be ready to release for a few days, agencies I've been with have always been willing to provide insurance information early. In fact, around here, our officers routinely hand out a form with the drivers' informations and insurance, the location the officer is...

I think nearly everyone who goes through this with the intention of getting past it experiences two things. One is that you eventually work out your own personal and unique path through it. (Nevertheless, you're gonna suffer some. Nietzsche's principle applies here.) The other is that you really...

Good point. There are a lot of kayaks being brought in from all over the country to the whitewater park, and of course others just for the rest of the river. If there's something somewhere, it's inevitably going to get a chance to move in. Only the lake has the opportunity for any real...

Being a relatively new badge, council may not have anyone recorded. Might be a good time to recruit someone who instructs through a local shop to be a counselor. The badge requirements, aside from open water certification, are minimal. I take it you're the first in the district to go for this...

Interesting story on diving to detect drug boxes attached to ships. I picked this version, because it has more photos with the story than on most sites. ICE Dive Unit In Miami Targets Drug Smuggler Ships : NPR (Any more appropriate forum for this sort of diver related news? didn't seem to...

Okay, here's the doom and gloom reply. I'm going to answer this as if I'm correct in judging that you had a experience that has triggered a panic disorder and that it's not necessarily "mild" just because you did not lose all control of your actions. You'll know soon if I'm right, because simply...