Thank you!! I think I'm going to do that here this week. I'm going to go back to the first dive master and dive a few more times with her, no more than 30 or so feet. Great idea!
Anyone else really nervous in the beginning?
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Thank you!! I'm going to do that right here at the house reef where I am! The dive master was fabulous so I'm going to dive with her a few more times!
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Relax, easy & slow inhalation/exhalation breathing cycles with achievement of neutral buoyancy; try not to physically exert yourself at depth (like finning hard against a current, or excessively kicking to maintain trim). . .
Eric Sedletzky
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What is it that scares you at depth?
If your skills are good, like being able to remove a reg and then clear it, clear a leaking mask, remove a mask replace/clear it, knowing how to weight yourself and use a BC properly so you don't have a weird fear that you're going to to heavy and sink away into some abyss. I had a buddy tell me once when we were first starting out, he said there's no real difference between being at 20' or 60' you're still underwater breathing air. I suppose that's true, although at 60' you have to clear a few more times to get down there and the surface is 40' further away, but that's just a number and you're scuba diving, you have air, your gear is going to work.
Whatever skills you need to do at 60' will be the same at 20'. Issues at depth need to be dealt with at depth. Bolting to the surface unless it's really life or death is never a good option.
It sounds like you just need to build confidence and know that you can handle any problems with ease. It helps to flood your mask and clear it during your dive a few times, take your reg out and put it back in and clear it a few times.
Prove to yourself that you got this and you'll be fine. Don't let some psychological boogy man get in your head.
If your skills are good, like being able to remove a reg and then clear it, clear a leaking mask, remove a mask replace/clear it, knowing how to weight yourself and use a BC properly so you don't have a weird fear that you're going to to heavy and sink away into some abyss. I had a buddy tell me once when we were first starting out, he said there's no real difference between being at 20' or 60' you're still underwater breathing air. I suppose that's true, although at 60' you have to clear a few more times to get down there and the surface is 40' further away, but that's just a number and you're scuba diving, you have air, your gear is going to work.
Whatever skills you need to do at 60' will be the same at 20'. Issues at depth need to be dealt with at depth. Bolting to the surface unless it's really life or death is never a good option.
It sounds like you just need to build confidence and know that you can handle any problems with ease. It helps to flood your mask and clear it during your dive a few times, take your reg out and put it back in and clear it a few times.
Prove to yourself that you got this and you'll be fine. Don't let some psychological boogy man get in your head.
fred32176
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Do a trip to Florida, dive some springs and do a drift dive down Rainbow River. There are a ton of springs where you don't have to go deep. A shallow great reef dive is Looe Key. No reason to go where you don't feel comfortable.
Thank you! I have good skills. I think I’m afraid something will happen and I’ll panic? Although I haven’t done that, the urge to breathe “up there” has felt strong during Some parts of dives, so I tell myself I am breathing air snd I calm myself.
It’s so odd.
Thanks! The Florida idea sounds like it would help!
lermontov
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for some its about spatial references eg deep dark bottomless ocean -i suggest finding a nice sloping bottom to explore and just going back and forward about 1or 2 m above the floor starting shallow and slowly going deeper - keeping the visual reference in eye shot -
ask someone you trust to observe you and give you honest feedback -I Know divers that are way way better then me in trim and buoyancy but they lack confidence - 90% of diving is mental
ask someone you trust to observe you and give you honest feedback -I Know divers that are way way better then me in trim and buoyancy but they lack confidence - 90% of diving is mental
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