matt_unique
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Morpheus:Greetings,
I recently took a dive trip in Honduras. Im a newly certified diver so needless to say I was nervous...everyone else on the dive (8 people total) were experienced divers..there was absolutly no "planning" on the part of our divemaster except for "today we will be diving so and so spot,depths vary" I told him I was only OW certed and his response was "are you comfortable with your self and your gear?" I said yes.."dont worry about it than" he said. I asked how deep we were going, to which I was told "the deepest area is about 70 feet. OW certs are only for 66ish feet so i worried none. during the dive when my computer registered 110 feet.i started to worry. I was totally out of my league but I hung in there..is this typical of dive trips? any others with similar experiences?
I had a similar first experience actually. My g-friend and I literally completed our final OW certification dives on day 1 and on day 2 we were at 110' after going through a swim through on Santa Rosa Wall in Cozumel. It was a long swim through and I was a bit spooked. When we came out of it we were on a straight wall heading into the abyss until the DM got our attention and had us rejoin the group at 100'. So I too fell into this trap of blindly following a group (then descending past the group) for my very first certified OW dive. Good lessons learned...if I knew then what I know now...etc.
I have been with other shops/crew that were extremely methodical and careful with excellent briefings and close monitoring of divers.
--Matt