miketsp
Contributor
Well I just got back from my holidays, 3 weeks diving with my wife up in NE Brazil. After spending an average of 7 hours / day on a dive boat my PC monitor still seems to be rolling around.
So that left a lot of time for dive-talk with the DMs, local divers and other tourists. Now I've been diving with the same operator up there for the last 4 years so they already knew us well.
Anyway on the last day when I went to settle my account & haggle a discount the LDS owner said he wanted to know what the heck was going on because from just one year to another my general diving knowledge & skills had shown a tremendous improvement.
Well I hadn't even thought about it but of course the answer was "Scubaboard". Eight months of regular reading & contributing had crept up on me without noticing. Whatever the subject was that came up, I was able to contribute meaningful information. My diving style changed completely, clean, no danglies, breathing relaxed & controlled, air consumption at a minimum, good balance & horizontal positioning, variation of kicks, flutter, modified flutter, half kicks, frog kicks, helicopter turns, swimming backwards, as required all thanks to comments & videos I found through links on SB and I was testing out during our regular monthly dive outings.
Even more important, even though we did some dives in difficult conditions, I didn't come anywhere near getting even slightly stressed at any time during the whole 3 weeks. So being much more relaxed about everything, this also had a positive effect on my wife and her diving skills also improved.
So I'd just like to say a big thank-you to all of you that through your contributions indirectly helped me enjoy my holidays.
So that left a lot of time for dive-talk with the DMs, local divers and other tourists. Now I've been diving with the same operator up there for the last 4 years so they already knew us well.
Anyway on the last day when I went to settle my account & haggle a discount the LDS owner said he wanted to know what the heck was going on because from just one year to another my general diving knowledge & skills had shown a tremendous improvement.
Well I hadn't even thought about it but of course the answer was "Scubaboard". Eight months of regular reading & contributing had crept up on me without noticing. Whatever the subject was that came up, I was able to contribute meaningful information. My diving style changed completely, clean, no danglies, breathing relaxed & controlled, air consumption at a minimum, good balance & horizontal positioning, variation of kicks, flutter, modified flutter, half kicks, frog kicks, helicopter turns, swimming backwards, as required all thanks to comments & videos I found through links on SB and I was testing out during our regular monthly dive outings.
Even more important, even though we did some dives in difficult conditions, I didn't come anywhere near getting even slightly stressed at any time during the whole 3 weeks. So being much more relaxed about everything, this also had a positive effect on my wife and her diving skills also improved.
So I'd just like to say a big thank-you to all of you that through your contributions indirectly helped me enjoy my holidays.
