Best scuba advice you’ve received

[BlueTrin]

Let’s have a positive version of the other thread: Bad scuba advice you've received

What’s the best advice you have gotten so far?

I think for me the best advice I got was to buy less stuff but to be picky and buy only the correct equipment for the task.

Edit: I was about to mention something something about fundies but then thought that maybe this would lead to a long winded convo

 

[rhwestfall]

"It is not a race", and "stop, breathe, think, breathe, act"

 

[MiloR]

"Dive More, Post Less"

 

[TravelGas]

Instead of taking AN/DP, take AN/Helitrox.

 

[BoltSnap]

1. Be prepared and equipped as if you are diving alone but you dive with a buddy. This is the philosophy I have followed since the beginning.
2. An "advanced diver" is the diver who can observe the dive conditions and has the courage, wisdom and expertise to cancel the dive if the conditions are not safe or right for him.
3. No Wreck, Grouper or lobster or any catch or a dive worth your life or worth compromising your health or safety.

 

[BlueTrin]

"Dive More, Post Less"

Would be scuba world champion if I had followed that advice

Instead of taking AN/DP, take AN/Helitrox.

I wish you had told me that years ago

 

[James79]

Anybody can call the dive at any time.

The slower you go, the more you will see.

 

[Scraps]

Solve underwater problems under water.

Nothing good happens fast in diving.

 

[Marie13]

When I got talked into doing cavern/intro to cave. “It will improve your wreck diving and you’ll be able to dive all winter” (at a former WI mine). Has really expanded my diving. Second would be to do full cave in MX, despite the heat, humidity, and skeeters.

 

[Minion_Diver]

The dive site will be there tomorrow.

I have called more dives as I have gain experience than I did when I first started out. Was up in the Straits of Mackinac earlier this year and conditions were perfect. Decided not to do the second dive because I was having just as much fun watching the Arthur Anderson go by as I would on the wreck.