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Dive babble all day long
My step-sister just sent me this article on travel regrets & asked if I had any. It's a fantastic & honest article.
Here's what I told her my travel regrets were (all dive-related as well as embarrassing & cringe worthy):
Here's what I told her my travel regrets were (all dive-related as well as embarrassing & cringe worthy):
- Not researching what extreme dive conditions I could run into in a new location or how to deal with them. (Whirlpool downward currents in the Maldives. I'm lucky I survived.)
- When I took my best friend to do the open water part of her certification to a place I liked as a diver, but hadn't researched in terms of how well they did their training. (They were ok, but I did her a disservice.)
- A shark feeding dive, a dive chumming for sharks, a sting ray feeding dive & a semi-captive dolphin dive.
- Continuing to dive the rest of the week with a shop that made 2 big mistakes.
- No travel insurance on an expensive dive trip.
- Only wearing insect repellent 1/2 of the time at a dive resort instead of 100%. (I was struck down with a bad case of dengue. I thought I was safe since there weren't a lot of mosquitoes, I was only bitten 5x in 2 weeks & while dengue is in the Philippines, they had never had it on this particular island before.)
- Not taking a carbon monoxide/oxygen analyzer or Nautlius Lifeline with me. (I breathed bad air at 1 place & was left by a boat at another.)