bdshort
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This weekend I completed all 4 of my OW checkout dives for my PADI OW certification. Did 2 dives yesterday, and 2 today. The first dive yesterday I didn't care for at all. The viz was already bad, and we made it worse when a lot of us diving were stirring up silt. I had to surface once when my buddy was having problems equalizing, and we couldn't relocate the rest of the class, so we just waited at the surface for the DM to come up and find us. I had problems with buoyancy too (first time in the ocean with my drysuit).
2nd dive was a lot better, though I still felt sort of anxious about it.
Today was awesome however. Really good visibility for our area at this time of year, saw some good undearsea life, a sunken lifeboat, etc. We swam down a large wall, and my max depth was 62 feet. I was much more relaxed, my buoyancy was pretty controlled, and I enjoyed myself and completed the rest of the skills. Once I figure out how, I'll post a few pics to the photography forum somewhere.
2nd dive was a lot better, though I still felt sort of anxious about it.
Today was awesome however. Really good visibility for our area at this time of year, saw some good undearsea life, a sunken lifeboat, etc. We swam down a large wall, and my max depth was 62 feet. I was much more relaxed, my buoyancy was pretty controlled, and I enjoyed myself and completed the rest of the skills. Once I figure out how, I'll post a few pics to the photography forum somewhere.
