Hi everyone,
My girlfriend and I recently signed up for the PADI open water course. We already finished and passed the classroom portion and the pool portion of the course. Unfortunately, since I have had two ruptured ear drums and two sinus surgeries, I cannot equalize very well and when I do it is extremely painful ascending, it will take a couple minutes for me to come up from 7 feet. I was the only one in the group who was trying to stay down instead of going up to the surface. So I realize that as much as I would like to I physically cannot dive. (I did go to my doctor and he warned me not to dive if it started hurting). This next week we have the OW dives, I'm pretty sure I cant get my money back for anything but can I still get some kind of Padi card? I hate quitting but its the principle of the thing.
My girlfriend and I recently signed up for the PADI open water course. We already finished and passed the classroom portion and the pool portion of the course. Unfortunately, since I have had two ruptured ear drums and two sinus surgeries, I cannot equalize very well and when I do it is extremely painful ascending, it will take a couple minutes for me to come up from 7 feet. I was the only one in the group who was trying to stay down instead of going up to the surface. So I realize that as much as I would like to I physically cannot dive. (I did go to my doctor and he warned me not to dive if it started hurting). This next week we have the OW dives, I'm pretty sure I cant get my money back for anything but can I still get some kind of Padi card? I hate quitting but its the principle of the thing.