holstin
Registered
Well today was my wife and I first two official dives (7th and 8th total) on our own without our OW instructor. I think we did pretty good except for two things. One was major and one was not.
Major: I didn't pay close attention to my plan depth on the second dive and i exceeded my depth by 3 feet. this however took us to exceeding the allowed time by about 5 minutes. the good part is that our computers which calculate more accurately than the charts shows we had plenty of time due to our varying depth but I still dont like exceeding the charts, especially as a newbie.
Minor: even though we stayed a couple feet off the bottom we were still stirring up a lot of silt due to the fins moving water. I can only assume we must try and stay about 7 or 8 feet from the bottom to stop this from happening. Any advise anyone can give us would be helpful on this one. Besides trying to learn the kicks I see cave divers do is there any thing else that can help. I know the silt really dropps the vision in the Florida springs. The good part we were there with only one other person and they didn't seem to complain but I felt bad.
it was nice to get in the water on our own and My wife and I are starting to get the Fun feeling.
Major: I didn't pay close attention to my plan depth on the second dive and i exceeded my depth by 3 feet. this however took us to exceeding the allowed time by about 5 minutes. the good part is that our computers which calculate more accurately than the charts shows we had plenty of time due to our varying depth but I still dont like exceeding the charts, especially as a newbie.
Minor: even though we stayed a couple feet off the bottom we were still stirring up a lot of silt due to the fins moving water. I can only assume we must try and stay about 7 or 8 feet from the bottom to stop this from happening. Any advise anyone can give us would be helpful on this one. Besides trying to learn the kicks I see cave divers do is there any thing else that can help. I know the silt really dropps the vision in the Florida springs. The good part we were there with only one other person and they didn't seem to complain but I felt bad.
it was nice to get in the water on our own and My wife and I are starting to get the Fun feeling.