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I find myself having some anxiety issues when low visibility is combined with depths greater than 100'. It's a safety issue. When I feel I've got things sorted out I'll proceed with the class, but for me taking it now would be going too fast, too soon.
It seems to me that you're only going too fast too soon if you're endangering yourselves in the process. The classes you've been taking are not risky ones. They're actually good common sense classes that should help prepare you for typical recreational diving.
Myself, I was considering taking an advanced Nitrox/decompression class but I'm putting that one off because I don't think I'm quite ready for it yet. I find myself having some anxiety issues when low visibility is combined with depths greater than 100'. It's a safety issue. When I feel I've got things sorted out I'll proceed with the class, but for me taking it now would be going too fast, too soon.
They seem insipid. A bit of anxiety, keeps you alert, some narc, cool, wrong formula a ha to much. Boom. Get the gas.
From my perspective, I don't think you are rushing at all. In fact, "back in the old days, before a certain unnamed agency ruined all of dive training by making it convenient and accessible to people" (or so one might infer from posters like DCBC), what you have done by taking OW, AOW and Rescue, is put together the type of class he would call "Basic Scuba."