Hello from the Deep Blue!

[Scuba Hunk]

Just joined the forum and I have just qualified as a Open Water Diver and done 8 dives I am doing my 9 and 10 this weekend! I really like deep diving and can't get enough of it! I haven't done many dives but all dives after the course have been to 30 meters or deeper this is due to the Inland site we are using the shallowest is 30 meters and it goes to 80 meters! I think it has been used for mining or something because we have found some tools and a few old flasks. Its very dark and with luck your hands lands on something!

I have MARES equipment so I should be OK and I am very confident in water! The Deepest we have been is 60 meters and that was the last dive we made! I had some problems with my regulator that became very hard to breath out of and we needed a bit more air during the last deco stop on 3 meters my buddy had to cut it 2 minutes short since my octopus took in water and was solking when I came up since I added 2 minutes dive time on him!

I am addicted to this sport and want to become an Instructor I will let you guys know how I get on!

 

[Azotomix]

Benvenuto a bordo from the middle of Mediterranean sea. :azvatar:
and to the underwater world :fish:
Once you start you can not stop. We all like the nitrogen in our blood…


I do have however a doubt on your safety vision of the dives. You might be very confident in water (you swim well and you feel good underwater) but remember diving is a little bit like driving a car. You need at least 10.000 Km before you start to know what the traffic. Or like making love to a women. At the beginning you are nervous you do not how to move and what to do. Then the more you practice the most you become a good lover (hopefully)…

Diving is the same. You start knowing your self underwater only when you have on you diving book at least 50 dives. At that figure (it was for me and I do not think I am slow learning guy) you really start feeling better UW. You start knowing your buoyancy better, breathing better, consuming less, your start to be more confident with the diving

I also like to go deep when of course there is something to see (I have however never reached 60 m in 180 dives) so I can’t blame you on that, but to do so you need much more experience. 8 dives is nothing. You need to practice and reach deeper level step by step. You start with 30 then 40, 45, 47, 50, 55…dive after dive. When I start a new season (from march, april to November, then I prefer go skiing) I never go straight down to 40 or deeper. I do the first dive’s at a lower depth just for customize my self. You should do the same.

It is bloody dangerous what you did and not really responsible. First you have to customizes with the new environment, then knowing your self UW and then to the depth.

8 dives and already at this depth is crazy. You are taking I think too much risks!!!

This is my vision. Then you do what you want it’s your life.

Dive safe

 

[okidoki]

Hello Scuba Hunk,

Welcome to the Scuba Board and please dive safe, I don't know with what organization you are certifide but I suggest you take it easy with going DEEP this is often a fatal mistake alot of new divers make. I suggest you spend your money and time in CONED. especialy deep speciality, DAN O2 and keep a close eye on the incidents and accidents forum.
Good luck and dive safe

 

[Scuba Hunk]

Its the limitation of Dive Sites where I live and I want to dive so it gives me no choice! The shallowest plat form is on 30 meters! We have got separated once and that was a scary experience! We used a whreel as a buddy line and it came loose so my buddy ended up on the surface, After a few minutes I pulled the line and I got an answer back so I knew he was OK but the first few minutes was horrible! I want to take my Advanced course but we don't have a DIve School where we live! I took my Open Water with a German guy on Holiday. We did 4 dives in a Harbor where we learned the equipment and did skills! Buddy breathing and Mask clearing to mention a few! I am relative new to this but my Instructor told me that I could dive where ever I wanted after the course and he never said anything about its dangerous to dive deep! It says DiveInn on the papers I have so I recon that is the organization!

 

[getwet2]

I am in agreement with Azotomix & okidoki, slow down a little bit and gain some more experience and knowledge. It's also fun to be competitve with a buddy but remember to keep it in check and don't take it to the extreme and start doing foolish things, it can become very dangerous faster then you might think.

From the sounds of it you are young and gungho and it reminds me of a story of two bulls sitting on a hill looking at a field of cows....

Young bull says to old bull, what do you say we run down this hill and have our way with one of those cows.

Old bull says to young bull, how about we WALK down this hill and have our way with ALL of those cows.

With age and experience comes wisdom so be patient, it's not a race.

DIVE SAFE and you'll see more.

 

[getwet2]

I am relative new to this but my Instructor told me that I could dive where ever I wanted after the course and he never said anything about its dangerous to dive deep!

I think what your instructor ment by "diving anywhere" was that your certificate would be accepted at all dive locations around the world, not that you can dive to any depth you wanted.

Just because the bottom is at a certain depth doesn't mean you have to go to the bottom, you can always dive shallower, it might not be as interesting but it is safer. You might have to drive a greater distance to find a better dive site, it might be well worth the drive.

 

[GrierHPharmD]

Welcome to the board. Let me echo a concern for your safety. Deep diving is something that should be done after you've gained sufficient experience to have mastered all of the basic skills to the extent that you can rescue both yourself and your buddy. If your only local site is this very deep one, I'd strongly suggest that you get some advanced training that thoroughly covers deep diving issues and procedures.

We're not trying to preach to you, but the dives that you've just described could be very dangerous at your level of training and experience.

I might suggest that you visit the Divers Alert Network web site. Read the diving accident reports for the past few years, and you'll gain a healthy respect for this new sport. It certainly made me a safer diver!

Best wishes and safe ascents. Welcome to the board,
Grier

 

[The Kraken]

Scuba Hunk wrote:

"I haven't done many dives but all dives after the course have been to 30 meters or deeper this is due to the Inland site we are using the shallowest is 30 meters and it goes to 80 meters!"

30 meters is more than 100 feet deep.

Those depths, combined with your experience, scare the crap out of me.

"There are old pilots and there are bold pilots . . . but there are no old, bold pilots!"

 

[Scuba Hunk]

Maybe I was missinformed on my OW course and got the Ft and meters mixed up could they have ment don't dive past 60ft as a OW? My computer is in meters and we had a total time of 67 minutes on our 60 meter dive. We ended up with 6 minutes on 9 meters and 26 minutes on 3 meters!
No need to rude guys!

 

[CathyS]

Maybe I was missinformed on my OW course and got the Ft and meters mixed up could they have ment don't dive past 60ft as a OW? My computer is in meters and we had a total time of 67 minutes on our 60 meter dive. We ended up with 6 minutes on 9 meters and 26 minutes on 3 meters!

As a new OW diver, you shouldn't be diving past 60 feet. That's about 18 meters.