I love new divers

[TSandM]

To anybody who's beginning to feel stale, or beginning to wonder if it's worth hauling all the gear all the way to the water, or who feels that local dive site you've seen a hundred times just doesn't have anything more to offer, I have one piece of advice.

Take a newby diving.

I dove with a really lovely lady tonight who was doing her 7th dive. We dove in the dark (not her first night dive, before somebody swats me) and in fairly bad viz. She was using borrowed equipment (mine) with which she wasn't familiar. I think my brain would have imploded in that situation when I was as new as she is.

Not this gal . . . She just trucked along, despite having her mask leaking badly, and she was so excited and thrilled at the stuff we saw. (We did see a humungous ling cod, just lying in the kelp in the shallows. Even I got excited about that one.)

I remember Rick Inman, replying to a thread I posted as a new diver about whether people minded diving with novices. He said, "When they point excitedly at the sea stars, I remember that I once felt that way." It's so true.

Want to make it all fresh and sparkly again? Take a newby diving.

 

[ArcticDiver]

AMEN, Sister!

It has always amazed me that anyone could have such an attitude that they refuse to dive with newbies. My fervent desire is to grow old because I have to. But to never grow up. Diving with newer divers helps me do that.

 

[Wildcard]

Thats great! Your exactly right. Thats why we teach, it sure aint for the money. So your at a year and ???? No offense intended but I noticed you cranked your dive numbers up as soon as you could. I have seen divers with 20 dives that were awsome and divers with 20 years and 1000 dives that are a danger to everyone. Never dove with you but you get high ratings and other than your "as new as she is" comments have moved up fast and deserve such respect. Your medical advice is dead on and you are a wonderful asset to this board but I beg of you, rember, there a thousand people on this board with more dive time than both of us will ever get. Less than two years of dive time does not get you the right to call anyone "newby".....

 

[Spongebobscubasteve]

That is what I am loving about being a new diver, I still get really excited about the boat rides and getting to be in a brand new world! I am sorta not too keen to get "old" at this. I love the wonder of it all!

 

[TSandM]

Wildcard, I don't know what irked you about my calling her a "newby". She's three dives out of open water. Isn't that new?

I didn't mean any self-aggrandizement by it.

 

[fabasard]

Wildcard, I beg to differ, a person with 200+ dives can certainly call someone with less than 20 a newbie. Now "I" may not be able to call someone a newbie, but she CERTAINLY has the right. I think she has the brains and the wherewithall to know whats new and whats "old hat". The Term "newbie" is relative, where someone with 10,000 dives could CERTAINLY call her a newbie, she in turn could call ME a newbie.

 

[Wildcard]

Yes it is, so is 200 or 500. Im there too and I would never act like my limited dive time gives me the right to ....... Gotta think about this for a minute....Would you call a third year intern a newby? Ya three is new and it's fun and exciting to share but, OK I may be out of line but where is the time line for calling anyone new? Well beyond my stats.

 

[Spongebobscubasteve]

^^ I agree. We were posting at the same time and I didn't see the post until now.

I only have 5 dives under my belt and I am virgin newbie meat. She has every right to call all of us on such low numbers newbies.

 

[ArcticDiver]

Thats great! Your exactly right. Thats why we teach, it sure aint for the money. So your at a year and ???? No offense intended but I noticed you cranked your dive numbers up as soon as you could. I have seen divers with 20 dives that were awsome and divers with 20 years and 1000 dives that are a danger to everyone. Never dove with you but you get high ratings and other than your "as new as she is" comments have moved up fast and deserve such respect. Your medical advice is dead on and you are a wonderful asset to this board but I beg of you, rember, there a thousand people on this board with more dive time than both of us will ever get. Less than two years of dive time does not get you the right to call anyone "newby".....

My my aren't you grouchy today!

First a rant in the medical forum and now arguing about the definition of "newby".

Come on, let us have our fun in our own learning and seeing others newer experience it for the first time

 

[fabasard]

If I was that third year interns instructor and had 10 years medical knowledge on him, ABSOFREAKINLUTELY. Now that same third year could call a freshman newbie. Its all in where you are in relation to the other.