Meng_Tze:yes it is worth it: you get to do more with less
More with less what? Certainly not $
Is it worth it?
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More with less what? Certainly not $
ArcticDiver
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No aruguement that training and practice in all the skills and protocols that you use are verfy useful. The key is '...that you use". If you don't use a skill often enough to keep proficient any training you received is merely satisfying curiosity.
Unless you are one of the people who dives to be diving. That is you don't care what you see or what you do; being underwater is the goal in itself.
So, to me, decide what it is you want to do with your diving. Then get the training and the continuous practice to be proficient in that. But, be ready to accept a change in purpose as your life goes on.
Unless you are one of the people who dives to be diving. That is you don't care what you see or what you do; being underwater is the goal in itself.
So, to me, decide what it is you want to do with your diving. Then get the training and the continuous practice to be proficient in that. But, be ready to accept a change in purpose as your life goes on.
BabyDuck
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i do it to see the caves (intro, sometimes discretionary apprentice). they are beautiful and i feel so priviledged to be in them. i also love the tech stuff for the tech stuff's sake - i love the knowledge and concentration and skills and skill practice and quarry dives and friends and discussions and driving to florida and staying at cathy's...
though i will say that in my 6 months out of it, it's amazing how much money i didn't spend on it... that will start to reverse soon, but probably won't be up to the pre-baby level for a long long time.
though i will say that in my 6 months out of it, it's amazing how much money i didn't spend on it... that will start to reverse soon, but probably won't be up to the pre-baby level for a long long time.
Oh but yes you do..... you do more with the less $ you have left for anything but diving....no?tedwhiteva:More with less what? Certainly not $
Yup, it's all about the deep wrecks for me.
95% of my diving will be about the fishies, and not require tech training. But for that remaining 5%, I want to see wrecks, and that means acquiring the extra training to do it safely. Not there yet, I'm slowly getting there...
95% of my diving will be about the fishies, and not require tech training. But for that remaining 5%, I want to see wrecks, and that means acquiring the extra training to do it safely. Not there yet, I'm slowly getting there...
Rick said it all, and well said. I started cave diving to see what was back in there. I learned to wreck dive to see what was in them. I learned mixed gas so I had more time to do both.
Your friend is misleading you and/or is misinformed. If you are interested in visiting deep wrecks or exploring caves then "tech" diving is for you. If on the other hand you want to do "tech" dives because you think it's cool, it's not for you.
Is it expensive? Well compared to a single Al 80 reef dive maybe, but it's hard to compare the two.
Your friend is misleading you and/or is misinformed. If you are interested in visiting deep wrecks or exploring caves then "tech" diving is for you. If on the other hand you want to do "tech" dives because you think it's cool, it's not for you.
Is it expensive? Well compared to a single Al 80 reef dive maybe, but it's hard to compare the two.
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