Knowing what you know now, if you could go back in time, what would you tell yourself

[cowboyneal]

Don't marry that witch...

Ouch...my other one (in addition to Microsoft) would have been "marry that one" when I was a young terminally hip, slick and cool entertainment lawyer in LA after more than just a few dates in the mid-late 80s with a young, nutty, singer-songwriter (who eventually turned out to be "the" Sheryl Crow in the end)...oh well...

 

[Mafiaman]

I would have payed zero attention to the Mullah Divers (do it my way or you'll die) on this board.

 

[Diver Dennis]

I would have told myself that diving is as much about emotion and sprit as it is about technique and protocol. Don't be a perfectionist or you'll kill the joy.

R..

This is exactly the way I feel too Rob. That doesn't mean you can't be a superb diver but for some, the perfection of technique and protocol IS the joy. Can't really fault them for that.

 

[Bismark]

would have bought a hog harness and BPW right off the start and saved myself the cost of first a jacket BC and then an adjustable harness bc (twice!) and had the extra money to spend on diving trips.

 

[TSandM]

ind someone who REALLY knows how to dive, and then do whatever it takes to get them to agree to mentor you.

Scubafool nailed it.

Of course, I DID find somebody who knew how to dive, and he DID mentor me . . .

I guess the one thing I wish I had known when I got my OW cert and didn't was that it wasn't either normal or necessary to be as incompetent as I was at that point -- That it could have been fixed. And I didn't know how to fix it, and the people who were teaching me weren't particularly concerned about it and weren't helping me improve very much.

 

[diverdan214]

Very little I wasn't told by someone (most likely my father) at the time and chose for some reason or other to ignore.

 

[fairybasslet]

I should have moved to Florida when I was planning to about 13 years ago. I am a WWW.

 

[Walter]

Learn to dive about 10 years earlier.

 

[jpsexton]

Get weight and bouyancy right first! Everything else comes much easier after that.

Oh, and learn to dive about 20 years earlier!

 

[drbill]

Buying Microsoft stock when I first thought about it would have been a wise move. I could really afford some awesome dive travel now if I had.

Buying a house (or more) here on Catalina when I first moved to the island. They were as low as $12,000 back then and are now $600,-700,000. I could really afford some awesome dive travel now if I had.

After two potentially fatal incidents in one day in the 1970's flying back from Chicago, I stopped flying commercially for 22 years. I could have really done some awesome dive trips over that period if I had just jumped back on the horse!

However, if I had married a woman I was deeply in love with back in 1973, I probably would have stopped diving so...