michaelp68
Guest
Spearfisherman55, I'll answer your questions.
The way for you to dive safely in the 130+ range is the following:
1. Find a different buddy. Do not dive with your uncle. No discussion about this. No exceptions. Just do not do it anymore.
2. Try to make as many dives as possible in the 60-75 range before your AOW class this summer. Do not go deeper. Just keep working on perfecting your buoyancy and air consumption. Practice other skills, too, with your buddy.
3. Consider the possibility of a different instructor for your AOW class this summer.
4. After your AOW class, continue making as many dives as you can with your buddy (not your uncle) including in the 75-100 range. Do not go deeper. Continue practicing all your skills. Do so over and over again on all of your dives.
5. After you have 50-75 logged dives, consider taking a Rescue class.
6. After your Rescue class, continue diving no deeper than in the 100 range, and keep working on your skills. Hopefully, at this point, you will start realizing and learning all sorts of things about your diving that you previously did not even know that you didn't know.
7. After you are 18 and have 100-200 dives, look into further training for diving with other gas mixes, equipment options and deco obligations.
Since I'm a newer diver myself, I'm sure that the more experienced divers can correct me if I have anything wrong that I listed above, and they can perhaps flesh some of that out a bit, although I suspect some may be reluctant because it seems that you do not want to follow the advice they've already given to you.
Spearfisherman55, it seems to most of the divers who have posted in this thread that based on what you have said, so far, it is not a question of if you will die while diving, but rather, it's just a question of when . Nobody wants to see that happen to you, or for you to cause it to happen to someone else.
The bottom line is that diving deep may be done safely, but not by you at this point in time. You need more dives, more age and more training. So you can do it, but not now.
You mentioned several times that you will try to dive more shallow profiles. But that means nothing. Don't try to dive shallower. Just do it!
If you listen to what people have told you in this discussion thread and follow it, it will save your life. If you do not, you will probably die. Please be smart and follow the advice.
Michael
The way for you to dive safely in the 130+ range is the following:
1. Find a different buddy. Do not dive with your uncle. No discussion about this. No exceptions. Just do not do it anymore.
2. Try to make as many dives as possible in the 60-75 range before your AOW class this summer. Do not go deeper. Just keep working on perfecting your buoyancy and air consumption. Practice other skills, too, with your buddy.
3. Consider the possibility of a different instructor for your AOW class this summer.
4. After your AOW class, continue making as many dives as you can with your buddy (not your uncle) including in the 75-100 range. Do not go deeper. Continue practicing all your skills. Do so over and over again on all of your dives.
5. After you have 50-75 logged dives, consider taking a Rescue class.
6. After your Rescue class, continue diving no deeper than in the 100 range, and keep working on your skills. Hopefully, at this point, you will start realizing and learning all sorts of things about your diving that you previously did not even know that you didn't know.
7. After you are 18 and have 100-200 dives, look into further training for diving with other gas mixes, equipment options and deco obligations.
Since I'm a newer diver myself, I'm sure that the more experienced divers can correct me if I have anything wrong that I listed above, and they can perhaps flesh some of that out a bit, although I suspect some may be reluctant because it seems that you do not want to follow the advice they've already given to you.
Spearfisherman55, it seems to most of the divers who have posted in this thread that based on what you have said, so far, it is not a question of if you will die while diving, but rather, it's just a question of when . Nobody wants to see that happen to you, or for you to cause it to happen to someone else.
The bottom line is that diving deep may be done safely, but not by you at this point in time. You need more dives, more age and more training. So you can do it, but not now.
You mentioned several times that you will try to dive more shallow profiles. But that means nothing. Don't try to dive shallower. Just do it!
If you listen to what people have told you in this discussion thread and follow it, it will save your life. If you do not, you will probably die. Please be smart and follow the advice.
Michael