Megadive O-5!

[Marvel]

Only have a 3 mil right now, so not so sure I could handle Lanier. Even thoguh I do dive the springs bare. Although 72 with no suit and 50 with a suit is a big jump no matter how you look at it, fortitude or not. Trips are out for the most part due to the new house, which is why thsi spring trip is the only possibillity. Last year it was the wedding and honeymoon, this years its the house, what next? ( I know, I know, I can hear the stork jokes even as I type...Forget I asked)

And since it's the only planned trip I can forsee, I'm going to make the best of every last diving second. Even if it includes planning months ahead.

Sounds as if someone needs to get his wife into diving.....

 

[simbrooks]

Sounds as if someone needs to get his wife into diving.....

So last year was the wedding, this year the house, maybe next year you can spend money on diving, or at least getting her kitted up and ready to go

 

[Scuba_Jenny]

Have you tried the bathtub yet? Or maybe a trip down to the local heated pool for a skills dive.....

 

[Tao of the Dive]

Sounds as if someone needs to get his wife into diving.....

Sorta of a funny story that... I tried getting her certified before the wedding. We were going on a Disney honeymoon. Four days at the parks, 3 day cruise. The plan was get her cert'd before, when we went to Epcot, we'd do the dive there, and when we got to the Bahamas, we'd dive there too. She kept putting off getting her cert. I think it just wasnt something she wanted to do.

So anyhow, we go on the vacation, and while at Epcot living seas, we see the divers in the tank, and she asks, wanna do that? Of course I do, but what nut of a husband does ANY activity on the honeymoon that doesn't include his bubbling bride? A very crazy nut. Which I'm not. So I turn it down, and get bonus points.

A few days later, we board the cruise, amidst the blowing of Hurricane Jeanne. We found out we werent Bahama bound, we were Cozumel bound (twitch, twitch), with an extra day at sea tacked onto the cruise. I Immediately went into spastic "I've-gotta-freakin'-dive-there" mode. But once again, sanity and reason set in, and I turned down every offer for a diving excursion. Had to settle for a reef snorkle.

Was my first trip ever out of the States, and to be that close to the diving in Cozumel, and not be able to do it still gives me a facial tick when I think about it (twitch, twitch). So as far as trying to get her to dive, I don't ask anymore. If it's her will, she'll chirp in with it. I don't want it to even be my idea. I've made it known that this summer I'm going to go diving with a group that leaves out every weekend as Andrea mentioned earlier. They go out twice a weekend to my understanding, which means with the way my schedule is set up, I should at least be able to get a dive in once a month, with, or without her.

 

[Tao of the Dive]

Have you tried the bathtub yet? Or maybe a trip down to the local heated pool for a skills dive.....

Let's put it this way, Kohler makes a darn good drain, and I wanna see more than swimming pool lanes I've been staring at...

 

[simbrooks]

Sorta of a funny story that... I tried getting her certified before the wedding. We were going on a Disney honeymoon. Four days at the parks, 3 day cruise. The plan was get her cert'd before, when we went to Epcot, we'd do the dive there, and when we got to the Bahamas, we'd dive there too. She kept putting off getting her cert. I think it just wasnt something she wanted to do.

So anyhow, we go on the vacation, and while at Epcot living seas, we see the divers in the tank, and she asks, wanna do that? Of course I do, but what nut of a husband does ANY activity on the honeymoon that doesn't include his bubbling bride? A very crazy nut. Which I'm not. So I turn it down, and get bonus points.

A few days later, we board the cruise, amidst the blowing of Hurricane Jeanne. We found out we werent Bahama bound, we were Cozumel bound (twitch, twitch), with an extra day at sea tacked onto the cruise. I Immediately went into spastic "I've-gotta-freakin'-dive-there" mode. But once again, sanity and reason set in, and I turned down every offer for a diving excursion. Had to settle for a reef snorkle.

Was my first trip ever out of the States, and to be that close to the diving in Cozumel, and not be able to do it still gives me a facial tick when I think about it (twitch, twitch). So as far as trying to get her to dive, I don't ask anymore. If it's her will, she'll chirp in with it. I don't want it to even be my idea. I've made it known that this summer I'm going to go diving with a group that leaves out every weekend as Andrea mentioned earlier. They go out twice a weekend to my understanding, which means with the way my schedule is set up, I should at least be able to get a dive in once a month, with, or without her.

Now are you reading the whole "dont you want to do that honey?" as "i want to make it sound generous of me, but i really would prefer you here, no brownie points if you go diving"? If you are reading that in, i am surprised you get in the water anymore, if she doesnt mean that i am shocked you turned it down, even for a single morning or something!!!! Maybe a little hint of your desire to dive and show her the UW world might just push her over and you can dive and enjoy time with her. Of course i am the eternal optimist on things like this

 

[Tao of the Dive]

Well, it was our honeymoon, and I just couldn't see doing anything without her. Any other trip, I might have said "hold the boat, I'm gettin' on."

But I think the things holding her back are some irrational fears, and her lack of desire to fight them. Her biggest concern is that she won't be able to breathe through her nose, she says it would feel unnatural to switch, and maybe even "impossible" for her. This even after I did some shallow water pool training with her. Hence the part where I no longer ask her to go. Recently the closest I've come to hinting that I still would like her to take it up was me asking her not to watch 'Open Water, ' since I was worried it might squelch any desire she had to learn to dive.

 

[simbrooks]

Well, it was our honeymoon, and I just couldn't see doing anything without her. Any other trip, I might have said "hold the boat, I'm gettin' on."

Ok, this time you are let off, but dont let that set a precedent over your diving future!

But I think the things holding her back are some irrational fears, and her lack of desire to fight them. Her biggest concern is that she won't be able to breathe through her nose, she says it would feel unnatural to switch, and maybe even "impossible" for her. This even after I did some shallow water pool training with her. Hence the part where I no longer ask her to go. Recently the closest I've come to hinting that I still would like her to take it up was me asking her not to watch 'Open Water, ' since I was worried it might squelch any desire she had to learn to dive.

But yet she will snorkel with out breathing through her nose? Have you tried the mask off snorkeling drills and such to inspire watermanship confidence in her? Its your call, but its possible to overcome those fears with some confidence and time/patience IF there is a desire to do so.

 

[Tao of the Dive]

I know simon, I know, my argument to her as well. I guess she just lacks the desire. Which is pretty much why I'm leaving it up to her.

 

[andrea31419]

After Wayne and I had "V"..I was so desperate to dive...I hate to say...I went without him. Had a great dive...or shouldn't I say that?! (grin)