jebsurf
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i would also hire an instructor..
If your relationship is like ours, your wife will listen to someone else before she will listen to you...
My wife is VERY opinionated and stubborn... I can't tell her to do anything, but let someone else tell her and she's OK with it.
I think we may have the same wife
Liability? Who gives a crap .. it is his WIFE... He kills her he is going to be "in trouble". I suspect that your wife had the typical abbreviated scuba course. Then she goes with the husband (a non-professional) who she probably doesn't view as "a professional" and this may add a lot to her stress level. I wonder if she would have been more comfortable "in the hands of" the people she was taught in the pool with? Maybe, maybe not?
If it were me, I think I would demand that she go back for some more pool practice and then if and only if she really wants to do the dives, let the instructor take her. If she wants you there, maybe the instructor would allow it. I would then take her in the pool and train her myself in no-mask buddy breathing.... they don't teach that stuff anymore... but it will be a good method to guage her comfort and skill level...I would do all this before letting her go in open water.
If you are typing that "maybe she is not cut out for scuba".. then you are probably sending the same message to her and this type of "lack of confidence" can easily be enough to tweek someone from uncomfortable to panic.
Yeah. Good point. We shall see