fabasard
Contributor
Remember all those years ago? Back when you FIRST started diving? WHY? I think the "New Divers & Those Considering Diving" is the perfect forum for this. Who got you involved, how and why? What made you go "I want to do this the rest of my life"?
I went to Mexico with a few friends for a little R&R beachside (Rancho Libertad) around 1997. One friend was certified and said I should give SCUBA a go, they have this resort course thing, its only 75 dollars. I said 75 DOLLARS, this better be GOOD. So I go and tqake the resort course at this little hole in the wall place in Punta Morelos (just south of Cancun). We go out and do a dive, the divemaster strapped to my back (at least it felt that way, he was RIGHT THERE!) We looked at all sorts of fish and I said "Wow I can float free in 3 dimensions and things are SO beautiful down here, its quiet and there are no sharks." The next dive was a hunting expedition, we caught our dinner, with me holding the blood bag (damn glad there were no sharks), and cooked the fish up "Mayan" style, best FOOD I have ever had PERIOD! The last dive I did there was NOT to PADI regs, I begged to go on this dive to 125 feet. DM said NO, but I could dive to 50 feet solo and shadow them from above. I dove in with them and got to 50 feet as they continued down, now here am I in 50' of water, with 75' below me and water ALL around, ALONE, I was nervous as hell (kept thinking about those damn sharks (still weren't any) anyway I freaked after about 15 minutes and surfaced, got on the boat, but KNEW I was hooked. I got certed with the wife several years and several resort courses later, and I have LOVED diving ever since. I tell people diving is better than sex (one guy told me I wasn't doing my sex right then) but most get what I mean. Diving is spiritual, once you've done it, you either can't get enough or you walk away and think, wow that was nice. SO how bout it....Who, when, WHY?
I went to Mexico with a few friends for a little R&R beachside (Rancho Libertad) around 1997. One friend was certified and said I should give SCUBA a go, they have this resort course thing, its only 75 dollars. I said 75 DOLLARS, this better be GOOD. So I go and tqake the resort course at this little hole in the wall place in Punta Morelos (just south of Cancun). We go out and do a dive, the divemaster strapped to my back (at least it felt that way, he was RIGHT THERE!) We looked at all sorts of fish and I said "Wow I can float free in 3 dimensions and things are SO beautiful down here, its quiet and there are no sharks." The next dive was a hunting expedition, we caught our dinner, with me holding the blood bag (damn glad there were no sharks), and cooked the fish up "Mayan" style, best FOOD I have ever had PERIOD! The last dive I did there was NOT to PADI regs, I begged to go on this dive to 125 feet. DM said NO, but I could dive to 50 feet solo and shadow them from above. I dove in with them and got to 50 feet as they continued down, now here am I in 50' of water, with 75' below me and water ALL around, ALONE, I was nervous as hell (kept thinking about those damn sharks (still weren't any) anyway I freaked after about 15 minutes and surfaced, got on the boat, but KNEW I was hooked. I got certed with the wife several years and several resort courses later, and I have LOVED diving ever since. I tell people diving is better than sex (one guy told me I wasn't doing my sex right then) but most get what I mean. Diving is spiritual, once you've done it, you either can't get enough or you walk away and think, wow that was nice. SO how bout it....Who, when, WHY?