jord1990
Contributor
Hey I'm a fairly new diver I got my cert in the first week of august. I got my cert here in the Netherlands and after that went to Malta for some experience.
It was my third OW dive and the second dive of the day. Looking back on it I shouldn't have made the second dive cause without me noticing I was getting really tired.
We did all the drills and everything went great (except the mask but who doesn't hate that)
So we decided to swim around a bit, this is when I started noticing I was getting tiny bits of water in my reg. Eventually we reach a submerged bus at 12 meter/36 feet and my reg completely floods. I took a breath and all I got was water, no worries I've had that through my nose during mask drills before. So I take another breath and all I get is water again, now this is where the panick sets in.
And this is the amazing moment that I still get surprised about looking back on it.
That stupid thing in my mouth was keeping me from breathing so I took my reg out of my mouth.
Then realized that I wasn't able to breathe without it underwater and put it back in.
Because of the panick I didn't think of yanking the buddy line till I had the situation under control.
I signalled my instructor that I wanted to go up.
So we went towards our safety stop. During the safety stop I started getting litle bits of water in my reg again and I felt the panick settling in. The first thing I did was grab the hand of my instructor and that was truly one of the best feelings I've ever had. I let her take control of my bcd and we surfaced after the safety stop.
Once on the surface I called the dive due to huge amounts of stress. Went home feeling bad and anxious cause I had to dive the next morning again. After a long evening of thinking I decided to go.
I found out what went wrong the next day. I saw bubbles passing the front of my mask, and It turned out that in my tiredness I pulled my upper lip up a bit and exhaled some air past my reg instead of through. Don't have that problem any more.
Now 22 Dives later everytime I pass that bus I still get a bad feeling in my stomach.
Anyway thanks for reading
It was my third OW dive and the second dive of the day. Looking back on it I shouldn't have made the second dive cause without me noticing I was getting really tired.
We did all the drills and everything went great (except the mask but who doesn't hate that)
So we decided to swim around a bit, this is when I started noticing I was getting tiny bits of water in my reg. Eventually we reach a submerged bus at 12 meter/36 feet and my reg completely floods. I took a breath and all I got was water, no worries I've had that through my nose during mask drills before. So I take another breath and all I get is water again, now this is where the panick sets in.
And this is the amazing moment that I still get surprised about looking back on it.
That stupid thing in my mouth was keeping me from breathing so I took my reg out of my mouth.
Then realized that I wasn't able to breathe without it underwater and put it back in.
Because of the panick I didn't think of yanking the buddy line till I had the situation under control.
I signalled my instructor that I wanted to go up.
So we went towards our safety stop. During the safety stop I started getting litle bits of water in my reg again and I felt the panick settling in. The first thing I did was grab the hand of my instructor and that was truly one of the best feelings I've ever had. I let her take control of my bcd and we surfaced after the safety stop.
Once on the surface I called the dive due to huge amounts of stress. Went home feeling bad and anxious cause I had to dive the next morning again. After a long evening of thinking I decided to go.
I found out what went wrong the next day. I saw bubbles passing the front of my mask, and It turned out that in my tiredness I pulled my upper lip up a bit and exhaled some air past my reg instead of through. Don't have that problem any more.
Now 22 Dives later everytime I pass that bus I still get a bad feeling in my stomach.
Anyway thanks for reading
