Uber-Newbie

[Bubblephobic]

Greetings from Florida. I'm such a newbie, I may not even belong here yet. I'm in the midst of my PADI cert with an incredible instructor. I'll be doing my check out the second weekend in May at Lake Denton in Avon park.

 

[neophytediver]

Congrats and welcome to the board!

 

[anemone]

Hi Bubblephobic!

Greetings from warm sunny Dubai, in the Middle East.
Welcome to the board. Nice people, great info!

 

[scubajoe]

Welcome to the board! You'll love it here and under the water.

Joe

 

[Bubblephobic]

I already love it under the water. As a kid I loved swimming under water, but had to stop when I was diagnosed as asthmatic and had to take a mile worth of steps backwards until my lungs could keep up with me. My instructor was fearful of me and my asthma until he understood, one I'm a nurse and understand my condition and my limits better than most, and two my triggers are allergens, havn't had a problem anywhere near or in water yet...
I'll still take it very slow and safe, until I understand better what my lungs can and can't handle. Plus, I'll be scuba'ing (?????) with my hubby who is more paranoid about my lungs than I am..
Thanks for the welcome!!!

 

[DandyDon]

Howdy!

Welcome to SB!! :happywave Put us in your computer's favorites and check in often. This is a great place to learn, compare, argue

And you certainly belong here. Check our New To Scuba Forum...

don

 

[swampduck]

Greetings from Florida. I'm such a newbie, I may not even belong here yet. I'm in the midst of my PADI cert with an incredible instructor. I'll be doing my check out the second weekend in May at Lake Denton in Avon park.

Hello Bubblephobic, it's swampduck here i guess we will be doing our check out dives the same weekend.I do my check out dives here in Iowa the second weekend of May too.I'm in the midst of my Padi cert.Just figured i'd say hi.

 

[H2Andy]

hey bubblephobic, glad to have you aboard! come on down and check the Florida
Conch Divers forum; we're always putting trips together.

 

[Bubblephobic]

hey bubblephobic, glad to have you aboard! come on down and check the Florida
Conch Divers forum; we're always putting trips together.

Where do ya'll dive? The water in the Clearwater area looks very murky, and until I dive more, I'm afraid I'll dive like I drive... lost. Mt instructor had said the area around Vero Beach is nice. And being a Disney freak, I very well might do Dive Quest. The Florida Aquarium has a shark program as well. I figure I can't get lost in an aquarium... well I am blonde...

I'm afraid of the dive tables as well. I'm reading it in the PADI book and although Scott (trainer guy)n said he'd cover them I suck at math. I'm also very uncoordinated. I still haven't figured out how to clear my mask and not try to drown myself or swallow the whole pool. I can do it above water and without the regulator in, but combine it all and I'm going for infamy as the first known person to drown while attached to an O2 tank in 8 feet of water surrounded by medical people (folks that I'm taking the class with work at the hospital with me). Oh well, have to be known for something!

 

[H2Andy]

one step at a time... all will come with time and patience

you will do fine. lots of people have trouble at first, but they "get it" fairly quickly.
i had a lot of trouble breathing off a free-flowing regulator; just didn't seem to
work for me!

normally, we dive a lot of springs (near Orange City, Ocala, Gainesville, and High Springs
for me), or we do off-shore diving, the best of which is down around Ft. Lauderdale (shore diving) and Key Largo (boat diving).