Fitzy
Contributor
Just been reading a thread about who still considers themselves to be newbie.
I am definatly a newbie with 30 dives in 6 months. I have just finished my AOW, have night dive experience a couple of shallow solo dives, (10-12ft) and am keen to do my rescue in another 20 or so dives so that i can learn how to be as good a buddy as possible while still considering myself a newbie.
I dive with a very experienced diver 3000+ dives who is my dive buddy and instructor he tells me that i will NEVER stop learning and I agree.
But Heck people, when i hit 200 dives I'd like to think I have done the basic apprenticeship and would like to move past being called a newbie.
So, maybe for divers that just want to dive and not become instructors/masters etc, a rating sytem could be helpfull?, providing there isnt one already. (If there is this will be am embarssing thread that i posted eh?)
0-200 dives = newbie diver
200-250 = novice diver
250-500 regular diver
500-1,000 senior regular
1,000- 3,000 experienced diver
4,000+ seriously exeprienced diver dude.
or something like this anyway.
Whats your thoughts?
I am definatly a newbie with 30 dives in 6 months. I have just finished my AOW, have night dive experience a couple of shallow solo dives, (10-12ft) and am keen to do my rescue in another 20 or so dives so that i can learn how to be as good a buddy as possible while still considering myself a newbie.
I dive with a very experienced diver 3000+ dives who is my dive buddy and instructor he tells me that i will NEVER stop learning and I agree.
But Heck people, when i hit 200 dives I'd like to think I have done the basic apprenticeship and would like to move past being called a newbie.
So, maybe for divers that just want to dive and not become instructors/masters etc, a rating sytem could be helpfull?, providing there isnt one already. (If there is this will be am embarssing thread that i posted eh?)
0-200 dives = newbie diver
200-250 = novice diver
250-500 regular diver
500-1,000 senior regular
1,000- 3,000 experienced diver
4,000+ seriously exeprienced diver dude.
or something like this anyway.
Whats your thoughts?