Wife certified

[TMHeimer]

Good that you have a new dive buddy. My wife can't dive due to high blood pressure & claustraphobia (fear of being wrapped up in a 7 mil wetsuit, not necessarily of being underwater). When we snowbird in NW FL I do my scuba thing and she does the Mississippi Casino thing. But hey, I like the casino too....

 

[DivemasterDennis]

When Debbie got certified in 2001 it was the beginning of a whole new relationship. Good dive buddy on every trip together, buying gear together instead of "secret purchases," no downside. So hooray for Mrs. Palladin and the kids too. It's a great family sport. And if I ever feel like a "guy's" trip, we just go to a cold water venue- Debbie doesn't do colder than 75 degrees,air or water.
DivemasterDZennis

 

[Paladin]

So, are you good with this? Having a hard time deciphering your post. Are you glad that she'll be sharing in your sport?
I can tell you that for my husband and I, it's a wonderful way to enjoy a vacation. In fact, it's what brought us together when we first met. I was an OW diver and he was an instructor. I had decided, after dating a guy who was afraid to travel to Africa with me, that my next boyfriend would be more adventurous. No more non-diving, non-horsey guys.

Of course I'm happy that she's certified. I'm looking forward to family dive vacations next summer.

---------- Post added October 10th, 2013 at 06:42 PM ----------

My GF and I got certified together while we were dating.

All of our vacations during the past 9 years have been scuba vacations (Florida Keys, Hawaii, Cozumel, Roatan, Bahamas, Australia, Cayman Islands, etc.).

We're getting married in December with an underwater ceremony on Grand Turk.

Congrats, Doc!

 

[koozemani]

Well, my wife decided to go for her OW this summer and now dives with me and the boys. She is fascinated by the underwater world now and every time we begin to discuss taking a trip somewhere, her first question is "How's the diving there?"

Phew, for a second I thought this a new Padi cert allowing you to marry!

my wife got us ow Certs as a Christmas present while we were dating. Our wedding was a divecation as was our honeymoon. She's my best friend and buddy but now that my oldest is certified we're now a threesome.

greatest Christmas present ever!

 

[Chrisso]

My wife and I were introduced to scuba diving on our honeymoon in Jamaica 12 years ago. Despite a harrowing experience which involved just a couple hour 'resort course' before being taken into the open ocean on a 40' dive (which is a story for a different post and ends with a DM shoving my wife's head underwater) we fell in love with it. We got certified later that year and started taking an anniversary trip every year that always involved diving. As the years went by our vacations slowly turned into being almost completely focused on diving. When we first started we were the very typical newbies--buoyancy issues, air hogs, boat faux pas, and terrible buddy skills. I remember my wife following a school of Mexican look downs almost all the way to the surface from 30' and neither of us even noticed until the DM started banging on his tank.

We are not advanced by any stretch now but have come so far. We are usually the ones with the most air at the end of the dive and our buddy skills have improved immeasurably. On our last dive trip another diver said: "I can always pick you two out--you're the two black motionless logs always next to each other". It occurs to me that our improved buddy skills in the water parallel our improved 'buddy skills' in our marriage. We're inseparable in water and on land and I couldn't imagine a different dive buddy. We are now starting an intro to tech diving course. Who needs marriage counseling when you have diving!?

 

[down4fun]

Congrats to you and your wife. My BF and I both dive. In fact that we were both technical divers is part of what attracted us to each other. when you spend that much time underwater it's nice to have your other half there to spend it with.

 

[corvettejoe]

Well, my wife decided to go for her OW this summer and now dives with me and the boys. She is fascinated by the underwater world now and every time we begin to discuss taking a trip somewhere, her first question is "How's the diving there?"

Lucky lucky man!
My wife doesn't dive. I've tried to get her to do the Try Scuba a couple times, but it just doesn't interest her.
I understand though, it's not for everyone. She loves the water and has no problems snorkeling at all and enjoys that quite a bit.

 

[victorzamora]

Congrats, Paladin! I find myself halfway between you and dmoore. My wife likes diving. She's AOW/Nitrox certified, has a good SAC rate, good buoyancy, good trim, and is willing to work on ALL of it with me. When we go OW diving, we keep consistent hand signals regardless of everyone else. She makes diving easy. However, she doesn't like diving as much as I do. If you kept running fresh tanks to me, I could stay underwater about 12 hours a day....pretty much indefinitely. She'll do two dives per day.....MAYBE 3 if it's warm. She'll also do less days than I will. We went to Roatan. I dove 11 dives in 5 days (I couldn't do more because of trip situation). She did 6 dives in 4 days. On our honeymoon, she did 9 dives while I only got 8....but part of that was to get her AOW (which she LOVED, which was exciting). However, she's always supportive. We went to NFla for some caving. She doesn't do cave. I do. She did one dive in the JB basin just to see what I kept leaving her for and then went back to the surface. She watched my dry gear, ran to Taco Bell for food, ran tanks to the Edd's for fills, and helped me break down and pack my gear. Any dive trip without her is automatically less fun, even if she's not diving.

She said the other day that she can't wait to have kids so we could all be into diving. I don't know if I've ever loved her more

 

[Paladin]

I do believe that I have really lucked out with my wife. We do a lot of things together. She likes to hunt and fish with me and now she is diving with me. The only thing she doesn't do (yet) is go riding with me on my motorcycle. She did, however, buy me a nice anniversary present this past July:


Elvira


She is a brand new 2010 V-Star Custom. She was a holdover 2010 model at the Yamaha dealer (1 mile on the odometer) and my wife got her at very good price. I named her Elvira because she's dressed all in black, she has curves in all the right places and she fun to ride!

My wife says she'll go riding with me some day, just not yet.

 

[tracydr]

oh snap. You know, after 10 years on this board together it just dawned on me for the first time that you're a woman. I never realized that before just now.

R..

lmao!
the pink and purple fishy avatar didn't clue you in?

---------- Post added October 12th, 2013 at 07:13 PM ----------

We went to Galapegos for a Livaboard on our honeymoon. It was an amazing trip. We've had some otherwonderful dive trips,too. Our travel has been a little tight since our wedding because my husband did his MBA and is now finishing his PhD. Not sure I agreed to the back to back degrees but they come to an end this Feb and he's looking for a job teaching at a university. We'll be moving somewhere, just don't know where,yet.