I thought this blog post from @oya was spot on and want to share.
THE DIVE BUM: Social media kills divers.
THE DIVE BUM: Social media kills divers.
You're not that good
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Excellent opinion piece.
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He pussed out on a restriction and saw god? Only kidding.
KevinNM
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It's only 300 feet deep, very silty and in a halocline. What could possibly go wrong?
Thanks for the share, Ken!
Seems that post hit a nerve, as it's got about a zillion reads over the last day. Which has mostly amused the crap out of me that I got to completely condemn social media... over social media!
Seems that post hit a nerve, as it's got about a zillion reads over the last day. Which has mostly amused the crap out of me that I got to completely condemn social media... over social media!
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Nice write up
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lermontov
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yes very good you could apply that to many adventure sports -it almost writes like a self revelation
Excellent piece! One of the real pieces of value I've taken away from technical training is precisely that "I'm not that good." On one training diving in particular, my instructor had us sharing air from the bottom (open water) while assisting him as a maskless diver upon ascent. He then added a bit of task loading by indicating that I had lost my stage gas. So now my buddy and I had to switch off my back gas and share his stage bottle, while assisting a maskless diver to the surface. I had rehearsed these things in my head 1,000 times. When it came time to do it, I was successful. However, it was a lot uglier and took a lot longer than the way it went in my head. I was actually taken aback by the difficulty of managing the multi-task, despite having rehearsed it in my head and practiced the skills individually. And this sort of thing is a baby skill relative to dealing with failures in a place like EN.
At this point, I now feel more comfortable managing the kind of multi-task I described. Perhaps I can see where an accomplishment like this could embolden a diver to think that their skills are much better than they are, prompting them to get in over their head (literally). For me, the experience stands as a stark reminder to take baby steps and make an effort to honestly evaluate my skill level. @DevonDiver has spoken a lot about this very thing.
At this point, I now feel more comfortable managing the kind of multi-task I described. Perhaps I can see where an accomplishment like this could embolden a diver to think that their skills are much better than they are, prompting them to get in over their head (literally). For me, the experience stands as a stark reminder to take baby steps and make an effort to honestly evaluate my skill level. @DevonDiver has spoken a lot about this very thing.
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