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I just got anxiety reading your story. Then diving it's a no for me for the rest of my life :D

by 101008 6y ago

agent008t 6y ago
Sorry if it put you off! For balance, diving can also be a very magical and surprisingly calm/zen-like experience. The best diving experiences I have had were in fairly shallow warm water (10-12m?) with great visibility. It is amazing seeing see-turtles, schools of fish, corals. It is like visiting a completely different world! Basically, as long as you dive in much better conditions than what you trained/qualified for, you will have a great time. Well worth doing. I just wish more dive shops were on the more conservative side. And that they had better boats with less fumes and less waiting around!
- 101008 6y ago
  I totally believe you, that diving in shallow water must be amazing and not that dangerous, but now I am scared that some teacher may start there and then "obligate" you to go deeper! "Just a few more meters, everything will be fine" :) Thanks anyway for worrying about me, ha!
  - bonzini 6y ago
    Every dive is briefed on the boat. These days they will also have a website explaining the dives, the required certifications and maximum depth reached. "A few meters more" is not dangerous per se unless you go below 24 meters (80 ft), but I agree it would be very bad to do that without the divemaster telling you before and also without him/her being a certified instructor.
marvin 6y ago
I've found diving to be the least demanding "action sport" activities that I've tried, and I've done a fair bit of climbing, diving and flying gliders. Careful and well trained open water diving leaves you with plenty of safety margins in all directions. There's (well, almost) no single thing you can really screw up that would be deadly. But of course, if the whole idea of something going wrong will leave you lying awake the night before, it's probably not worth it :)

I just got anxiety reading your story. Then diving it's a no for me for the rest of my life :D

by 101008 6y ago

I just got anxiety reading your story. Then diving it's a no for me for the rest of my life :D

Sorry if it put you off! For balance, diving can also be a very magical and surprisingly calm/zen-like experience. The best diving experiences I have had were in fairly shallow warm water (10-12m?) with great visibility. It is amazing seeing see-turtles, schools of fish, corals. It is like visiting a completely different world! Basically, as long as you dive in much better conditions than what you trained/qualified for, you will have a great time. Well worth doing. I just wish more dive shops were on the more conservative side. And that they had better boats with less fumes and less waiting around!

101008 6y ago
I totally believe you, that diving in shallow water must be amazing and not that dangerous, but now I am scared that some teacher may start there and then "obligate" you to go deeper! "Just a few more meters, everything will be fine" :) Thanks anyway for worrying about me, ha!
- bonzini 6y ago
  Every dive is briefed on the boat. These days they will also have a website explaining the dives, the required certifications and maximum depth reached. "A few meters more" is not dangerous per se unless you go below 24 meters (80 ft), but I agree it would be very bad to do that without the divemaster telling you before and also without him/her being a certified instructor.

marvin 6y ago

I've found diving to be the least demanding "action sport" activities that I've tried, and I've done a fair bit of climbing, diving and flying gliders. Careful and well trained open water diving leaves you with plenty of safety margins in all directions. There's (well, almost) no single thing you can really screw up that would be deadly. But of course, if the whole idea of something going wrong will leave you lying awake the night before, it's probably not worth it :)