Nice one Chris.
My Dad taught me to dive as a nipper and I went from pool to sea following in his flipper-steps.
Top-tip around the kit though - it was only many moons later that I reliased that he had taught me to dive so:
a) he could get more diving, and
b) more importantly, so he could palm his old kit off to me and buy new shiny stuff for himself
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Another top tip though is I have been in a few scrapes whislt diving but (so far, touch wood) always got out of them
- I reckon that is down to Dad dragging me down the pool and making me do drills week in/ week out for years eg ditch and retrieve/ breathing from ABLJ etc (BTW, I loved it) but al that stuff is no so ingrained from when I was a kid that when the doo-doo has hit the fan I have been able to keep cool and sort it.
Snash