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| Originally Posted by purple vonny I don't want to sound finger wagging here, but isn't that a bit deep and dark for a UK sea virgin? No wonder she was scared.
I've got a bit of a bee in my bonnet right now about people doing dives they are not prepared for. This follows seeing 3 people choppered off to to the pot in the last 7 days because 2 of them were not prepared or practiced enough to dive in poor vis or on dark wrecks.
Just a thought...... |
She is not a UK sea virgin. I have dived with her in the shallows of Swanage and also had some boat stuff planned that a bad breakfast and nerves bollixed up for her.
I have dived with her in Brighton on wrecks in the range of her quals (AOW).
The dives yesterday were within her quals - the only difference being that they were pitch black, and she has done dark in Stoney and Gildy with me. I had a massive torch, and so did she - we never left the shot line, and everything was done in super slow time.
At some point HSE has to go out of the window and you can only learn by doing. Mary knows that doing something wrong at depth is a death sentence or a trip to the pot, and my endless yammering about diving must have gone in because despite her fear she ascended so slow I thought she might be sightseeing.
I appreciate your concern, but she was in good hands - and she must have thought so because she repeated the experience with the goal of beating her demons.
The same depth in great viz recently was a great dive for her. She wants to dive with me and vice versa, so dark will have to be encountered.
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