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Nearly a month after gettting back from my first diving trip to Sharm i have reviewed what lessons I had learnt from it.
First Lesson
Dont dive with a dive centre that you feel uncomfortable wiht even if they are located in your hotel complex.
Had 3 dives with a dive centre at my hotel called venta diving. Was geared directly for the Italies who were in the majorty . The check dive on temple reef was just a swim about no checking of bouyancy or any check on skills. The the 2 dives it self on Jackson and Thomas reef wernt mach better kept getting kicked by same person. All the breifing was done in Italian . Then as an after thought when I looked blankly at them did the guide redo it in English. No dive brief fro second dive just kit up and jump in. Also whilst in the water we were at 28m i knew i was going to be caning my air at that depth some came up a little to 20 m still in site of the guide (something I had done with another dive centre and they were ok with it), However the guide came upto me and I had to go down again to 28m. I pointed to my gauge tried to explain with hand signals and he just gave me the 'ok' back and just carried in. hence 10 mins later had to tell him that i was getting low on air. and the dive was over.
The next thing I learnt was dont concentrate to much on your spg.
At the start of the diving I was concerned with my air consumption so constantly looked at my guages the more I looked the more gas I used. However after about 4 dives the guide convinced me to take my camera down. I did this really enjoyed taking pictures. I relaxed more looked at my guages less result better gas comsuption with the effect of making me more relaxed enjoyed the dives more relaxed more and gas consumption went down again. So one happy bunny
I was still checking my gauge but not as often so I think that has been a very good lesson that I have learnt just enjoy the diving.
Andy
First Lesson
Dont dive with a dive centre that you feel uncomfortable wiht even if they are located in your hotel complex.
Had 3 dives with a dive centre at my hotel called venta diving. Was geared directly for the Italies who were in the majorty . The check dive on temple reef was just a swim about no checking of bouyancy or any check on skills. The the 2 dives it self on Jackson and Thomas reef wernt mach better kept getting kicked by same person. All the breifing was done in Italian . Then as an after thought when I looked blankly at them did the guide redo it in English. No dive brief fro second dive just kit up and jump in. Also whilst in the water we were at 28m i knew i was going to be caning my air at that depth some came up a little to 20 m still in site of the guide (something I had done with another dive centre and they were ok with it), However the guide came upto me and I had to go down again to 28m. I pointed to my gauge tried to explain with hand signals and he just gave me the 'ok' back and just carried in. hence 10 mins later had to tell him that i was getting low on air. and the dive was over.
The next thing I learnt was dont concentrate to much on your spg.
At the start of the diving I was concerned with my air consumption so constantly looked at my guages the more I looked the more gas I used. However after about 4 dives the guide convinced me to take my camera down. I did this really enjoyed taking pictures. I relaxed more looked at my guages less result better gas comsuption with the effect of making me more relaxed enjoyed the dives more relaxed more and gas consumption went down again. So one happy bunny
I was still checking my gauge but not as often so I think that has been a very good lesson that I have learnt just enjoy the diving.
Andy