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#19
My first dive experience!
Jimbaker - 10/24/2019 10:33 AM
Category: General
Replies: 2

On my first dive there was 4 of us and 2 instructors. It was a kinda shitshow. The intorduction to get you used to the kit was done too deep into the water, everyone else was about the same hight but I was at their shoulder height meaning every time a wave came I had to jump or go under so of course I panicked. They almost didnt let me dive because I couldn’t get the gear down (because I was half drowing).

After that when we got under the water they controlled all our weighting and inflation but because there was 2 they did not communicate properly, within the span on a few moments they both took out some of my weights so I go shooting up a few meters. Needless to say I was deaf the next day.

Outside of that it was a really good experience I just wish I was given more control because what they did was not good at all.
#20384
LatitudeAdjustment - 10/26/2019 8:47 AM
Where was this? I didn’t think any dive shops in Bayonne were doing beach classes.