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Hello,
Just got back from a night dive (one of the dives I chose in my advanced open water). However, things didn't go as planned: we were with 3 people: an instructor and 2 students. The other student had issues with clearing her ears (she started clearing too late - but I also started clearing late) and had to cancel. after surfacing, swimming back to land and helping her out of the water, I started feeling cold (and I had minor issues with one ear)... Not that surprising, if you know that the outside temperature was around 2°C, the watertemperature was 10°C and we (apart from the instructor) were wearing 2 wetsuits (shorty 4mm +long 7mm, but both were rentals that might not have the same thickness anymore
) on top of each other.
Still, it was an experience... Downside is that I now realize that it is too cold for me to dive outside with wetsuits; guess I'll have to verify which courses I can follow that are indoors and still count for my advanced open water. I still need to do a navigation dive (must be outside), a deep dive (can be indoors: Nemo33 is a 33m deep indoor dive complex closeby), and then 2 lessons of choice (have already done Peak Performance Buoyancy). Will check with the diveclub to see what my options are (photography can be done indoors).
Alternatively, I could do a drysuit specialty, so that I can continue my advanced open water with drysuit, but as I'm not yet planning on buying a drysuit, that might not be a real option.
(The dive computer I bought does seem to work great, interesting to see the dive profile in a graph on the watch!)
Jörg
Just got back from a night dive (one of the dives I chose in my advanced open water). However, things didn't go as planned: we were with 3 people: an instructor and 2 students. The other student had issues with clearing her ears (she started clearing too late - but I also started clearing late) and had to cancel. after surfacing, swimming back to land and helping her out of the water, I started feeling cold (and I had minor issues with one ear)... Not that surprising, if you know that the outside temperature was around 2°C, the watertemperature was 10°C and we (apart from the instructor) were wearing 2 wetsuits (shorty 4mm +long 7mm, but both were rentals that might not have the same thickness anymore
) on top of each other.Still, it was an experience... Downside is that I now realize that it is too cold for me to dive outside with wetsuits; guess I'll have to verify which courses I can follow that are indoors and still count for my advanced open water. I still need to do a navigation dive (must be outside), a deep dive (can be indoors: Nemo33 is a 33m deep indoor dive complex closeby), and then 2 lessons of choice (have already done Peak Performance Buoyancy). Will check with the diveclub to see what my options are (photography can be done indoors).
Alternatively, I could do a drysuit specialty, so that I can continue my advanced open water with drysuit, but as I'm not yet planning on buying a drysuit, that might not be a real option.
(The dive computer I bought does seem to work great, interesting to see the dive profile in a graph on the watch!)
Jörg
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