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[Freedive WI]

I would, but since I am an instructor my vote doesn't count.

It does remind me of something I saw while helping another instructor teach a class in LA a long time ago:

This guy was trying to show his girlfreind how to dive. They were just walking into the water in a protected cove, with less than 2' surf, when she got knocked flat on her butt. There she was, sitting in 6" of water, while her fins got dragged out to sea by the ebbing wave. He was standing there, in full gear, yelling at her while she just started sobbing and began swearing at him- it was a real "Hallmark moment". I cna only imagine what would have happened had he actually gotten her into the water. :

A few years back, when Underwater USA was still being published, they reported on a bunch of deaths within a short period of time by well meaning scuba divers who had given their octo's to a passing snorkeler. Well, the snorklers were basically dead by time they hit the surface since they didn't know to exhale on the way up.

Discover ssuba courses are so cheap, and offered all the time down here, that I would never see a reason to take the chance.


Just my $0.02

jon