Summary of first years diving
I felt that I have learned quite a lot in my first year, although I believe that it is a case of “the more I know, the more that I know I don’t know”
As my title page points out I took up diving so that I would have something to do while on holidays. However as I was soon bitten by the bug all except 7 of my dives have been in the UK.
The pleasures have definitely been watching my SAC coming down as my control improved. A couple of minus points are the 2 free flows that I had early on. Because of this I decided to change my regs, as I had lost confidence in them.
Next year I will probably cut down on the shore dives and do more dives, especially with the UKRS team. There is no doubt that this year a number of my dives were just searching for experience.
I managed to cram in quite a few dives in the year, 92 in total. The table below shows a breakdown by type of dive, and the depths involved on a month by month basis.
|
Month |
Total |
Fresh |
Salt |
<10 |
10-18 |
18-30 |
30+ |
40+ |
|
Oct-00 |
4 |
0 |
4 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
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|
Nov-00 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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|
Dec-00 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
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|
Jan-01 |
6 |
6 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
5 |
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|
Feb-01 |
7 |
3 |
4 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
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|
Mar-01 |
11 |
11 |
0 |
5 |
4 |
2 |
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|
Apr-01 |
6 |
6 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
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|
May-01 |
7 |
0 |
7 |
1 |
4 |
2 |
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|
Jun-01 |
5 |
0 |
5 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
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|
Jul-01 |
16 |
5 |
11 |
2 |
3 |
9 |
2 |
|
|
Aug-01 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
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|
Sep-01 |
8 |
0 |
8 |
3 |
5 |
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|
Oct-01 |
10 |
3 |
7 |
0 |
5 |
3 |
2 |
|
|
Nov-01 |
4 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
|
Dec-01 |
10 |
10 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
|
Totals |
98 |
50 |
48 |
25 |
28 |
34 |
8 |
3 |