Diving in Winter - Addicted to Scuba Diving!!

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Here is the view in the morning. If this view does not stop you going for diving, CONGRATULATIONS. You are officially proved as addicted to Scuba Diving. 😆 Well, we were questioning to ourselves "a bit" on the way. At least, we were sensible enough to call our students who were going to have their Dive 1 & 2 for Open Water Diver Course. After a little chat, we postponed their dives. 😊 First Open Dives are very important I believe. If it is not FUN, divers do not want to continue diving in UK. 

 We found a student a few weeks back in the dive site. It was one of the coldest week this year. He was walking down the cafe in BARE FEET!!! 😱 In WETSUITS!!!! Unbelievable!!! 😱 That was not right. That was not safe. I saw him with an instructor in a new nice drysuits on table together, having briefing about Open Water Diver Course Dives. I was in SHOCK!!!
When I was feeling cold in Drysuits, those basic wetsuits is obviously not enough. Water temperature was 5C degree. In fact, we used to use the same set of wetsuits in Malta. When water temperature hit 12C degree, we did not book dives unless the divers had drysuits because it would be too cold to dive in wetsuits even with 2 layers of them. When the water and the air temperature is so cold, you have to postpone the diving or hire drysuits for safety. It is the responsibility of instructors because students do not have enough knowledge to say "no".

 When divers are already well experienced, that is our own responsibility to decide if we go into the water or not. Well, I had to admit I was crazy enough to go diving on that day!! Gosh!! That was COLD!!! My fingers were nearly having frost bites!!! It was no one else's fault. It was purely my insanity. 😂😂 But! The dive was NICE!!! 😂😂😂

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