Thanks everyone for your useful input, and I appreciate your concern for my health. I guess I was hoping for someone to say "actually freediving after 1 scuba dive is OK", but in fact I have seen so many arguements against it (not only in this thread) that it would be insane to ignore.
For me it's a real shame because most of my trips to nice dive places are for scuba, and since I have never met any other freedivers on trips, my freediving just gets left behind.
What I'll do is try to freedive while my friends scubadive for the first day, and see how it goes. At worst I can scuba for the rest of the trip (5 days).
What has been everyone's experiences when going on a scuba boat and just freediving? I have a feeling the divemaster will not be very happy, and would be worried about liability issues, buddies, etc. Also if the first day is current diving, I would be reluctant to freedive. At worst I can just skip the first day of diving and just freedive at the reef infront of the resort.
Anyone have some advice about freediving with a bunch of bubble blowers? I guess the obvious would be not to dive too close, so that their racket doesn't scare the animals away from me. Also getting into the water first would be good, so that I can get the dive reflex going sooner and have almost an hours good freediving.
I would just love it if in the middle of the dive a giant manta or whale shark appears to check us out, but the scubans can't get to it in time cos they have to ascend slowly and their bubbles scare the poor beast away. The dream of the ultimate freedive continues!!
Dive deep...
Terry
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