Hi All.
I want to raise the subject of diving on your own, and ask a few questions. I am pretty new to freediving and am doing my best to learn as much about it, to dive as safely as possible balancing all the variables I can. So, for perspective; I was recently in Algarve for a week, mainly to go freediving some place warmish. I did all I could to find a dive buddy. Posted up on deeper blue, trawled other websites. I called scuba stores and visited scuba stores. I called scuba guides to see if I could tag along with a shallow scuba dive, as most of the scuba sites there are pretty shallow at 10-15 meters. I got nothing. So I just had to improvise and went diving myself.
My dives were all pretty shallow, and I was being fairly conservative with time.
So, my questions are;
When in places new, how do you go about finding people to dive with?
When in places new, with no dive buddy available, what other options do you consider. Stay at home? Just go for it as best you can?
Are there any other considerations or possibilities I missed?
Cheers.
I want to raise the subject of diving on your own, and ask a few questions. I am pretty new to freediving and am doing my best to learn as much about it, to dive as safely as possible balancing all the variables I can. So, for perspective; I was recently in Algarve for a week, mainly to go freediving some place warmish. I did all I could to find a dive buddy. Posted up on deeper blue, trawled other websites. I called scuba stores and visited scuba stores. I called scuba guides to see if I could tag along with a shallow scuba dive, as most of the scuba sites there are pretty shallow at 10-15 meters. I got nothing. So I just had to improvise and went diving myself.
My dives were all pretty shallow, and I was being fairly conservative with time.
So, my questions are;
When in places new, how do you go about finding people to dive with?
When in places new, with no dive buddy available, what other options do you consider. Stay at home? Just go for it as best you can?
Are there any other considerations or possibilities I missed?
Cheers.