Hi all,
I'm new to freediving and have an annoying tendency to panic if I can't find my dive buddy on the surface after he/she has done a dive. I get this overwhelming feeling of being alone out in the ocean, and an impending sense of doom that something awful has happened to them, and something awful will happen to me..... I guess the best way to avoid these situations is to do proper buddying, whereby one person stays on the surface and tracks the person underneath. It just seems a lot of people I dive with don't follow that rule and all disappear together, leaving me fighting off the rising panic. Anyone else feel like this? I guess with experience, this will diminish. Also, my brother drowned at sea, so I think that has a lot to do with my fear.
I'm new to freediving and have an annoying tendency to panic if I can't find my dive buddy on the surface after he/she has done a dive. I get this overwhelming feeling of being alone out in the ocean, and an impending sense of doom that something awful has happened to them, and something awful will happen to me..... I guess the best way to avoid these situations is to do proper buddying, whereby one person stays on the surface and tracks the person underneath. It just seems a lot of people I dive with don't follow that rule and all disappear together, leaving me fighting off the rising panic. Anyone else feel like this? I guess with experience, this will diminish. Also, my brother drowned at sea, so I think that has a lot to do with my fear.