Scary 1st SCUBA Experience
We’ve all heard the recent stories of the dive trips where a pair of divers gets left behind but this situation was almost real life for me only worse, my dive buddy wasn’t even with me! I was 17 years old and I took my certification trip out of West Palm Beach back in 1997. We left the dock around 9am and had a short stop in about 25-30 feet of water. This stop was a one-on-one with the instructor. We decended to the sandy bottom and then went over the different exercises to essentially get checked out for the other two dives that day. I passed with flying colors, no mistakes.