New to all this

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So Dave will the resulting jerk at the bottom of the fall, serve to get your head free?

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Tis all true misschief, furthermore she then showed me how to expel water from my mask when under the water, by releasing the bottom portion of the mask from my face and blowing down my nose. Now I wasn't too keen on that idea, having got water in my eyes 43 years ago when mum used to wash my hair so I thought.......there is no way water is getting in this mask and pulled the straps as tight as I could.....Talk about Marty Feldmans eye's, jeez..... I pulled it that tight, that me eyes bulged out so far I swear me eyelids wouldn't have stretched across em. I then ventured into the deep.
Now for those that have never been, apart from the foundations of a small bugalow inserted into your jacket to make you sink, you also have to wear a jacket that can be inflated with air...........well I tell you, I swam out with the grace of a wet cat, looking like a wounded bull seal in me rubber suit thing with all sorts of tubes and contraptions, with me jacket inflated.....
she comes along ....Frau Flobb.....and lets the air outa my jacket, I went into a controlled dive to the bottom, the control being the sea bed cos when I hit it, thats where I stayed until miss Flobb decided to come and re-inflate me, honest, apart from crawling along the sea bed on me belly I couldn't do a thing, so she inflates me and as I rise I have a little swim moving me legs from the hips as told, couldn't help thinking how I resembled, one of the Thundrbirds puppets with me jeky style, but none the less I swam, albeit untill I surfaced, where she repeated the procedure. So for 45 minutes I sank, I surfaced, I sank, I surfaced and did some Thunderbird swimming in between.
Forty five quid later and with a grove in me face so deep that it can still be seen today, from where I pulled the mask tight, a headache and eyes like a Chameleon's, I thanked her, wiped the gob from me nose and vowed to try bungee jumping next time.

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Marmalaid, the dive was in the sea, in about twelve feet of water with 1 instructor to 5 people and wasn't a great experiance. It was done on holiday in Turkey. Without any experiance at all, I could see that it wasn't right, so didn't bother going down again. The constant surfacing and sinking I assume, was a result of the instructor having to handle five people. We were not allowed nor indeed shown, how to balance our bouyancy and it was the instrutor that controlled this for us.
I understand what you say and suspect that the vast majority of dives like this, are done by experianced and trained trainers, I also suspect that this was not a well supervised introduction, more likely a few folk with a boat and some kit making a few quid. Now I do realise that I should have ascertained if this was a bona fida certificated type thing but then who does when your on holiday? you kinda just presume.
As I said I wont be doing it again.