What's is scuba diving REALLY like?

[Fredfish]

Originally Posted by jjencek

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Having a Reef Tank will probably put you into the 20% that would stick with it. You must be comfortable in the water to enjoy it. The initial cost is not cheap, but reef tank is neither. After that you can keep the cost down if you are willing to do "local" beach diving.

That all depends on circumstances. Living in the middle of the continent there is not a lot of beach diving. Cold water lake diving never piqued my interest either.

I personally felt comfortable on my first dive. The only 'kind of scary' dive I did was a night dive. For some reason I get nervous when I can't see bottom or some under water reference. The ride down the anchor chain in pitch black made me a little nervous. As soon as I saw bottom, I was fine.

I learned to dive on a 'bucket list' trip to OZ a few years back. If I had reasonable access to tropical reefs, I would still be diving.