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I have found that the Mental Disipline is everything. So concerning "women" in this issue I will give a brief; of 3 different women. Diver 1. Good training and knows her limits and never exceeds them, as she really does not care for cave diving. However she does have her fovorite sites and will dive them. Penetrations seldom exceed 1200' swiming. If she gets uncomfortable she calls the dive. This is ok. Diver 2. She is working on her Full Cave rating and we do dives to gain her more experience. She is very eager and has a mind for the Math. However she does tend to push a bit beyond her Training limitations and I have to be the one who reminds her of these issues. Diver 3. Has good abilities and solid knowledge, and eager to do complex dives. However she tends to get to focused on the Math and add far to much complexity prior to entering the water. So while I seem to be bashing a bit here, I am merely pointing out that these women divers are more quick to openly display their Fears, apprehensions, and eagerness. This lends to me the chance to call a dive prior to entering the water or at any time during. I have dove with guys who were out for the Bravado and did a great job of masking their concerns, which led to a need to assist during a dive or just calling one. Yes I have been guilty of any of the above and luckily the only price paid was the instructors fee. But the lesson learned was of far more importance and benifit than a mere $500 and became a tremendous turning point in my mental approach to diving. Its all in the mind. At 10:53 AM 5/5/00 -7:00, you wrote: >List, > >Another curious question ... >we all know that there are not hordes of women doing technical dives. >Which is neither bad nor good, it just is. >I would like to know if you guys have good or bad experiences and >maybe even prefer to dive with a specific gender because of those >experiences. >Also, what do you find to be the difference regarding personality, >attitude etc between the average female OW diver and the one that >does overhead dives? > >Thanks, >Claudia > >
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