Scuba diving--still #1

[withm]

Wow Knotted - riptides are not good places to be. Glad you got out of that one alive. I've had some close calls myself but looking back nothing too bad though for a little luck could have gone very wrong very fast. But when you dive a lot, and I was a mate on a dive boat for several years, I've seen a lot of bad stuff go down, and been through 4-5 chopper evacuations. You really don't wanna go there. Enjoy your snorkeling and live to tell your grandchildren about it.

[awats]

That sounds rough! Thank goodness you got out of that riptide! Definitely worth being safer than sorry, but there's also still lots of diving opportunities outside of riptide zones where you can enjoy diving and be fear-free.

[KnottedYet]

I did try a couple times after that. Very quiet little bays.
Much deeper than about snorkeling level, and I would become so anxious that I just wasn't having fun anymore.

I'm happy snorkeling, puttering around near shore and looking at the cool critters. Someday I might try diving again, but meanwhile I'm not feeling deprived.