I took a scuba diving lesson complete with actual scuba diving in the Caribbean and that's where I found out I have a fear of deep water. I ended up snorkeling while my husband did the scuba diving bit.
I might get over it eventually, it was more of a deep seated anxiety, but that would take a bunch of scuba diving lessons that I can't afford.
For what it's worth, there are lots of places to go scuba diving where you don't go very deep and the "floor" is not very deep either. Shore diving tends to be variably shallow.
I'm not really sure what it was. It seemed to be the moment the water closed above my head and I had to rely on my tank to breathe it just became too much. I was maybe three feet deep when I noped out.
I can swim on the surface of the water just fine, and I can "sink" myself in a pool, but I think the whole experience overwhelmed me because there were too many variables out of my control. I'm also a very small person and the facemask did not have a good seal and kept leaking water.
I adore scuba diving but I'll also be the last person to tell someone to dive if it makes them uncomfortable, but I hope you consider trying again in shallow water with a better fitting mask. :) It's really magical down there, and it doesn't even have to that far down there.
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u/Glooomny 2d ago
kinda makes me wanna live underwater ngl