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Arrow Re: diving advice on how to just stay calm?

Thank you!! You know come to think of it I dont believe I ever felt any pain, I just got very dizzy. And I dont think I ever felt like my head was going to inplode. It may have been just motion sickness because the current was strong and I wasnt even kicking the current was just taking me over the shipwreck we were diving on. I was also VERYY sea sick on the boat too so maybe it was a combination of the ear infection the fluid in one ear and everything else. The doc told me today I should be ok to do this next 60 foot dive to get certified. I think I am going to wait on the 90 foot dive untill I am use to the water a bit more. I am taking scuba 2 next semester with my college again and in that class you only go on the dives and you get 12 of them, I hope I can opt to do shallower dives. By then I should have like 18 or 20 dives and hopefully I wont be afraid anymore. Before going down the instructor always tells me "you are in control of what happens down there" because they can tell I am so afraid. I think what really got me was on my 1st dive we were diving on this ship wreck and I inflated my BC to go over some wreckage and began to panic. I kept hitting the inflate button instead of the deflate button and started shooting for the surface. They saved me though when I felt one instrctor on each fin pulling me back down to the bottom. Ever since then something else has scared me. The only thing that I was not afraid of was swimming beside a school of barricuda, I was more concerned as to why I was really dizzy.
My father is certified through PADI and I think over the summer before I head back to the beach I am going to try and tone it down a bit before I hit that 90 foot wreck dive/drift/anchor/ really deep. Thank you again for your advice!!
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