New diver here! I am curious what everyones recommendations are for gear as a beginner.

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As a newer diver, I see the attraction of a camera. But it is way off in the distance. BCD and regulator are coming far sooner. Maybe in a week for an upcoming dive so I can start to get used to them. Then a dry suit. A year or two from now, maybe a camera. Maybe.
 
I'd say the last thing a newer diver needs is a camera. You need to learn to dive first. Get a hundred or so dives in and then consider it, maybe.
That’s exactly what I said

I’ve got something like 700 dives, and like 80+ full cave dives. I *just* started taking a camera into a cave — but only a stand-alone GoPro, to be used only on the way *back*, and only for a few seconds in areas of the cave I know *well*, and with no nearby navigation decisions. It’s crazy how many fatalities include a camera…

I kinda miss the days of wildly expensive underwater still image cameras. Kept the number of people using one way down… :)
 

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