Hmm. This really didn't register with me before my wreck dive class last night. My issue really should have been not "Do I have the equipment" but "Can I physically carry the equipment".
A couple of things I learned from last nights wreck class:
1. If I had any thoughts about diving doubles before, they are now gone. There is no way, as a 5'4" woman that I could get back on a boat, particularly after the second dive, in a set of doubles. I'd like to think I'm pretty strong, but wow, that is a lot of weight! Noting that use of a dry suit increases air consumption, do most people up here dive doubles? How to smaller people like myself carry them, much less get back up stairs or onto a boat with them on?
Some of what has been holding me back are the same issues as the other poster.
1. I do have 14mm of wetsuit that I could wear (7mm full with 7mm shorty). That would do in August and September?
2. Equipment. You said all you need is OW equipment plus a pony. Would spare air suffice instead of a pony? If so, I think I'm set in terms of equipment. But is that is really all? No monster can light? Reels? Redundant cutting tools? Hmm. In my head I thought I'd need a lot more.
3. Ah, the general fear of boats. Don't laugh, but my Dad used to take me deep sea fishing off of Belmar when I was a little girl and all I remember is throwing up for about 6 hours or so. I didn't get back on a boat for years. Part of me being in my 30's is trying to overcome old fears. I'm pretty much ok now on boats off of Cozumel and the Carribean if I'm using the patch, but it is pretty calm there. Is the trip up here the same: one hour out, one hour dive, one hour surface interval, one hour back? I guess that cuts boat time down by 2 hours versus fishing. Be honest, is it rough as all hell?