seubank20
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This past Saturday my husband and I drove about 2 hours north to check out a dive shop that offered what they called a "Discover Scuba" class, that was basically just a test run at scuba diving. The instructor was amazing and very thorough even in the 2 hours that we were there. We went over some basic scuba instruction and headed to the pool. He thought us a couple small skills like clearing our masks, and how to find our regulator is we lost it. Then we sent about 15 minutes just sitting at the bottom of the pool getting the hang of constantly breathing and getting use to how it felt being underwater. We had a great time, and our instructor was again just awesome!
If you had replied/followed my first thread you know we were having a hard time choosing between a cheap class a friend was offering up or going ahead and doing a class through a PADI dive shop. Needless to say, after leaving the dive shop Saturday our mind was more than made up and we officially signed up a condensed class May 4th and 5th. We will be in class/pool for about 5 hours both days then doing our OW sign off dive the following weekend over 2 days as well. We were skeptical about the class only being 2 days but the instructor assured us that as long as we do all the reading before the class starts and pay attention during class that we will be fine. Since we live about 2 1/2 hours from this particular dive shop the 2 day class is probably our best bet! We are very excited, but more excited that the instructor seems like a very great and knowledgeable man. This makes his 25th year teaching and owning his own shop. Plus we will be in class with 3 other people (5 to a class) so I feel like we will have plenty of time for one on one instruction is we need it. For now, we are just waiting on them to send us our books to start reading before the class even starts!
I just want to thank everyone again for all the advice and kind words from my last thread. Hopefully we get this class done no problem and possible start diving with some of ya'll local to us!
If you had replied/followed my first thread you know we were having a hard time choosing between a cheap class a friend was offering up or going ahead and doing a class through a PADI dive shop. Needless to say, after leaving the dive shop Saturday our mind was more than made up and we officially signed up a condensed class May 4th and 5th. We will be in class/pool for about 5 hours both days then doing our OW sign off dive the following weekend over 2 days as well. We were skeptical about the class only being 2 days but the instructor assured us that as long as we do all the reading before the class starts and pay attention during class that we will be fine. Since we live about 2 1/2 hours from this particular dive shop the 2 day class is probably our best bet! We are very excited, but more excited that the instructor seems like a very great and knowledgeable man. This makes his 25th year teaching and owning his own shop. Plus we will be in class with 3 other people (5 to a class) so I feel like we will have plenty of time for one on one instruction is we need it. For now, we are just waiting on them to send us our books to start reading before the class even starts!
I just want to thank everyone again for all the advice and kind words from my last thread. Hopefully we get this class done no problem and possible start diving with some of ya'll local to us!