What shop in DFW area for AOW

[Cap335]

Sank about 67 miles out of Ganveston

 

[pepperbelly]

Thanks everyone for the info. One of the shop owners yesterday told me that they had heard visibility at Travis was good recently. I was just trying to find a closer place to take the class.

I live close to Grapevine Scuba, thanks for the heads up. I hadn't checked them out since the are not PADI, I guess I could go between agencies. It does look like NAUI requires 6 dives instead of 5.

Kraken trip? Is that a new sunken ship in the gulf?

I will also recommend Grapevine Scuba and CB. He and his staff are great and very knowledgeable. When I took my AOW from them I really liked how they built the class. You will use the skills from the previous dives on the next dives.
They do use Clear Springs Scuba Park. The deep dive is in the silo that just reaches 60'. With all the rain we have had, plus it being spring fed, the water level should be fine.
I took my OW from PADI back in the mid '70s, but from everything I have read NAUI seems to be a little better now, but it all comes down to the instructor, not the agency, and CB is very good. He and his staff are also very nice people. Stop in and talk to him. Tell him Jimmy said hi.

 

[Streydog]

Thanks everyone. I am signed up with Grapevine Scuba for this weekend. Will report back.

 

[Streydog]

Completed my Advanced Class this weekend. Had a good time with Grapevine Scuba. They have a good setup out at CSSP, a nice pavilion with tables to setup your tank and gear. They even have a ATV to shuttle tanks to be refilled. I was the only one in the Advanced class so I got to work on anything I wanted. Darrell was my instructor and he was very thorough and patient. I would definitely recommend these guys for training.

I learned much more taking the class in a low visibility, at least to me, lake than I would have learned in the Caribbean.

 

[pepperbelly]

Good. I really like CB and his wife Pam and their staff. They have always struck me as quietly very competent- no arrogance and lots of patience.
What skills did you do?
I did navigation, deep, night, search and recovery and buoyancy.
If you did the deep dive- how did you like the silo? Warm enough for ya?

 

[Streydog]

Ya did the deep dive in the silo. I was wearing a 2.5 mm with no gloves or hood and it was very cold and dark, with a flashlight could see about a foot and it was in the low 60's. Didn't do a night dive but a low visibility dive, or 3. Really got a lot of compass work in.

 

[pepperbelly]

I wore a 5/4 Everflex, plus a hood and gloves. It was 58* at the bottom of the silo and I was comfortable- but I wasn't there long.
And dark doesn't really describe that hole.
Fortunately I spent many years when I started diving in the early '70s in low to no visibility conditions, so it doesn't bother me- it isn't much fun to not see what you are doing though.
My night dive there was fun. It rained hard on Friday and washed a lot of crap into the quarry. Saturday there were about 75 students in stirring things up. My night dive was Saturday night. There was so much stuff suspended that I joked that visibility went into negative range.
I hate those stairs too- especially after the third dive.
I want to go out there sometime and just play. I want to explore the sailboat and the Minnow, and basically just play.
My brother is my main dive buddy and he had major surgery earlier this year and can't dive until around December.

 

[guruboy]

Too bad you didn't go to Travis. I hear visibility has been amazing (for Travis) lately.

 

[Streydog]

Too bad you didn't go to Travis. I hear visibility has been amazing (for Travis) lately.

I wanted to do the class closer to the house. I think I got more out of it due to the conditions as well, kind of hard to cheat using the compass when you cant see anything else.

 

[Streydog]

Pepperbelly I work most Saturdays but can swing a Sunday off now and then. If you needed a buddy on a Sunday 10/8 or 10/15 I could take off.