Good for you! Happy to hear how things have progressed for you. Given your options, I would do the Nitrox certification. It will come in handy for the future. Normally, with PADI, the nitrox certification is course work only and doesn't include a dive. If your instructor will throw in a dive while using nitrox after you have completed the course work, then it would be a no brainer for me.I just signed up for AOW this weekend: Fri/Sat/Sun. I’m psyched! Diving is getting more fun as I get more comfortable (despite the garbage I wrote about in my other thread). I already did 5 dives over the past 3 days and am planning a dive trip to Maui and Big Island for the last week in April . I’m so blessed!!!
Day 1: Deep Dive, Navigation
Day 2: PPB, Search/Rescue
Day 3: (TBD - maybe Enriched?!), PPB Specialty
Since I have the book and am a club member, it was about $400 total including the specialty cert. All are boat dives.
I’m not sure what I want to do for the last adventure dive: Self Reliant wasn’t an option and I don’t know if a night dive will fit the schedule. Maybe Enriched?? Probably good to have some instruction before messing with my air...
April 22 is a club clean-up dive and I’ll get to do some shore diving, which is the other major skill I wanted to cover before I leave for the other islands on 4/24 or 4/25.
Thanks to all of you who put up with my over thinking and over writing! I love this!! And I just bought some Seawing Gorillas!!
Self Reliant is an awesome course, with the right instructor. However, it is a stand alone certification and not part of AOW and as @Marie13 said, there is a prerequisite of 100 documented dives prior to taking the course.