Barnaby'sDad
Contributor
Im not sure I agree that diving in a cold quarry makes you a better diver in the warm open water. Sure, you may deal with lower visibility better and colder water but the tropics the water is always warm and visibility is most often good. What the quarry doesnt give you is ripping currents, surges, waves on the surface, reefs to bang into etc. So if youre going to do tropical diving then get certified there. If you are going to be lake and quarry diving then get certified there. Anyway certification is just 4 dives. You will only really learn diving over the next 50 dives anyway!
Agreed. The argument could be made that it makes you a more well rounded diver (in terms of conditions experienced), but I don’t think it makes you a “better” diver.
What diving in a quarry definitely does though is help you appreciate it even more when you do get to see a good variety of marine life.