Hello from Arkansas

[LadyLovestoRead]

Hubby and I just got certified and are looking forward to our first excursion dive at Grand Turk on our cruise this September. We did our open waters in Beaver Lake and I was told to please not make any judgement on how much I will love diving based on the lake dives. So cloudy and gross. Visibility about 5 feet! We are shopping for our equipment and already have our wetsuits. We do plan on doing some more local diving before September. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Northwest Arkansas area.

 

[Dark Wolf]

Welcome from SW Missouri!

DW

 

[drrich2]

Welcome! Grew up in (south-central) Arkansas; been gone a long time and never dove it. I think you will enjoy Grand Turk a great deal. Cruising can get you around to try some places. You'll find planning and taking a Caribbean dive trip for a week is fairly easy. If you haven't been outside the U.S. before, cruising is a really nice ice breaker.

 

[digdug87]

Welcome! We dive Beaver quite often. It is nothing like the ocean. Whereas you had 5 feet if visibility in the lake, a bad day at Grand Turk the visibility might get down to 60 feet.
Visibility does get better in Beaver than 5 feet. You might try diving Norfork lake as it has some good visibility for a lake. In most all man made lakes the visibility is better closer to the dam.
Enjoy

 

[txgoose]

Welcome!! Graduated from U of A. Beautiful country. Beaver, Tenkiller will be the easiest to get to. We dove Beaver last May with 30-ish feet vis. So it can be better.

As your instructor(s) said, the ocean will be completely different. Have fun!

 

[Protondecay123]

Welcome aboard! In the LR area, but did do a drysuit class in Lake Norfolk this March in similar conditions.

 

[Compressor]

Welcome to ScubaBoard and congratulations on getting certified.

 

[LadyLovestoRead]

Welcome! We dive Beaver quite often. It is nothing like the ocean. Whereas you had 5 feet if visibility in the lake, a bad day at Grand Turk the visibility might get down to 60 feet.
Visibility does get better in Beaver than 5 feet. You might try diving Norfork lake as it has some good visibility for a lake. In most all man made lakes the visibility is better closer to the dam.
Enjoy

Welcome! We dive Beaver quite often. It is nothing like the ocean. Whereas you had 5 feet if visibility in the lake, a bad day at Grand Turk the visibility might get down to 60 feet.
Visibility does get better in Beaver than 5 feet. You might try diving Norfork lake as it has some good visibility for a lake. In most all man made lakes the visibility is better closer to the dam.
Enjoy

I looked up Lake Norfork. It looks really great. Do you go to the Jordan Marina? Can you recommend a dive for us beginners?

 

[Protondecay123]

I looked up Lake Norfork. It looks really great. Do you go to the Jordan Marina? Can you recommend a dive for us beginners?

Yeah J&T out of Jonesboro and the people at Jordan Landing both off classes there.

I looked up Lake Norfork. It looks really great. Do you go to the Jordan Marina? Can you recommend a dive for us beginners?

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