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Sorry if I was unclear. Our guide was an instructor and was fully cave certified and dove with full cave gear. He also was our guide for some of our open water dives so I guess I was using the term divemaster in a generic sense. I should have said dive leader. Sorry for any confusion this...

My wife and I dove with Tank Ha last summer and had a blast. We went on a cenote dive with just the 2 of us and the divemaster. They also have a boat that goes directly to Coz, so you do not have to spend your whole day taking the ferry back and forth toting gear. It was our first non quarry...

My wife and I had a great experience diving with Tank Ha last summer. They even took us on a Cenote dive when we were the only two divers...Awesome customer service and great DM's. Their rental gear was in good repair and they are the only dive shop that has a direct boat to Coz. glen

My daughter just turned fifteen and we did update her SEI Jr. AOW to AOW (and got a 2 star CMAS card to boot). We just called SEI and got the cards about a week later. There was a small fee, but it was worth it to avoid any confusion later. She also feels more grown up by dropping the Jr. off...

Thanks for the info everyone. As long as the weather holds out later in the week we will be going to White Star and Portage. I cut my teeth at Portage and my wife has never been. I will be sure to post a report (hopefully positive...) glen

My wife and I are going to take a couple of days and dive White Star and Gilboa next week. We were thinking about a stop at Portage but conditions have been so bad the last 2 years I don't know if it is worth the time. Has anyone been to Portage this year, can you update on conditions? thanks...

Thanks guys, I can't wait to dive in something other than a quarry!!! glen

I am going to be traveling to Playa Del Carmen in June. I have a SEI OW and AWO card, are divers having any trouble with the SEI card being recognized out of the US? thanks glen

Glad to hear you had a good day at Gilboa. Did they get cleaned up from the storm? I heard they got hit pretty bad. I will be up there this weekend as my wife and youngest daughter are finishing their OW course. BTW Dave is a great guy to dive with...We dove together when I was trying out...

My wife and daughter will be doing their OW cert dives at Gilboa in 2 weeks and they had to wear 7mm suits for all of their pool work. I can't believe that they put you in the quarry with a thick suit and hood without training in the gear. I was at Gilboa last week and comfortablly dived to...

I knew nothing about diving before certification. We got a phone call from my daughter's school saying they were going to start a scuba class and students and parents could be involved. We decided that it could be fun. Ended up being a SEI course and it was great. My wife and youngest...

Sorry about the confusion. I had reversed the sizes in the original post and I still cannot get it to change on the main title. I have edited the post. The Stiletto should be MED and the Lazer should be Large. glen

My wife is getting certified and has been using a Stiletto (Med) and Lazer (LARGE) in her classes and would like to purchase a used one (in nice operational condition). If you have one sitting in your locker that is not getting used that you would like to sell for a fair price let me know. Send...

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Welcome, my 14 year old daughter and I just got certified last year through her high school in Cincinnati. You will have a blast. There are some great local divers around, you will find that there is a wealth of information on this board. The quarry diving in Ohio is a blast so have fun... glen

Thanks for all of the adivce. I had not thought of running the tanks independently (without a manifold). I thinks that sounds like the way to go, I like the redundancy. To answer the question about the manifold, yes it appears to be just a crossover, with no knob. I will definately be...

I recently got a great deal on my local CL on a pair of lp95's with a non isolating manifold. The guy at the local dive shop said that I could dive with my regular singles reg setup and leave the second valve uncovered as long as I did not run it empty and did not open the second valve...

My oldest daughter and I got certified this year. She was 12 when certified and I hate to say that after 20 dives she is as good or better than her dad underwater. My youngest is 10 and I have serious doubts that she will be mature enough at 12 to be certified. She taught herself to freedive...