diveandclimb
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So let me put out my situation and if anybody has advice I would welcome it:
This dive season I am only going to have time to take one class. I have plenty of opportunities to dive but rarely do I have more than one day free on a weekend. So my delema is this, I currently dive wet in a 7mm full suit with 3mm hooded vest which I have been renting and although I am essentially warm enough on mid summer dives when the water is in the sixties, I try my best to puch my season which ended up meaning that I was diving in 39 F water a couple of weeks ago. I was totally freezing and I couldn't go in for a second dive which was a huge bummer. I am away alot during the middle of the summer so I try to start diving as early as possible and end diving as late as possible. So with this in mind is seems like taking a drysuit class would be a good thing to do and then I would do my AOWs next year but I have also been told that AOWs are really meant to come pretty soon after OWs and so that would make me think that I should do my AOWs first and my drysuit cert next summer. I did consider diving dry without the cert but unfortunatly most of my LDSs wont let you take specialties dry unless you have the drysuit cert. I also figure that I would get more enjoyment out of my AOWs if I do them warm and dry but I don't know if I would get my out of my drysuit class if I had some more time to work on fundimentals through the AOWs. To add to the confusion is the fact that I am still growing sort-of. It's getting really expensive to rent a suit for $30 a day and I can't really imagine that this is cost effective but I am only sixteen and while I have only grown a half inch or so in the past several months Im told I will likely get another inch or so in a couple of years. This leave me with the choice of buying a used wetsuit and then going dry in a couple of years when I am totally sure I am done growing for good but I also have been told I could just get a drysuit which is fitted for someone who is an inch or two taller than me so I wouldn't outgrow it at all. Any advice/thought/words-of-wisdom would be much appreciated. Thanks.
This dive season I am only going to have time to take one class. I have plenty of opportunities to dive but rarely do I have more than one day free on a weekend. So my delema is this, I currently dive wet in a 7mm full suit with 3mm hooded vest which I have been renting and although I am essentially warm enough on mid summer dives when the water is in the sixties, I try my best to puch my season which ended up meaning that I was diving in 39 F water a couple of weeks ago. I was totally freezing and I couldn't go in for a second dive which was a huge bummer. I am away alot during the middle of the summer so I try to start diving as early as possible and end diving as late as possible. So with this in mind is seems like taking a drysuit class would be a good thing to do and then I would do my AOWs next year but I have also been told that AOWs are really meant to come pretty soon after OWs and so that would make me think that I should do my AOWs first and my drysuit cert next summer. I did consider diving dry without the cert but unfortunatly most of my LDSs wont let you take specialties dry unless you have the drysuit cert. I also figure that I would get more enjoyment out of my AOWs if I do them warm and dry but I don't know if I would get my out of my drysuit class if I had some more time to work on fundimentals through the AOWs. To add to the confusion is the fact that I am still growing sort-of. It's getting really expensive to rent a suit for $30 a day and I can't really imagine that this is cost effective but I am only sixteen and while I have only grown a half inch or so in the past several months Im told I will likely get another inch or so in a couple of years. This leave me with the choice of buying a used wetsuit and then going dry in a couple of years when I am totally sure I am done growing for good but I also have been told I could just get a drysuit which is fitted for someone who is an inch or two taller than me so I wouldn't outgrow it at all. Any advice/thought/words-of-wisdom would be much appreciated. Thanks.