opalobsidian
Contributor
I got my open water certification in January of this year and have been having great fun obsessing on dive vacations. Up til now I've been approaching my diving with the idea that I don't really care about further certification and that I only want to gain experience by diving and by picking the brains of other divers I meet on my dive vacations....
However now I'm beginning to ponder the benefits of further PADI training; mostly because of my reading of scuba board posts. I am constanly surprised by all the things I read about that I have no clue about that seem ...duh... really important!!!! Now that I have a little experience under my belt (40 dives) it's becoming clear to me that I am pretty much just blindly following my DMs on the dives and have not much of a clue what's actually happening; nor do I have enough knowledge to make choices on my own.
Does anyone have any feedback on these thoughts?
Thanks so much!
Pamela
However now I'm beginning to ponder the benefits of further PADI training; mostly because of my reading of scuba board posts. I am constanly surprised by all the things I read about that I have no clue about that seem ...duh... really important!!!! Now that I have a little experience under my belt (40 dives) it's becoming clear to me that I am pretty much just blindly following my DMs on the dives and have not much of a clue what's actually happening; nor do I have enough knowledge to make choices on my own.
Does anyone have any feedback on these thoughts?
Thanks so much!
Pamela
