Finished OPW and Nitrox

[MasterFritts]

Killed two birds with one stone. Today I completed my checkouts at Loch Low-Minn in Athens, TN. The visibility was only about 15 feet but I had a blast. Thanks to everyone who posts here. I have read much valuable information.

Now I have a license to learn

Next week I go for the AOW checkouts. Thinking about Drysuit in Nov.

 

[Blackwood]

That beats my viz today by about 12 feet

Congrats, and keep diving. If it's cold, go dry ASAP.

 

[CamG]

Greetings MasterFritts and congratulations on your certifications. Nitrox opens a whole new window into diving. I have enjoyed using and learning more about it all summer. It adds a cool tool for dive planning and makes for some really awesome dives.
You will enjoy diving dry for dive season never ends!!! I enjoy diving in the winter it is never crowded and hot chocolate / tea never tasted so good.
Good luck with AOW, hope you have good visibility and don't forget your batteries/ lights if doing the night dive portion. Safe diving and have a blast!
CamG Keep diving....keep training....keep learning!

 

[catra8104]

Congrats!!!

 

[k ellis]

Congratulations!

 

[Atomic_Diver]

your lucky my ow check out dive viz was about 4-5' but hey... congrats and welcome to the world of EANx

 

[MasterFritts]

Thanks all.

Tomorrow is my Advanced checkout and of course it is raining today so I bet visibility will be awful.

 

[JoyfulNoise]

:fish::goldfish: Congrats to you!

 

[String]

Don't rush from course to course. Take time out to actually go diving.

 

[MasterFritts]

Don't rush from course to course. Take time out to actually go diving.

Here is my reasoning behind taking these courses.

Open Water
1st Step and needed.

Advanced Open Water
Open Water 102 as my instructor calls it. This course allowed me to hone my skills with an instructor and help to become more familiar with the underwater environment helping make me a safer diver.

Nitrox
Allows me as a beginner an extra safety net by using air charts I build in a nice margin in the dive. As I progress in my abilities I can start staying down longer as Nitrox allows.

Dry Suit
Allows me to dive year round in TN so that I can continue to dive, dive, dive.

After these 4 I will dive my fool head off and work on other certifications after I honed my skills during these dives.

To me those 4 represent a good basis for diving and allow me to be a better and safer diver.

I passed the AOW course this weekend and will go diving next weekend and then possibly the dry suit class Nov 1st.