Got my Nitrox C card today and start my AOW sunday

[Tatakai]

Well things are moving along faster than I thought they would. I got my C card for Nitrox today and I will be doing my AOW check off dives on Sunday. I can't wait to get that one done and move on to Rescue. I was hoping to have it completed by October but ti looks like it will be next spring before I can get the Rescue completed.

I wander if I am going to fast though. I have completed OW and Nitrox and will finsih Advanced soon. I have done all this in less than 6 months. All I know is that I am having fun and enjoying the heck out of it. Can't wait to go play with the fishes this Sunday, some are biters in the quarry thats for sure.
This is the best exercise out side the hmmm (you know) a person can have I believe!!

Tatakai

 

[Trixxie]

Congratulations! keep diving and keep learning. Rescue is a must in my book and was the best class I ever took until D/M. I plan to do Nitrox when I am done w/ D/M.

Dive safe!

 

[victor]

I wander if I am going to fast though. I have completed OW and Nitrox and will finsih Advanced soon. I have done all this in less than 6 months. All I know is that I am having fun and enjoying the heck out of it. Can't wait to go play with the fishes this Sunday, some are biters in the quarry thats for sure.
This is the best exercise out side the hmmm (you know) a person can have I believe!!

Tatakai

Congratulations, and enjoy your rescue classes.

As for too fast. You don't say how many dives you have outside your classes.
Either way I would suggest you take a break from classes at the end of your rescue qualification and enjoy some diving. Rather than spend any money on another class spend it on a dive vacation, there are some incredibly beautiful places to see, awsome dives to do.
Have fun, thats what diving is all about.

 

[Mako Mark]

your question was if you were doing this too fast.

Time is not really the way to judge it, it is time underwater that really counts. Taking courses is great, but you also have to apply the theory that you have learned. All credit for stocking up on the theory, but go out and shoot some fish or photos. go and dive in a way that is not just training. If all you do is take courses,then you may become cautious of diving without an instructor. This is not all good.

Go dive and become a diver.

 

[Tatakai]

Have two dives planned for this coming summer that are big ones. We are planning on diving the Great Barrier Reef, then we are going to Roatan and Belize. We are looking at diving Bonaire if we can work it in. I have been diving at the local quarries since Feburary almost every other weekend and getting 4 to 6 dive in a day. I would have to look at my log book and see the number, just don't know it off the top of my head.
I do agree its time to get in the water and play and enjoy it more.

Tatakai

 

[Don Wray]

Congratulations Tatakai, will you be at Martha's Quarry Sunday? I'll be up there also finishing up Rescue.

 

[dl348]

Congrats, my AOW and Nitrox classes were 1 week apart when I took them. Lots of luck with Rescue.:mooner:

 

[k4man]

I'm with Victor. While all the shinny, new c-cards are attractive (and, heck, that's enough reason to go for them ) it's sometimes nice to be able to go on a dive...well...just to dive and not because it's a class or training dive.

Don't get me wrong. I am an educator and think that increasing your knowledge is very important (and in this case, hopefully making yourself a safer diver).

Relax and start up the next class or specialty in the spring. As for now, dive the summer that is left and enjoy!! :14:

 

[pir8]

In Dive Training the pace is your own. I do agree with getting fun dives in but it sounds like you are doing that to. Trips sound great!

 

[Tatakai]

The quarry that I will be at is Philidelphia Quarry off of I 75 south. $10 a day to dive 78 feet deep, so far it is a nice place to dive. I will be exploring another quarry that is close to this one that the guy I bought my reg from dives at. The next month I plan on diving for fun and then have to wait until the srping to do Rescue. This time next year I hope that I will have the number of dives in so that I can start my DM training. That has been my goal since I started. I haven't thought about being a instructor, just want to be the best diver I can be.

Tatakai

Good Luck Donon the Rescue dives, keep a level head and think through and you will be fine. I have been an observer and got to watch some that were dooing their scenerios and it was cool.