Hi all new diver

[SaltwaterFreak]

I have been diving befor but now I am A new diver. Passed my book test yesterday, and have my openwater test Sun....weather permiting. Now that I bought all my gear Im broke so I hang out here Im In NC so lots of wreaks to go see soon Any advice for a noob

 

[pasley]

Welcome to the board. The grand adventure begins.

SCUBA certification as a Basic Open Water Diver is just the beginning. Now you have a license to learn. Learning starts by diving often with a well experienced dive buddy dives commensurate with your increasing experience.

After a while and say 20-50 dives experience and you are comfortable with your BOW skills, you will want to take AOW and later (say 75-100 dives) wreck diving. NC offers lots of wreck dives, but until you are certified for Wrecks, I would encourage you to look from the outside only. Wrecks are often found in deep water, and you should not be going deep in the next little bit.

Again welcome to the board and diving.

 

[Auralyte]

Hi!
New myself so I'm sending a big hello and a best of luck as you take your tests! I HATED the surface dive but everything else went OK - my dive master made my buddy and I go down at least 15 feet (not the 10 as promised!) to pick something up and I'm SO buoyant that it was a task!!!
We saw a lot of great stuff on our dives though, and it was a super thing to do, so I say...Be loud, be proud, and BE SAFE! I hope the diving bug bites you and that you get to do your wreck cert really soon, but Melvin's advice is good stuff - take it cool and do it right seems pretty wise to me!
See you wet -
Chris

 

[floridanewbe]

welcome aboard

 

[SaltwaterFreak]

Im with you on the boyent thing lol my Dive master underweighs me by a copple of pounds, at first I was mad but once I had that down the rest was easy. Nope staying inland till I feel good. My wife starts class soon (2 kids hard to do class at the same time) and my brother and his girlfriend are in class with me. We have found several wrecks at 60 feet or less through our dive master that they take new divers to. Hoping to be in the saltwater this spring.

 

[jldodd]

Welcome to Scubaboard and welcome to diving! I think you'll find that you now have a way to give up all of your money that you don't already give the government!

 

[SaltwaterFreak]

Well as of the 13th I have my OW
It was like crack, im hooked now :shocked2:
my local dive shop has a charter this weekend for new divers A 60 foot wreck dive 3 divers to each instructor. O I am so there. I hope to get 2 steel tanks shop said they would work me a good deal for 2 LP faber 108s...After buying BC, Reg, Octo, Dive Computer, fins, mask, boots, knife, flashlight, ....the list goes on and onI would hope so. So I do not to have to cary so much weight. Im a big guy....320 Lbs so I needed 16 lbs of weights to go under. BTW any of you more boyent ppl when using a weight intrograted BC and having to do the "remove and replace" your gear under water Hold on to the BC tight :shocked2: you will rise rather quickly when you unstrap that BC
Also If you have a shaved head where a skull cap My head is quight red now.