I'm done!! (sort of)

[on_two_wheels]

As of 22 MAR 08 I'm a certified diver. :luxhello: I wrapped it up with 3 dives at Catalina Island. Great time and only had a couple skills to do so most of it was just recreation. I spent most of the time working on my buoyancy and must say I'm VERY comfortable with it. I moved some weight around between all three dives and made huge strides. Now if I can just improve my consumption I'll be stoked!!

Now, I say "sort of" in the subject because I'll never be done learning. Next weekend I start the AOW. I'll have all but a night dive done next saturday. Hope everyone had a GREAT Easter weekend!!

Matt

 

[Sas]

Congratulations Matt! artytime: I certified a month ago so a noob too Hope you have fun on your advanced course~~ I have started my specialties for my advanced as well so will hopefully get my AOW by October. Have to wait a while for the deep course to finish it... not many courses available over winter it seems!

 

[DivingPrincessE]

Congrats! Good luck with AOW, which 5 specialties are you doing?

 

[on_two_wheels]

Congrats! Good luck with AOW, which 5 specialties are you doing?

He (instructor) set it up so I could do it all in one day except the night dive. I know we're doing Navigation, AWARE, Deep, Photo and Night. I'll be doing all but the night dive this weekend. The night dive will have to wait a couple weeks. I might try working it so we do nitrox during that two weeks, too.

 

[DivingPrincessE]

Very cool! I did Peak Perforance Buoyancy, Wreck, Navigation, Deep, and Search and Recovery...but it was with my old shop that sucked, so I didn't really learn much of anything (past what was in the book). I did Nitrox last month. I doing the Equipment Specialist course in April, and the Peak Perforance Buoyancy one this summer. I'm also hoping to do Wreck and Navigation in North Carolina, and then Drysuit in October. At some point this summer I'm going to do the Rescue (even though I'm a bit nervous about that one). Then I'll have the Master Diver thing...shut up all you PADI "card collector" haters, I like doing my specialties.

 

[spectrum]

Aware?

 

[DivingPrincessE]

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[Guba]

Welcome to diving! Of course, you've already hit the nail on the head. You're not done...you've just earned a "license to learn"! (That describes me, too, and it should describe nearly everyone on the board. Just about the time someone thinks they know it all, some new experience comes along. Stay with this forum long enough and you'll hear that theme again and again. That's the excitement of diving!)
Have fun at it!

 

[on_two_wheels]

Emily, I'll be doing a lot of those, too. I was thinking about taking Peak Perf but if my control improves as fast as it did the last few dives, I'll be thrilled with my trial and error efforts. Rescue sounds like a blast to me!! Why would you be nervous? Sounds challenging but a blast nonetheless!! I agree.....collect the damn cards. Many involve more dives anyway!

 

[fireandwater]

Congratulations new diver. . .and no, you certainly aren't even "sort of" done. You've just started. Soon you'll be a seasoned scuba addict like the rest of us!