xdjio
Contributor
Hi All,
I just got my AOW cert last weekend, and I have been diving about a year. I feel good in the water, confident, but absolutely humble and ready to learn and improve more. While I have a PADI OW and AOW, all my instructors have been very diligent about incorporating much of their other skills where appropriate - most recently my AOW instructor was a GUE / IANTD guy who's spent a lot of time with the WKPP guys.
Needless to say, the course was very informative and went beyond the contents of the AOW book material.
On our deep dive, we had a really good time here in Vancouver, in "The Cut" at Whytecliff. We actually did two deep dives - 121 feet and 100 feet. Both times I felt good - calm, well prepared, etc.
A couple of AOW buddies and I (who have both been diving about 4 years longer than I have) are gooing to do a dive at Whytecliff in a few weeks. They've had plenty of deep dives too - but haven't been to the part of the cut that I was in and I'd like to show them some of the pretty sponges.
Since that would be my first "deep" dive without an instructor, I just want to make sure my plan is a sound one:
1) We'd be doing all the normal buddy checks we'd do anyway
2) We're all computer divers and are skilled with our various rigs
3) I was thinking that we drop down to maybe 10 meters, do a systems check, make sure we're all feeling good...
4) and maybe make a couple stops very quickly on the way down to target depth - like maybe stop at 20 meters, and if good, go to 30.
5) I don't have a handle on what my SAC is - numerically - but I do have a reasonable overall sense of how much I breathe at 15 - 25 meter depths.
6) We all have lights and are very familiar with the site overall
Anything else I should be considering?
Thanks!
I just got my AOW cert last weekend, and I have been diving about a year. I feel good in the water, confident, but absolutely humble and ready to learn and improve more. While I have a PADI OW and AOW, all my instructors have been very diligent about incorporating much of their other skills where appropriate - most recently my AOW instructor was a GUE / IANTD guy who's spent a lot of time with the WKPP guys.
Needless to say, the course was very informative and went beyond the contents of the AOW book material.
On our deep dive, we had a really good time here in Vancouver, in "The Cut" at Whytecliff. We actually did two deep dives - 121 feet and 100 feet. Both times I felt good - calm, well prepared, etc.
A couple of AOW buddies and I (who have both been diving about 4 years longer than I have) are gooing to do a dive at Whytecliff in a few weeks. They've had plenty of deep dives too - but haven't been to the part of the cut that I was in and I'd like to show them some of the pretty sponges.
Since that would be my first "deep" dive without an instructor, I just want to make sure my plan is a sound one:
1) We'd be doing all the normal buddy checks we'd do anyway
2) We're all computer divers and are skilled with our various rigs
3) I was thinking that we drop down to maybe 10 meters, do a systems check, make sure we're all feeling good...
4) and maybe make a couple stops very quickly on the way down to target depth - like maybe stop at 20 meters, and if good, go to 30.
5) I don't have a handle on what my SAC is - numerically - but I do have a reasonable overall sense of how much I breathe at 15 - 25 meter depths.
6) We all have lights and are very familiar with the site overall
Anything else I should be considering?
Thanks!