mchiapetto
Contributor
Hello all,
My name is Mike and my wife is Debbie. We just finished our OW class and dives a week ago. We live in landlocked Colorado. Our certification dive was done in Blue Hole, New Mexico.
We started snorkeling 1 1/2 years ago and fell in love with the world beneath the water. After several snorkeling trips in the warm Caribbean waters, we decided to try scuba. Watching divers hanging out and enjoying the scenery while we were struggling to get down to where they were for a few seconds while snorkeling, convinced us that scuba would be even more fun than snorkeling.
We had a wonderful instructor who was very patient with us. We are both still a little nervous about diving. There is so much to learn and think about. But we are looking forward to geting better.
This board is proving to be a great source of info. We had no idea what an expensive sport this is. We are in the process of looking at equipment.
The stuff we used during the class was OK. But as we progressed through the pool dives (including lots of practice time), we noticed that each BC we used was a little different. It makes learning to control buoyancy quite challenging when the equipment we used was different each time.
At first we thought we would just rent stuff when we dive. But we are now feeling it would be better to have some things that were consistent from dive to dive so we could concentrate on getting better ourselves instead of trying to figure out some new gear each time.
Thanks for all the good advice and tips we are picking up. We look forward to reading more and maybe even meeting some of you on dive trips.
Mike and Debbie
My name is Mike and my wife is Debbie. We just finished our OW class and dives a week ago. We live in landlocked Colorado. Our certification dive was done in Blue Hole, New Mexico.
We started snorkeling 1 1/2 years ago and fell in love with the world beneath the water. After several snorkeling trips in the warm Caribbean waters, we decided to try scuba. Watching divers hanging out and enjoying the scenery while we were struggling to get down to where they were for a few seconds while snorkeling, convinced us that scuba would be even more fun than snorkeling.
We had a wonderful instructor who was very patient with us. We are both still a little nervous about diving. There is so much to learn and think about. But we are looking forward to geting better.
This board is proving to be a great source of info. We had no idea what an expensive sport this is. We are in the process of looking at equipment.
The stuff we used during the class was OK. But as we progressed through the pool dives (including lots of practice time), we noticed that each BC we used was a little different. It makes learning to control buoyancy quite challenging when the equipment we used was different each time.
At first we thought we would just rent stuff when we dive. But we are now feeling it would be better to have some things that were consistent from dive to dive so we could concentrate on getting better ourselves instead of trying to figure out some new gear each time.
Thanks for all the good advice and tips we are picking up. We look forward to reading more and maybe even meeting some of you on dive trips.
Mike and Debbie
