wico6768
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Hi all,
I am new here, and pretty new to diving. I have read an obsessive amount of accidents and incidents posts, and someday might post our newbie near misses. We've had them. Introduced to diving on our honeymoon, with a wonderful intro to scuba session there, and then another a couple years later. So, we got certified and did our open waters in Bora Bora with an amazing instructor who, at the time, had cancer and passed a couple years ago. He taught us so much, and was such a nice person in general, we were sad to learn of his passing. He taught us much more than we got from our classroom and pool sessions, he had a passion and he shared it with us. Wonderful man.
Since, we have not dived locally, I don't even know where we would that would be warm.
But we have about 52 dives, all warm water. Coz, Belize (NOT blue hole, we specifically snorkeled only there, and then French Polynesia, our true love).
We'll be in Turks/Caicos over Thanksgiving, and at Moorea, FP in July.
I have learned a lot from reading, and hope to learn much more. I want to get rescue certified, but unfortunately you must do AOW, which I don't really want. I
d be open to suggestions as to that from any of you. It just doesn't seem like what we want to do, the dives they teach anyway. We have a guy in Rangiroa who basically teaches us when we are there, but we aren't doing it for certs, he just wants to teach, and we want to learn. He isn't PADI anyway, so he couldn't cert us. But, he's a wonderful person and instructor. We dive with his shop (him and his wife) each year we're there. So, should we do the AOW? Can you do that without wreck diving, night diving, etc? I'd rather do a lot of peak buoyancy and maybe a couple deeps, since we generally end up between 60-80 now in FP.
As to Coz, we have never done anything remotely scary there. But maybe we are just lucky? I read about all the danger, and we only do easy, with the current, drift diving. Like no exertion at all, and definitely no depth. That's what we prefer. But you never know what you never know, so should we know more for there? We go somewhere closer each Fall, twice has been Coz, once Belize and now Turks.
My husband is my buddy, I wouldn't buddy with anyone else. So neither of us do insta buddies on dive ops. When i Rangi though, he goes with the husband and I go wit the wife. And they teach.
I feel like I know a lot of you, since I've done SO much reading, but I know you don't know me We're in CO, and happy to have found this place, wish I'd of found it sooner, and our very first OW dive after our check out dives(which was in Tikehau and that guide is no longer guiding), was our open your eyes dive that taught us A LOT about how green we really were. We were lucky, several times, and it made us safer and better buddies.
Happy to meet you,
Wico
I am new here, and pretty new to diving. I have read an obsessive amount of accidents and incidents posts, and someday might post our newbie near misses. We've had them. Introduced to diving on our honeymoon, with a wonderful intro to scuba session there, and then another a couple years later. So, we got certified and did our open waters in Bora Bora with an amazing instructor who, at the time, had cancer and passed a couple years ago. He taught us so much, and was such a nice person in general, we were sad to learn of his passing. He taught us much more than we got from our classroom and pool sessions, he had a passion and he shared it with us. Wonderful man.
Since, we have not dived locally, I don't even know where we would that would be warm.
But we have about 52 dives, all warm water. Coz, Belize (NOT blue hole, we specifically snorkeled only there, and then French Polynesia, our true love).
We'll be in Turks/Caicos over Thanksgiving, and at Moorea, FP in July.
I have learned a lot from reading, and hope to learn much more. I want to get rescue certified, but unfortunately you must do AOW, which I don't really want. I
d be open to suggestions as to that from any of you. It just doesn't seem like what we want to do, the dives they teach anyway. We have a guy in Rangiroa who basically teaches us when we are there, but we aren't doing it for certs, he just wants to teach, and we want to learn. He isn't PADI anyway, so he couldn't cert us. But, he's a wonderful person and instructor. We dive with his shop (him and his wife) each year we're there. So, should we do the AOW? Can you do that without wreck diving, night diving, etc? I'd rather do a lot of peak buoyancy and maybe a couple deeps, since we generally end up between 60-80 now in FP.
As to Coz, we have never done anything remotely scary there. But maybe we are just lucky? I read about all the danger, and we only do easy, with the current, drift diving. Like no exertion at all, and definitely no depth. That's what we prefer. But you never know what you never know, so should we know more for there? We go somewhere closer each Fall, twice has been Coz, once Belize and now Turks.
My husband is my buddy, I wouldn't buddy with anyone else. So neither of us do insta buddies on dive ops. When i Rangi though, he goes with the husband and I go wit the wife. And they teach.
I feel like I know a lot of you, since I've done SO much reading, but I know you don't know me We're in CO, and happy to have found this place, wish I'd of found it sooner, and our very first OW dive after our check out dives(which was in Tikehau and that guide is no longer guiding), was our open your eyes dive that taught us A LOT about how green we really were. We were lucky, several times, and it made us safer and better buddies.
Happy to meet you,
Wico
