Newbie here on Maui

[pasley]

dandydon once bubbled...
Welcome ot the party line - a great place for long surface intervals.

...As far as shore diving with a buddy with only 7 dives logged: ... Some may disagree with me, but I'd suggest more training and experience...

don

And what better way to get that experience than shore diving with a more experienced buddy. He has to get experience someplace, and the only way to do that is to dive. Boat diving is expensive, and shore diving offeres the most cost effective way to get in some dives. Shore diving is also very often shallow diving as well. But it can get deep.

So go for it, find a local group and go diving. Keep it shallow and remember that the firest 12 dives are the highest risk of DCI due to inexperience.

 

[Brian Gilpin]

Talk to the staff at Maui Dreams in south Maui. Good people
Brian

 

[PacNWdiver]

Ditto on the Maui Dreams. Not so touristy and had a buddy book last time I checked. Really nice and helpful folks. Cheapest tank rentals on the Island.

John

 

[breathslowly]

I agree, please have more supervised dives before you venture out with a budd, especially if you don't know him/her well.

 

[d33ps1x]

Maui eh?

How comfortable is your couch. I'll go diving with you! hehe...I had to step over a pile of snow to go diving today.

Welcome

 

[IndigoBlue]

I am guessing that water temps in Hawaii vary from 82 deg F in the summer to 70 in the winter. True?