Not that i am anywhere NEAR ready for it

[ScubaSixString]

Still need to get AOW in plus some more dives, but anyone have any suggestions on tech diving (Tech 1, cave, etc) education places up here? I live near boston and would prefer not to have to drive 250 miles.....(of course staying out of boston would be a plus too )

 

[drivsea]

check w. SouthShoredivers on 1a in Weymouth.

 

[ScubaSarus]

I've always wanted to cave dive. I don't expect to get a new lot of gear and training though. If you do get in some education up hear, keep us informed about how you are progressing and the training and were you dive. I find it quite interesting.

Some of the divers that operate the Portland Quarry up here are cave dives and maybe you can contact one or 2 by contactin The Scuba Shack in Wethersfield, CT

Best of luck there.

 

[CD_in_Chitown]

My suggestion FWIW is to find some tech diver friends through your shop (or a shop), learn everything you can without being too big a nuisance and then start collecting gear that you will require for adv nitrox/deco procedures. Doubles, stage, extra regulators, reels, etc. Just to make sure you're not putting the cart before the horse. I think you should be extremely comfortable in doubles before you go and add a stage bottle. I wanted to be extremely comfortable in doubles with a stage before I started any tech training.

Once you find some divers and get some ideas and real world knowledge of the options then it will get even easier to decide where to take the classes. Narrow it down to a couple/three suggestions and go interview instructors. Then you'll be faced with having to make the purchase of the required gear, which will probably differ slightly from one shop/instructor to another but doubles (or a big tank with an H valve), a stage, reel, and required regulators will be on every list you can assume.

 

[Rafael]

this is what i will recomend to you,
Boston Harbor Diving Company
www.bostondiving.com
87 Woodside Ave.
Winthrop, MA 02152
(617) 846-5151
(617) 846-4334 Fax
email: js@bostondiving.com

The instructors are very nice people i learn alot from them but at the same time it was fun, they went above and beyond, one of the best time i ever had.

 

[RIOceanographer]

Still need to get AOW in plus some more dives, but anyone have any suggestions on tech diving (Tech 1, cave, etc) education places up here? I live near boston and would prefer not to have to drive 250 miles.....(of course staying out of boston would be a plus too )

I am not sure which part of New England you are in, but if you are around RI there are at least two places that offer the TDI courses. One is the Seeker in Newport and the other is Eddie Roggenstein who teaches through Pier Dive shop. I have never personally taken a class through either one so I can't tell you anything about the quality of instruction etc.

 

[MSilvia]

Still need to get AOW in plus some more dives, but anyone have any suggestions on tech diving (Tech 1, cave, etc) education places up here? I live near boston and would prefer not to have to drive 250 miles.....(of course staying out of boston would be a plus too )

You'll want AOW, plus more dives, plus rescue, plus nitrox, and you'll want to be comfortable diving with a drysuit and doubles.

That said, I think Northeast Scuba in Chelmsford offers some tech training.

Northern Atlantic Dive Expeditions definately does. http://www.northernatlanticdive.com/

South Shore Divers may. I know they were trying to build relationships with some tech instructors.

PG Dive in Newton just ran a trip down to Florida for an advanced nitrox/deco class, so you may be able to get started through them as well.

 

[vetdiver]

I may get some flack for this, but I would not recommend doing cave training here. I would highly, highly suggest that you take a couple weeks and go to central Florida to do your training. If and when you are interested, I can recommend an instructor in that area.

 

[RIOceanographer]

I may get some flack for this, but I would not recommend doing cave training here.

You can get flack for saying "hello" on internet forums....

Is it even possible to do cave training in New England even if you wanted to? I have never heard of any cave dives around the northeast, do any even exist?

 

[vetdiver]

Is it even possible to do cave training in New England even if you wanted to? I have never heard of any cave dives around the northeast, do any even exist?

To be perfectly honest, I haven't even looked into it since I moved here, though I have heard that there are some overhead environs in quarries, sinkholes, etc in this area. I just cannot imagine doing training in one or two quarries when you could be in a different spring system every day doing the same training with guys (and girls, of course) that are doing this stuff every weekend and a few evenings a week...