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This is an amazing place to get certified Beats my certification in a quarry.Congrats! I do my OW checkout dives next week in Grand Cayman and am excited/nervous about it. I may do the AOW right afterwards too depending how comfortable I feel.
Yeah there is a quarry about 45 minutes from me that I could have done it in (probably not this time of year though) but I really have no desire to do any diving in cold water with not much visibility. I'll pretty much just be doing warm water Caribbean diving while on vacation and down in the Keys. I say that now but who knows, maybe once I start diving my mindset will change.This is an amazing place to get certified Beats my certification in a quarry.
If you like to use fun dives to progress don’t forget to ask the divemaster/guide/instructor to help you with one topic before the dive briefing.I've read all of the threads about the varying opinions on both sides of when to/not do your AOW and I know it doesn't mean you are "advanced" if you get it done. I've dove 3 times already (yes I know that is nothing in the grand scheme of things) so the OW dives will be my 4-7 dives and as mentioned I'm going to base whether I do it or not based on how comfortable I am after these dives. It will have nothing to do with being pressured into doing the dives or not. If I don't feel like I'm ready, I won't do them. Even if I don't do all of them I may do some of them. One of them is in 15ft at Sting Ray city which I will probably do regardless of getting AOW or not.