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Oh my, just used the search button and realized it has been forever since Tyki posted.
My husband and I began our trek into diving last March as an anniversary gift to each other. It took us from March until July to complete our Open Water Certification, but we had fun along the way.
Our first open water dives were in Fort Lauderdale and we finished our certification in Gilboa Lake in Ohio in late July. In August we got a bit adventurous and did our first dive post certification without a divemaster in Lake Cumberland. It was wonderful to explore a familiar lake in a brand new way with my favoritest partner.
We had hoped to take a trip to the Florida Keys with our local dive shop for Christmas, but the key people for the trip had some medical emergencies that caused the trip to be cancelled. So hubby and I called our good friends at Pro Dive in Ft Lauderdale and arranged for 2 days of diving while we were in Florida to visit family.
For Christmas, my parents got us an underwater camera, nothing fancy or extravagant, but something we can capture some memories with. Pro Dive required us to have a Dive Master with us on the first dive (certainly no complaints from us) because the dive location was 75 feet, which was deeper than any of our previous dives. Dive 2 on Day one was our first ocean dive without a divemaster, it was so fabulous gliding along among the coral and fishes hand in hand with hubby. Day 2 we decided it had been so much fun just diving to enjoy ourselves, that we repeated the experience, only this time we took the camera along with us. The pictures weren't the greatest, but we did get some good shots and wowed the family with what it is we see when we are down below.
This weekend will be the anniversary of when we first started learning to dive. We have approximately 12 dives under our belts and hubby stopped at the dive shop last night to get a schedule of the dive trips planned for this year so we can start developing a plan for our dive training and playing for this year.
I will try to be a bit more regular on the boards, but wanted to stop in and say hello this morning.
Tyki
ready to blow some more bubbles
My husband and I began our trek into diving last March as an anniversary gift to each other. It took us from March until July to complete our Open Water Certification, but we had fun along the way.
Our first open water dives were in Fort Lauderdale and we finished our certification in Gilboa Lake in Ohio in late July. In August we got a bit adventurous and did our first dive post certification without a divemaster in Lake Cumberland. It was wonderful to explore a familiar lake in a brand new way with my favoritest partner.
We had hoped to take a trip to the Florida Keys with our local dive shop for Christmas, but the key people for the trip had some medical emergencies that caused the trip to be cancelled. So hubby and I called our good friends at Pro Dive in Ft Lauderdale and arranged for 2 days of diving while we were in Florida to visit family.
For Christmas, my parents got us an underwater camera, nothing fancy or extravagant, but something we can capture some memories with. Pro Dive required us to have a Dive Master with us on the first dive (certainly no complaints from us) because the dive location was 75 feet, which was deeper than any of our previous dives. Dive 2 on Day one was our first ocean dive without a divemaster, it was so fabulous gliding along among the coral and fishes hand in hand with hubby. Day 2 we decided it had been so much fun just diving to enjoy ourselves, that we repeated the experience, only this time we took the camera along with us. The pictures weren't the greatest, but we did get some good shots and wowed the family with what it is we see when we are down below.
This weekend will be the anniversary of when we first started learning to dive. We have approximately 12 dives under our belts and hubby stopped at the dive shop last night to get a schedule of the dive trips planned for this year so we can start developing a plan for our dive training and playing for this year.
I will try to be a bit more regular on the boards, but wanted to stop in and say hello this morning.
Tyki
ready to blow some more bubbles
