AzAtty:My goal is 100 new, quality logged dives this year. Aggressive for Arizona, but it works out to a few days each month with two to three dives per day. I'm looking to redevelop and my skills--task loading until I break, then do it some more. I'm big on the training end of things, so I don't care if someone wants to spend an hour at fifteen feet working on clearing a mask; I'm up for it. I grew up in low vis water, so I won't turn up my nose at Saguaro, either.
I have both Hogarthian kits and the "rec" setup; I prefer the former but I'll need to spend time on the latter for teaching purposes. And I do have doubled PST LP104's which I have willed to StephenAsh in the event of my untimely demise. Which is why I don't know if I'd ever dive with him again--there might be a mysterious "accident" in which my doubles miraculously survive (Hippocratic oath doesn't apply if the patient is a lawyer, right?)
Thanks for the responses, all. I'll likely be contacting some of you in the near future.
100 dives isn't too bad for AZ. We've been logging 130+ a year for the past few years. Of course about half of those are away from AZ.
As for the set up and types of dives - sounds good. We dive Hog rigs and during the weekday dives can usually be found in 15-20' of water in our doubles running reels and practicing bottle drops and pickups. We're planning on doing a simulated "cave dive" in the next couple of months for stamina purposes. We have a dive we want to do but it requires a 1500' swim to get to the jump, and that's a long way to swim (no scooters allowed), so we're kind of working up to the marathon... I'll understand if you don't want to join us on that one, but you're more than welcome to join us for part of it.
I'll let you know when we head up during the week.