Where was your first OW dive?

[Canuckgirl]

My OW checkout dives were in the Atlantic ocean off the coast of Nova Scotia during the first week of December. When I started the dive class in the fall, I didn't think about when the class would end! The water was not too bad, it does not change temperature much during the year, but the air temperature was cold enough to freeze our wetsuits stiff when we took them off for lunch. Putting a cold, frozen wetsuit back on was memorable!

 

[Scott Riemer]

Putting a cold, frozen wetsuit back on was memorable!

That doesn't sound fun.:11:

 

[Paco]

1st dive - Resort course at Chankanaab Park, Cozumel.
Check out dives - Devil's Lake, WI
1st real ocean dive - back to Cozumel
1st Lake Michigan wreck dive - The Niagra, near Port Washington, WI
1st ice dive - Redgranite Quarry

 

[muddiver]

First check out dive was Little Carona beach in Carona Del Mar, CA. Low vis dive in chilly water, typical Southern California beach diving.

 

[DoubleHoseDiver]

Destin Florida in October 1975. We dove some rubble. Tim

 

[RaixenViper]

First OW dive was at Yellow Fins- Catalina Island, CA.

Had to go to the surface when I had only 2500 psi left due to one guy in my group blowing through his tank. He nearly had a real out-of-air situation... he got 100 psi left at 50 feet. Problem: he was frailing about and he had a ... camera in hand. What a newbie!

 

[JanR]

Bora Bora, Tahiti.

After BOW, my wife and I went to Hawaii to dive...we were the ones mentioning about the bad visibility and lack of fishlife.

After three years diving in the quarries of Virginia (and other locales), I now know how good we had it.

v/r

Jan

 

[ScubaSam]

My OW dive was also Bora Bora, Tahiti, saw lemon sharks and black-tiip sharks, on the first dive...it was amazing!

 

[viceroy]

Mine was at Aliwal Shoal.
6" swells, decent current, overcast.
I threw up before leaving the boat, and threw up after getting back into the boat...Loved it!!!
What an adventure

 

[Dr Neil]

First recreational dive - Coki Beach, St. Thomas

First certified OW dive - Lake Rawlings, Virginia

80-80 water on #1 to 45 degree water - what a shocker! But I keep going back to Rawlings - it's comfortable.