It's already 2 years that I 've got my OWD certification. Since then I have now 34 logged dives and will dive again within 3 weeks in Miami during a break in a symposium. Besides I did 5 specialities and now I'm AOWD.
I'm far away from any diving place, though I live in a city with harbor, a river harbor with opaque brown waters. The nearest diving place is something like 500 kms away home. A quarry with poor visibility.
At work there are more than 5 divers, some of them did their last dive 3 years ago and will no longer dive.
One of the points I find is that it's becoming difficult to arrange a dive trip with a buddy of my confidence. I've being considering starting with solo diving, but for that you need to have all your gear, and this is becoming harder every day.
There are also Local Diving Schools that arrange diving trips for certified divers when they carry their own students to checkout. Sometimes you can meet an occasional dive buddy that is within your cert/skill level, but simetimes not, making the whole dive trip just a waist of money with no fun.
Some other diving trips are a dream within a dream, like going to dive to the Red Sea, Blue Hole in Belize or Fernando de Norhona in Brazil or San Andrés in Colombia, but those trips are so expensive for our economy that are prohibited for me and for the people that lives in this latitudes in these days of bankruptcy.
I'm far away from any diving place, though I live in a city with harbor, a river harbor with opaque brown waters. The nearest diving place is something like 500 kms away home. A quarry with poor visibility.
At work there are more than 5 divers, some of them did their last dive 3 years ago and will no longer dive.
One of the points I find is that it's becoming difficult to arrange a dive trip with a buddy of my confidence. I've being considering starting with solo diving, but for that you need to have all your gear, and this is becoming harder every day.
There are also Local Diving Schools that arrange diving trips for certified divers when they carry their own students to checkout. Sometimes you can meet an occasional dive buddy that is within your cert/skill level, but simetimes not, making the whole dive trip just a waist of money with no fun.
Some other diving trips are a dream within a dream, like going to dive to the Red Sea, Blue Hole in Belize or Fernando de Norhona in Brazil or San Andrés in Colombia, but those trips are so expensive for our economy that are prohibited for me and for the people that lives in this latitudes in these days of bankruptcy.