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Hi. My wife and I recently moved to the Tampa Bay area. We are just getting settled and want to do some diving. Obviously, dive shops are a dime a dozen around here. We own most of our own equipment and are looking for divers and dive shops that can point us in the direction of some decent shore...

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My wife made soft weights out of lead shot and an old nylon jacket. She double bagged them and they work great and were much cheaper than buying them. Peace, Bear

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As a new diver who holds an anxiety about diving, I was surprised about how calm I was underwater. I feel anxious before each dive and it is not until I am under the water that the anxiety subsides. I am afraid, though, that something will trigger it and I too will panic. I had incidents where I...

WoW! Glad to hear you and your group were okay. We cruised into Coz (on Carnival) in September and did our first ocean dive on Paradise Reef (I so wanna go back). We were shocked to see all the pics that came out of it. I knew the pier took damage, but had not heard that one was completely gone...

Someone posted in a recent response that new divers should stay away from drift dives (I believe they were talking about how Cozumel was mostly drift dives). Anyway, as a new diver who is pretty well land locked and will be diving quarries around the midwest, I suppose I won't have to worry...

:D Come up to Blue Springs sometime and we'll raise the water level. ;) The vis sux sometimes, especially on weekends when all the LDS's have student divers there, but the weekdays are great. Peace, Bear

Speaking as one of the "fat hopeless lardass" divers (I am not an instructor), I think I would rather swim with a dvier who knows his stuff and can perform the skills needed to keep me safe (as a buddy) than one who looks good in a wetsuit but has only half a brain (unless it is Meg Ryan or...

I will second that... a dive instructor that iyou are comfortable with can make all the difference. I tried to certifiy in 2002 and the DI seemed rather, well, militaristic to me. It made me nervouse and I had alot of trouble. The ones this year were patient, and I needed that and I got through...

Today was the end of two days of diving. This was our second/third since getting certified. We only did a tank each day, mainly due to other obligations. The air temps were in the 60's both days and the water (surface) temps were in the 70's (albeit, 69-71). We dove Blue Springs (here in...

While I enjoyed the warm open waters of Cozumel, I would not recommend getting your OW dives there (or in other warm weather places) for a number of factors. First, the viz; nothing makes you appreciate your diving more than having learned in viz of 10-15 ft. Secondly, the warmer and clearer...

This was a quote from another post, but it begged a question. I am new, having only one dive in the ocean (cozumel was GREAT!), and that was from shore. Our dive was 35ft ,80 degree water, strong current and lasted just 33 minutes. I ended the dive with 500 in the tank, after starting with 3000...

Just started reading this thread. First, welcome to the board, and I agree with Andy and Doc. I too am a new diver who felt anxious ("if man were meant to breath under water..." type of thing). However, the DI's I had and the LDS owner helped me out. I got thorugh the confined dives without...

Who is to say they haven't, or won't. I've see many a company spy log into forums where complaints are made and arguments are taking place. It gives a real insight into who is trying to scam who. I've been trying to stay neutrally bouyant in this case, but in the end, I think the buyer got...

...and I mean that. I can empathize with you whole heartedly. I tried getting OW certed in 2002 and was not able to get past some simple skills (one in particular was swapping snorkel and reg). I tried to cert again this year and could not get down to the group, I could not equalize my ears and...

... I get a faulty BC. Welp, my wife got sick just before our cruise, so we did not get to dive as much as we wanted. We arrived in Cozumel and took off in search of a dive shop. Since she had been sick and I wanted to descend leisurely, we decided on a shore dive. It took us a couple of...

Thank you, that helped a great deal. In short, we dove in Cozamel. I wanted a shore dive and found a place (Paradise Reef) and had a max depth of 35 feet. It was perfect for me. I even learned that I was okay at bouyancy control without a BC (it failed shortly into the dive). Peace, Bear

Thanks, those are two places we are gitting and I'll check them out. Peace, Bear

Oh trust me, I plan to. My wife is the fish (Scorpio's like me don't like the water). But, I did enjoy the dives and when i was not thinking about what I was doing (demonstraing skills), I was fine and doing the skills without hesitation or problems (even cleared my fully flooded mask when the...