Lexy:I'm curious what other divers have done after finishing their rescue cert. Did you just continue racking up dives and enjoying? Did you go onto DM or other specialities? What was your next move as a diver and dive education?
I finished rescue this weekend and I'm looking for feedback to see where others have ventured to next.
Any feedback or your thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
After rescue I went diving for 15 years and racked up a whole whack of dives. When I moved to the Netherlands I decided to become a DM and took rescue again (assuming, quite correctly) that I had forgotten a lot. Since then I've been making a point of doing some kind of continuing ed course on a yearly basis.
As for your situation I could make a couple of suggestions:
- Nitrox if you don't have it.
- Deep, wreck, drift and cavern specialties to open up some options that you might not have now.
I would suggest spending about 25% of your yearly budget on training. Don't do what I did and go out and just dive a lot and forget to learn. When I finally did get seriuos about diving I looked at my gear for the first time in years and realized that I must have looked like a throwback to a bygone era. I sure felt like one. Put some effort into staying current.
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