DukeAMO
Contributor
My husband and I got a little more gear and signed up for Advanced Open Water and Peak Performance Buoyancy next month too!
The new gear:
Zeagle Envoy Deluxe regs & first stages
Aqua Lung ABS Octos
A Zeagle Ranger for him, and a Zeagle Zena for me (custom assembled from various sizes)
Random & assorted small things
Suunto consoles with depth and pressure gauges and compasses.
We already had mask, snorkel, fins, booties, and wrist computers.
I know some people say to hold off on AOW, and others say to go ahead and do it right away for the practice/experience. We're going with the second camp on this one. ;-) I'd rather have more time with the instructors before we're off on a reef in a strange place.
I can't wait to try out our new gear in AOW. The main reason we decided to get the BCDs now was so we could work on our Peak Performance Buoyancy specialty that same weekend, with the BCDs and weight systems we really want to use in the log run. And the regulators are just a comfort thing - we'd rather have our own gear that we know well, instead of dealing with rentals all the time. And then the consoles kind of go along with the regulator.
We'll be traveling for most of our dives this year, so it'll be easier to rent the wetsuits/weights/tanks for a while. I can't even imagine dealing with two wet wetsuits on a cruise ship! Plus the water temperatures we'll be diving in are all over the map, so there's no one wetsuit that would work.
The new gear:
Zeagle Envoy Deluxe regs & first stages
Aqua Lung ABS Octos
A Zeagle Ranger for him, and a Zeagle Zena for me (custom assembled from various sizes)
Random & assorted small things
Suunto consoles with depth and pressure gauges and compasses.
We already had mask, snorkel, fins, booties, and wrist computers.
I know some people say to hold off on AOW, and others say to go ahead and do it right away for the practice/experience. We're going with the second camp on this one. ;-) I'd rather have more time with the instructors before we're off on a reef in a strange place.
I can't wait to try out our new gear in AOW. The main reason we decided to get the BCDs now was so we could work on our Peak Performance Buoyancy specialty that same weekend, with the BCDs and weight systems we really want to use in the log run. And the regulators are just a comfort thing - we'd rather have our own gear that we know well, instead of dealing with rentals all the time. And then the consoles kind of go along with the regulator.
We'll be traveling for most of our dives this year, so it'll be easier to rent the wetsuits/weights/tanks for a while. I can't even imagine dealing with two wet wetsuits on a cruise ship! Plus the water temperatures we'll be diving in are all over the map, so there's no one wetsuit that would work.