Hello from NJ!

[Hammy_Dives]

Hello from NJ.

Happy New Year! I'm so excited to find this forum. So much great content and community here.
Getting back to diving after a 7 year hiatus. Bought all my gear again (wish I found this forum before) and completed 4 dives in December in the Bahamas with Stuart's Cove. I've since completed EFR and signed up for Rescue and Nitrox. Just looking to continue to learn and progress further.

 

[NYCrecdiver]

Hello and welcome! Good on you for signing up for Nitrox and Rescue! I did the same after getting back into more serious diving (i.e. not once every 3-5 years during a trip to a tropical vacation) after an even longer hiatus (20 years). The Rescue course was definitely a very rewarding experience.
If you are doing your training with PADI, you can sign up for their club to take advantage of 20% discount on all e-learning. The first year club membership is free...
I am also a NE diver out of Queens. Are you planning to dive locally?

 

[BoundForElsewhere]

Just looking to continue to learn and progress further.

Works for scuba but also a good mantra to follow for life. Welcome to Thunderdome.

 

[Jersey1971]

Welcome!
I'm in Essex and in a very similar situation to you. I got back into SCUBA last year and took Nitrox and AOW. I did a couple of NJ wreck dives, which convinced me that I need a dry suit, so I'm going to get my dry suit and rescue certifications this year.

Do you plan to do any diving locally? Wreck diving isn't great, but the shop I go through is really nice, and I've had a great experience (other than freezing to death in my wetsuit).

 

[NYCrecdiver]

Nice! I finished the Dry Suit Diver e-learning part a few days ago. I have done a few wreck dives and found a wetsuit to be pretty miserable. I was very jealous of dry suite divers with their cozy undergarments on between dives while I had to struggle out of my wet wetsuit in the cold and rub myself dry.
I found a nice dive shop in NYC (Capt Mike) to get me going again with several courses. Now that I'm pretty much done with the training I wanted, I joined the Big Apple Divers club.

 

[rob.mwpropane]

Wreck diving isn't great...

Blasphemy I say!

Theres magic in them waters, lol

 

[formernuke]

A drysuit will be your best friend for northern Atlantic.

 

[BoundForElsewhere]

I wish I didn't live in a 4th floor walk-up and had a car, sometimes. It actually costs me more per dive to go local than if I hop down to Coz for three days of immersive diving.

I do love a good double entendre.

 

[TMHeimer]

Welcome back into it and also to the SB from a native of Yonkers. I used t get down to NJ for some shore diving but there aren't many places and the traffic on the GSP.....

 

[Hammy_Dives]

Hello and welcome! Good on you for signing up for Nitrox and Rescue! I did the same after getting back into more serious diving (i.e. not once every 3-5 years during a trip to a tropical vacation) after an even longer hiatus (20 years). The Rescue course was definitely a very rewarding experience.
If you are doing your training with PADI, you can sign up for their club to take advantage of 20% discount on all e-learning. The first year club membership is free...
I am also a NE diver out of Queens. Are you planning to dive locally?

Yes. Doing PADI rescue and Nitrox. Very excited. I'm originally from Brooklyn. Where do you dive?