Hi
Just wanting to get some people's perspectives on the best people/places with whom to take cave diving courses and the must visit cave diving spots in florida given say at least 1 month and no real budget. Who is in your opinion the best teacher in Florida? I am open to both backmount and sidemount but find the idea of sidemount a bit more appealing (i'd like to dive both eventually).
My plan is to do my cavern course first so that I am not doing the zero to hero thing (at least not completely doing it) plus it will also give me a good idea of how quickly i pick up everything and prevent me from planning a huge trip and finding out i get there and can't get fully cave certified. I'd really like to be able to do intro to cave then full cave and then have a period of about a month where i can do alot of cave diving and reinforce the techniques i've learned, etc. Plus i live in Australia and if i'm going to go all that way i'd like to do alot of diving.
In terms of logistics - if i were going to stay for a month - 2 months would it be a good idea to just buy some tanks in the US then sell them to a shop before i leave? If i did a total of 50 dives then hiring tanks would really add up and i'm not sure i could 1. get my tanks from australia to the states and 2. whether or not they'd even fill them if so (you can't fill tanks from the states in australia).
I have a broad outline of where i'd like to go and who i'd like to be certified with but i want to see what people who understand the area better think. Thanks
Just wanting to get some people's perspectives on the best people/places with whom to take cave diving courses and the must visit cave diving spots in florida given say at least 1 month and no real budget. Who is in your opinion the best teacher in Florida? I am open to both backmount and sidemount but find the idea of sidemount a bit more appealing (i'd like to dive both eventually).
My plan is to do my cavern course first so that I am not doing the zero to hero thing (at least not completely doing it) plus it will also give me a good idea of how quickly i pick up everything and prevent me from planning a huge trip and finding out i get there and can't get fully cave certified. I'd really like to be able to do intro to cave then full cave and then have a period of about a month where i can do alot of cave diving and reinforce the techniques i've learned, etc. Plus i live in Australia and if i'm going to go all that way i'd like to do alot of diving.
In terms of logistics - if i were going to stay for a month - 2 months would it be a good idea to just buy some tanks in the US then sell them to a shop before i leave? If i did a total of 50 dives then hiring tanks would really add up and i'm not sure i could 1. get my tanks from australia to the states and 2. whether or not they'd even fill them if so (you can't fill tanks from the states in australia).
I have a broad outline of where i'd like to go and who i'd like to be certified with but i want to see what people who understand the area better think. Thanks