ChrisA
Contributor
auberg:
If Hawaii is a one time trip for you, my advice then is to do as much diving as you possibly can between now and September. After you have some experiance underwater you will see more and your tank will last twice as long. Novice divers have to devote to much brain power to the mechanics of diving, staying with budy and so on. Later this all becomes easier and you can concentrait more one the reef and the fishes. Do you novice phase at home where diving is just the cost of an air fill. Shoot for a couple dozen dives before September
For example my son just finished OW class. On his second post certification dive I asked him if he saw those half dozen large bat rays. He says "no" he saw only one as he was working hard to keep me in sight in the poor viz. maintian is bouency as we were acending a slopping bottom. He was at 500 PSI after 27 minutes.
Went back to same place with "regular buddies" who do 100+ dives a year, after an hour we all had lots of air everyone knew where the other two were without haive to keep eyebals glued on fins.
