mdod
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Hi,
I'm new to the forum. My husband was talking about getting scuba certified so I told him we'd get certified for our Christmas present. I was looking for info on certification dives and, by coincidence, the link I clicked was a page for the American Pro Diving Center in Crystal River, FL. That caught my eye because a friend mentioned diving there recently and my in-laws live a little over an hour from there.
They have a two day PADI OW course with the classwork done at home in advance. The local scuba classes are not at convenient times or locations so I was thinking we could get certified there, visit the in-laws and then take a Western Carribean cruise out of Tampa (to Roatan, Belize City, Costa Maya and Cozumel) the second week of Feb to get some dives under our belt.
If we did that, any thoughts as to which of those ports (and dive operators) would be the best for novice divers? Will we have a hard time getting trip booked with good dive operations this late?
Also, I read another post that mentioned that Jan is rough for diving. Is the second week of Feb a bad time to dive? I picked that week because it's before the spring breakers start. We went on this same cruise about the same time two years ago and we did hit rough conditions at Costa Maya.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
I'm new to the forum. My husband was talking about getting scuba certified so I told him we'd get certified for our Christmas present. I was looking for info on certification dives and, by coincidence, the link I clicked was a page for the American Pro Diving Center in Crystal River, FL. That caught my eye because a friend mentioned diving there recently and my in-laws live a little over an hour from there.
They have a two day PADI OW course with the classwork done at home in advance. The local scuba classes are not at convenient times or locations so I was thinking we could get certified there, visit the in-laws and then take a Western Carribean cruise out of Tampa (to Roatan, Belize City, Costa Maya and Cozumel) the second week of Feb to get some dives under our belt.
If we did that, any thoughts as to which of those ports (and dive operators) would be the best for novice divers? Will we have a hard time getting trip booked with good dive operations this late?
Also, I read another post that mentioned that Jan is rough for diving. Is the second week of Feb a bad time to dive? I picked that week because it's before the spring breakers start. We went on this same cruise about the same time two years ago and we did hit rough conditions at Costa Maya.
Thanks in advance for any advice.