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oscar_2424

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hi i just finished my advanced open water dives and i got to say the more you learn scuba diving gets better and better an d know i cant wait to go a gain to a 100ft dive site its AWEWSOME, well next month i will be doing the rescue couerse i hope i can get to become a divemaster, but this is the best thing to do all year long
 
go for continuing education and dive safely always :eek:)

better to abort the dive than abort your life (or someones life) :wink:
 
First ~ congrats on your AOW and your newly found obsession!
oscar_2424:
...the more you learn scuba diving gets better and better...
May I make a suggestion?

Like you, I breezed through the PADI program and started the DM program within 3 months of getting certified (I already had ~ 60 dives at that point). Less that 6 months after OW certification I was a dive master and was being told what a great diver I was. What I figured out even as I was going through the DM program, it doesn't teach you to be a better diver. It's a program that's designed you to teach and "lead" but at no point did my actual diving skills improve.

I wanted to do some deeper dives to see some stuff you don't see shallow and scared myself doing a 180' air dive. So I decided maybe some tech diver training would be a good thing :11:

Somewhere in the search for tech classes, I ended up making a trip to the Puget Sound area and got to dive with Uncle Pug. For some reason, I quickly figured out I was a pretty crappy diver, despite what the folks back home were saying :17: In my humiliation, I very quickly raised the bar a few feet!! I haven't climbed that high yet, but....

So I looked in the GUE training. I found that taking the DIRf class not only gave me the tools to dramatically improve my own dive skills, it made me a way better DM in terms of keeping track of students or groups as well as being a dive leader.
 
Snowbear:
So I looked in the GUE training. I found that taking the DIRf class not only gave me the tools to dramatically improve my own dive skills, it made me a way better DM in terms of keeping track of students or groups as well as being a dive leader.

And you're not just a member, you're also the president? You sound like DIR commercial, hehe. Now, please don't forget, to make a really successful advertisement you need one or all of the following:

- A monkey
- A voluptuous woman
- Some fool getting hit in the family jewels
- A bodily function noise (burp, fart etc)
- Another voluptuous woman
 
Kriterian:
And you're not just a member, you're also the president? You sound like DIR commercial, hehe. Now, please don't forget, to make a really successful advertisement you need one or all of the following:

- A monkey
- A voluptuous woman
- Some fool getting hit in the family jewels
- A bodily function noise (burp, fart etc)
- Another voluptuous woman

For those of us who know to whom you speak, a saying comes to mind ...

"Why be silent and be thought a fool, when you can speak and remove all doubt."

OF course, with 0 to 15 dives, I'm sure you've got all the answers.

... Bob (Grateful Diver)
 

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