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AOW is my suggestion. Iys more refresher than anything and it gives you more options as to which charters you can go on ( better wrecks ). Always improving.
Thanks! I'm doing a refresher and then aow. I'm totally psyched! I was certified when I was too young to really do anything with it (as if my parents would have conceded to my dragging them around the globe to go diving). Then I became a cranky late-adolescent who didn't really want to do anything and then a poor student who could barely afford to eat.
So it's been a long time. I'm fine on the theory, but my ow skills are in definite need of some honing. So I figure two pool sessions (6 hrs) and then aow will get me oriented again. I have been totally obsessed with doing this for like the last year. Naturally, I had to pick the end of may in a 50 degree river to do this, but hey - it ain't the tropics here in the frigid north
50d water builds character! I did my original cert in 45d water, and now I know enough to say "I think I'll wait for it warm up a bit before I go diving."
Seriously, if I had a dry suit, I'd so be out in the quarry this weekend, but I'm done diving wet and cold. I know there are lots of people who do it, but I'm no longer one of them.
I've pretty much come to terms with the fact that I'm going to freeze. I picked up shorts with some neoprene in them and a rash guard to go under my 7mm (for my own comfort), but I doubt this will make a substantial difference warmth-wise. Best to just suck it up I thought of doing the drysuit dive, but for my three options have chosen to do dives more pertinent to where I'm at (e.g. buoyancy (!!), drift, and wreck).
Actually, the refresher and AOW is a great decision. That is what I did after a 7 year hiatus. As for the dry suit. I started diving from dive 1 in a dry suit.
OK, that is something to think about. I was going to pass on the dry suit because I thought that throwing one into the equation would just add a layer of complexity to my dives that I'd be better off without right now (though I suppose being cold is not ideal ). But perhaps I'm wrong?
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