Well at least a few dozen within your training scope before any further classes. Concentrate on shore dives if possible to save money and dive more. The wreck will keep.
Pete
Open Water Certified Today: Now What?
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Well at least a few dozen within your training scope before any further classes. Concentrate on shore dives if possible to save money and dive more. The wreck will keep.
Pete
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tplyons
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Well, I placed an order for all my gear today... this way the incremental costs of each dive are minimal... just tank rental and air fills each time I go.
I ordered a Scubapro Seahawk BCD with Scubapro MK25/R600 regulators and R295 octopus. I'll be growing into this gear for a while, but I'd rather start off with the good stuff than have to start replacing gear after a while. I'm using a Mares Puck until I start getting involved in something that would do a fancier computer justice.
I've got my next day of diving planned out, going to do some more exploring of the quarry and hopefully bring the total number of dives up to 7 or 8 within two weeks of being certified.
Now I see why you all are addicted!
I ordered a Scubapro Seahawk BCD with Scubapro MK25/R600 regulators and R295 octopus. I'll be growing into this gear for a while, but I'd rather start off with the good stuff than have to start replacing gear after a while. I'm using a Mares Puck until I start getting involved in something that would do a fancier computer justice.
I've got my next day of diving planned out, going to do some more exploring of the quarry and hopefully bring the total number of dives up to 7 or 8 within two weeks of being certified.
Now I see why you all are addicted!
that is some good quality equipment, I bet you can't wait to try it out.
I would recommend trying the gear out in confined water such as a pool to get used to it, but if that isn't feasible, a shallow first dive out at the quarry. Make sure you can do the things you learned in open water with your new gear such as switch to the octopus, ditch your weights (although I wouldn't recommend dropping them in the quarry).
A lot of dive shops will give a free pool session when buying new gear, doesn't hurt to ask about it.
I would recommend trying the gear out in confined water such as a pool to get used to it, but if that isn't feasible, a shallow first dive out at the quarry. Make sure you can do the things you learned in open water with your new gear such as switch to the octopus, ditch your weights (although I wouldn't recommend dropping them in the quarry).
A lot of dive shops will give a free pool session when buying new gear, doesn't hurt to ask about it.
chrpai
Contributor
May I ask what you are paying for that gear? Here's my guess. $617 for the BCD, $729 for the mk25/r600, $159 for the r295 and you are probably getting a SPG/Depth gauge console that's probably around $150. That's around $1655 plus tax. Your LDS might be giving you a 10% discount which makes it $1489 plus tax.
Is that about right?
What if I told you that if I was your mentor I could put you in gear that's every bit as good, very well situated for cold water off shore wreck diving and is used by tech divers at 300' with no problems for $800? ( Hint, I'm wearing it in my profile pic and the vendors are in my signature line. )
I'd also work with you in your local quarry doing fun dives while perfecting your bouyancy and skills so that one day we could hit those awesome wrecks you guys have. Oh and I wouldn't charge a penny because I love diving.
Maybe that's why my opinions are considered subversive by some LDS's.
If he is happy with what he bought, what does it matter.
You know, I see the utility in offering gear to someone who hasn't bought it yet, but telling someone who has just posted with joy about his newly acquired dive equipment that he massively overspent seems kind of gratuitously unkind, to me.
chrpai
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He hasn't aquired the gear yet. He could conceivably cancel the order.
Eitherway it sounds like the LDS / new diver buy/rebuy pattern continues... I try to break the cycle and show people a different path before they get married to their decisions. If someone had done that for me I could have saved a lot of money. Oh well...
Eitherway it sounds like the LDS / new diver buy/rebuy pattern continues... I try to break the cycle and show people a different path before they get married to their decisions. If someone had done that for me I could have saved a lot of money. Oh well...
I dove with my zeagle bcd for 5 years and that was on a regular basis. Unless he goes for technical, I can't see him changing gear in the near future. I have switched gear here and there. I did it cause I got a good price as an instructor and I wanted to know the differences between gear. I didn't have to though.
chrpai
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I guess the way I look at it, he can get a good price now and have the foundations of what he'll need one day in case he does go technical. ( Wreck diving off NJ can do that to you... )
To me, that's partly what a mentor is for. I wish someone had done it for me.
To me, that's partly what a mentor is for. I wish someone had done it for me.
Well, as you know, I think everybody ought to be diving in a backplate setup . . . and I own HOG regs. But I will say that, apart from price, a big reason I own the HOGs is because I can service them myself. The OP can't do that, and if he doesn't have anyone local who will work on the regs, he might actually be happier with the SPs he's buying. They are expensive regs, though; the good news is that it's not difficult to resell them, if he decides later on that he's getting into tech and wants regs he can work on himself.
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