Solo cert

[DiverGirl1972]

Robert E. Marks was my instructor. He works out of the LeHigh Valley Dive Center. I also did the online course and we did the dives/classwork at Dutch as a group in one day. I really enjoyed the course. Check out their website....solo is listed under advanced courses.

 

[BrewsKampbell]

I did my SDI course online, then met the instructor for the first time at the quarry. Went over a few things, did my dives while he watched my bubbles, paid the man and it was all good.

I'm pretty sure it's required the guy actually verifies your skill set and not just sits on shore. First dive was with my instructor performing skills, such as getting out of an entanglement.

 

[drrich2]

When I took the SDI Solo course, the instructor was definitely in the water watching me, discussed performance (or my version of it) between dives and gave me feedback. That's the way it's supposed to be from what I understand.

Richard.

 

[jbomb001]

Thanks for the responses, Dutch is 2 hrs away, I'm 1+ hr from Albany & NYC, I will try to find Joe Stellini and see if he can help.

U mentioned living upstate. How far up is upstate I'm an hr north of syracuse-ny and I know that there is a shop I deal with in Syracuse that would gladly teach you. If that is not too far to travel.

Sent from my galaxy S5 Active.

 

[wetb4igetinthewater]

I'm pretty sure it's required the guy actually verifies your skill set and not just sits on shore. First dive was with my instructor performing skills, such as getting out of an entanglement.

I'm curious about how badly you were entangled, as I wound up with a really bad entanglement issue on Saturday when diving from a boat charter (and two divers saw me. One misunderstood the "problem" and come here motion and the other wanted nothing to do with my predicament - as I was informed topside) as I was solo diving/taking pictures. It took me about 15 minutes and 1000 PSI to get through it. If I burned through 500 more PSI, I was just going to start cutting. I was able to untangle myself completely except for the line around the valve/first stage. I was able to stuff the spool and tangled line into my pocket. Then I proceeded to continue diving until my cutoff pressure.

I think this is a very important skill to practice in a controlled environment.

 

[Pyramid65]

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