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Hi. My wife and I recently moved to the Tampa Bay area. We are just getting settled and want to do some diving. Obviously, dive shops are a dime a dozen around here. We own most of our own equipment and are looking for divers and dive shops that can point us in the direction of some decent shore...

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Someone posted in a recent response that new divers should stay away from drift dives (I believe they were talking about how Cozumel was mostly drift dives). Anyway, as a new diver who is pretty well land locked and will be diving quarries around the midwest, I suppose I won't have to worry...

Today was the end of two days of diving. This was our second/third since getting certified. We only did a tank each day, mainly due to other obligations. The air temps were in the 60's both days and the water (surface) temps were in the 70's (albeit, 69-71). We dove Blue Springs (here in...

This was a quote from another post, but it begged a question. I am new, having only one dive in the ocean (cozumel was GREAT!), and that was from shore. Our dive was 35ft ,80 degree water, strong current and lasted just 33 minutes. I ended the dive with 500 in the tank, after starting with 3000...

... I get a faulty BC. Welp, my wife got sick just before our cruise, so we did not get to dive as much as we wanted. We arrived in Cozumel and took off in search of a dive shop. Since she had been sick and I wanted to descend leisurely, we decided on a shore dive. It took us a couple of...

Which is better (in your opinion), taking a cruise ship dive excursion or finding a LDS on your own? Peace, Bear

As a newly certified OW diver, I have a question. But first, a little background. It took several attempts for me to get through the open water dives. During my first attempt, I was nervous or anxious and had trouble equalizing my ears. I felt pressure (not just from the water) to get down...

I am CERTIFIED (Open Water)! Yipee! It was alot of work. It should have been more fun, and once down and just swimming, I was doing the skills fine, without even thinking, and that was fun. But, like all students, when it came time to demonstrate the skill to the instructor, I would tense up and...

This may have been asked before and I missed it in my search. I know that in the OW dive training, they talk about getting local orientations. Is this where one would find out about local dive laws? For example, I asked my Dive Instructor about diving in two of the local resevoirs and he...

My wife decided she wanted to get certified and dive when we went to Hawaii in 2002. I like to swim, but never have been that strong at it. I HATE getting water in my eyes. But, she wanted to do this, so we signed up for classes. There were two dive shops in town that we knew about and after...

I am behind in my confined water diving and we are getting ready for our vacation. We would love to dive while we are there in Hawaii and had planned on taking out open water dives there. I doubt I will be able to catch up completely in time, but have an idea. Is it possible to use my dive log...

:eek: Hi all. I am enrolled in a OW PADI course and am not having fun. We (my wife and I) both thought this would be a fun thing to do, diving and getting certified before we go on vacation. My wife loves the water and I really enjoyed snorkeling and skin diving in the Carribean. :) However...