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I am visiting SD in October as well, from the northeastern US, so the replies in this thread so far are helpful. I have my AOW and ~20 dives in cold water. However my SO is not OW certified. He did DSD once and couldn't get down because he couldn't equalize his ears, hasn't had a chance to try...

When I did my OW cert a few years ago, after we finished the dives and all passed, the instructor invited us to come on a night dive he was running the following week.

What else do you cover in the deep dive portion of AOW?

I'm a new diver and bought this. I have nothing to compare it to, but I'm happy I got it and think it's fantastic.

Like KEdiver, a computer is the first piece of equipment I bought after the basic "personal items". My local shop rents computers, which are on the console. I found I really didn't like that setup so I was happy to get a wrist-mounted computer. I liked starting with buying that because it's...

It really could be anything. Several years ago I was surfing with a buddy during a rough day in late August or September on Long Island. We were paddling out maybe 7' away from each other, and duck dived under a good sized wave. We pop up and my buddy turns, and flips out, saying "what the f...

There you go. "Best pizza" or even "top city for pizza" is misleading, and it's something people will get riled up about and will generate hits and ad revenue (why do you think a free ny daily rag put it on the cover?). Here we can find data for "cities with more pizza places that got more...

Hilariously, this is on the front page of one of the NYC free daily rags today am New York - am New York

Thanks everyone for all of the feedback and comments so far! I feel like there were a lot of new factors at play here, I wanted to be able to learn from it for future dives of course. The question "would I dive with that buddy again" wasn't even in the forefront of my mind when I wrote the post...

I had an experience diving last weekend and was not sure what to make of it. I did my OW certification several years ago, then last fall, I took a refresher with an instructor in a pool then the following week took the AOW certification. I did my AOW at a quarry through a local dive shop that...

I had experience with 1 instructor and 2 people (me and my SO) in a local pool at a local shop with a "try scuba" Discover Scuba type thing. It was with a good shop with a very good instructor so we had a very positive experience.

I have experienced similar to what the original poster is talking about, that my LDS is a nice shop in a large city that's a financial center, where there are probably plenty of people who can drop a couple thousand on a trip every month if they wanted. I found there was little offered in the...