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I just clicked on the Subscriptions link (http://www.scubaboard.com/subscriptions.php) to get a little more information on what's involved, and I get the infamous: Related to a recent upgrade, maybe? Anyway, I figured it might be worth pointing out. :)

Since everyone else is relating their experiences: my certification work (PADI Open Water Diver) consisted of a week of home study with the book, followed by an evening classroom session, video, and skills tests, and then a pool dive over the weekend. We repeated that for the next week; home...

It might work out that we can dive both locations, but there's a few things we're keeping in mind. First, it's our wedding cruise, and we're doing a little more than just diving; personally, I've never seen any of the islands we're hitting on this cruise, so we'll probably play tourist at least...

That's funny; the same thing (almost) happened to me on my final OW cert dive. We had what we thought was a bad o-ring on my tank (very small audible leak at the first stage), so I hastily swapped tanks, turned on the air, made sure everything looked good, turned it off, and started helping my...

I'm in the western Chicago, Illinois suburbs, and just paid a local dive shop $300 for the literature, classroom work, confined-water classes, and four open-water dives. On top of that was rental of gear for the open-water dives ($65 for the weekend), entrance fees for the quarry we dived in...

No sense starting a new introductory thread; I'm devolution365's fiancee. Um...hi. :D Like she said, I just finished my open water certification dives, and we're both looking forward to heading a little farther south for our next dive. :) Although, I really want to go back to the quarry and...