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Is anyone diving Travis this weekend? I got certified a couple months ago but haven't been able to get any dives in yet. However this weekend looks to be my first opportunity. My schedule is pretty flexible and I don't really care where I dive since it's all new to me. Anyone out there...

Thanks to all for the warm welcome. I look forward to meeting you. - TJ Mahoney

All: Apologies if it appears that I have hijacked this thread. My comments seemed appropriate to the thread at the beginning but it may have gone on too long. Maybe I should have just started a new one. Sorry.

I knew what was left out by reading the book. The book says in Confined Water Dive "X" you will need to demonstrate the following skills:. Now, I realize the book isn't the end-all-be-all and can't take the place of actual experience. Further, I realize the skills don't necessarily need to...

Dive-aholic, the instructor was associated with the shop. I would like to believe that it was due to time contraints but I don't think it was. The class/pool sessions were scheduled to go from 8-5 on both Saturday and Sunday. We ended up going from 9-2 one day and 9-3 the other day. Those...

Greetings all. I just finished by OW checkout dives this weekend. You can see some of the gory details of my less than impressive instructor/class at the end of this thread: http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=153194. Anyway, I'm hoping I can tag along with some experienced diver(s) in...

I just finished my OW checkout dives this weekend. Looking back, I have to honestly say I was less than impressed with my instructor. His knowledge level and experience were very high, but I felt he was a poor instructor. There was not really a focus on mastery of most of the skills. Some skills...

I am definitely looking forward to some real diving. My wife and I are going to Cozumel in July so I want to get some dives in before we go. I will likely try to tag along with some Austinites if they'll have the patience for a new guy with rental gear. ;) PePaw: I ended up going with Dive...

I've updated my profile with hometown. My checkout dive will be at Lake Travis in Austin.

I completed the classroom work and confined water dives this weekend. I didn't really have problems with the skills. I guess all the lurking/reading on this forum has done a lot of good. :) When things didn't go "smoothly" (like removing and putting on BCD underwater) I just took my time...

Come on O2B, just because I've never scuba dived before doesn't mean I'm a complete idiot. :)

Wow. Lots of great and helpful information for me to digest. You all are great. I'm pretty sure I'll end up doing my OW dives in Austin. I think by the time I get to Cozumel I want to be able to do a "real dive". And I don't think I could pull off getting down there ahead of time. I'm...

ariadne76: Thanks for the reply. My wife is definitely going to take the refresher. Nice pic by the way....Hook 'em.

Thanks to everyone that has replied so far. It looks like I'd be leaning towards Tom's at this point. But if anyone has other suggestions I'd still love to hear them. O2BBubbleFree: I can accept the fact that the lakes won't have good visibility. I mainly just want to get more experience...

Greetings All, My wife and I will be taking a trip to Cozumel next July. I have never dived but my wife is AOW (although she hasn't dived in a few years herself). Anyway, I am looking for some recommendations for a great place to get certified in Austin. My original plan was to take a...