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I'd suggest including specialties that do more for basic diving skills such as night/limited viz, nav, search, deep, bouyancy.
Do the Night Dive.......... it will really be a good class overall to show you what your skills really are. From personal experience, I can tell you that it is the dive that freaked me out and made me really understand the phrase "task-loading". When you are in daylight and clear water you have a whole security system of knowing about how deep you are, where everything is.... you feel safe. Well, once the lights go out and you have NO reference points, you have to rely on your gauges and your ears. Until you do it, you won't understand, but it is very very different. Its nice to do your first night dive with an instructor for that reason.Thank you everyone.
Here is what I am thinking... I have to take deep and navigation. I also already have my drift dive (last dive of the OW course which I understand counts toward my AOW) and I have my nitrox cert. I want to take peak buoyancy.... so there is only one that I "select". I want to take something that is going to help me gain confidence, so I am thinking something like night/limited vis or a stress/rescue class..... For those of you that have your AOW what did you take and why?
Thank you everyone.
Here is what I am thinking... I have to take deep and navigation. I also already have my drift dive (last dive of the OW course which I understand counts toward my AOW) and I have my nitrox cert.
I want to take peak buoyancy.... so there is only one that I "select". I want to take something that is going to help me gain confidence, so I am thinking something like night/limited vis or a stress/rescue class..... For those of you that have your AOW what did you take and why?
Warnberg,
:no I would not recommend taking a short cut on your AOW course by signing off on a drift dive you did on your OW course. You're paying for 5 dives so "do" 5 dives. You already know that you have to take Deep and UW Navigation as your core dives so why not take - Peak Perfomance Buoyancy, Night and Search and Recovery for the other three. You'll have fun plus you'll learn more. After all, isn't that what it's all about?
Does anyone have a list of the different specialties that can be taken for the AOW?
If it was a fifth open water scuba dive (also called an excursion dive), then yes, it can count toward AOW. If it was only the fourth dive, then no.I also already have my drift dive (last dive of the OW course which I understand counts toward my AOW)