metastasis_d
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Cross-posted from the New Divers forum
I've been lurking for a while and trying to find answers without posting, but I'm still not finding answers particularly geared towards my problem.
My girlfriend and I only have 6 dives under our belts, and we're having trouble finding places to dive when we travel around the States. We went to Keystone, Colorado a few weeks ago and couldn't find a place that did any guided dives. We're not really comfortable diving by ourselves yet since we're so new. The only places we've gone is to a lake in Southern Missouri for our open water certification (SSI) and a guided dive in the Galapagos earlier this Summer.
Honestly the Galapagos trip was our entire reason for getting into scuba diving but once we were in we fell in love with it. Still, it's kind of frustrating not being able to get some beginner-level dives unless we travel to far places that cater a lot towards tourists, or through certification groups.
I was wondering how divers really get into diving when they're still green behind the ears, but after they've done getting their initial certifications.
We are going on a houseboat trip in Arkansas in a couple months with the same dive shop where we got certified, and getting our Nitrox certification dives while we're there, but we're going to Chicago on the 16th for the Black Sabbath concert and would love to be able to finally get another dive in. There is an SSI shop in town that is doing an open water certification that weekend so I was thinking about emailing them and just asking if we could tag along, but I don't know if that's kind of unusual or frowned upon in the industry. Of course we'd be fine with paying boat fees and what not.
Does anybody know if there are any places I should look into specifically there in Chicago? Does anybody have any tips for super-noobs to get some dives in to get more comfortable until we're ready to just rent equipment and head out? Should I be posting this in the regional forums?
Thanks,
Nick
I've been lurking for a while and trying to find answers without posting, but I'm still not finding answers particularly geared towards my problem.
My girlfriend and I only have 6 dives under our belts, and we're having trouble finding places to dive when we travel around the States. We went to Keystone, Colorado a few weeks ago and couldn't find a place that did any guided dives. We're not really comfortable diving by ourselves yet since we're so new. The only places we've gone is to a lake in Southern Missouri for our open water certification (SSI) and a guided dive in the Galapagos earlier this Summer.
Honestly the Galapagos trip was our entire reason for getting into scuba diving but once we were in we fell in love with it. Still, it's kind of frustrating not being able to get some beginner-level dives unless we travel to far places that cater a lot towards tourists, or through certification groups.
I was wondering how divers really get into diving when they're still green behind the ears, but after they've done getting their initial certifications.
We are going on a houseboat trip in Arkansas in a couple months with the same dive shop where we got certified, and getting our Nitrox certification dives while we're there, but we're going to Chicago on the 16th for the Black Sabbath concert and would love to be able to finally get another dive in. There is an SSI shop in town that is doing an open water certification that weekend so I was thinking about emailing them and just asking if we could tag along, but I don't know if that's kind of unusual or frowned upon in the industry. Of course we'd be fine with paying boat fees and what not.
Does anybody know if there are any places I should look into specifically there in Chicago? Does anybody have any tips for super-noobs to get some dives in to get more comfortable until we're ready to just rent equipment and head out? Should I be posting this in the regional forums?
Thanks,
Nick