Oh, wrong on that one bud. If the course is not challenging, you're been taught a poorly designed course. And that is a bad thing in a cave environment.
My OW course was relatively easy.
My Ice diver course was easy.
When I do my AOW, I expect the challenges to be learning the material, but the diving, if I am doing as I was taught, should be easy.
If you have a good instructor, they will teach in a manner that allows it to seem easy, yet it is actually hard.
I will not say that the skills were easy, but, how I got taught them made them easy.
---------- Post added January 30th, 2013 at 11:51 AM ----------
oh, well if all you want to do is DIVE IN CENOTES then go to the Yucatan. They are guided with no more than 4 people, and you will be fine as long as you don't mind overhead environments, and are good on buoyancy.
By then my buoyancy should be even better than now.
I am not looking to get into the little tiny places where you barely fit.
Somewhere, that I see caves/caverns/holes in the side of rock that has unique shapes/life is what I want to do.
---------- Post added January 30th, 2013 at 11:53 AM ----------
I would really like to differ with the folks who are discouraging the OP from taking a cavern class. Even if one does not intend to dive in caverns regularly, taking the class will do NOTHING but improve their diving skills. I routinely recommend the GUE Fundamentals class as a way of polishing one's technique, and the people who object to GUE almost always offer a cavern class as an alternative. Cavern does not commit you to gear changes or to cave diving -- but it's a great way to see the caves and get some really good instruction in the process, and I think it's actually a reasonable thought for the OP.
I do not want to replace all my gear. Not yet at least. It is decent gear for my skill level. It is in good condition, and I know how to use it. I want to look around something big.
I would want to do a basic course and the be safe to do it.
