Wow. It has been a long hard time trying to get this thing done. But my son and I made it. We did our open dives last night and tonight in the Crater, Midway Utah.
http://www.utahdiving.com/crater.htm
We had a great time and are excited to be divers. If you are wondering why it was a long and hard time check out my greeting in the greetings area. My wife did not finish. The dive instructor has given her an open invitation to attend any class he does in the future (at no cost) to finish. She had a hard time clearing her mask and equalizing her ears.
The Crater is a fun little dive site. Warm water (90+ degrees), semi indoors, mini dive shop, step off the dock and your in. It's not too big across, but its 50+ feet deep. It has some items hung around for swimming through and to, etc. It also has a platform at ten feet. We used it for instructions and it worked great. I found it a little nurve racking to take my mask off in the open water. Other than that we did fine on every task and skill.
I intend to take my son to the Bonniville Sea Base right after Christmas.
That reminds me. To follow up on what equipment I would like to get. As per my thread in the BC area, I did not purchase anything at this time. it seems to make sence to rent a few times first. I used a back inflation at the Crater. As many have noted, I did not care for the way it leans you forward (face down) when on the serfice. When swimming through the obsticle course I did not like having the gauge and octo hanging lose. This has made me have second or is it thrid or more thoughts about the Dacor HUB. I think I'll be a recreational and occational diver at most. The HUB seems designed for my kind of diving. But I need to try a few others before laydown any hard cash.
Any how, its great to be a diver and good to get back to this board where there are so many kind divers.
God Bless, and Happy Holy Days.
Dafydd
Eternity is here, have fun with yours.
http://www.utahdiving.com/crater.htm
We had a great time and are excited to be divers. If you are wondering why it was a long and hard time check out my greeting in the greetings area. My wife did not finish. The dive instructor has given her an open invitation to attend any class he does in the future (at no cost) to finish. She had a hard time clearing her mask and equalizing her ears.
The Crater is a fun little dive site. Warm water (90+ degrees), semi indoors, mini dive shop, step off the dock and your in. It's not too big across, but its 50+ feet deep. It has some items hung around for swimming through and to, etc. It also has a platform at ten feet. We used it for instructions and it worked great. I found it a little nurve racking to take my mask off in the open water. Other than that we did fine on every task and skill.
I intend to take my son to the Bonniville Sea Base right after Christmas.
That reminds me. To follow up on what equipment I would like to get. As per my thread in the BC area, I did not purchase anything at this time. it seems to make sence to rent a few times first. I used a back inflation at the Crater. As many have noted, I did not care for the way it leans you forward (face down) when on the serfice. When swimming through the obsticle course I did not like having the gauge and octo hanging lose. This has made me have second or is it thrid or more thoughts about the Dacor HUB. I think I'll be a recreational and occational diver at most. The HUB seems designed for my kind of diving. But I need to try a few others before laydown any hard cash.
Any how, its great to be a diver and good to get back to this board where there are so many kind divers.
God Bless, and Happy Holy Days.
Dafydd
Eternity is here, have fun with yours.