First solo dive

[Timeliner]

Congrats. mikemill !!
Listen to these folks, They have some good advise. Now go have some more fun and come back to tell us all about it.

 

[mikemill]

Congrats, and welcome to The Brotherhood.

It's pretty aggressive to do a 50-foot night dive solo without a redundant air source. You might want to consider avoiding soloing until you get a redundant air source and are comfortable with its use in emergency situations. You can practice OOA and switching to your redudant source in 5 feet of water until you're comfortable with that and then head out into deeper water.

I considered a pony but just decided to make the switch to doubles.

Also you might consider more conservative dive profiles (e.g. 20-30 feet) until you get a some more experience soloing.

Yeah, wasn't the most conservative thing.

I got a 19 cuft pony yesterday. I figure I'll spend some time getting used to having it, then practicing with it, before attempting a solo here.