Sitting on detail decisions:
So, my wife, a former, life long, scared of water non-swimmer is a sort of swimmer and OW certified diver since last fall. Since then she just did 1 quarry and 1 pool dive. But she'll go to FL (reasons why not further this time) with me for a week in 17 days or so. She might do one 2-dive boat trip per day or 2 shore dives per day ... (not 4 dives a day) She wants to do just that. No dive training this time is the rule she put in the room, just practise and enjoy. I am a smart guy and hence I will obey...
She is comfortable (not good but comfy) UW, including in bad vis (bad as in 12'... 20', not 1'). Rough surface has her thinking "discomfort & dislike" while dangling on a line behind a boat waiting for others to get their fins off...
Going to northern FL cave country / springs is not the plan this time around (another time hopefully)... --- we got cheap flights into FLL.
I am still holding back on accomodations because:
She already knows how diving with Rainbow Reef works on Key Largo. So there is a comfort factor in doing that or similar again, if the weather is somewhat nice that is... (I will just skip smaller boat, 6 pack diving for this trip).
If the weather is "hearty" but such that the boats still go, she'll however be wondering why she's out there. I'd like her to be in her comfort zone..., so she'll dive and get better at it and enjoys it in the process. And it's early March, so the weather could be either way ... we'll see....
If the weather is "hearty" (quite windy) I am thinking maybe we just stay "somewhere around BHB" instead. I am dying to dive the place anyway. But then, that's one dive per day and doing it all week? (And she is thinking reef --- will she be disappointed?)
Not sure about that, although one hears / reads great things about BHB...
I also hear that getting out by boat in the "greater BHB area" can get quite rough in middling weather (If we were looking to change it up). Is that so?
Could some of you tell me how the beach dives are ... in the FLL - BHB area if the weather is middling?
Is there one or are there several beach dives that stand out as easier, more beginner friendly than others, yet still with stuff to see or do (we could look for shark teeth for a dive or so...)? Which ones?
If the weather is quite bad, is BHB still an option at high slack tide?
Any accomodation recommendations in the area? She likes "nice", but we are not on an inlimited budget... We might not need a pool since we play in the ocean anyway... A hot tub might be nice(not a must, but mught be nice...
Feel free to opinionate... appreciate your thoughts & input.
She is petite and has a choice between 3mil full and 7 mil full and she has a hood of needed (maybe with the 3 mil?). What might other petite woman wear "thereabouts" that time of year?
So, my wife, a former, life long, scared of water non-swimmer is a sort of swimmer and OW certified diver since last fall. Since then she just did 1 quarry and 1 pool dive. But she'll go to FL (reasons why not further this time) with me for a week in 17 days or so. She might do one 2-dive boat trip per day or 2 shore dives per day ... (not 4 dives a day) She wants to do just that. No dive training this time is the rule she put in the room, just practise and enjoy. I am a smart guy and hence I will obey...
She is comfortable (not good but comfy) UW, including in bad vis (bad as in 12'... 20', not 1'). Rough surface has her thinking "discomfort & dislike" while dangling on a line behind a boat waiting for others to get their fins off...
Going to northern FL cave country / springs is not the plan this time around (another time hopefully)... --- we got cheap flights into FLL.
I am still holding back on accomodations because:
She already knows how diving with Rainbow Reef works on Key Largo. So there is a comfort factor in doing that or similar again, if the weather is somewhat nice that is... (I will just skip smaller boat, 6 pack diving for this trip).
If the weather is "hearty" but such that the boats still go, she'll however be wondering why she's out there. I'd like her to be in her comfort zone..., so she'll dive and get better at it and enjoys it in the process. And it's early March, so the weather could be either way ... we'll see....
If the weather is "hearty" (quite windy) I am thinking maybe we just stay "somewhere around BHB" instead. I am dying to dive the place anyway. But then, that's one dive per day and doing it all week? (And she is thinking reef --- will she be disappointed?)
Not sure about that, although one hears / reads great things about BHB...
I also hear that getting out by boat in the "greater BHB area" can get quite rough in middling weather (If we were looking to change it up). Is that so?
Could some of you tell me how the beach dives are ... in the FLL - BHB area if the weather is middling?
Is there one or are there several beach dives that stand out as easier, more beginner friendly than others, yet still with stuff to see or do (we could look for shark teeth for a dive or so...)? Which ones?
If the weather is quite bad, is BHB still an option at high slack tide?
Any accomodation recommendations in the area? She likes "nice", but we are not on an inlimited budget... We might not need a pool since we play in the ocean anyway... A hot tub might be nice(not a must, but mught be nice...
Feel free to opinionate... appreciate your thoughts & input.
She is petite and has a choice between 3mil full and 7 mil full and she has a hood of needed (maybe with the 3 mil?). What might other petite woman wear "thereabouts" that time of year?