Tomorrow 8/5 at 7 PM is our orientation (at West Cobb Aquatic Center) and I'm looking forward to meeting everyone there. We will not get in the water so no need for towels or swim ware. We will hand out materials, talk about mask/fins/snorkel sizing and shopping, go through scuba assembly, go...
Certification does not expire. However, if it's been a while since you've been in the water we recommend that you play around in the pool before that big dive vacation. Instead of floundering around the first day or so you'll be solid right off the dive boat and won't miss the scenery struggling...
I am a PADI instructor as well as a NAUI instructor so certification could be through either agency. We're planning to run a NAUI course because NAUI requires us to include more skills and their online materials are included with the student kit. Again, PADI certification is possible but the...
We try try to dive with the manatee every Jan or Feb. Someone makes a run over to the Cooper river for fossils two or three times each year. And one or two trips to the Oriskany each year. So let's go.
Not as often as I'd like but we get together every now and again. They often come down on our monthly trips to north FL. And Coop might show up for our Aug pool sessions.
Worst of all is that I'm beginning to feel old and decrepit. But in my mind I'm still young and virile. Sometimes this discrepancy causes difficulty. ;)
I am a lurker - guilty as charged. I'd be happy to do this again. It really comes down to numbers. As Bryan had mentioned, there are several expenses involved - materials, pool time, certification fee, equipment costs, air fills, etc. So we're counting on about ten participants to be able to...
The closest local comercial dive site is a flooded rock quarry in White GA (Dive GA located at 801 Old Tennessee Hwy). Lakes and quarries are not the most entertaining dive sites but minimize travel expenses and are ideal for folks with busy schedules that can only take a day off here and there...
At one time, the scuba industry considered asthma to be an absolute contraindication to diving. But that position has softened a bit. An inhaler can't be used underwater so anyone that relies on an inhaler frequently is probably not a good candidate for scuba. But someone that was diagnosed as a...