I have made my second dive this year at the Coral Sea in
Arvada. The water is still too chilly
for my 3mm wetsuit so I have been renting a 7mm wetsuit and 5mm hood for the
dives in 64 degree and 68 degree weather.
The next time I am out should be good for the 3mm wetsuit I own.
This year, I finally invested in a regulator and dive
computer. It is amazing how nice it is
too dive with newer equipment with a great assortment of features. Last year, I had one instance where the dive
computer’s battery went out. My dive
computer not only has analog air pressure and a compass but also a digital
depth meter, time underwater, max depth etc.
It is definitely a device I can grow with. The most surprising thing is how easy the regulator
is to breath. I have had no free flow
conditions and the whole set up is dialed in just right.
As I become more comfortable with diving in terms of
assembling my gear and maintaining buoyancy, I have been enjoying my diving
much more. I can check out the crawfish,
bass, and minnows. I can reach for golf
balls and spot gnomes in the water. I am
not constantly looking for my buddy like I would a small child at Disneyland.
Hopefully I can continue to maintain one dive/month in the
summer so that when I have the opportunity to go to a scuba destination, I can
plan a couple of dives. I am still a far
cry from planning a dive vacation, but it has been a great skill to develop.
As my confidence improves, I would like to pursue some
specialty courses like Peak Performance, Navigation, Night, Search &
Recovery and Deep. I think these would
be great skills which would also lead to an Advanced Open Water Certification.
2 comments:
Man you have a lot of water-based hobbies...kayak, triathlon and scuba! Very cool! Did you get certified at Coral Sea too?
I got certified 10 years ago in Boulder at what used to be Scuba Joe's and did the open water dives in Cabo during my honeymoon. I just got back into it a couple of years ago since we had some beach vacations coming up.
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