Fishies, here I come!!!

auroraviva

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Guess what I'm gonna do????? SCUBA diving!
I'm so excited. I've wanted to do this literally for forever. I just never had anyone to do it with. Well, my boyfriend has been certified for a few years now . . . he went diving in Acapulco this past Christmas; I was so jealous! Anyway, we started talking about it a of couple weeks ago, and he said that if I could get certified, we could go diving together a lot. I was like, gimme a month!

So I called around and found a place and am taking the whole course, start to finish, next weekend. 4 or 5 hours a day for 4 days, which includes mostly pool time but some classroom time as well. And then two weeks after that, I'll go to Panama City to complete my open water certification dives. And then I'll be certified. I am so, so excited about this, there are simply no words to explain it.

Is anyone else at TCS certified? I'd love to talk to other people about it; my boyfriend is the only one I know personally who does it. Well, I just had to share this with y'all! If you're lucky (or unlucky, depending on how you look at it) I may post a pic of my first dive, if I don't look too stupid! lol
 

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I've done it!

I don't know if i'm certified though?.

My ex boyfriend and i were in greece and when he was in the army he did a scuba diving course and said i had to do it as it was a brilliant experience!.

We had to go through a 30 minute talk on what we had to do such as clearing any water that got into the mask, how to give the sign to other divers if you needed help etc...

I loved it and would recommend it to anyone


We even had our pics taken under water with the fishes swimming in front of us


Have a fab time, you will love it!
 

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Oooooo that sounds great!!!
I wouldn't mind doing that...but of course I'd have to learn how to swim first!!!
 

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My landlord is an avid scuba diver, all of her vacations are centered around places where she can scuba dive. She has been to Palau, Ambergris Caye in Belize, Cozumel, Bahamas, Bonaire, and she will go to a Blackbeard cruise in July, and to Kona (Hawaii) in September. She shows me photos all the time (she has a digital camera for underwater which is AWESOME!)
She is trying to get me into it, which I would love to do, but it is so expensive, so whenever I can afford it, I would love to get certified. I tried it for the first time when I was 13. I loved it sooo much!
Her hubby was in the navy and he learned to do it and did a lot of it in Guam and he convinced her to do it after a couple of years of trying.
Now she is hooked!
 

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Originally Posted by stormy

Oooooo that sounds great!!!
I wouldn't mind doing that...but of course I'd have to learn how to swim first!!!
Same here, I can't swim at all. It does sound fun though.
 
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