Now on the look out for some bargain equipment!
Got a prescription mask, decent snorkel and Cressi fins out there, just need a 5mm wetsuit, BCD, Regs and bottle.
Got back from Malta yesterday, where i completed my Open Water Diver course.
Now on the look out for some bargain equipment!
Got a prescription mask, decent snorkel and Cressi fins out there, just need a 5mm wetsuit, BCD, Regs and bottle.
well done! 
now get your advanced open water !
Scuba diving - one the best things I have ever done
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Originally posted by mookaloid
Scuba diving - one the best things I have ever done
.... now go and do what macspeedy said ....
Richard, Trust me, in this country 5mm is NOT enough. 6mm better, but best is straight to Dry Suit, Membrane is probably best as you won't need
quite so much wieght. When I was diving back in the 70's & 80's I used a 6mm wet suit. It was cold, especially when diving under ice
(Guildenburg pit, filmed by BBC news crew and aired). Soon after I got a Typhoon Dry suit and a one piece thinsulate under suit. ALL the lads in
Thrapston BSAC said I was a woose, but asked to try it in the pool. A month later most of them had converted to dry suit. If you can try and get a
suit with rigid neck and cuff rings and attached boots. The rigid neck and cuff rings will mean that if you get a puncture in a seal then you can just
change it for a spare while you repair the old one.
Hope this helps.
Enjoy. I know I did.
Couple of friends are dive masters and the one bit of advice they give is that learning to dive in somewhere warm with clear water is NOTHING like
diving in the uk.
Before you dive in the uk - get involved with a group and make sure you're escorted.
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Originally posted by MikeR
Couple of friends are dive masters and the one bit of advice they give is that learning to dive in somewhere warm with clear water is NOTHING like diving in the uk.
Before you dive in the uk - get involved with a group and make sure you're escorted.
I would avoid drysuits until you've a lot more experience under your weight belt, buoyancy can be a nightmare and its all too easy to trap air in
your suit leg.
Arriving on the surface foot first at a great rate of knots would be embarrassing at very best!
Prescription mask, as in the lens on your specs?
I can imagine what that could look like to your diving buddy!
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Originally posted by Ninehigh
Prescription mask, as in the lens on your specs?
I can imagine what that could look like to your diving buddy!
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Originally posted by RichieHall
I would avoid drysuits until you've a lot more experience under your weight belt, buoyancy can be a nightmare and its all too easy to trap air in your suit leg.
Arriving on the surface foot first at a great rate of knots would be embarrassing at very best!
Mate due to a bad back i dont scuba anymore, also got padi advanced open water, instructor and Boat quals.
Got loads of gear, some new, some old and worn but all perfect.
Got a nice blue unused lead shot weight belt- probably worth more too scrap man as the price of lead has went through roof.
belt was £35 and lead was £5 a KG ill have too check weight but it was either £80 of lead or £80 altogether - make me a decent offer and its yours.
got 6.5mm boots size 9 around 5 or so pairs with matching gloves, some very think some thin - its cold up north!!
Plenty more if you just ask
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Originally posted by MakeEverything
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Originally posted by Ninehigh
Prescription mask, as in the lens on your specs?
I can imagine what that could look like to your diving buddy!
Yes, its a mask where they make corrective lenses. It doesnt look any different.