Dive outfitters group discount till feb

[jerrett]

The Dive Outfitters in Nanaimo is doing a promo where a group of 4 people can learn to dive for the price of 3... Good deal if anyone out there has a group of friends considering learning to dive!

http://www.nanaimodiveoutfitters.ca/

[Afton Halloran]

Anyone interested?
I have never going diving on the island, only in other countries. I have heard great things about diving on the island.

(12-20-2009 02:11 PM)jerrett Wrote:  The Dive Outfitters in Nanaimo is doing a promo where a group of 4 people can learn to dive for the price of 3... Good deal if anyone out there has a group of friends considering learning to dive!

http://www.nanaimodiveoutfitters.ca/

[eric]

Jerrett says I need to learn how to dive, so I'd be in for taking some lessons.

[Afton Halloran]

Sorry! I never realised that the discount was for learning to dive. I read it too quickly and thought it was just for diving. I already have my advanced open water cert.

Sorry about that.

(01-11-2010 03:35 PM)eric Wrote:  Jerrett says I need to learn how to dive, so I'd be in for taking some lessons.

[jerrett]

They do fun dives often too... I'd be down with diving, if I can find a weekend that I'm not snowboarding.... It's been too long since i've been underwater!

[flary]

I live two hours from a beach and had no trouble getting certified and going on dives. You don't say where you are, but if you are near a city of any size you can take a class from a training center affiliated with any of these organizations: PADI, NAUI, IDEA, SDI; there are others but those are the ones I see most frequently. Then sign up for lessons and from there it pretty much takes care of itself.

Most of your initial training will be done in a pool; ideally the dive center you train at will have its own, indoor pool (as opposed to renting the pool at the local Y or something). This allows for classes year round and allows for easy scheduling of makeup classes if you have a busy schedule. It is fun to take lessons with someone else but not at all necessary; the classes and trips are a great way to meet people and make friends. When you sign up they will tell you what you need, but in general they can loan or rent you everything you need beyond a bathing suit and perhaps mask/snorkel/fins. At the end of the course the whole group generally goes to the beach for a open water checkout dive before final certification; in my case they went to Fort Lauderdale. I was unable to make that trip, so for a little extra the instructor took me to a local lake for my checkout dive. I did get to go to FL with many of that group a few weeks later, though, and had a blast, even though I went alone. As I said above it is a great way to meet people. My dive buddy on that trip lived very near me, and for a couple of years afterwards we would regularly meet to go diving in the Savannah River, where we found some cool artifacts. If you want more info, let me know in this thread or via MeMail. ( by TedW)