Originally Posted by
Ross
Yeah, im definetly gonna be broke with both these hobbies. Where do you dive? Im in San Antonio, not too awful far from you. I think im gonna take my open water dive in maybe Canyon lake, not sure...have you ever been to the flower garden reef or whatever it is called off the texas coast? Where do you shop for all your stuff?
Well, I've heard Travis Lake is good. We did our check out dives in a little "dive" park just east of Dallas (in Terrell). Good training site, but not much more. We've dove the Athens Dive Park. yucky dive. It's an old limestone quarry I think. Anyway, NOTHING lives in the lake. Nothing. Was creepy.
Get my gear from online mostly. like Aquarium stuff, much cheaper online. I rent out the back of our family's Insurance Agency to a Dive Instructor for dirt cheap, so I get my classes, tanks, etc. for free
Flower Gardens is a good dive I hear. Never dove it.
There is an abandoned nuclear missile silo in Abilene that has been turned into a dive park. Sounds sweet, but the cost is goofy. They say you can see skeletons of animals that fell into the silo and drowned.. plus you suit up in the old control room. Walk past blast doors, etc. Will do it one day just for the experience.
Every summer me and a couple of friends travel (started 3 years ago) and dive. My first dive was the Great Barrier Reef (unreal... the entire continent of Australia is simply unreal, plus you can travel there fairly cheaply... experience of a life time), 2 Years ago we dove Bonaire in the Caribbean (great shore diving ), and last summer dove Cozumel (decent diving, plus cheap... , and you can log some serious dives... we made 15 dives in 5 days.... enough that we started getting light headed when we were descending and decided we better slow down :thinking:. Saving money for big trip this summer). We are going back to the Pacific this year, hopefully Palau. Caribbean is cheaper and easier to get too, and is great.. but you can't be the diversity of life in the S Pacific.
For gear, I just read a lot of reviews on gear, found what I liked and bought it online. You can save a ton of money that way.
Rental gear is ok, but once you breath into a quality regulator you'll never rent one again. An integrated dive computer is also a must, plus good fins...
I'm heading to San Antone tomorrow to see family for the week
Nah, definitly the fish. So what was yours?
