We took the PADI Open
Water Scuba Diving Certification Course. The classroom part of the
course was April 14-16, 2000. The first two days were actually in
the classroom and the 3rd day was in a pool. The day in the pool was
a long but fun day. We only had 5 people in our class so we got a lot
of 1:1 training. This certification was part of Amy's birthday
present. Thanks to Chris, David, and Joe!!
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We are working on getting
all the basic equipment so that we are able to go anywhere and only have
to rent the tanks and a wet suit if needed. Joe got us off to a good
start last February before the class.
Click here
to see the equipment that
Amy & Joe got for Amy's birthday. Joe's color scheme is black and
silver and Amy's color scheme is black and cobolt blue.
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We completed the Open
Water Certification in Catalina,
CA May 11-14, 2000. We drove over
to Long Beach, CA with Paula Chronzinski (the dive master) Thursday morning
to meet up with our Dive Instructor, Darrel Dupree, at the dock. We
took the 4:00 ferry over to Catalina Island and then spent the rest of the
night relaxing and walking around the town. Saturday morning we went
out on a boat trip. There were the 4 of us (Joe, Amy, the dive instructor,
and the dive master) and two other people on the trip. We stopped at
two different dive sites. The first one was a little nerve racking
since it was our first dive. But everything went really good after
Joe finally got weighted correctly. We did not do any skills on the
first dive, we just swam around and got used to diving. By the second
dive, we already felt more comfortable being under water. Sunday we
did 3 shore dives off Casino Point. The first two were to complete
the certification. The third dive we were CERTIFIED and able to go
by ourselves. We had so much fun that we got up really early Sunday
morning to get one more dive in before we had to catch the ferry back to
Long Beach.
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Time again for some vacation and
diving. This time were are meeting Darin and Kit in Tampa Florida for some
fun at Busch
Gardens before head down to Key West together for some diving. On Nov
15 and 16 of 2000 we did four dives off the coast of Key West Florida. The
details of the dives are captured on our Key West
dive page.
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May 24- 26, 2001 and we are back to
Catalina Island, Avalon CA again for more diving. This time there is more
in planned than just diving. Amy doesn't know that I plan on asking her to
marry me. The big questions is do I do it 60 feet under water while we are
on a dive? Check out our Catalina
Island trip page to see what happened.
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