Underwater Connection

★ 5 · rodney burrington · 2009-03-03

I signed up to do the Open Water Diver course in Jan. 2008....and did the classroom, and confined water work with them, and received my reference paper work to take to a more tropical locale...... My plan was to to the indoor work in Wisconsin in the winter, and go on vacation a couple of weeks later, and do my "Referral dives" where it is warm in the winter.... I went to Cancun, did my referral dives at Nautilus Dive Training and Scuba Freds......see comments about them elsewhere...they are great! I have some anxiety issues, so, after going to Cancun and doing the open water dives, I came home to Wisconsin, and in the middle of summer, I did a Scuba Refresher course with the Underwater Connection....and then also went out to their quarry dive area....nice vis, lots of fish...got more comfy with the underwater scene.....so that when I returned to Cancun a year later, I was very comfy with the water, and the depths..... I did an equipment specialist course at UWC, and although it was a bit overwhelming, it re-assured me about my equipment, and what I could do to maintain, and keep things working.....I am looking forward to going to their fall season "scavenger hunt" at one of our local dive sites....a former quarry.....now a county park! I am still just an Open Water Diver, not an Advanced but.....will work on it! I don't like the cold water, and will not be doing it if I can help it! You guys/gals that do....well, so be it! Send me to the Tropics.... rodney