I’m doing my checkout dive today for my ow cert. appreciate the help! I thankfully love my instructor and SSI has been working well for me. I also wanted to thank you for the mask fitting video. I tried on like 20 something masks till I found the best one, I never would have done that/known what to look for without you.
I liked this video. I hope you don't mind, but I shared your video on my facebook account. I stated about how this is so true, and I referenced James from Divers Ready because he has stated the same. Thanks again for your words of wisdom and a great video. I have my Master Diver certification through SSI, but I started out in PADI. I have watched a lot of RUclips videos in between my actual courses and felt they have helped me with understanding the hands-on experiences.
@Freddy; I bet free diving is going up year over year. I seem to encounter more and more twenty-something free-divers throughout Hawaii, the Caribbean and South Pacific. In addition I know a handful of scuba divers that have transitioned to free diving.
I did not yet watch the whole thing, but saying "not many ppl are interested to learn to dive, and it is not that important for them anymore" is borderline infuriating. I live in Europe, landlocked country. 7/10 of my personal friends said to me this summer, when they learned that I'm getting certified, that they really want to learn to dive. The reason why that 7 is not getting a cert, is because in many places in the world the ppl in their 20s can't even afford to move out from the family home, and diving is expensive as hell. I think with all the respect simply saying they are not interested or it is not that important anymore is kind of ignorant? It is not surprising that it is going down, when the overall financial status of ppl is going down at an insane rate. Looking at my US friends, the ppl in the US are actually in a great bubble despite their financial struggles. If you leave the US, the product prices go up by 50-100%, you get a bunch of new fees and all those good stuff, and the salary drops significantly. The training cost the same if not more, but while you have around 29,8$ hourly wage, we in central Europe have 6-10$....
My shop is SSI and my buoyancy is better then my partners who did SDI (or whatever) Super happy with my instructor and the shop! Shout out to Idaho Dive Pirates
Loved this, so informative! I had an unfortunate ow training experience and yours and other common sense programs on here, helped me through it all. One of my sons is now interested in diving, my other 2 kids are not because they think they will be nervous. Too bad your shop is all the way in Colorado! 😀
I’m doing my checkout dive today for my ow cert. appreciate the help! I thankfully love my instructor and SSI has been working well for me. I also wanted to thank you for the mask fitting video. I tried on like 20 something masks till I found the best one, I never would have done that/known what to look for without you.
I liked this video. I hope you don't mind, but I shared your video on my facebook account. I stated about how this is so true, and I referenced James from Divers Ready because he has stated the same.
Thanks again for your words of wisdom and a great video.
I have my Master Diver certification through SSI, but I started out in PADI. I have watched a lot of RUclips videos in between my actual courses and felt they have helped me with understanding the hands-on experiences.
@Freddy; I bet free diving is going up year over year. I seem to encounter more and more twenty-something free-divers throughout Hawaii, the Caribbean and South Pacific. In addition I know a handful of scuba divers that have transitioned to free diving.
I did not yet watch the whole thing, but saying "not many ppl are interested to learn to dive, and it is not that important for them anymore" is borderline infuriating. I live in Europe, landlocked country. 7/10 of my personal friends said to me this summer, when they learned that I'm getting certified, that they really want to learn to dive. The reason why that 7 is not getting a cert, is because in many places in the world the ppl in their 20s can't even afford to move out from the family home, and diving is expensive as hell. I think with all the respect simply saying they are not interested or it is not that important anymore is kind of ignorant?
It is not surprising that it is going down, when the overall financial status of ppl is going down at an insane rate. Looking at my US friends, the ppl in the US are actually in a great bubble despite their financial struggles. If you leave the US, the product prices go up by 50-100%, you get a bunch of new fees and all those good stuff, and the salary drops significantly. The training cost the same if not more, but while you have around 29,8$ hourly wage, we in central Europe have 6-10$....
My shop is SSI and my buoyancy is better then my partners who did SDI (or whatever)
Super happy with my instructor and the shop! Shout out to Idaho Dive Pirates
Loved this, so informative! I had an unfortunate ow training experience and yours and other common sense programs on here, helped me through it all. One of my sons is now interested in diving, my other 2 kids are not because they think they will be nervous. Too bad your shop is all the way in Colorado! 😀