Quote Originally Posted by SlitherinSisters View Post
That is so cool! I hope to go scuba diving on our honey moon next year! I'm a little afraid of the ocean and all the creepy things in it, so hopefully I don't get too freaked out!
SlitherinSisters, you should totally go beforehand! Sports Chalet has free lessons, each third Saturday of the month, and if there's not one of those in your area maybe you can ask around and find something similar. PLUS it's way cheaper to do an open water class BEFORE going on vacation to do it. You can do classes, and get certified just about anywhere there's access, but it's much cheaper to do it "at home".

Okay so the very first time we went in the ocean it was a cold, murky day...the visibility was about FIVE feet. We went in the water...had to float out there, just the hubby and I, while we watched out instructor fix a BCD leak on the beach...for about half an hour...and i got totally seasick! But once we got in, i was scared for like .5 seconds, and then i hit the bottom and was like HEY cool i'm in the OCEAN! lol

Mexico, and Australia on a BAD day have about 130feet of visibility. Southern California on a GOOD day has about 30-50. We have had to hold hands under the water before, just to stay together and see each other, and only barely then!

Okay off on a tangent, but my point is, it's totally fun. There are ranging conditions and if you can learn before you go someplace really special, it will make it more fun to go off on your own together, or just be able to be more confident in a strange place.

We are once class away from master scuba diver...and so in Australia, we got to go and do what we wanted, even though they have strict rules. In Mexico, no matter what, they made us stay with a guide...and he was SO ANNOYING. We couldn't spend time looking at anything, and we had to stay with the group, or he would SQUAWK at us with his undewater squawker and wave us on.

The ONLY time it was okay that we had a guide was the two times we were the only ones WITH the guide, and so he just followed us along, after we told him what we were looking to see. Both times then we actually got to see the animals we wanted.
ANyway, try it out in a pool somewhere, if you can find a place! If you can go 14 feet down in a pool, you can go anywhere. I've been down to 114feet and it feels the same as the deep end of the pool to me, and my husband. (I guess some people say they feel the pressure difference, but we are so bundled up because it's so cold here, it all feels the same to us!)

Buy your own mask. Everything else you can rent and it should be fine!