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Old 06-20-2019, 08:37 PM
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Yay books!

If you want to try diving i'd highly recommend it. I put off getting certified for a long time, and am glad i eventually did it. What's the Warren Miller quote? "if you don't do it this year, you'll be one year older when you do."

To do these wrecks you need an advanced open water certification, basically level 2, due to their depths. With the normal open water cert, level 1, you're allowed to go to something like 18 meters max. Deepest i've gone so far is 44 meters, or about 144 ft, which is pretty crazy if you think about it.

There are specific certification courses for wreck and cave diving, but that's more for getting into real shit. These were purposely prepared and sunk for diving, and all the swim throughs we did were in view of exits.

It's been a great hobby though. Not the cheapest one around, but very worthwhile.