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Quick question.

  • 23-05-2009 1:49pm
    #1
    Setheme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭


    Hi. I'm pretty confused at the moment, when I read about all the courses, tests and licenses... Could someone quickly explain to me, what do I need to do, to be able to just rent the equipment on holidays and go diving?

    What I figured out myself :

    The first step is PADI - SD.
    The second one is upgrading it to OWD.
    Does it mean I could now rent eq and go diving in spain?

    Cheers.


Comments

  • #2
    robertpatterson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 930 ✭✭✭robertpatterson


    If you have your padi open water card you can rent equipment from anywhere that is renting
    Most of the holiday destinations will only put you where youre certified to


  • #3
    Setheme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭Setheme


    What if I did only the padi sd?


  • #4
    seadeuce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 277 ✭✭seadeuce


    If your serious about your health you should forget the "quick fix" to get yourself underwater!

    Take an OW course with PADI and find out if it's for you.

    Too many ppl are (e.g. Russians) are going abroad and renting gear thinking that all they have to do is go down, blow bubbles then come back up and, hey presto! they are bona fide divers.
    Quite a few of them have yet to be found.

    Without decent training all your qualified to do underwater is to kill yourself.

    As to your question about renting gear, I have seen non-divers rent gear and be taken out by boat to a divesite.
    The dive centre was more interested in the cash than the health and survival of the two ppl.

    Your choice entirely,


    Seadeuce


  • #5
    loctite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 589 ✭✭✭loctite


    +1 to Seadeuce...

    The SD is really a basic intro to diving, giving you the bare minimum to keep you alive underwater under the supervision of only a Dive Professional (limited to 12m)

    The OW is just one step above that. You would be eligible to rent gear but don't count on it. In centres I have worked in, I know that we have refused to rent to OW because they just don't have the experience to be able to take care of themselves.

    I would seriously question anyone who would rent without question to a newly qualified OW.

    Just do a course and go diving with centres. They know the best sites, and you will build up experience under the supervision of someone with more experience...


  • #6
    Setheme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭Setheme


    Oh, thanks very much guys! Ok, one more question, what is safe depth I can go to, without worrying about DCS?


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  • #7
    loctite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 589 ✭✭✭loctite


    If you are diving within the guidlines of the Openwater course you are very very unlikely to have to worry about DCS.

    But that does not mean that you cannot get bent or get a DCI (decompression Illness) within these limits. DCI is the blanket term which covers DCS and other pressure related injuries such as lung over expansion or embolism. Usually there would be an underlying condition that would cause these but not diving in accordance to diving best practices can lead to these DCI injuries at any dept.

    A bend (DCS) is the least of your worries. DCI's are far more serious. A bend won't necessarily kill you. But DCI's as mentioned above are far more serious and can be fatal.

    Do a course. Learn about it. Do another, learn more. There is a lot more to diving than jumping in the water and breathing.....


  • #8
    fmcc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 225 ✭✭fmcc


    Plus 2 on all the comments above. i am diving 6+years and while still officially a club diver I'd regard myself as resonably well experianced. That said anytime I'm abroad if not with the club I'll go with a guide/dive master where posssible. They know local conditions and the best spots. Diving is a great sport and the more the merrier but do it slowly and with people you trust or that have a good reputation.


  • #9
    Drunkmonkey79
    Closed Accounts Posts: 345 ✭✭Drunkmonkey79


    I done the discover scuba last year and recently got my OW cert, don't under estimate how much you need to know to dive safely. You may never use alot of the things you learn but you need to know them all the same for you and your budies sake.


  • #10
    Fishtits
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,382 ✭✭✭Fishtits


    I've been diving 20+ years, am an Instructor, Trimix etc. Admittedly all OC.

    The standards in some of the overseas Dive Centers I've dived are bordering on pathetic.

    Do a decent course, the most important thing is that you are confident. Stay at it until you are confident on your own.

    Plan your dive with automatic what should I do should x scenario arise, don't assume your "buddy" for the dive will know what to do the chances are your buddy will be a just off course greenback.

    Confidence. Only with experience and planning.

    Look after yourself


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