Scuba Lessons Dublin Ireland

I think PADI is good to start off with. I started out with PADI then crossed
over to CMAS. However if you're smart about it I wouldn't necessarily get my
Open Water here in Ireland. With the average cost of a PADI Open Water
course being approx ?600 you can pay a similar amount of cash and get a nice
holiday in tropical clear warm water sunny Egypt/Red Sea. I did my O.W. in
Sharm El Sheik. This is the biggest scuba resort in Egypt. There are plenty
of British scuba operators that leave from England a few times a week. I
definitely recommend it. It was great fun doing it and the British people I
met were the nicest ever. Of course you have to get a connecting flight from
here but as you know these days they're as "cheap as chips".
I went in 2002 to Sharm with http://www.explorers.co.uk/
Also try http://www.divernet.com/index.shtml. This is the site for a British
Scuba Mag and there's plenty of adds for various Red Sea Operators.
Best of luck
Eugene


"tamlinek" <thomas.zoladek@mac.com> wrote in message
news:1142372019.859096.289820@p10g2000cwp.googlegr oups.com...
> seems like I'll start with PADI - FirstStage Diving - basically it is
> near my work :D. And after that...must just try, who knows. I like
> water, but I have never used any equipment. We will see :)
>

I think PADI is good to start off with. I started out with PADI then crossed
over to CMAS. However if you're smart about it I wouldn't necessarily get my
Open Water here in Ireland. With the average cost of a PADI Open Water
course being approx ?600 you can pay a similar amount of cash and get a nice
holiday in tropical clear warm water sunny Egypt/Red Sea. I did my O.W. in
Sharm El Sheik. This is the biggest scuba resort in Egypt. There are plenty
of British scuba operators that leave from England a few times a week. I
definitely recommend it. It was great fun doing it and the British people I
met were the nicest ever. Of course you have to get a connecting flight from
here but as you know these days they're as "cheap as chips".
I went in 2002 to Sharm with http://www.explorers.co.uk/
Also try http://www.divernet.com/index.shtml. This is the site for a British
Scuba Mag and there's plenty of adds for various Red Sea Operators.
Best of luck
Eugene


"tamlinek" <thomas.zoladek@mac.com> wrote in message
news:1142372019.859096.289820@p10g2000cwp.googlegr oups.com...
> seems like I'll start with PADI - FirstStage Diving - basically it is
> near my work :D. And after that...must just try, who knows. I like
> water, but I have never used any equipment. We will see :)
>

I think PADI is good to start off with. I started out with PADI then crossed
over to CMAS. However if you're smart about it I wouldn't necessarily get my
Open Water here in Ireland. With the average cost of a PADI Open Water
course being approx ?600 you can pay a similar amount of cash and get a nice
holiday in tropical clear warm water sunny Egypt/Red Sea. I did my O.W. in
Sharm El Sheik. This is the biggest scuba resort in Egypt. There are plenty
of British scuba operators that leave from England a few times a week. I
definitely recommend it. It was great fun doing it and the British people I
met were the nicest ever. Of course you have to get a connecting flight from
here but as you know these days they're as "cheap as chips".
I went in 2002 to Sharm with http://www.explorers.co.uk/
Also try http://www.divernet.com/index.shtml. This is the site for a British
Scuba Mag and there's plenty of adds for various Red Sea Operators.
Best of luck
Eugene


"tamlinek" <thomas.zoladek@mac.com> wrote in message
news:1142372019.859096.289820@p10g2000cwp.googlegr oups.com...
> seems like I'll start with PADI - FirstStage Diving - basically it is
> near my work :D. And after that...must just try, who knows. I like
> water, but I have never used any equipment. We will see :)
>

I think PADI is good to start off with. I started out with PADI then crossed
over to CMAS. However if you're smart about it I wouldn't necessarily get my
Open Water here in Ireland. With the average cost of a PADI Open Water
course being approx ?600 you can pay a similar amount of cash and get a nice
holiday in tropical clear warm water sunny Egypt/Red Sea. I did my O.W. in
Sharm El Sheik. This is the biggest scuba resort in Egypt. There are plenty
of British scuba operators that leave from England a few times a week. I
definitely recommend it. It was great fun doing it and the British people I
met were the nicest ever. Of course you have to get a connecting flight from
here but as you know these days they're as "cheap as chips".
I went in 2002 to Sharm with http://www.explorers.co.uk/
Also try http://www.divernet.com/index.shtml. This is the site for a British
Scuba Mag and there's plenty of adds for various Red Sea Operators.
Best of luck
Eugene


"tamlinek" <thomas.zoladek@mac.com> wrote in message
news:1142372019.859096.289820@p10g2000cwp.googlegr oups.com...
> seems like I'll start with PADI - FirstStage Diving - basically it is
> near my work :D. And after that...must just try, who knows. I like
> water, but I have never used any equipment. We will see :)
>

I think PADI is good to start off with. I started out with PADI then crossed
over to CMAS. However if you're smart about it I wouldn't necessarily get my
Open Water here in Ireland. With the average cost of a PADI Open Water
course being approx ?600 you can pay a similar amount of cash and get a nice
holiday in tropical clear warm water sunny Egypt/Red Sea. I did my O.W. in
Sharm El Sheik. This is the biggest scuba resort in Egypt. There are plenty
of British scuba operators that leave from England a few times a week. I
definitely recommend it. It was great fun doing it and the British people I
met were the nicest ever. Of course you have to get a connecting flight from
here but as you know these days they're as "cheap as chips".
I went in 2002 to Sharm with http://www.explorers.co.uk/
Also try http://www.divernet.com/index.shtml. This is the site for a British
Scuba Mag and there's plenty of adds for various Red Sea Operators.
Best of luck
Eugene


"tamlinek" <thomas.zoladek@mac.com> wrote in message
news:1142372019.859096.289820@p10g2000cwp.googlegr oups.com...
> seems like I'll start with PADI - FirstStage Diving - basically it is
> near my work :D. And after that...must just try, who knows. I like
> water, but I have never used any equipment. We will see :)
>

Euge wrote:
> I think PADI is good to start off with. I started out with PADI then crossed
> over to CMAS. However if you're smart about it I wouldn't necessarily get my
> Open Water here in Ireland. With the average cost of a PADI Open Water
> course being approx ?600 you can pay a similar amount of cash and get a nice
> holiday in tropical clear warm water sunny Egypt/Red Sea. I did my O.W. in
> Sharm El Sheik. This is the biggest scuba resort in Egypt. There are plenty
> of British scuba operators that leave from England a few times a week. I
> definitely recommend it. It was great fun doing it and the British people I
> met were the nicest ever. Of course you have to get a connecting flight from
> here but as you know these days they're as "cheap as chips".
> I went in 2002 to Sharm with http://www.explorers.co.uk/
> Also try http://www.divernet.com/index.shtml. This is the site for a British
> Scuba Mag and there's plenty of adds for various Red Sea Operators.
> Best of luck
> Eugene
>
>
Only snag with doing OW overseas is that your qualification is only to
dive 'in conditions and temperatures equal or better than in which you
were trained'
So if you then come back to the UK expecting to dive here you can expect
one of two things
1) To kill yourself by jumping into somewhere cold with an inadequate
wetsuit.
2) Be told by a UK dive centre that they will not train you further
without a refresher course, as well as dry suit training etc (which you
get for free if you do the course here). This will cost the same as
doing your Open Water course here in the first place.

We regularly get Sharm trained people turning up for further courses and
we generally have to start from scratch, they just can't 'dive'.
One bloke recently did all his skills abroad sitting on the bottom of a
lagoon, and then was brought out and passed off - and he hadn't actually
done any underwater exploration, hadn't finned a stoke and had no
concept of buoyancy whasoever.
Most have not done many key skills at all, and its almost funny to see
the ones who claim mask clearing is easy, try doing it again in Stoney
in winter complete with hood and gloves and a slight difference in water
temperature....

One guy came to us for his rescue course and kept hitting the surface
his buoyancy was that bad, then packed in after the first day because
'it was too cold'.

Euge wrote:
> I think PADI is good to start off with. I started out with PADI then crossed
> over to CMAS. However if you're smart about it I wouldn't necessarily get my
> Open Water here in Ireland. With the average cost of a PADI Open Water
> course being approx ?600 you can pay a similar amount of cash and get a nice
> holiday in tropical clear warm water sunny Egypt/Red Sea. I did my O.W. in
> Sharm El Sheik. This is the biggest scuba resort in Egypt. There are plenty
> of British scuba operators that leave from England a few times a week. I
> definitely recommend it. It was great fun doing it and the British people I
> met were the nicest ever. Of course you have to get a connecting flight from
> here but as you know these days they're as "cheap as chips".
> I went in 2002 to Sharm with http://www.explorers.co.uk/
> Also try http://www.divernet.com/index.shtml. This is the site for a British
> Scuba Mag and there's plenty of adds for various Red Sea Operators.
> Best of luck
> Eugene
>
>
Only snag with doing OW overseas is that your qualification is only to
dive 'in conditions and temperatures equal or better than in which you
were trained'
So if you then come back to the UK expecting to dive here you can expect
one of two things
1) To kill yourself by jumping into somewhere cold with an inadequate
wetsuit.
2) Be told by a UK dive centre that they will not train you further
without a refresher course, as well as dry suit training etc (which you
get for free if you do the course here). This will cost the same as
doing your Open Water course here in the first place.

We regularly get Sharm trained people turning up for further courses and
we generally have to start from scratch, they just can't 'dive'.
One bloke recently did all his skills abroad sitting on the bottom of a
lagoon, and then was brought out and passed off - and he hadn't actually
done any underwater exploration, hadn't finned a stoke and had no
concept of buoyancy whasoever.
Most have not done many key skills at all, and its almost funny to see
the ones who claim mask clearing is easy, try doing it again in Stoney
in winter complete with hood and gloves and a slight difference in water
temperature....

One guy came to us for his rescue course and kept hitting the surface
his buoyancy was that bad, then packed in after the first day because
'it was too cold'.

Euge wrote:
> I think PADI is good to start off with. I started out with PADI then crossed
> over to CMAS. However if you're smart about it I wouldn't necessarily get my
> Open Water here in Ireland. With the average cost of a PADI Open Water
> course being approx ?600 you can pay a similar amount of cash and get a nice
> holiday in tropical clear warm water sunny Egypt/Red Sea. I did my O.W. in
> Sharm El Sheik. This is the biggest scuba resort in Egypt. There are plenty
> of British scuba operators that leave from England a few times a week. I
> definitely recommend it. It was great fun doing it and the British people I
> met were the nicest ever. Of course you have to get a connecting flight from
> here but as you know these days they're as "cheap as chips".
> I went in 2002 to Sharm with http://www.explorers.co.uk/
> Also try http://www.divernet.com/index.shtml. This is the site for a British
> Scuba Mag and there's plenty of adds for various Red Sea Operators.
> Best of luck
> Eugene
>
>
Only snag with doing OW overseas is that your qualification is only to
dive 'in conditions and temperatures equal or better than in which you
were trained'
So if you then come back to the UK expecting to dive here you can expect
one of two things
1) To kill yourself by jumping into somewhere cold with an inadequate
wetsuit.
2) Be told by a UK dive centre that they will not train you further
without a refresher course, as well as dry suit training etc (which you
get for free if you do the course here). This will cost the same as
doing your Open Water course here in the first place.

We regularly get Sharm trained people turning up for further courses and
we generally have to start from scratch, they just can't 'dive'.
One bloke recently did all his skills abroad sitting on the bottom of a
lagoon, and then was brought out and passed off - and he hadn't actually
done any underwater exploration, hadn't finned a stoke and had no
concept of buoyancy whasoever.
Most have not done many key skills at all, and its almost funny to see
the ones who claim mask clearing is easy, try doing it again in Stoney
in winter complete with hood and gloves and a slight difference in water
temperature....

One guy came to us for his rescue course and kept hitting the surface
his buoyancy was that bad, then packed in after the first day because
'it was too cold'.

Euge wrote:
> I think PADI is good to start off with. I started out with PADI then crossed
> over to CMAS. However if you're smart about it I wouldn't necessarily get my
> Open Water here in Ireland. With the average cost of a PADI Open Water
> course being approx ?600 you can pay a similar amount of cash and get a nice
> holiday in tropical clear warm water sunny Egypt/Red Sea. I did my O.W. in
> Sharm El Sheik. This is the biggest scuba resort in Egypt. There are plenty
> of British scuba operators that leave from England a few times a week. I
> definitely recommend it. It was great fun doing it and the British people I
> met were the nicest ever. Of course you have to get a connecting flight from
> here but as you know these days they're as "cheap as chips".
> I went in 2002 to Sharm with http://www.explorers.co.uk/
> Also try http://www.divernet.com/index.shtml. This is the site for a British
> Scuba Mag and there's plenty of adds for various Red Sea Operators.
> Best of luck
> Eugene
>
>
Only snag with doing OW overseas is that your qualification is only to
dive 'in conditions and temperatures equal or better than in which you
were trained'
So if you then come back to the UK expecting to dive here you can expect
one of two things
1) To kill yourself by jumping into somewhere cold with an inadequate
wetsuit.
2) Be told by a UK dive centre that they will not train you further
without a refresher course, as well as dry suit training etc (which you
get for free if you do the course here). This will cost the same as
doing your Open Water course here in the first place.

We regularly get Sharm trained people turning up for further courses and
we generally have to start from scratch, they just can't 'dive'.
One bloke recently did all his skills abroad sitting on the bottom of a
lagoon, and then was brought out and passed off - and he hadn't actually
done any underwater exploration, hadn't finned a stoke and had no
concept of buoyancy whasoever.
Most have not done many key skills at all, and its almost funny to see
the ones who claim mask clearing is easy, try doing it again in Stoney
in winter complete with hood and gloves and a slight difference in water
temperature....

One guy came to us for his rescue course and kept hitting the surface
his buoyancy was that bad, then packed in after the first day because
'it was too cold'.

Euge wrote:
> I think PADI is good to start off with. I started out with PADI then crossed
> over to CMAS. However if you're smart about it I wouldn't necessarily get my
> Open Water here in Ireland. With the average cost of a PADI Open Water
> course being approx ?600 you can pay a similar amount of cash and get a nice
> holiday in tropical clear warm water sunny Egypt/Red Sea. I did my O.W. in
> Sharm El Sheik. This is the biggest scuba resort in Egypt. There are plenty
> of British scuba operators that leave from England a few times a week. I
> definitely recommend it. It was great fun doing it and the British people I
> met were the nicest ever. Of course you have to get a connecting flight from
> here but as you know these days they're as "cheap as chips".
> I went in 2002 to Sharm with http://www.explorers.co.uk/
> Also try http://www.divernet.com/index.shtml. This is the site for a British
> Scuba Mag and there's plenty of adds for various Red Sea Operators.
> Best of luck
> Eugene
>
>
Only snag with doing OW overseas is that your qualification is only to
dive 'in conditions and temperatures equal or better than in which you
were trained'
So if you then come back to the UK expecting to dive here you can expect
one of two things
1) To kill yourself by jumping into somewhere cold with an inadequate
wetsuit.
2) Be told by a UK dive centre that they will not train you further
without a refresher course, as well as dry suit training etc (which you
get for free if you do the course here). This will cost the same as
doing your Open Water course here in the first place.

We regularly get Sharm trained people turning up for further courses and
we generally have to start from scratch, they just can't 'dive'.
One bloke recently did all his skills abroad sitting on the bottom of a
lagoon, and then was brought out and passed off - and he hadn't actually
done any underwater exploration, hadn't finned a stoke and had no
concept of buoyancy whasoever.
Most have not done many key skills at all, and its almost funny to see
the ones who claim mask clearing is easy, try doing it again in Stoney
in winter complete with hood and gloves and a slight difference in water
temperature....

One guy came to us for his rescue course and kept hitting the surface
his buoyancy was that bad, then packed in after the first day because
'it was too cold'.