⌛ Can i take up diving now?

I want to learn how to dive when we move to Dumaguete, I had my own snorkling gear, but it was stolen from our garage room, I need to see about getting some gear, and renting the tanks and so forth for the lessons.
Is there good masks and snorkels in the shops by Dumaguete?

 

Justin,

there are some places in Duma, where you can find good stuff, If yo wanna start diving, the equipment is usually included in the course-price.
If you start diving I also recommend to try different equipment before you choose your BCD and regulator. A own good fitting mask and wetsuit is very important, cause you never know who peed in it before or when it was washed last time. For the "Big" shopping, i can recommend 3 Shops in Cebu, where you get great quality for reasonable prices... when are yo planning to come here?

cheers

Rhoody

 

Thats an old trick, especially diving in the freezing north sea, peeing in the wet suit to keep you warm.

I never did that of course.

 

Please provide an estimate of prices on all of this.
Thanks!

 

PADI Course In Dumaguete

Cyndy, a Discover scuba program is in the range of 50 US$ to 80 US$, depending on where yo do it. A Open Water Course comes to 350 to 500 US$. You may find cheaper offers, but there are some traps worldwide. Especially with th OWC, make sure that there are no hidden fees, like cert-fees, marine park-fees, boat-fees, Equipment rental...

TDiscoover program lasts around 3 hours, the OW course can be done in 3 to 4 days and includes 5 knowlege development lessons, 5 confined water dives and 4 dives in the ocean. The accademics can be done in advanced, if you get a crewpack (includes Manuals, dive-planner, logbook and certification-fees) after deciding you wanna do it. Then the "classroom" work is very short.

cheers

Rhoody

 

... and after the dive, don't rinse proper, hang it for drying in a tiny equipmentroom with 20 other suits, next day yo shake your head and look at the others....hehe:p There are only 2 kind of divers, one that are peeing in the wetsuit, the others who are lying...

cheers

Rhoody

 

Me did neither (from the time a had a dry suit !!) :D
But diving in the North Sea is great. A lot of very interesting wrecks there.

 

Hey Rhoody,
Do you offer discounted rates for DI members?

 

yes, 55$ to 85 $ for discover Scuba and 355 to 505 $ for a OWC.

plus 15 $ for each post we had to moderate... hehe

cheers

Rhoody

 

Aw c'mon. That's too much!!! he he he. How about a 20% discount and all the beer you can consume in a night? (by the way, how many bottles of beer could you gulp down in a given night? and how much is a bottle of San Miguel nowadays?