After three training days, which the last two have spent times in the pool, we’re diving our first OWD at Lake Denton, a popular spot for beginners.
Lake Denton is 66 acre spring fed lake. The deepest part is 51 feet. It’s 65 miles south of Disney World in Orlando.
学物理 ⚛️ 好有用
We did two dives. Although the water is a little muddy, but we saw plenty fish – mostly bass and perch, a turtle and a snake. Each of us get two tank of gas, for the two dives.
My step by step to an open water dive:
- get excited for the dive
- pack your bag
- carry your heavy bag to the car and drive to the meet up place
- unload and load the bag
- load the cylinders
- drive to the water …
- unload bags and cylinders
- putting on the warrior’s suit and all + cylinder
- walk to the water
- dive … heaven
- gas runs out and dive is over
- walk back to the car w/ the cylinder on your back
- … we did the 2nd dive, repeat partial 8 (get a new cylinder) to step 12
- unclothed
- pack the cylinders and bags
- drive back
- clean the warrior suit
- drive home
Are you ready for this?
What if we’re going out on a boat? The master diver / coach Ed says, well, you still have to bring your bag to the boat … Ed said, in the summer, he has a college kid at his shop do the washing. …Well, you can always pay someone to carry the bag and do the washing for you …
We stopped at Raceway gas station in Avon Park for a quick stop: bathroom and breakfast, etc. Lake Denton is only a five minutes away.
Why SSI? Both Padi and SSI are American organization that have gone globe. Professional Association of Diving Instructors was founded in 1966 by John Cronin and Ralph Erickson, headquarters in CA. It has 128k pros and 6,600 dive centers/resorts. SSI Scuba Schools International was founded in 1970.
Per Ed, his father started this outdoor shop, gearing toward boycott, camping and diving, etc. in 1984. Then one year in 1994, one of his customer got solicited ad from Padi directly … His father wanting an apology from the organization but Padi said they’re their customers. His father then switched to SSI in 1996. We don’t hear so much about SSI is because SSI gears toward the dive shops.
Reportedly, SSI is huge in China, especially mermaid program.
