Do it in Thailand. Cheapest place to get your OW PADI apparently. We've just booked tickets, and its cost me £750 for flights and the course (my other half has already done it). Accommodation is dirt cheap, about £10/night.nice pics, I'd like to scuba sometimes must be awesome!
Nice pics! What's the autofocus speed and shutter lag like on the F31 kit?
Nice pics .
I'm doing my OpenWater PADI qualification in March in Thailand. Can't wait.
Do it in Thailand. Cheapest place to get your OW PADI apparently. We've just booked tickets, and its cost me £750 for flights and the course (my other half has already done it). Accommodation is dirt cheap, about £10/night.
nice pics, I'd like to scuba sometimes must be awesome!
Yeah, I've always loved swimming underwater and seeing this stuff, but since two school friends went down to a ship and never came back it slightly put me off
Koh Tao or Phuket, and one other place which is where my girlfriend did her PADI, Maya beach is it? It's the place they filmed "The Beach", are the one's we are considering. We're going for three-four weeks and I'd quite like to do the advanced qualification after it but we'll see.I hope that's on Koh Tao as that's the best place to dive
I'd quite like to do the advanced qualification after it but we'll see.
Reasonable and good.
One of the reasons i picked the f31 was shutter reaction speed. That and the larger sensor and manual white balance.
Some more pics from UK waters here.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18009714&highlight=kilda
We're going for three-four weeks and I'd quite like to do the advanced qualification after it but we'll see.
The advanced is very similar to the OW, takes a week ish and requires (or at least it is among the choices) a night dive which for me was one of the most amazing experiences of my life.
It is also worth having simply because you gain a lot more freedom in terms of dive spots.
You can do the advanced in 2 days
2 days? really? how many dives is that? IIRC mine took about 6.
The OW is £270 at Phuket, and the Advanced is £280. Seems very reasonable to me, and as we'll have time I'll try and convince the gf to do hers .
Also i wouldn't get hooked on getting qualifications; much better to gain experience and get more comfortable underwater than being a badge collector.
Are you just visiting Thailand or venturing further out? A really relaxed place to stay and dive is the Perhentian Islands just of the east coast of Malaysia.