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Greg - 11/10/2013 10:07 AM 
I would tend to agree with that. Here in Texas, we really don’t train new divers if the water is below about 60℉ :). At least I don’t like to train students if it’s colder than that, because too many of them complain and have a hard time concentrating on the required skills. Also, there isn’t a good place to do salt water dives for open water training so we tend to stick to fresh water lakes and rivers.
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That’s pretty much it, your training covers where you were trained. I saw a DM from a land locked state with 500 lake dives jump in in Cayman and head down current. He had never done an ocean dive before and the dive boat had to pull anchor and go rescue him.
I had a DM yell at me, on my first Caribbean dive trip back before depth gauges I went to Bonaire, being from NJ if you can look up the wall and still see the surface you can’t be too deep, right? My first clue was the shutter button wouldn’t come back up but I was probably too narced to figure that out :( BTW, that DM was Ebo, if you have been to Bonaire there are a few dives sites with his name.
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Here in NS we do classes from April ’til early Dec. Water 35F to about 55F and back to 40F (studentsand I) dive wet. Air goes cool, nice, cold. Then the warm water is a breeze when you use the shorty or less. To my way of thinking the only real difference is gearing up & off with all that heavy crap up here. Many do argue that warm water trained divers are stymied when diving cold water. They may be making mountains out of mole hills. But fresh water to salt with all it’s currents, tides, etc. is another story.
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lerpy,
You’re right that your training will be more centered around where you get certified; I guess I was lucky enough to get certified on the gulf coast so our first 2 check out dives were in freshwater springs (cold water) and then our 2nd 2 dives were off a boat in the Gulf (warm salt water, current, etc.) so I got exposed to both fairly early and have continued to dive both regularly.
Here though our teaching focuses on diving cold, land locked quarries where the water temp stays about 55-60 degrees year round and we have limited/low visibility.
We do discuss the differences of diving in the ocean, and encourage students to take trips with us to experience it, but until you actually do it the first time it will be a new experience.
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here in the northeast youll be taking your ow cert in a 7mm wetsuit and theres a thing called visibility?? lol.. 60 degree water temps? thats bath water to us lol
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daz88 - 11/12/2013 8:36 PM
all water is different. Unless you have experience diving in that water or that area, you are a newbee (no offence UWnewbee.) no matter how many dives you have logged. dive accordingly.
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Who you callin a newbee?? lmao!!!
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