Easydive underwater kit? Safe for a newbie?

[lustyd]

Tanks are for the army, bottles are for barkeepers, cylinders are for divers.

Cylinders are for nit-picking badge hunters of the highest order. All of those words are perfectly adequate when describing a can of air for any reason other than sucking up to get more badges and climb that ladder. These are the sort of people that made me leave BSAC.

 

[mm42]

Cylinders are for nit-picking badge hunters of the highest order. All of those words are perfectly adequate when describing a can of air for any reason other than sucking up to get more badges and climb that ladder. These are the sort of people that made me leave BSAC.

Keep your hair on, I don't even dive!

 

[lustyd]

Keep your hair on, I don't even dive!

Most people who insist on using "cylinder" or "fins" don't, although most are extremely well certified!

 

[Uricanejack]

To be fair nothing in the video suggested just bying the thing and jumping in the water without any training.
presumably stand was at a dive show not a boat show.

900 bucks on Amazon. Website recommends for certified divers only.

looks easy enough to use.
but with the 1st stage integrated to the bottle, How and where do you get a refill? No close up just suspect non standard tank valve finding a dive shop who can refill it might be a challenge.
Finding spare bottles?
small convenience probably a lot more convenient than my dry suit ect.
Don’t see the point of the snorkel regulator thingy. Seams a lot more complicated than spiting out my snorkel and plugging the reg into my mouth.

Worth it, I suppose it might be fun if you live or sail in a warm water tropical waters. To bloody cold where I live and sail.

I have done lots of things by just having a go, sometimes I even look at the book or the instructions.

I started diving uncertified, but I did get some instruction from a dive bum hippy with a dive shack at the beach In the USVI Who was an instructor and guide. It was a lot of fun and we did a lot of interesting dive. I got some kind of novice introduction course from NAUI. No pool just a walk down the beach from the shack and practiced the basics in the shallows.

Getting BSAC certification was a long slow frustrating process, particularly since it don’t fit my lifestyle so it took me a long time. But I did learn a lot. I ended up doing a PADI open water while traveling before I finished BSAC.
One thing I did like about BSAC was the club, There was always some gear, and later when home I just had to show up and there was always some buddies to dive with.

Over here PADI is mostly comercial operations.

There are lot off things I think reading a book and having a go are just fine particularly if you have some related experience.

Diving is just not one of them.

Lots of people dive without ever getting certified. Resorts are always doing short tourist introduction courses.
I made a mistake and took my wife on one, my thought. I’m an experienced diver not an instructor.
It was a mistake because she was the only complete beginner all the rest of the class had done resort dives before and the instructor was an impatient dick.
I ended up telling her just to take it easy go at her own pace and ignore the rest.
The next couple of dives we did were better,
But she has never come diving since. Instead of encouraging her to get into diving and getting certified back home. It put her off.
So resorts appear to get lots of repeat customers who are not certified.
I never gone to a holiday to resort since then, they are just to expensive and actually rather boring.

Although some day I would like to do some warm water diving again.

 

[Tim Good]

Keep your hair on, I don't even dive!

Agreed. Keep your hair on badger hunter!

mm42 I thought it was funny at least.