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Originally Posted by Ron99
You guys are lucky then. But we do have the ocean  We did have a very good instructor to student ratio when i did it too. There were two instructors and two dive masters helping. Basically one teacher per two students. They taught us really well. |
Yeah that's nice. When I did my Open Water there were 19 students, 2 instructors, and the completion had 8 students, 1 instructor, 3 dive masters. When I did the Advanced Open Water there were 2 of us in the class and pool, and I was solo for the completion. Just me and the instructor. That was awesome. He said I was one of the most advanced Advanced students he's had, so we burned through the skills and got to tour around a lot.
Another piece of gear that's handy to own is a flashlight so you can look into little crevices and caves.