Newbie in Oklahoma City

[KE5AFU]

Hello all,
I've been browsing the site for the past few days and am finally getting around to posting. I have my OW and am finishing (hopefully soon) my AOW. Anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing what all I can learn (and eventually contribute) to this site.

Thanks,

Matthew

[Soonerwink]

Welcome to the forum, it is always good to have another Oklahoman on here.

[BubblesMcCoy]

Nothing in OKC that I know of, except the pool at the community college opens their deep diving pool (about 19 feet) a couple of nights a week. You have to show your cert and have a buddy.

Otherwise I'd suggest: Tenkiller (about 2 1/2 hours (sometimes less) hours away) and Clear Springs Scuba Park in Texas (about 4 depending); Blue Hole in Santa Rosa, New Mexico (about 5 1/2 hours); or Beaver Lake in Eureka Springs (about 4ish hours); or Table Rock Lake in Branson (about 5 ish hours).

Blue hole is probably my favorite. It's fairly cold (about 64 degrees year round) but its clear and deep (relatively speaking). The town of Santa Rosa is easy to get to and they love the diving crowd. Plenty of clean hotels and good food. Not much else. Worth the drive though.

I would also highly recommend hooking up with the Tulsa Aquanauts. If you dive any of the local sites, you're bound to run into at least a couple of them. I've not been on many dives with them, but they've really expanded the places that I been diving this year.

[divingbuddy]

Welcome aboard! I gotta chuckle at 64F being fairly cold tho....

Good luck on your AOW. Let us know how it goes.

[KE5AFU]

Thanks all, just picked up a couple dive lights so I'm ready for my night dive now!

[Okc_diver]

where you doing your night dive at?

[KE5AFU]

I believe it's going to be at Tenkiller, been trying to finalize it with my LDS.
I haven't been in a real lake yet, so starting to get really anxious to get into the water.

(OW cert was done in a 40' deep 100' across manmade pond)

[Okc_diver]

who did you get your training with? Sounds like the shop I did my class with

[KE5AFU]

Originally Posted by Okc_diver

who did you get your training with? Sounds like the shop I did my class with

Adventure Sports over at the Lighthouse in OKC.
Weird... I though I had already answered you.

[KE5AFU]

Nevermind I answered in PM, not on the forum. Guess I'm not going crazy...