I am going on a cruise where I can dive in some pretty special places and would like to learn how.
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YMCA's sometimes have scuba certification classes.  Also check with a local sporting goods store they might know where to get a cert. or try the good 'ol yellow pages
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first i have to know what to look for.\n\n"If I knew where I was sailing from I could calculate where I was sailing to."
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If you want to do something that will amaze everyone, take a cruise to Antarctica (there is such a thing)!\n\nJust for fun - take an Alaskan cruise which consists of half land and half sea - (I liked the land part even better than the cruise, but you do get wonderful food on a cruise, and a copious amount)\n\nYou can jump out of a plane with a parachute, as the first President Bush did.\n\nYou can throw a huge party and invite as many people as you are years old. Have a tree with ornaments attached and have each one pick an ornament. Hide money in the ornaments -  from a hundred to a thousand, whatever you want to do, and have them all open their ornaments at once.\n\ns
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remember...you practiced your butt off to get this far, do you really want to waste this moment? and once you do it, you'll feel awesome...you are awesome, you have to be in control, not your fears....next time just remember..."i can do this im not afraid and im the best diver out here..." who knows, once you do it, no one will be able to stop you because you liked it that much, its always fun to overcome your fears and acomplish something great!!!
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I know that the Cherry Creek Reservoir in Denver, Colorado has sunken ships and airplanes.  You may want to check that out.
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I've been to Miami several times and gone diving there while on vacations from Chicago.\n\nBut since my dive buddy moved from there about six months ago, I haven't been back.
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the best way i found to learn is to hire a guide. i am cheap so i hang out at a bait shop and listen to everything, and ask questions.
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Cruises are very inexpensive if you book at the last minute.\n\nBelow is a link to Last Minute Travel.  One of many travel sites out there offering deals.
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STAY CALM U ONLY SINK WHEN U PANIC AND INTAKE A LOT OF WATER , LEARN TO FLOAT ON YOUR OWN IT IS VERY EASY
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Ask what long ocean voyages are like.
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A 3-day cruise.  PERFECT idea!
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How about trying to Google a certain cruise line and maybe finding their phone number and ask them about any job opportunities.    Good luck!
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Hubby and I had a great experience diving with Pro Dive in Ft. Lauderdale.  We didn't take their course, but we really liked their dive masters and their equipment seemed very good, which is essential to good experience.  Check them out:\n\nhttp://www.prodiveusa.com/
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Contact different tourism agencies they undoubtably have videos about fishing vacations on the barrier reef.  I'm sure you can have them for free, if they think you're planning a trip.
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The ocean can be very intimidating. I admire you for trying. But more then that, I admire you for asking for help. Kitty is correct when she recommended using a mask & snorkel. Add to that a set of fins and swimming in a calm ocean is relitively simple.\nKick with your fins underwater, not splashing on the surface, and you'll be able to travel through the water with little effort. When using fins, keep arm and hand movement to a minimum, they'll just slow you down. Oh yes, wear a wet suit, it will allow you to be even more bouyant.  In warm water a 3mil wet suit will be fine. \nIf you are wearing a wet suit, mask, snorkel, fins, and swimming in salt water, there is no way you are going to sink!!!!!\nI'm a scuba diver, been one for a long time, and we have to put on ten to sixteen pounds of lead weight to get underwater with what I'm recommending you to wear. \nBut after teaching alot of people to dive, I believe that your real dilemma is a "Panic Attack ." Listen, it doesn't matter if the water is 6 feet deep or a 1000 feet deep. If you can't stand in it with your head out of the water, the feeling can be alittle terrifying. So, what I think you really need to do, is to build you confidence level up by taking professional swimming lessons and practicing. Then, and only then when you are comfortable in the water, will you be able to go out there, let go of the net, and have fun swimming with dolphins.  Been there, done that! Nothing like swimming with large animals in the open ocean..........Good Luck!!!!
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I would contact the New England Aquarium in Boston.  They might have some camps.
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A Black Sea Bass!\nNow I've been SCUBA diving since 1971 and have been around the Caribbean, Hawaii, and Southern California and thought I'd pretty much seen everything but on this one trip, to San Clemente Island, I was SCUBA diving with a couple of girls on a chartered dive boat off from San Clemente Island one Summer, and I was watching, (with great humor), the two girls trying to load their spearguns down on the bottom in about 30 feet of water when all of a sudden, (on the far side of the girls), a bass about the size of a Volkswagon Beatle comes lumbering up to see what's going on! The first thing that came to mind was the "Fish Pool" on board the dive boat for the person who nabs the largest fish of the day, (and my speargun was loaded!). The second thought was, if I don't make the perfect "kill" shot on the first try, I'm either going for a LONG ride or, at worst, I'll lose my only speargun! Then, as my heart started idling down, I realized that this fish was on the endangered species list and there was no way I was going to get nailed for shooting one these bad boys!!! So, just for fun, I placed my hands on either side of my girlfriend's head and gently turned it towards the fish and watched as she filled the water with frantic bubbles as she shook her girlfriend and pointed to the fish, at which time that girl started blowing bubbles like a freight train! Hillarious!!!\nAnyway, as we all settled down I drifted up and over the girls and headed gently over towards the fish. I got close enough to shake hands before he slowly turned and started heading towards deeper water! What a rush!\n(And me without even so much as a camera!!!!!)