Introduction to Northeast Diving
Once again, Big Apple Divers will be running our always popular "Introduction to Northeast Diving" program!
Divers in the New York area are lucky to have an incredible marine environment right in our backyard. Not only are there hundreds of shipwrecks of historical significance, our local waters are a vibrant ecosystem with thriving populations of marine life - including sharks, ocean sunfish and even whales!
Our Intro program is geared towards people who love diving but who haven’t had experience diving locally. Why limit your diving to when you go to the tropics, when you can get in the water here every weekend during the season? No air travel, no baggage restrictions, no hotels, and no need to take days off from work. Yes, it requires special considerations for the conditions, but that’s what the Intro program is about - getting you ready for local diving.
Our volunteer mentors (instructors and other experienced northeast divers) happily give their time to help get new people into the local diving scene. We go over gear considerations, exposure suit selection, special techniques and protocols to make your first local ocean dive safe and fun.
The program starts with a weekend at the Lake Allure quarry in Quarryville, Pennsylvania, While many of the club members who sign up for the program are relatively new to diving, we welcome divers of all levels who don't have experience in our area. Over the more than ten years that the Intro program has been running, we have even had warm water tech divers sign up to help them get started diving locally. The quarry event is especially inclusive, many divers who don't fit into either the "newby" or "mentor" category show up just to learn and enjoy the day!
We do hope that people doing their first local boat dive with us first attend the Lake Allure quarry event, where we have more time to work on basic principals and techniques. For dates and times, see our schedule.
Elliot Bertoni will be organizing a zoom session in the weeks ahead of the quarry event similar to what we did last year, to help get people new to northeast diving up to speed on gear, practices and other specifics of the local dive scene. This way, we will not take up a lot of dive time at Lake Allure for didactics. However, we will plan on leaving time before, between and after dives to debrief and discuss things.
In order to set up the mentoring teams, and to order food, we need to have an accurate count of people who plan on attending. PLEASE RSVP to intro@seagypsies.nyc, and let me know if you have any questions for us - we are happy to discuss this all with you.
See you in the water!
Greg Rosengarten
Dive Chair
Elliot Bertoni
Intro to Northeast Diving Advisor
This is a video of one of our 2021 Introduction to Northeast Diving boat charters.
This is the Zoom session that we did prior to our 2021 Introduction to Northeast Diving Program
This video is of our 2021 Introduction to Northeast Diving weekend at Dutch Springs.
Here is a video of one of our club dive charters.
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