Check the quakka I got a second set of gear for the wife to use but she dosn't like it so mates use it out of the quaka $400 2 steel tanks, Tusa bcd,sherwood regs,dive console consisting of compas,gauges and computer all in good condition.Origanly only wanted the tanks.

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Where'd u do your ticket bill? yeh ill check the quokka for all the equipment thanks mate 

cheers
sam

Ballard's dive academy but there not around anymore they were a pretty dodgy the instructor was a rock spider

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But when I got my ticket I was told that you should ensure it is a PADI certified course.

Yep it's padi certified just the instructor was dodgy and pervert just one of those dirty old men who are perverted .

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i boutght my gear new from the local dive shop cost 1400 about 7 years ago. i know that bells scuba down here in rocko cost a bit, scuba nautics are good had a few mates go through, if you can stand tourists  from then perth diving academy is cheap but packed out.

That dive warehouse on scab beach road in mt hawthorn is real good, they sell sherwood gear which is good and they are real cheap. I got alot of my gear from there. Mike when you come and visit me i will take you to cairns and show you what tourists are..

Cheers andy
From Innisfail Far Nth Queensland

getting mine in about a month sam.

Sam got mine donkeys years ago with Australiasian diving academy great bunch of people and they also put us through a few scenario's which have saved me a couple of times for a decent set of gear you would be looking at the 4000-5000 mark and thats not the top end gear either depends how much you are going to dive and to what limits and depth's

Live to fish
Andrew

Do you get fined if you dive without having a dive cert?

Based sam
Just be carefull if you buy second hand gear you could get a good deal but also it could cost you more to get your regs fixed than what you paid for them, and you wont know till you try them also if your cylinder is not in test when you buy it it maybe past it and have to be condemmed
most scuba shops do good deals, I got a bc and regs for my brother in law (I didn't pay) at christmas from bell scuba in Rockingham for $1100.oo a 3mm wet suit about $99.00 wheight belt $45.00 fins $150 for a decent pair Mask about $100 for a decent one,A steel 100cf cylinder about $200 and of course you can just keep going up from there. dive courses abou $400.00 these days I beleive. about 13 years since I did mine!
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Okay have to confess i have no dive ticket.  Ive been diving for years do about 150 tanks a year. Don't hire gear but if needed I just borrow a mates padi licence.
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and you do have to have a cert card to get your cylinders filled...legally that is, if they dont ask you for it at the dive shop they can be in deep shit!

To all the virgins..............Thanks for nothing!

No tanks can be filled for many reasons balloons paint ball ect

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To all the virgins..............Thanks for nothing!

if you get them filled elsewhere then you take your life in your hands, do they check if your cylider is in test do they refuse to fill them if they are not is the air clean when it goes in your cylinder....I wonder, still it's your life!

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Allways filled at a dive shop

You don't need a ticket to buy dive gear you need a ticket to dive open water

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got my ticket thru my local shop, Dolphin Dive in Welshpool. They link up sometimes with Dolphin dive in Freo which the skipper Marc, writes in the Dive log mag. He has a massive charter boat, does night dives, All day dives(3), puts on a feed etc. He has heaps of great dive marks. When and if you get your ticket, you have to do another course to dive officially deeper than 18m. Then you can dive the HMAS Swan in Dunno, that sits around 32m on the bottom. I reackon these days everyone who dives should have a appropriate ticket to suit, cause if anything happens, your dive buddy will get done too.

well all the dive shops I have got cylinders filled want to se your c card and if they dont see it they dont fill it they are bound by law to ask for it as I understand I'll check it out and if it's out of test they wont fill it either. I agree you dont need a c card to buy the stuff it's only the air fills i was talking about
and you dont need a ticket to dive at all no one says you have to be certified! just like if you are certified as an open water no one can tell you not to dive to 40 mtrs or dive at night you just wont be able to dive on dive boats or charters!

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Dive course is about $395 and that includes everything, class room, pool, shore dives and two boat dives.

Most dive shops have Ezi-pay interest free deals now..... spend $3500 or more and get good gear it will last forever if you look after it and get it serviced. Oceanic gear has free parts for life if you have them serviced every 12 months.

Diving's one of the best things you can do, and it helps with your fishing as you get to see where fish are, the structure they live around and how they act or react.

Don't hesitate.....

And anyone can have a tank filled at a shop. A ticket is required to hire gear but not to buy gear.... And a dive boat will require you to show a ticket.....

Well worth while getting your scuba ticket.
I got mine through scubanatics in rockingham back in 1997.
Great hobby diving, its great to see whats under the water were u fish!

Yes you can get your cylinders filled without ba c card,
It's been that long since I got one filled I forgot (My dive buddy normaly takes ours in to get filled) I was asked for my card a couple of weeks ago but it was for a hire cylinder....forgot about that!

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Cheers for all the input fellas, i have looked at Dolphin Dive they look pretty good atm,

PDA was pretty expensive according to their site..so i spose i will have to have a look around to see what i can find!

Found out the other day that one of my mate's brothers owns a dive shop (not sure which one) and i can get cheap stuff there!

Dean if your interested in getting yours, then we should pair up n see what sorta price they can do us!

Thanks again fellas 

cheers
sam

Sorry but you are actually meant to show your own certification card!!! I think they don't ask because so many people over here have been diving for years without tickets, My nieghbour does the same unticketed, but like most unticketed you go to the same shop and they think you are certified.

Just spoke to my dive shop proprietor and he says " it is not a LEGAL requirement to have a c card to have a cylinder filled however it is a condition of the training organization they are affiliated with in this case PADI for the customer requesting the fill to show their card if they dont they are not supposed to fill it and could be in trouble from PADI"

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Sam I am happy to do it with ya, just depends what dates you are wanting.

Also want to do a course which allows me to go to 40m, but will probably have to do the open water course first... What course did you want to do?

Yeh man, i wanna do the PADI course i think it is, just the basic one that u can dive to 20m i think? just the basic one? but u have to do the basic one first to then get your deeper one i think? 

cheers
sam

Your first course is open water which is 18m.