Personal Equipment

[mcdiver]

I would personally recommend renting your dive gear for awhile. Try different brands from different dive stores to see what works best for you. It is not that a certain dive store has better gear than the other, it's just that it may not be what best suits your diving, and that will change over time as you become more experienced.

The one thing you can not go wrong on is purchasing your own dive computer, I would get one where you can download the dives onto a laptop. The information it will provide you will be very valuable. Computers can track your depth, breathing rate, water temp, even your pulse. It can tell you your starting and ending air pressure, you can even enter the dive site which will be a good reminder of past dives.