I will definitely SCUBA fairly often. As you can see from this thread that I started in May 2014, I've been wanting to do it for over 4 years (even longer and I did it before I created this thread) but I just really never decided to take it too serious, and I was fairly okay with just snorkeling. But the more and more I've snorkeled and since I go on more vacations now, it's made me want to just do it that much more. Last year was pretty much the icing on the cake when I went to the Keys for a guys trip and we went just to primarily snorkel, fish, and do a discover SCUBA course. After that I decided that I am going to just do it.
Then this past year when I went to the Keys in July I was unable to even snorkel just due to weather and stuff, and I told my wife fuck it, I'm going to do my certification. She knows I've always talked about it and this time I decided to just do it. So I went to a local classes orientation to get a feel for what it would entail and I really liked the instructor so that is who I am going with.
My plan was to do the classes in August and do my checkout dives in Grand Cayman when I was there in September for our 10 year anniversary. However at the orientation, he told me that for the dives you would need to have a medical waiver signed regardless of answering YES to any questions on the form. Initially I was going to answer NO to them all since that is what I did in the Keys and was fine, and I had talked to a doctor prior and I knew I'd be fine, but once he told me that, I knew I had to get medically cleared. And that just took way longer than I anticipated, and I wasn't cleared before the class I could take prior to my trip happened.
So now I'm doing this class and like 90% going to Grand Cayman again in December to do the checkout dives. And after that, my wife and I typically hit up tropical waters 3-5 times a year. We have typically been going to the Keys at least once a year too and the reefs down there are some of the best I've ever seen, as is the sea life, so I'd definitely do it a bit down there. But we also want to go to Roatan, Belize, Bonaire, and other places where SCUBA is supposed to be really good so having this prior to going to those places will be great too. We are also trying to conceive right now so we're avoiding places with Zika, which limited us to Grand Cayman and Bahamas this year as far as out of the country goes.