You’ve completed your dive training, your instructor signed off on your cert dives, your C-card shows up on your SDI app, and you’re feeling pretty pumped about this whole diving experience.

Now what? Easy. Get wet. Keep diving. Log as much bottom time as you can, for this is the critical period – between graduating from class and becoming a bona fide dive fanatic – where you either make giant strides toward getting more comfortable and confident under water, or the euphoria fades.

But to go diving you need gear. If you don’t own gear you have to rent it. Which is okay, at first. But renting gear is a hassle, it can be pricey, and the gear you end up using is usually well-worn and rarely fits right. This can quickly cause a new diver’s enthusiasm to wane. In fact, studies have shown that the surest way to lose interest in diving, beyond simply not going diving, is to have to rely on rental gear to get you into the water.

So the best thing you can do to increase your safety, comfort and confidence in the water, beyond actually going diving, is to own your own gear. Motor City Scuba offers promotional financing of 6 months no interest through Synchrony Financial - start the application process below.