[Jack]

Originally Posted by subzero

Hello to you guys
I am about to take up diving and wondered if someone would be so kind and give me a complete list of equipment I would need to start the PADI Open Water Course, I don't want to hire.

Hire is just what you do want to do.
There are hundreds of manufacturers making thousands of items and we can't just say "This one will be the best for you". To put it bluntly hire equipment to go diving until you know what you don't like and then you'll be starting to know enough to buy something that suits you.

I am now on my third total revision of kit and I'm well satisfied that what I have will cover the diving I want to do for a good few years. Would it suit you? I'd say categorically no. It suits me and I don't think you are me, I don't know if you want to dive the sort of things I want to dive and the places I want to dive. There is no standard diver - you are going to gain skills to allow you to go safely into a new realm and you will discover what interests you there and equip yourself to do it.

Welcome to diving.