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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: SunTracker on June 10, 2004, 05:24:59 AM
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I'm in the middle of my NAUI scuba certification right now. Having a blast so far. Is anyone here a certified scuba diver?
Had to swim 220 yards and tread water for 10 minutes yesterday to prove my swimming competency. Was actually pretty tiring. Swimming with split-fins is much much easier.
Very interested in freshwater diving, are there any lakes clear enough to see fish in (around Kentucky)?
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Dive master about 450 logged dives
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I R PADDI DIVAR!
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Originally posted by SunTracker
I'm in the middle of my NAUI scuba certification right now. Having a blast so far. Is anyone here a certified scuba diver?
Had to swim 220 yards and tread water for 10 minutes yesterday to prove my swimming competency. Was actually pretty tiring. Swimming with split-fins is much much easier.
Very interested in freshwater diving, are there any lakes clear enough to see fish in (around Kentucky)?
Awwwww you'll end up wanting to move to Florida if you find out you like diving!!
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Originally posted by Saintaw
I R PADDI DIVAR!
Knew that was coming.
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I R PADI Divr 2
Dey tol me dat I can Pay An Dive Imeedatly
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Offical muff diver here. Qualified in 1981 (I think that was the year). My favourite pastime ever since.
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Whats wrong with being PADI certified? I got certified in 98, and dove the keys for about a week. Havnt dove since. :(
Its a shame too, because I really enjoyed it.
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Same here Just a different year, mid 70's.
Trying to make it a full time job someday...
NUTTZ
P.S. I live NOWHERE Nere any deep water, but a block away is a diving store. Asked my neighbor about it, he is a diver and said they filled an old quarry around my way and dumped old helicopters, a few ships and planes and stuff. He said he LOVES it.
I know i spelled near wrong, in case Hitech reads this post:)
Originally posted by Curval
Offical muff diver here. Qualified in 1981 (I think that was the year). My favourite pastime ever since.
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Originally posted by Nefarious
Whats wrong with being PADI certified?
Absolutly nothing, it's a bit easier basic OW cert. course than NAUI though, IMO.
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SSI c-card here. 300+ logged. Night, deep & S&R certs.
Still waiting to do the Truk lagoon dream trip.
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I have been down a few times ;)
Curval, but have you earned your "red-wings" yet? Mine have stars now.
My most recent exciting dive was with big bull sharks at Bat Island on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica in the Gulf of Papagayo. No cage or bait of course. There were about 15 of them. They were big ones to. I'd like to go to the Cocos Islands sometime.
Bill Beards Diving Safaris was a good operation.
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Padi cert as a college credit. Mostly fresh water stuff, nothing real exotic.
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Originally posted by rogwar
Curval, but have you earned your "red-wings" yet? Mine have stars now.
Dude...I have Oak Leaves with Clusters. ;)
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Originally posted by Horn
Still waiting to do the Truk lagoon dream trip.
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Same here. Many of my dive buds have gone and every one of them that did has a pic of themselves in a cockpit.
One of these days.
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I certified NASDS in 77 (11 yrs old), mostly dove Puget Sound and the Oregon coast, but have made a couple dives in HI in the last few years.
I lost my dive card a few years back & I guess NASDS is out of bussiness so now I have a SSI cert. it doesn't really make any difference to me who the card is through, but for some reason it really burns my bellybutton to look down at that SSI card and see "Diving since 2002" on the front.
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brown wings & yellow wings here
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I would strongly recommend that the landlocked dudes take a vacation to Cancun and drift dive Palancar's reef. You'll be glad you did.
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10 years over 500 dives. Go to belize. Best diving in the western hemisphere.
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Originally posted by StabbyTheIcePic
10 years over 500 dives. Go to belize. Best diving in the western hemisphere.
Well there goes my theory that you have to be semi smart to pass a diving test.
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Originally posted by storch
I would strongly recommend that the landlocked dudes take a vacation to Cancun and drift dive Palancar's reef. You'll be glad you did.
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Dove Cozumel once. Did the dive you're talking about. Amazing how your air consumption drops when you get your buoyancy set and let the current carry you. Probably the best dive trip I've had. It was my first "real" dive trip. I was so excited that I sucked the first tank down in record time. :lol
Diving the CA coast is horrible in comparison. The Kelp beds can be fun, though.
The hole at Belize is on my wishlist of places to dive, but I don't see it happening in the forseeable future.
Oh, btw...YMCA Open Water c card. Yeh, I'm an old fart.
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Originally posted by jigsaw
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Dove Cozumel once. Did the dive you're talking about. Amazing how your air consumption drops when you get your buoyancy set and let the current carry you. Probably the best dive trip I've had. It was my first "real" dive trip. I was so excited that I sucked the first tank down in record time. :lol
Diving the CA coast is horrible in comparison. The Kelp beds can be fun, though.
The hole at Belize is on my wishlist of places to dive, but I don't see it happening in the forseeable future.
Oh, btw...YMCA Open Water c card. Yeh, I'm an old fart.
We skin dive Palancar's I hardly ever scuba anymore too much junk and it slows me down. We free dive for fish though now at 47 yrs of age I try not to spear in water deeper than 60 feet.
An aquaintance of mine was lost and his remains never recovered in the "hole" I guess two years gone by now. Dr. Ruben Delgado. his 13yr old son was his dive buddy. Apparently he suffered nitrogen narcosys. He was reported to be taking photos of nothing at near 200 ft. He was an experienced diver with many hours logged. Be careful in the hole and also "the wall" in Cayman both are deceptively dangerous dives. The sea is very unforgiving always hire a guide or take one of the party boats whenever you go to a new place, it's safer and you'll have more fun.
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Certified while in Okinawa in '75. Tried some fresh water diving after but too boring. Back to Okinawa '85 - '90, loved the diving there. However, the coral isn't what it was due to so much construction around the island.