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Does anyone here scuba dive? Im goin to finish my open-water certification (PADI) on sat and sun and i was just wondering if anyone here scuba dives and maybe has a neat story to share about some of their diving experiences?
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I used to date a woman in Chicago who owned a scuba shop and used to drag me out on her dives. Fun stuff.
Last time I went was on Lake Michigan in the middle of March. Thick wet suits make for great diving in Winter.
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I've been diving many places in the Carribean. I was PADI certified in the Bahamas (Andros Island) by a retired Top Gun pilot. Grand Cayman was my favorite place, clearest water (~150 ft visibility), coolest creatures. I petted a moray eel there, it was the softest thing I have ever felt. Also there is Stingray City, where you swim with dozens of rays, feeding them, and they are all over you. It was amazing.
Aratinga is a divemaster I think, hopefully she will chime in too.
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Yep, I'm a PADI DM who, shamefully, hasn't been in the water since school let out! #$%^&* boyfriend is certified but hasn't had time to go with me -- it's getting to the point where I'm gonna go with or without him!
Me with a reallllly big Manta in Kona (click my website for more) :
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Aratinga those are wonderful pictures you have on your website...i've been wanting to go scub diving so badly and i'm finally going to get my chance this November when i go to the Boracay Islands
Originally posted by BRx8 i've been wanting to take classes...do you still have her information and how much a certification costs?
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I am taking my certification through my college (Pennsylvania College of Technology) It's cool to see a dive master to be a fellow 8 owner. Great pics as well.
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Last edited by PA BATMOBILE; 06-24-2004 at 11:50 AM.
Thanks! I can't take credit for them though; they were taken by Ken Kurtis, who owns Reefseekers Dive Company in Beverly Hills. He's a pretty respectable U/W photographer and an excellent NAUI instructor. Check out http://reefseekers.com/pixpages.html for more of his work.
BRx8, I've never heard of the Boracay Islands before you mentioned them. But after googling, it looks like a fabulous place to do some diving! I'll have to add them to the ever-growing list of "Places I must Dive before I die".
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not me but my dad is a diver. he dives wrecks and caves mostly. He's been on the Andrea Doria alot. Truck Lagoon and all of the other famous sites.a freind of his was the one who brought the bell up from the Doria. he dives a lot of wrecks of the east coast. has all sorts of stuff from big brass search lights to plates cups,saucers etc. Portholes too, some from the Doria. His favorite wreck is the Empress of Ireland. that ship is pretty much off limits now as the Canadian Government has named it a historic treasure or somesuch. He also does alot of Cave Diving down in Florida and other places. in Florida mostly around Ginnie Springs. he has all sorts of pics/vid from those caves showing huge rooms with like dinosaur bones sticking out of the wall! mind you some of these cave rooms are only maybe 50 feet down but they are hundreds and sometimes thousands of feet in where it takes days to stage bottles for your way in and out and then scooters to fight the current to get you in there with some time left to look around before heading back out.
It's funny what turns divers on. Cave diving is like the LAST thing I'd ever want to do.... being underwater in an overhead environment (solid rock cave wall between me and the surface) is not my idea of a good time. "Tech" diving (like zoom44's dad does) seems to appeal to macho men who appreciate the challenge and danger of extreme depths, exotic breathing-gas mixtures, and staged decompression stops.
I enjoy wreck diving when the wreck ends up as an artificial reef and supporting a myriad of colonizing critters. I like looking at the encrusting corals and sponges and schools of fish that adopt a wreck as their home -- the carcass of the wreck itself holds little interest for me. To each his/her own!
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zoom44 does your dad have pics of any of his dives on the net?
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Originally posted by Aratinga It's funny what turns divers on. Cave diving is like the LAST thing I'd ever want to do.... being underwater in an overhead environment (solid rock cave wall between me and the surface) is not my idea of a good time. "Tech" diving (like zoom44's dad does) seems to appeal to macho men who appreciate the challenge and danger of extreme depths, exotic breathing-gas mixtures, and staged decompression stops.
I enjoy wreck diving when the wreck ends up as an artificial reef and supporting a myriad of colonizing critters. I like looking at the encrusting corals and sponges and schools of fish that adopt a wreck as their home -- the carcass of the wreck itself holds little interest for me. To each his/her own!
while my dad may indeed be a "macho man" :D if you ever get a chance to talk to him you will find his reasons for doing these types of dives couldn't be father from that. what he really enjoys about the diving he does is the peace and quiet! it's his way of getting far away from the world and relaxing. sure when he goes into wrecks he is after the booty but the for the most part it is the wonder of these huge ancient unspoiled rooms that not many people have been to that he enjoys. you can hear it in his voice when he talks about it. he is literally in awe of the things he sees. this coming from a normally very gruff digruntled front that he normally puts on. of course he likes to puff his chest out a little when he talks about the technical side. he likes to sort of rub it in alittle that this 67 year old man is able to do these things and the younger guys can bareley keep up but when he tells you the story of the manta that he swam with and recued a few years ago he'll spend much more time talking about the strength and grace of that creature than about what he did. short version- off the coast of florida a few years ago he saw a manta in the distance. he swam over to check it out and saw a rope wrapped around one of its eyestalks. the rope was connected to a cement anchor. so he spent some time trying to get teh thing off and ended up managing to cut it loose. the manta was very calm thru most of it but at one point as he was cutting the thing wapped him in the head with a wing. he still managed to get it loose and it calmly swam away. but he wont talk about the danger he was in. only about how cool and calm the manta was up close.
Yup, I'm a PADI divemaster. I've been diving since 1995. It's my third most favorite thing to do. Driving the 8 is second.
Mostly like diving wrecks. I'm supposed to be diving a U-boat in North Carolina next month. Can't wait!
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Originally posted by PA BATMOBILE zoom44 does your dad have pics of any of his dives on the net?
unfortunatly no. he isnt very internet savy. although he is currently trying to find the best way to get his slides and pics digitized. besides his scuba pics he has a bunch of pics from when he was in Antartica in '63 and other places he's been. he's trying to get them all preserved in digital format. but if you put any of those names into google(Ginnie Springs, Andrea Doria, Empress of Ireland, Truk Lagoon etc) you will finds loads of info and pics from various people/groups.
funny story about the Empress. a year or 2 before the Canadian government shut down the diving the started making everyone catalog everything they brought of the ship. then when they shut it down they sent letters out to everyone including a list of things they wanted back(property of Canada needed for a museum). the list they wanted back back from my dad were some plates and tea cups. his were all in pretty good condition but a freind of his had a bunch of broken ones. so he gave them to my dad and who sent them back to Canada. hasn't heard from them since. so i kid my dad about being a relic who smuggles relics:D
and btw my dad is in PA. in Chester County. if you want to do some diving off of New Jersey look online for a dive boat from jersey called the Seeker. he dives off of that boat mostly. helps crew it also and rebuilt the compressors/fill station himself.
Wow, I've been wanting to take classes for a long time. I know that you can take the classes while on the Princess Cruise--that usually costs around $140 don't remember..
Im goin diving on saturday and sunday in a local river (my first open water dive) ill post on here how it went on monday.
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wow you really can find anything with Google. this page has pics of my dad getting suited up and ready for a dive! he's Charlie Dulin- the old guy in the red drysuit.
Originally posted by PA BATMOBILE Im goin diving on saturday and sunday in a local river (my first open water dive) ill post on here how it went on monday.
good luck and dive safe! dont they have any old quarries around bloomsberg? or are they still too cold this time of the year?
well im gonna be diving around where an old saw mill used to be and yes i imagine the water will be pretty cold but not awful, but ill be wearing a full wetsuit so i should b ok. Im goin at 10 in the morning too. BRRRRR!!!
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Man, cold water diving is rough. I've been diving a bit in the Caribbean. Yeah, my dad spoiled me while I was still in highschool/college. He got into underwater photography, and has a couple thousand pictures (of which there are actually a handful of decent shots). I'll post some later, since I don't have them here.
To all those who want to start- it's definitely fun. Zoom's dad has it right, it's soooo calm and relaxing. We met this lady on Roatan (island off Honduras on the second-largest barrier reef in the world) who was claustrophobic AND didn't know how to swim, but she could dive. Talk about overcoming adversity. Just goes to show that anyone can do it. The downside is that it is expensive. If you're taking classes on a cruise, it's probably just a resort course, where you spend about an hour in class, then you can dive with a divemaster, but only to 40-50 feet (which is PLENTY deep in most areas- color starts fading deeper than that unless you bring your own light). It's not an actual certification, but it's enough to let you dive for the duration of the cruise. Divemasters, feel free to correct me if I got any of that wrong.
Good luck moving around in that 7mm wetsuit, batmobile! You'll have a great time, anyway. If it's too cold, maybe you should consider a dry suit course after you get your certification. There's always a way to spend more money on a hobby, especially one that you love.
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but when he tells you the story of the manta that he swam with and recued a few years ago he'll spend much more time talking about the strength and grace of that creature than about what he did. short version- off the coast of florida a few years ago he saw a manta in the distance. he swam over to check it out and saw a rope wrapped around one of its eyestalks. the rope was connected to a cement anchor. so he spent some time trying to get teh thing off and ended up managing to cut it loose. the manta was very calm thru most of it but at one point as he was cutting the thing wapped him in the head with a wing. he still managed to get it loose and it calmly swam away. but he wont talk about the danger he was in. only about how cool and calm the manta was up close.
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