Posted: 6/22/2008 6:52:14 PM EDT
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Let's start an interested new thread! When I was on leave in Australia, I got to do an assisted dive in an aquarium. It was pretty fun, and piqued my interest to at least earn my open water certification and do some diving. Now I know from the old "hobbies" thread that there are a couple divers in here ... Discuss. |
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I haven't dived in 20 years and want to get back into it. All of my diving was in warm water so I was spoiled. I heard diving here is pretty awesome but the thought off a drysuit kind of ruins it for me. I want to go on a dive vacation down the road and see if I can get the wife certified. Hoping we would have or find a common interest in something. |
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I got hooked when I was a kid in Hawaii on a family vacation. My mom signed me up for a free lessons in one of the hotel pools. Then the instructor hits you up for a $75 guided dive the next day. About 35ft. only ~150 yards off the shore (nothing crazy). When we got back to San Diego I had my parent convinced they NEEDED to let me get certified. Did open water and advanced in the same summer. I've done quite a few dives off of Catalina & the Channel Islands outside of LA. The Coronado Islands in Mexico. Wreck Alley, The Point Loma Kelp Beds off of San Diego, and most beaches between La Jolla & San Clemente, Ca. Unfortunately, I haven't been diving in about 12-13 years... |
| Probably one of the greatest things in the world. I got certified back in 2004, right here in WA, also got my drysuit cert because the 8mm wetsuits don't leave you much as far as mobility. I've been diving in the Med, Coral Reef, Caribbean, and Up here in Puget sound. SOOO much fun!! |
You can get private lessons to fit your schedule, thats what I had to do and it dosn't cost to much more. I was a commercial diver for 9 years down in the Gulf. I got a bad case of Decompression sickness and had to give it up. I only got my open water cert last year, wasn't required for the commercial stuff. |
How did you come to get bent and what was it like? Go too deep? Stay too long? Come up too fast? I've long been curious about it but the only guy I know to get bent couldn't talk about it as a condition of the lawsuit. I've heard of some pretty sahdy operations in the gulf. |
How did you come to get bent and what was it like? Go too deep? Stay too long? Come up too fast? Was at 167' working hard trying to line up some pipe.......got decompressed according to company procedure but treatment didn't take so I took a hit to my vestibular canal. Fucked me up for two weeks, wasn't to unpleasant like being really drunk and seeing everything in multiples, and now I have a high likely hood of getting hit again because of permanent damage. Something was wrong with the treatment table because another diver took a hit in the shoulder two dives after mine. |
That sucks out loud. Does the commercial industry use USN tables? |
That sucks. What kind of bottom time do you guys do on a dive like that? I've known a couple folks that have taken mild hits. One a recreational diver (heavy smoker and skip-breather) on a 80-90' dive at Alki. He took a vestib hit and quit diving. The other took a mild hit while doing the Admiral Sampson (300'+). He went for a chamber ride and is still diving. |
Man I am surprised you and I hadn’t ran into each other in LA, I dove all over many of the same places as you before moving here and I taught diving too in the valley, mostly privet stuff for the film industry. When I first met my now wife we spent every moment we could at the island… Too much fun! |