Does anyone else scuba?

They don't do that kind of stuff any longer. Not for basic and advanced. You start dealing with gear issues in rescue and above.

As far as tables and watches, dive computers do it all. Many integrate into tank pressure and give you both saturation time and air time left. They'll figure decompression stops if you bust the tables and figure no-fly times. Pretty amazing.
 
Rescue Diver here. PADI certified.
Dived in some really cool places- Musandam peninsular in Oman, Gili Islands in Indo's, Koh Tau and Koh Phangan in Thailand etc.
I like to take it easy, not push the limits too much.
 
Night diving is really cool. All the colors you see are from artificial light so no filtering down to green and blue. Amazing how brilliant the colors are and you would never notice unless you saw this stuff at night or in very shallow water. The luminescent octopus were so cool. Pretty erie feeling at first but the first night dive is amazing. Funny how the sounds change from day to night also.
 
Lol Fishboy, sounds like a VERY fitting name then :) So glad you stuck with it after that start (Freak out is what I would have done) Sounds like you are exactly where you are meant to be when you are in the water. I can't imagine not being able to be in/around the water. I am having withdrawals, even without diving anymore I used to spend a lot of time in water. health issues keep me out of the Sound and even pools right now and it is awful!

Bawanna it is great to hear you got another phone call :) So happy that he is handling it well, just as you said he would! They had to go back to yelling touching is out, I heard something about teaching to salute being one of the very few times a drill can touch a recruit these days. Seems you can't get them to keep the wrist straight no matter what unless you show them what it is supposed to feel like. Besides, trainees in general don't respond to much else, and once they hit about the middle of training if they are anything like I was at OCS they could probably be convinced to do any thing for an extra hour of sleep IF you can get their attention. Hmm if I remember right that was about the time we threw live grenades too. Coincidence that the company commander seemed to never be around that week?
 
Had to dive in- PADI certified in '88, did the open water dives in Rhode Island in front of where they filmed The Great Gatsby. My 3rd open water dive was a night dive the first day of certification.

I stopped keeping track after 1500 dives. My specialty would be treasure hunting in Lake Washington with 90+ % of my dives in Lake Washington.

The most $- I returned it to the owner:
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The most interesting:
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The biggest 20,000 pounds:
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Too many treasure stories to list here.
 
Heya BrailleDiver, one BRAVEDiver to dive in Lake WA. Must have visability of 3centimeters. Don't even think in that mess you can see your fingers in front of your face. I hear there are a lot of fascinating dive spots there though from when everyone basically used the lake as the city dump. I spent years diving all over but home dive is Titlow park just off the Narrows Bridge in the Sound. Used to do a lot of Abalone and Geoduck diving throughout the Sound and the Straits as well as finding stuff friends dropped overboard and changing zincs on boats for folks. Looks like you have much more entertaining diving experiences that last one looks like a plane? one of those old Beavers that sunk years ago?
 
@FishBoy, for cave diving you might want to look into GUE training. Cave diving is cool but not a cheap path to go down. You wont really need things like full face mask and sidemount for cave though. Maybe look into a BP/W setup and maybe doubles?

@Braillediver, nice finds. Looks like you've had a lot more luck than me with treasure hunting. I've heard the NW is always cold. You dive dry?
 
guruguru said:
@FishBoy, for cave diving you might want to look into GUE training. Cave diving is cool but not a cheap path to go down. You wont really need things like full face mask and sidemount for cave though. Maybe look into a BP/W setup and maybe doubles?
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I'm probably not going to do full cave until I leave the Coast Guard. I want to do the full-face because my jaw and throat become horribly uncomfortable from biting down on the regulator. I've heard from a lot of people that sidemount is important for cave, there must be something I'm missing.

I've been doing a lot of research into backplate/wing and doubles, they seem much better than the vest BC. On my checklist.
 
It might depend on who you learn cave from. For GUE they are a very minimal mindset- Simple stuff to minimize failure points and keep as compact as possible.

Sidemount is actually pretty good for rec diving. You can just hookup in water and you won't have to carry the tank weight. I might pickup a simple one like the SMS50.

I suppose that for deep cave exploration sidemount would let you easily swap out tanks along the way.
 
I don't dive but I do have a dive recovery story.

A local county deputy was out in Puget Sound crabbing. As he was pulling up a pot, his Kahr MK9 pistol and clip on inside the pants holster fell over the side, kerplunk!. Well apparently he's a techy guy so he whips out his GPS and locks the coordinates.
He then contacts one of my detectives who is an very avid diver along with a couple officers who also dive.
They downloaded his GPS to his and about 45 days later they went looking for it.
They took another guy to stay with the boat and two went down. Took them less than 2 minutes to find it, wasn't terrible deep like 50 feet or so. Still in the holster.

Wise thinkers that they were they brought it up and it went right into a bucket of outdrive oil so it never really was in the air.
They brought it to me and I took it all apart and cleaned it up. Then got to pondering about springs and such, so I sent it to Kahr.
They commended my clean up efforts and replaced all the springs and questionable parts, returned it in a new box with a new magazine no charge. NICE?

Well the deputy felt so dumb he didn't want it back so it's kind of a pass around but ultimately belongs to the detective.
Anyhow they all took turns at various times and nobody could hit anything with it, so it came back to me and I tried it.
Couldn't hit a paper plate at 5 ft? Aim at the right, barely wing the left side, thought sights are off but couldn't hit it again.

So I called Kahr and told them I wanted to buy a new barrel, had to be bad. They sent me a new one free of charge??? I even told them what the deal was, certainly not warranty ya know?

Well the salt must have messed with the polygonal rifling, with the new barrel it's a tack driver.
 
I was a rescue and recovery (mostly recovery) diver at my dept. We would do evidence recovery and body as well, I enjoyed the evidence recovery but the body recovery was always the pits. I have been diving since 1989 and have logged my share of dives for sure.
 
NAUI certified since 1992. A number of years ago, I was participating in a cleanup dive in Waukegan Harbor in Lake Michigan when my first stage became ensnared, in a tangle of fishing line and rope accumulated around the legs of one of the piers. I reached for my Gerber River Shorty, fumbled it, and promptly lost it in the murky water. I now keep a Spyderco Harpy, attached to a lanyard, clipped in my BC pocket, as a backup to my primary dive knife. Had to slip out of my BC to finally work it free.
 
PADI certified since 1988. Certified in rock quarries in central Indiana. Later that year I moved to Florida. Lets just say the experience was a tad bit different than the 48° quarry :-)
 
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