Search results

Goodness, I didn't even start diving till I was 49. At 55 I was just getting into tech diving, particularly deep wrecks. At 57 I took up cave diving ... and a year later became full cave certified. At 59 I took up solo diving. I'm 66 now, and am probably done with cave and deep tech dives ...

By far the most immature scuba students I ever had were a couple of twenty-something males ... the only time I ever had to stop class and tell my students to go home, because they weren't taking it seriously enough. Never felt the need to do that with my "underage" students ... ... Bob...

My routine always involves pouring water over my head once I'm in my drysuit ... cold water on hot days and warm water on cold days. In both cases, it's instant relief. ... Bob (Grateful Diver)

... her birthday was just two weeks ago, and I spent it sitting on a liveaboard in the Socorros telling everyone how much she'd have enjoyed that experience. Looking at the quoted post, she did eventually meet and dive with many (if not most) of those people she named ... ... Bob (Grateful Diver)

If the sunscreen chemicals were evenly distributed throughout the ocean that would be a valid observation ... unfortunately the chemicals are concentrated in a small, local area where the divers and swimmers are ... which is usually around shallow coral reefs that die because of their exposure...

I'm more like you. While I know quite a bit about our local marine life, when I travel I'm not one of those folks who spends surface intervals looking through marine ID books. When someone looks at a photo of mine and asks me what kind of fish that is I'm more likely than not to respond with...

Glad to hear you've decided to stick with it, Marie ... ... Bob (Grateful Diver)

Years ago I coined the phrase "50-dive expert". Seems that there are those who, just about the time they start feeling comfortable in the water, decide they've got this scuba thing mastered. Then about 100 dives later they begin to realize how much else there is to learn. Back during my first...

I was one of TSandM's early mentors, and the person who initially mentioned GUE to her ... she had the sort of analytical mind that made it a good fit. Met JJ once too ... I was working at 5th D at the time, and we ended up sharing a seawall together while we each taught our respective classes...

I've done both ... the boats usually take you to the Fidalgo side, though, and the Whidbey side (park entrance) is way better. Make sure you plan it properly ... it's a drift dive in both directions, and no boat to come get you if you don't hit it right ... (sorry, Dr. Bill, for the hijack)...

Watched some friends (including a couple prominent SBers) go through that after an unsuccessful attempt to rescue a woman who ran out of air at depth and blew up her lungs making a rapid ascent from nearly 100 feet. Even knowing that she was basically dead by the time she surfaced didn't prevent...

Since you asked ... this is from Deception Pass three weeks ago ... have you dived there? It's gorgeous ... ... Bob (Grateful Diver)

Ah, you just reminded me, Bill ... I meant to post something down there after my dives on Sunday. It's unusual that I see something in Puget Sound that I've never seen before ... Sunday I found this little shrimp ... less than an inch long. No idea what type. Colorful little thing ... don't you...

Depends on where you live, I suspect. Up here we had TSandM and a handful of other prominent GUE and UTD trained divers who turned out to be super nice people. They took leadership roles as well as being role models to remind everyone that the whole point of diving was to have fun ... and that's...

^^^^^ ... what he said I own several reg sets, and have done the same experiment to see how my gauges would read. There was a roughly 300 psi difference between the highest and lowest reading. Mechanical gauges are notoriously inaccurate. To answer the OP ... go with the lowest reading. You'd...

... of course, they paid six times more for their tank fills than you did ... :wink: ... Bob (Grateful Diver)

My all-time favorite student was a 12-year old girl ... she's in her mid-20's now, and still dives with her dad ... Oh, and to stay on-topic ... I taught DSMB deployment as part of my AOW curriculum ... ... Bob (Grateful Diver)

It was probably a dozen or so years ago ... he contacted me and asked me if he could use it ... I said "of course" ... ... Bob (Grateful Diver)

Back when I was a newbie we had a group of DIRF'ed divers who used to like to hang around at the local training site and snicker at everyone walking toward the water with their snorkels and split fins. Us normal folks called them "The Posse". One of them was, in fact, my introduction to DIR when...

OMG ... and on the very next post, no less ... guess where your friend got that quote from ... :cool: We've had this conversation many times over the years ... ... Bob (Grateful Diver)