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  1. Mandarin Goby

    Willing to Lay it All Out There...

    Well, I got back from Chiken Ha, and it was amazing! I will say that due to the advice on this board, I questioned Gwen, the guide, very carefully, on whether he thought this would be a safe dive for me. I really wanted to respect and defer to the people on this board, as I find their opinions...
  2. Mandarin Goby

    Willing to Lay it All Out There...

    This brings up a good question (I hope) that was in another thread. How does one train to do an overhead environment without doing an overhead environment? Do you do various drills like air sharing, panic situations, etc. with no "ceiling" first? I do understand that one needs to get a good...
  3. Mandarin Goby

    Willing to Lay it All Out There...

    So, I am now certified! Woo! The funny and embarrassing part, although not at the time, was that I forgot to don my weight belt on the first dive today! All the air out of my BC, and I wasn't going anywhere!! Ben had to swim back to the boat to get it, and I donned it at the surface (more skills...
  4. Mandarin Goby

    Willing to Lay it All Out There...

    I really was thinking about going to BTS. Is it a manageable one day thing? I assume it's about a 3.5 hour drive for me. I do think I'm going to need to dive locally (at least the quarries). My wife and I were trying to figure out when we could get back down here. We may end up staying at Coz...
  5. Mandarin Goby

    Willing to Lay it All Out There...

    Great first afternoon on Wednesday. I will say, ocean diving is VERY different than the pool. The funny thing is that the surface is the craziest and scariest part. Once you descend, it's a blast! So I have to say I love the personal service of MAD. Marcella picked me up at my hotel and then...
  6. Mandarin Goby

    Willing to Lay it All Out There...

    Tomorrow I have my first two OW dives with Ben at MAD. I plan to share with you all my experiences, whether amazingly cool or incredibly embarrassing. My hope is to do my first two tomorrow, my final two on Friday (Thursday I'm committed to doing family stuff), and then I REALLY want to dive a...
  7. Mandarin Goby

    If your significant other doesn't want to learn to dive DON'T Pressure them!!!

    My wife and I have been married almost 20 years (I was 13 and she was 11 when we got married). We have so many things we do separately. I think running a couple of businesses together, raising our kids, and some common interests allow us to have our "separate lives." I'm a working musician. She...
  8. Mandarin Goby

    Great cancun dives!

    Ben.... Four days...tick, tick, tick, tick...
  9. Mandarin Goby

    Is anyone going to be in Cancun 2/16 through 2/23?

    Now, Ben...what if my wife were reading this over my shoulder? How would her Discovery Dive go then, hmmmm????
  10. Mandarin Goby

    Is anyone going to be in Cancun 2/16 through 2/23?

    Cancun Palace. I plan to dive a much as possible without being obnoxious. I'm not a "sit on a lounge chair by the pool" type of person, and normally, I'd be in Utah snowboarding right now. If you go thru Ben, maybe we'll end up on the same boat during the week. We can probably coordinate thru him.
  11. Mandarin Goby

    Is anyone going to be in Cancun 2/16 through 2/23?

    I'll be there the 19th-26th. I'm a newbie though. Doing my OW checkouts with MAD on the 20th and 22nd (at least that's the plan), and my wife and her sister are doing a DD course with Ben soon after. I do plan on trying to get in at least six more dives during my time there. We will snorkel the...
  12. Mandarin Goby

    Breathing out through the nose

    I found in the pool, at least, that mask clearing and swimming without, was so much easier if I just closed my eyes for a few moments. You then don't see the waterline rising in front of your eyes. Once the mask is flooded, I actually can open them fine. We'll see how easy this will be in the...
  13. Mandarin Goby

    Open water movie ?

    Waaaay OT here, but the WORST movie ever made had to be "Cat in the Hat." Not only was it impossible to watch, but it broke the DVD drive in my PowerBook!
  14. Mandarin Goby

    Breathing out through the nose

    During mask clearing, we obviously breathe out through the nose, but I have a question on that in other circumstances. If we get the mask kicked off our face completely, is breathing out through the nose okay as we are recovering? I find it pretty easy to breathe in through the mouth and out...
  15. Mandarin Goby

    Cozumel, thank the Congress...

    Oh, one more thing. I love how the talking heads on the news said that the only way this "stimulus" would work is if we spend the money. Saving it (paying down debt), like Selo said, will do NOTHING except increase our budget deficit. Can you imagine how stupid congress should look to the...
  16. Mandarin Goby

    Cozumel, thank the Congress...

    Thank you for posting this. I don't have as much econ training/experience as you do (only an Econ minor in college); however, it seems like it should be plain to anyone with intelligence (which one would hope would describe members of our legislative branch) that this is a superbly stupid idea...
  17. Mandarin Goby

    Viral and feeling discouraged

    For me, Cold Eeze works perfectly, especially if you catch it early. They even have gumballs. One every 3 hours or so, and you should be good.
  18. Mandarin Goby

    New Diver from Maryland

    Cool...more MD divers! Maybe I won't have to take a $3K vacation every time I want to get under water.
  19. Mandarin Goby

    New Diver from Maryland

    Yo...you live pretty close to me...I'm in Catonsville. Finishing my pool training right now, and doing Cancun in February. Keep in touch...maybe I'll try quarry diving someday.
  20. Mandarin Goby

    Completely new to SCUBA and going to Cozumel

    Also try Blue XT Sea. I've been corresponding with Christi, and when we go to Coz, I think we're going to go with her.
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