crazy about diving or just crazy?

[cloudflint]

Sometimes ya just gotta do what ya just gotta do ...
... Bob (Grateful Diver)

D*mn straight, some of my best dives have been spent in freezing conditions.

Ive been known to spend 3 hours in the water diving off a small RHIB in 43f water in a 7mm semi dry with air temperatures of 17f. I like to think of myself as an enthusiast, others seem to think of me as insane ever since I showed up at a dive and had to whack my semi-dry off a fence post to break all the ice off it before I got into it

 

[tfsails]

Y'all are all crazy! It's WAY too cold to dive around here. The other people at my dive shop think I'm crazy for not embracing cold-water diving. Not me. I'm a warm-water puppy all the way.

Of course, I'd love to have a dry suit, but then I'd have to give up my hard-earned reputation.

 

[BigHarryDiver]

Tomorrow at 10 AM I will of my own free will jump into a local quarry with the outside temperature at a toasty 28 degrees F. The crazy thing is there are others like me doing the same thing. Fortunately the temps have been warm enough the last few days to have thawed the ice layer that was on the water. Are divers missing a gene or does breathing air under pressure diminish cognitive reasoning or something? I do have a cold water reg and will be wearing a dry suit but still.... start the new year off right I guess.

Does anyone else have crazy diving plans for the new year? If not what do you think of my plan?

Did a nice dive yesterday with my regular buddy at the Dutch Springs quarry in Bethlehem PA. Water temp top to bottom was a toasty 43F, air temp was about the same. Yes, we are all crazy for sure. I have a 200CF a day Nitrox habit and am very happy to admit it. They say admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery :dork: (I'm the crazy on the right in the photo)

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

One of my favorite memories of 2010 ... Curt Bowen's video from our Port Hardy trip in March ...

Frozen Armadillo on Vimeo

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[TMHeimer]

My crazy thing for Jan. this year is a week in Panama. My first experience in those 80 degrees waters. Due to injury and other things I have not done my usual Nova Scotia Atlantic dives from my house. They consist of "20-20" dives in my 7 mil in water temps. of 33-38 F.

 

[Skarn]

Hey, anyone can dive in nice warm water with great vis. I like the challenge of low vis cold dives.

And I also ride my Harley year round no matter what the temp unless there is ice on the ground. Of course I do have heated gear....

Skarn

 

[gbray]

I just got home. Unloaded my gear and had to bring it into the bathroom to thaw out. My drysuit actually stood up by itself. It was a little nippy getting geared up. I sat on the dock and rinsed the antifog out of my mask. Big mistake. Before I could put it on the lens was a solid sheet of ice. I had to rinse it untill it thawed enough to quickly put on and get in.

once I got over the initial shock of 40 degree water in my face it was awesome. Visibility was actually better than I thought it would be. I was not cold at all... untill the safety stop. My neck seal decided to leak with 2 minutes left to go. I felt it go down my neck. when I went verticle a few feet from the surface I felt it it run all the way to my crotch. :shocked2:What a shock. Getting out and changing was an experience I will not soon forget. I can't think of a better way to start the new year though, wet, cold but with my first dive fix of the year.

In a strange sort of way it is comforting to know there are other deranged divers out there that may even have an even more advanced stage of the dive disease than me. Keep it up and Happy New Year to all.

 

[dmcutter]

Bah humbug. I drove 45 min to the quarry, got there about quarter til one. There were two guys still in the water finishing up but everyone else was done diving so I couldn't find a buddy. The quarry manager was there and he strictly forbids solo diving (not that I would really want to do that) so I was SOL. I went home and did a 30something bike ride in the rain. Reckon I got about as cold and wet riding as I would have diving.

 

[j yaeger]

new years eve with 7 morons...oh and me also.
35*water diving wet-50 min@70'
air was 50 freakin degrees when we got out!!!!!!!!!
so we got back in!!!
35 mins@50'
beer thirty!!!
dry diving today just to show how much more intelligent ive become in a year!
2- 1 hr dives@ 75' 37* water 52* air!!!!!
canadian caribean!!!!!!!
nice to get out with it raining instead of frozen zipper dives!!!!!!
happy new years all
have fun
yaeg

 

[Insta-Gator]

Going out Sunday. Will have to pull out the sun screen they forecast sunny with a high of 81......

Might have to even bring out the wet suit....... Good luck in the quarry

Grrrrrr, thanks for rubbing it in. We'll be warm again in a few months. Enjoy the dive :thumbs_up: