limeyx
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Well, at least I know now (yet another) reason the vis sucks there...
Giant Steps are what you take - walking on the moon...
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HBDiveGirl:July 23rd
YAY!!!!! I might have a BP/W or big daddy tank by then!
B-Far
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limeyx:
If you're diving in East end the park after 4:30 - 5:00 PM, it was us.
But we were essentially the last ones there both days (its why I do this at the end of the dive day....)
So it probably wasn't us to blame unless you were doing a twilight dive. It was the full day of bat rays, rototillers and intro divers mucking it up.
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Ken
Robert Phillips
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And I miss all the fun stuff that happens every time. I feel like Anna!
Robbnonbackflippinginthesandsteppingonpissclams... Phillips!!!
Robbnonbackflippinginthesandsteppingonpissclams... Phillips!!!
Cool idea...
I'll have to try it next dive!
Jim
I'll have to try it next dive!
Jim
offroaddiver
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just curious... what depths are we talking? don't think this would work to well shallow unless overweighted for regular diving. Definitly sounds like something I could try in the local quarry or lake.
I've met people who do backflips off of sail boats to get in the water.
I've met people who do backflips off of sail boats to get in the water.
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offroaddiver:
Me and a lot of our buddies dive dry suits - so I usually try to pull this off in water 45 - 60 feet deep. Its always the first thing we do in a dive, so we're full of gas and can get pretty negative.
They are short, silly dives. But lots o' fun!
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Ken
wrinkles
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Robert Phillips:
I actually was there for the show but found a bit more pleasure looking along the side of the platform for some rock fish and nudi's!!! :blinking:
Ana
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Thank you Ken, that's an awfully positive spin on my making a, uh, questionable decision and then being somewhat overwhelmed when the problems came several at once rather than singly (or not at all) as we hope for.
Since we're throwing it all out in the open, here goes.
I'd noticed on the dive before that I'd chewed through/torn part of the mouthpiece of my primary reg. It wasn't too bad though, so I dove again anyway.
So then, after a jump and while travelling headfirst toward the sand, trying to find out just how many spins I could get in before I had to flip over and land, it happened. My mask was "blown" down my face by the force of my motion, into my reg, tearing the rest of the mouthpiece just about all the way off. Ken described what followed quite well.
Of course I had to get one last jump in once things had settled back down a bit. I love seeing things while diving, a lot, but I'd probably do it pretty often even if there wasn't anything to see at all. It's the diving, the breathing underwater and "flying" that I really love. My friends showed me a whole new way of doing that which may've never occured to me otherwise. There're even pictures!
Thank you all! And yes, everyone who hasn't tried it, it's at least as much fun as it looks and sounds.
Anywyay though, I've never tried to upload pictures before, so let's see if these work...
What the reg should look like (roughly)
What it looked like at the end of the dive
I could still breathe off of it fine (eventually) and even hold it in place if I bit down JUST right. I finished the dive on it.
Sooner or later I'll be walking on the moon again.
Adam
Since we're throwing it all out in the open, here goes.
I'd noticed on the dive before that I'd chewed through/torn part of the mouthpiece of my primary reg. It wasn't too bad though, so I dove again anyway.
So then, after a jump and while travelling headfirst toward the sand, trying to find out just how many spins I could get in before I had to flip over and land, it happened. My mask was "blown" down my face by the force of my motion, into my reg, tearing the rest of the mouthpiece just about all the way off. Ken described what followed quite well.
Of course I had to get one last jump in once things had settled back down a bit. I love seeing things while diving, a lot, but I'd probably do it pretty often even if there wasn't anything to see at all. It's the diving, the breathing underwater and "flying" that I really love. My friends showed me a whole new way of doing that which may've never occured to me otherwise. There're even pictures!
Thank you all! And yes, everyone who hasn't tried it, it's at least as much fun as it looks and sounds.
Anywyay though, I've never tried to upload pictures before, so let's see if these work...
What the reg should look like (roughly)
What it looked like at the end of the dive
I could still breathe off of it fine (eventually) and even hold it in place if I bit down JUST right. I finished the dive on it.
Sooner or later I'll be walking on the moon again.
Adam
This sounds like so much fun!! .. I'll never look at that dive platform the same way again 
I know that I would only do something like this, with the skilled and trusted backup of someone like Ken and the rest of your group ..
DB
I know that I would only do something like this, with the skilled and trusted backup of someone like Ken and the rest of your group ..
DB
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