Greetings from Boston

[oceancurrent]

Hi everybody. My name is Nick. I heard about this forum from Melissa and Matt at www.nescuba.com (check out this growing forum - it rocks).

My dive-related story?

I got certified almost 3 years ago. But could not practice this partially because of lack of time, but mostly beacuse my grrrrlfriend didn't want to even hear about H2O.
:whack:

Well, she's not my grrrrlfriend anymore. What's the moral? Don't get too close with people of the non-diving kind. Aquaphobics can make your life miserable!
:grad:

Being lonely this summer, I finally decided to blow away the savings and get myself wet.
:sonic:

First destination? The chilly waters of New England - my backyard.

The problem? I don't know too many people diving in New England... Please, help!:ggrin:

Who am I in real life? A software engineer in his early 20s and also a college student. I was born in Europe. I guess, in this forum I will be a quite juniour member!

Questions? Suggestions? Please shoot!

 

[Spectre]

Originally posted by oceancurrent
The problem? I don't know too many people diving in New England... Please, help!

I'm guessing you won't have much problems here! Be sure to check out: Cape Ann Dive #2

Welcome!

 

[oceancurrent]

Originally posted by funky__monks


I'm guessing you won't have much problems here!

Welcome!

Thanks, Jeff. I'll check it out right away.

 

[Jeblis]

Welcome. :hi: seems like there's been a lot of new board members from Mass here lately.

 

[oceancurrent]

Originally posted by Jeblis
Welcome. :hi: seems like there's been a lot of new board members from Mass here lately.

This only means that the local propaganda is working well!

 

[Jeblis]

I just got here a little while ago. Great info here. I'd suggest if you haven't been diving in three years that you take a refresher. I just took one and it was pretty helpful.

Dive buddies? well I found one here last week just by asking. I also found a couple of local clubs that do local dives regularly. One LDS here goes out every wednesday. No appointment, no buddy, no gear, no problem. All you need is you c-card. I'll bet you can find something similar in Boston. Check with the local dive shops.

Suggestions...hmmm well you probably don't want to dive in the harbor

Incedentaly when I was in college I got to go about 400 feet below sea level in Boston harbor. Not diving, but in the tunnel they dug 9 miles out under the harbor...pretty cool

 

[oceancurrent]

I already took the refresher and spent the last weekend at the botom of the pool. And I am glad I did - learned new stuff and met a bunch of nice people.

Yeap, the harbour looks eeky. I haven't seen anybody dive in it.

 

[Arduous]

Welcome to the board from another Massachusetts diver.
Have fun and Dive Safe.........................Arduous

 

[large_diver]

Hi Nick,

Welcome aboard. That's an interesting site....but it looks almost too new to be of use yet ;-)

If you don't have enough local diving buddies, I might suggest the following:

- Join local clubs & participate in club events/dives. The more involved you get, the more buddies you'll have. This means not just joining the club, but volunteering to be an officer, participate in clean-up dives, etc. There are a bunch of active clubs around here (downtown, north shore, south shore, etc.). I belong to the New England Aquarium dive club. They have group shore dives almost every weekend, including one each this Saturday and Sunday. You don't have to be a member to start participating in these dives.

http://www.neadc.org/divecal_neadc_s.html

- Get to know your local LDS's -- participate in their shore/charter diving program if they have one.

- Take some advanced diving courses -- AOW, Rescue, etc. I met my "regular" buddy in my AOW course 2 years ago. Part of the advantage here is that you are at the same training level as most of the other folks taking the course...making for good potential buddy matches.

- Hang out here and at other on-line boards...you'll meet other folks in your area...more potential buddies.

Glad to have you here!

-LD

 

[MSilvia]

Lot's of wrecks though... just stay out of the shipping lanes.

Originally posted by oceancurrent

Yeap, the harbour looks eeky. I haven't seen anybody dive in it.