I love new divers

[1_T_Submariner]

Yes it was at Haigh...Have dove there enough times this summer that finding the Truck/Larc/boat has become pretty easy. Even on Pea soup vis days.

Was that at Haigh? That dump truck is hard to find sometimes.

 

[Peter Guy]

After reading all the posts, I see that Lynne has a fan club of sorts here on SB! Just to let you know, she's still wearing the same size hat but I'm beginning to wonder how long the old one will fit!

Back to what is a newbie -- I suppose I'm a newbie, but maybe I'm not! Does being a diver "since 1967" make me a newbie or does it innoculate me from being a newbie?

Even though I started diving back in the days of Aquamasters, J-tubes and J-valves and then got recertified with Lynne (TSandM) summer of 2005, I'm pretty sure she now has more total dives than me.

As someone else wrote, we are all newbies to someone else! And, for the record, I do get a kick out of seeing a crab scuttle away -- always will!

 

[Rick Inman]

As someone else wrote, we are all newbies to someone else! And, for the record, I do get a kick out of seeing a crab scuttle away -- always will!

They're only scuttling away because of all your hand waving, Mister nOOb. (Kidding !)

I agree with you. With some divers I'm the experienced old guy, and with others I'm the nOOb. Dive experience is a sliding scale, and having the honor of diving with people on all different sides of the scale is part of the joy of diving for me.

Once, when diving with a friend in Seattle, my buddy who'd come from Spokane with me started telling the Seattle guy that, in Spokane, as far as divers, Rick Inman is "the man."

"Which proves," said the Seattle diver, "that in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."

Ain't it the truth...

 

[spectrum]

After reading all the posts, I see that Lynne has a fan club of sorts here on SB!

She does have a knack for originating some thought provoking threads! Good stuff.

 

[TSandM]

Yeah, and the vast majority of the time, I had no intention of being provocative -- this thread as an example!

 

[jeckyll]

Yeah, and the vast majority of the time, I had no intention of being provocative -- this thread as an example!

Natural born troublemaker

 

[TSandM]

I think Andy termed it, in his thread on board personalities, as an "inadvertent troll": Somebody who posts topics that they have no idea will be as inflammatory as they turn out to be. I've done that SO many times!

 

[JahJahwarrior]

I would think that in this case, it was the replies that made it inflammatory, nothing that you posted. I would call the other people the inadvertant trolls. They made some mildly rude statements based off of your original post, and others responded with more kind of rude statements, so really it's like your post was a box of baking soda. Good stuff. Then someone came along and sprayed it with vinegar. Not much, but a little. Someone else didn't see the box of baking soda, they just saw the reaction, and thought "oh cool" and poured some more vinegar on and boom, it reacted a little bit. But no explosion, just a mess

 

[wardric]

Compared to the youngest dolphin we are all newbies...

Mike

I disagree with that. A baby dolphin IS a newbie compared to me.. but he's sooooooooo much more talented than I am

 

[wardric]

Back to what is a newbie -- I suppose I'm a newbie, but maybe I'm not! Does being a diver "since 1967" make me a newbie or does it innoculate me from being a newbie?

Dang!!! I wasn't even born in 1967!!!!! ( sorry about that one)

IMO, you aint a newbie if you started so long ago. If you stopped for a long period, then you could have been rusted but not a noob.

Even though I started diving back in the days of Aquamasters, J-tubes and J-valves and then got recertified with Lynne (TSandM) summer of 2005, I'm pretty sure she now has more total dives than me.

Number of total dives is not relevant, everyone knows it's the number of total posts on Scubaboard that defines a good and experienced diver

As someone else wrote, we are all newbies to someone else!

I had a copyright on that one but you changed a word or two so my lawyers told me I cant do anything aboot it :sigh:

And, for the record, I do get a kick out of seeing a crab scuttle away -- always will!

I also get a kick everytime I see lake trouts or big bass in my yellow soup lakes
In fact, i enjoy it even if I see nothing since this feeling is the closest i'll ever get to being in outer space (i'm not a rock star btw)