wmccall614
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Kidding!, I've been on the internet much too long to be insecure about anything posted. I worked for CompuServe in the 80s, so I have been online for awhile. I'm active in a lot of forums and I usually don't do these intro posts, but this is one topic I'm definitely on the lower end of knowledge on this subject, so I thought I would comply and start here.
My main draw to SCUBA beyond watching Sea Hunt in the 60s has come since my wife and I started cruising once a year. I have to imagine there are a few of us cruise line divers here. After a few amazing sites while snorkeling I decided to give scuba a try. We did one of the intro to scuba classes in a local pool. I loved it, my wife not so much.
Money got tight so I didn't pursue certification for quite a while. In 2011 when we cruised the Eastern Caribbean again, I decided to go ahead and sign up for a intro to scuba excursion in St Thomas. I'm glad I had the experience of doing this in a pool once as I flew through the material they presented in the 30 minute boat ride and was much more comfortable with what was happening then some others. I still can't believe there was a Japanese lady in this excursion who couldn't swim at all. I found that odd. Still the 20 minutes or so near Buck Island in St Thomas was a hug hit in my mind and decided before my return to St Thomas next year to get certified so I didn't have to be at the mercy of woman who couldn't swim. They leader towed her around and got tired cutting our excursion short.
Fast forward to 2012 and I completed the coursework and pool work for SDI certification and completed my 4 open water dives in an Central Ohio quarry. As that certification was finishing another student did accidentally punch me in the mouth disloding my regulator so I got to do that drill for real. Now, I'm waiting till May 1st to dive again. Though I suspect sometime this winter I'll go back to the training facility and just go back in the pool with my instructor to refresh my memory.
I suspect being a once a year cruise diver will be all I ever do, but I suspect I'll find things of interest here.
My main draw to SCUBA beyond watching Sea Hunt in the 60s has come since my wife and I started cruising once a year. I have to imagine there are a few of us cruise line divers here. After a few amazing sites while snorkeling I decided to give scuba a try. We did one of the intro to scuba classes in a local pool. I loved it, my wife not so much.
Money got tight so I didn't pursue certification for quite a while. In 2011 when we cruised the Eastern Caribbean again, I decided to go ahead and sign up for a intro to scuba excursion in St Thomas. I'm glad I had the experience of doing this in a pool once as I flew through the material they presented in the 30 minute boat ride and was much more comfortable with what was happening then some others. I still can't believe there was a Japanese lady in this excursion who couldn't swim at all. I found that odd. Still the 20 minutes or so near Buck Island in St Thomas was a hug hit in my mind and decided before my return to St Thomas next year to get certified so I didn't have to be at the mercy of woman who couldn't swim. They leader towed her around and got tired cutting our excursion short.
Fast forward to 2012 and I completed the coursework and pool work for SDI certification and completed my 4 open water dives in an Central Ohio quarry. As that certification was finishing another student did accidentally punch me in the mouth disloding my regulator so I got to do that drill for real. Now, I'm waiting till May 1st to dive again. Though I suspect sometime this winter I'll go back to the training facility and just go back in the pool with my instructor to refresh my memory.
I suspect being a once a year cruise diver will be all I ever do, but I suspect I'll find things of interest here.
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) that SB is a wonderful community to learn from and to share your diving thoughts with.
