Introduce yourself - Get to know the PPD. (No chatting PLEASE!!!!!!)

[ramone]

Name: Francis
Age: 25
Occupation: Civil Servant :angel:
Diving since: May 2005
Certification: PADI OW
Most frequent diving: around Anilao
Dream Dive: Tubbataha Reef and Palau with Jessica Alba
Equipment: Generic mask, fins and wetsuit; borrowed old-school US Divers reg

 

[fishybenjie]

Hi everyone.

Name: Benj
Age: 30
Occupation: Lawyer
Certifications: Padi aow, nitrox
Dream Dive: tubbataha i guess
Equipment: balance bc, legend reg, x-vision, stratos fins and a mosquito.

 

[Diver Dennis]

Hello all. Nice to join you. I am now a DOR participant. Looking to hold the record for most DORs in one year by a foreigner.
Name: Dennis Champ
Age: gulp, 46, a very YOUNG 46
Occupation: Producer
Certs: AOW, SSI Nitrox.
Diving since: '88, took about 5 years off and started seriously diving again in April '05 again. Have done about 390 dives since then.
Fave sites: Palau, Yap, Chuuk, various Mexico, Canada, Puerto Galera and Dumaguete in the PI, going to Bali and Indo in October and then back to the PI.
Dream sites: Bikini, Miller's Pond...
Equipment:Seaquest Pro Unlimited BC, Aqua Lung Legend Regs, Suunto Cobra and Mosquito,Scubapro and Bare wetsuits, Aqua Lung Blades, Mares X-Vision prescription masks, Rebel XT in an Ikelite housing and dual DS-125 strobes, 100mm macro, 10-22mm WA, 17-85mm medium. Beanie...

 

[dive_addict]

Name: Kats
Age: 26
Occupation: corporate slave
Certifications: Padi aow, still thinking about rescue this summer...
Favorite dive sites: anilao - beatrice,bahura kanto,mainit; Puerto galera-coral garden;Tubbataha-black rock
Dream Dive: Palau,Red Sea, Carribean, anywhere i haven't been..
Equipment: Scuba pro MK20 light,Scubapro classic BCD,Beuchat mask,Mantis fins(that i absolutely love), still saving up for a nice light and a nice camera...

 

[caimera]

Name: Micmac
Age:24
Occupation: Lead generation specialist
Certification: PADI OW
Favorite dive sites Anilao-bahura, Peter's Rock, etcc
Dream dive: Lay a wreath on 1 of the sunken ships in Coron

Hey guys! Micmac here! Thanks to Chip, Vanessa, Iris, Kat, and to the rest of the PPD for a great time last night at the divers party! hehe I'll be visiting your forum everyday from now on hehe See you in the water soon guys!

 

[BikerManiac]

Name: Michael
Age: 29
NickName: GUAPO!!
Location: 6 months in NY, and 6 months everywhere else
Occupation: Sr. Systems Enginner (Unemployed)
Certification: PADI AOW, Nitrox
Favorite Dives: Palau and Turks and Caicos
Dream Dive: Coco Islands (SOON!)
Equipment: Mares Abyss, X-pert Zoom, Seaquest Balance, Mosquito, GPS, Canon SD550 with housing.

Ano??????

 

[415Gem]

Hello PPD`ers Name Kevin Age 39 Work sfposterart.com Favorite dive sites Phils Balicasag Island , So. Leyte Napantau Mindoro Apo Reef Negros Apo Island Dauin Town Pier ( WOW! ) Cabillao Island Future Dream Dives Tubbatha 2007 , Palau ( Now they have flights from Davao ) Papau New Guinea and Irian Jaya . Certification PADI AOW 400 + dives Equipment ScubaPro 600 + Mk 25 and / 190 , SeaQuest Spectrum 3 BC , Aeris Velocity Fins , Aeris Nav Con Comp. , Henderson and Xcel wetsuits, Henderson Boots. Unerwater Kinetics C4 torch . Dive Alert air whistle . Olympus C 765 and PT - 022 Case Dreams Living in Phils 6 months a year diving 3 times a week and a sweet filipina to love me .Meet great people and share the wonders of the deep . Hope we can do our part to perserve the reefs, mangrvoes and beauty just beneath the surface of so much of the P.I.`s . Have it for our kids, kids , kids . Time to take action ! Kind regards .:14:

 

[IzzyTahil]

wanted to into myself and say hello; so heres a little about myself:

Name: Izzy
Occupation: held positions in law; IT; hotel/resort; finance; etc. but still trying to figure what i REALLY want to be
Certs: a bunch of them; i no longer count nor do i care. certs dont make a good diver.
Diving since: a few years
Fave sites: all of them!!
Dream sites: Maldives; Truk Lagoon; Cocos Island
Equipment:
Doubles - Al80s/Steel80s/Steel85s; Al plate; Halcyon 45lb/55lb wing for 95s; Apeks DS4's with ATX50s; Halcyon SPG; 7ft primary hose with bungied necklace
Singles - Al80s; Steel plate with weighted STA; Halcyon 36lb wing; Apeks DST with ATX50s OR Mares Proton V32; OMS SPG; 5ft primary with bungieed necklace
Cold Water - Oceanic Aeruda Titanium drysuit with Bare 100 thinsulate & dr gloves; 7mm Mares wetsuit with 5mm gloves; hoods; XL Scubapro Jetfins w/ spring straps
Warm Water - 3mm Mares full suit; 3mm Henderson shorties; skins; L Jetfins with spring straps
Other equipment - OMS Bottom Timer (no computer - still use tables); Omega Seamaster watch as backup; Halcyon primary & Dive Rite secondary reels; Halcyon spools; various lights; Hydroptix mask and 2 spare Oceanic low profile masks
Project Id like to do - build a canister HID light
Dislike - people who brag about what great divers they are - you will be able to tell by watching them in the water

hope to get to know you all; there are not nearly enough filipino divers in NYC

 

[edtee]

Name: Ed
Age: 45
Occupation: Lawyer
Diving since: just last year!
Certifications: PADI OW
Favorite dive sites: still discovering ANILAO. . .
Dream Dive: Tubbataha, Balesin (check out my website)
Equipment: whatever works, still deciding on BCD/REG, but use APEKS Quantum Dive Computer

 

[Trinigordo]

Name: Michael
Age: 23
Country of Origin: Trinidad & Tobago
Occupation: Student
Diving since: Did my first dive in 1996 in Aruba, but certified in 2002
Certification: PADI OW, PADI AOW, PADI nitrox
Favorite dive site: Maverick(Tobago), Minerva Bay(Trinidad), Superman's Flight(St. Lucia), South Double Ledges and Narcotic alley(Florida), Sandy Beach Reef(Barbados),I'm going to stop now as I loved every single dive I've done
Dream Dive: So many, Truk, Palau, Yap, Phillipines, North Sulawesi, Galapagos, Roatan, Cuba, Bikini Atoll, Belize, and everywhere else I am forgetting
Equipment: Aeris pro regulator, Aeris Atmos 2, Zeagle Brigade, Apollo Bio-fins, and other assorted crap.
New Toy: Olympus Stylus 600 in the Pt-029