Monterey Newbie

[mweitz]

Hi all! Just got my C-card last weekend at Breakwater. Had loads of fun. Supposed to head to Tahiti in a week for a couple of weeks. Should get some good warm water dives in there, then I'm doing the SSI Advanced Open Water class in Sept. Figure it is best to get a few dives under my belt with some pros around.

I plan on diving Breakwater for a while when I return. Seems to be a great place to practice buoyancy, get to know my gear and still has some cool diving at 20'.

Mark

 

[eponym]

Mark, congratulations and welcome to Scubaboard!

You've got some nice diving there in Monterey--our boys dove there years ago, before I ever learned how. Don't know about Tahiti, though--might spoil you for the rough-and-tumble of low temps and lower viz

-Bryan

 

[alijtaylor]

Hi, congratulations and welcome.
I think you did the right thing to learn in the cold and poor visibility and then enjoy the delights of the tropics once or twice a year. Have fun on the board and under the water.

 

[RIDIVER501]

welcome to the board

 

[Drewpy]

Welcome Mark! Your gonna love Tahiti-I was there for two weeks several years back and am anxiously awaiting a return trip someday!
Congrats on your cert!

 

[DandyDon]

Howdy!

Welcome to SB!! :happywave Put us in your computer's favorites and check in often. This is a great place to learn, compare, argue Look around our various forums - everything from New-To-Scuba to Instructors-Only to Dive Medicine.

don

BTW - Did you set up your Profile? Some ideas for your Profle might be taken from looking at mine. Click on my Username to the upper left, then click on my Profile, and see what I've done. For your's, click the [CP] in the upper left of the screen, then click [Edit Profile]. If you need any more help, PM me direct.

 

[Wristshot]

Mark,

Welcome to ScubaBoard from a fellow Silicon Valley diver!

You do realize that you are required by law to post a report from your Tahiti trip afterwards!


Wristshot

 

[mweitz]

Thanks everyone.

Course I'll post a report. It'll probably be something like this:

"Sorry, I'm typing this with on hand. I heard that nurse sharks were quite docile. The one I befriended had dirty teeth. I decided to brush them for her ...."



Mark

 

[headhunter]

Welcome to ScubaBoard and congrats on the new C-card!

Christian

 

[mweitz]

As promised, my "full" report.

http://scubaboard.com/showthread.php?threadid=69326&s=

BTW, the snorkeling there was amazing. As a matter of fact, just walking in the water was pretty cool. You could see huge amounts of life just snorkeling though.

Mark