New diver in Ohio

[dlevering]

Welcome to our little group! There are plenty of dive buddies to be found here with varying levels of experience and many different interests. They are also a fun group to hang around with, everyone is nice and willing to go out of their way to help you if they can. Hopefully we'll get to see you around Gilboa or some of the other quarries or out on the lakes.

Hey Dlevering, you don't do any walleye/scuba charters do you? Hubby and I both dive and he likes to fish for walleye (I like to catch walleye, fishing bores me catching doesn't). I've sat on the boat wondering if I could just hop in and see what the fish were doing since they weren't biting. Would be nice to have a second option if catching fish wasn't happening.

Anyway enough rambling from me! Hope to see you two around the dive sites! BTW, don't believe anything you hear about hats unless you've seen it for yourself :biggrin:
Ber :lilbunny:

I have just completed my open water cert so I have not done any diving at Erie yet,but I am looking forward to this coming summer. Charter Boat insurance won't permit to take dive charters, but I have insurance that will cover non-paying divers. So a friendly day of diving and catching some walleye is not out of the question. When it warms up I like to take a dive/walleye trip if I don't have any paying walleye charters booked. Keep me in mind and we can work something out. My boat is berthed near Port Clinotn.
Dave

 

[dlevering]

Streetsboro is near Kent State U. I would love to dive with anybody I can next year as I do not have a diving buddy. We all need to keep in touch! I would love to learn all I can and will have some experience after my vacation in March.

Hello,
I am looking for a dive buddy also. I would like to go Mt. Storm Wv. the weekend of
Jan. 8,9 2005. The dive shop operator in Akron,Ohio told me the lake stays at 60 or warmer because a power plant uses the lake for cooling. The Mt.Storm web site says there are dive clubs from Ohio,Wv, Virginia, and Washington DC that train at Mt. Storm all year along. Any one interested please email me.
Dave

 

[Ber Rabbit]

I have just completed my open water cert so I have not done any diving at Erie yet,but I am looking forward to this coming summer. Charter Boat insurance won't permit to take dive charters, but I have insurance that will cover non-paying divers. So a friendly day of diving and catching some walleye is not out of the question. When it warms up I like to take a dive/walleye trip if I don't have any paying walleye charters booked. Keep me in mind and we can work something out. My boat is berthed near Port Clinotn.
Dave

Cool! I'll have to see what hubby has in the works. They fish out of Port Clinton but I don't know what marina. Their regular captain seems to have disappeared so they have found a new guy to go with but when we went the boat started falling apart on us (the rod rack full of rods broke off while under way) and that didn't exactly impress me. Understand the insurance thing, if we get together and you find a little cashola laying on the boat afterward well...finders keepers
Ber :lilbunny:

 

[Big-t-2538]

Hello,
I am looking for a dive buddy also. I would like to go Mt. Storm Wv. the weekend of
Jan. 8,9 2005. The dive shop operator in Akron,Ohio told me the lake stays at 60 or warmer because a power plant uses the lake for cooling. The Mt.Storm web site says there are dive clubs from Ohio,Wv, Virginia, and Washington DC that train at Mt. Storm all year along. Any one interested please email me.
Dave

A word to the wise diving a wetsuit in weather like this. Be careful. It isn't the water that kills your dives in the winter, it's the weather. Bring plenty of warm clothes and food. Keep yourself hydrated and do whatever you can to stay out of the cold air.

 

[ClevelandDiver]

This past October I recevied my Padi certification and I can't wait to get into the water! I will definitely be taking a dry suit class I'm just too big of a freeze baby to be diving even in the heaviest wet suit (in which i did my open water test in) in Ohio. I'm very interested in diving in Lake Erie. Does Anybody know of any websites where all the sunken ships/stories are listed?

A great source of information on Lake Erie Wrecks is a couple of books by the Wachters: Lake Erie Wrecks West and Lake Erie Wrecks East (http://www.eriewrecks.com/index.html). The books include GPS coordinates, pictures, details of the wrecks today and stories of what caused the wreck. If you are looking to dive wrecks in the West, Discovery Dive Charters is the only one I know of in the greater Cleveland area. There are also a few operations around Port Clinton and Sandusky that I haven't dove yet, but plan to this summer. For Eastern Lake Erie, the operation I have dove with is Osprey Charters out of Barcellona NY. They are a great operation and dive some really nice wrecks, definitely worth the drive. However, you might want to get your advanced certification and a drysuit as the wrecks they dive are mostly in deeper colder water. I try to dive White Star, Portage or Lake Erie every weekend that I can. If you see a fat guy (5'9" 220) and a skinny guy (5'8" 155), both diving huge pressed steel E8-130 tanks, stop by and say hi (we're both named Mike).

 

[dlevering]

A great source of information on Lake Erie Wrecks is a couple of books by the Wachters: Lake Erie Wrecks West and Lake Erie Wrecks East (http://www.eriewrecks.com/index.html). The books include GPS coordinates, pictures, details of the wrecks today and stories of what caused the wreck. If you are looking to dive wrecks in the West, Discovery Dive Charters is the only one I know of in the greater Cleveland area. There are also a few operations around Port Clinton and Sandusky that I haven't dove yet, but plan to this summer. For Eastern Lake Erie, the operation I have dove with is Osprey Charters out of Barcellona NY. They are a great operation and dive some really nice wrecks, definitely worth the drive. However, you might want to get your advanced certification and a drysuit as the wrecks they dive are mostly in deeper colder water. I try to dive White Star, Portage or Lake Erie every weekend that I can. If you see a fat guy (5'9" 220) and a skinny guy (5'8" 155), both diving huge pressed steel E8-130 tanks, stop by and say hi (we're both named Mike).

I would like to get my advanced. I'm going to Tarpon Springs Fl. in January and hope to make several gulf dives and aslo a few dives in the springs near Tarpon or maybe the Crystal River. I have a place near Port Clinton and plan to dive at White Star and Portage,so maybe I'll see you there. I'll be the 6'0" 230 pound,bald, fat guy.Boy,that's a mental picture you'll want to forget about. LOL

Dave

 

[Ber Rabbit]

I'll be teaching an advanced class this spring and we'll hit White Star, Gilboa and wherever else I decide to take them. Look for a bossy 5'7" 118 pound brunette with a pink rabbit on her head My students will probably be carrying "For Sale" signs as slates, we did that last time and it works really well :biggrin:
Ber :lilbunny:

 

[pennypue]

I'll be teaching an advanced class this spring and we'll hit White Star, Gilboa and wherever else I decide to take them. Look for a bossy 5'7" 118 pound brunette with a pink rabbit on her head My students will probably be carrying "For Sale" signs as slates, we did that last time and it works really well :biggrin:
Ber :lilbunny:

Ber, when is your class? If it's early enough I might want to consider joining it.

 

[Big-t-2538]

I'll be teaching an advanced class this spring and we'll hit White Star, Gilboa and wherever else I decide to take them. Look for a bossy 5'7" 118 pound brunette with a pink rabbit on her head My students will probably be carrying "For Sale" signs as slates, we did that last time and it works really well :biggrin:
Ber :lilbunny:

with any luck, I hope to be able to make more of these little side trips this year....that is if you can still stand having some dumb hillbilly around you easily influenced prison....errr...I mean students

 

[ClevelandDiver]

I would like to get my advanced. I'm going to Tarpon Springs Fl. in January and hope to make several gulf dives and aslo a few dives in the springs near Tarpon or maybe the Crystal River. I have a place near Port Clinton and plan to dive at White Star and Portage,so maybe I'll see you there. I'll be the 6'0" 230 pound,bald, fat guy.Boy,that's a mental picture you'll want to forget about. LOL

Dave

I'll keep an eye out for you Dave..... I read in an earlier post that you had a boat and wanted to do wreck dives in Erie. You also said you couldn't charge for dive charters yet. Is there anything preventing you from having people kick in for fuel cost?

Mike