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[wildediver]

Hello!

Long time lurker, new to making an account and posting. I’ve had my diving license for about a year, as I got it to go diving with some friends. Lo and behold, I get my certification and they don’t go diving near as much as they said. I haven’t gone diving since I got my certification since I now have no one to go with. I live in the middle of Kansas, and am moving to Virginia in June/July. I’m wanting to get a few contacts or tips on places out there so I can try and pick up this hobby again!

Thanks in advance!
Wilde

 

[Subcooled]

Some of us are solo or part time solo divers. We enjoy the submerged world alone. It's great but it also requires a bit more caution. You would benefit from a dive buddy but unless you can find one, and you must dive, go to the solo divers forum.

Now that you are a new diver, it would be very important for your safety and enjoyment and learning experience to dive with others. But, yeah, there is life beyond buddy diving, too. More risk, hence more trouble avoiding it, but just as fun.

This was a bit of an unorthodox post but I do have my rebel moments

 

[pdwh]

Hello!

Long time lurker, new to making an account and posting. I’ve had my diving license for about a year, as I got it to go diving with some friends. Lo and behold, I get my certification and they don’t go diving near as much as they said. I haven’t gone diving since I got my certification since I now have no one to go with. I live in the middle of Kansas, and am moving to Virginia in June/July. I’m wanting to get a few contacts or tips on places out there so I can try and pick up this hobby again!

Thanks in advance!
Wilde

If you happen to get a chance to stop down in the Ozarks for a weekend (Table Rock, Bull Shoals, Beaver Lake), let me know. I'm out most weekends on one of those lakes.

 

[MyBuddy]

am moving to Virginia in June/July.

Whereabouts in VA?

 

[wildediver]

Some of us are solo or part time solo divers. We enjoy the submerged world alone. It's great but it also requires a bit more caution. You would benefit from a dive buddy but unless you can find one, and you must dive, go to the solo divers forum.

Now that you are a new diver, it would be very important for your safety and enjoyment and learning experience to dive with others. But, yeah, there is life beyond buddy diving, too. More risk, hence more trouble avoiding it, but just as fun.

This was a bit of an unorthodox post but I do have my rebel moments

Good to know!! I definitely would prefer a buddy due to my inexperience like you said, but it’s good to know that solo diving exists!!

 

[wildediver]

If you happen to get a chance to stop down in the Ozarks for a weekend (Table Rock, Bull Shoals, Beaver Lake), let me know. I'm out most weekends on one of those lakes.

I’m more than willing to make a trip! It’s not a terrible drive to get down there thankfully.

 

[wildediver]

Whereabouts in VA?

Up near Winchester, but I have family near VA beach and along the coast. A long drive doesn’t scare me away from a good experience.

 

[Rob9876]

Up near Winchester, but I have family near VA beach and along the coast. A long drive doesn’t scare me away from a good experience.

Welcome to the forums! If you don't mind a long drive, let me know if you'd want to meet at Gray Quarry near Johnson City, TN sometime. Bit of a hike for you, but unlike most quarries it has aerators so there's no thermocline -- so from mid-May to the end of October or so it is over 70F all the way to the bottom. The quarry has a sunken airplane, fire truck, house boat, school bus, etc. and has paddlefish (in addition to bluegill and bass).

 

[Micko1974]

Welcome to SB. Good luck with finding a buddy to scuba dive with.

 

[wildediver]

Welcome to the forums! If you don't mind a long drive, let me know if you'd want to meet at Gray Quarry near Johnson City, TN sometime. Bit of a hike for you, but unlike most quarries it has aerators so there's no thermocline -- so from mid-May to the end of October or so it is over 70F all the way to the bottom. The quarry has a sunken airplane, fire truck, house boat, school bus, etc. and has paddlefish (in addition to bluegill and bass).

That’s sick!! I will definitely keep your comment in mind. The drives sometimes just as interesting as the stop!