Rookies .. ish - Looking for local dive buddys

[Broke Neck]

Hey guys/gals


We joined ScubaBoard about a month ago and have been poking around here and there lurking.

Did an intro thread and all, but wanted to try and connect with people more in our area, maybe meet a few new faces with common interest.



We were officially certified last September through Dive Quarters in Va Beach - I had personally been diving a few times before hand (Cabo, San Diego, Lake rawlings)

We had a great experiance at DQ, treated very well ..... after we took our open water dives and passed at the Lake we jumped on a cruise from Norfolk to Nassau ... and put our certification to use.

(If you have a few mins to spare, heres what went down in Nassau)
[video=youtube;YBqxx1dMfhw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBqxx1dMfhw[/video]


Fast foward through our really long and cold winter, we had a few friends interested in doing the class .... one being a deaf guy. He has always had interest but got turned down by another local shop because he was deaf .... I took him over to DQ and they had zero issues, he was infact the first deaf guy they have had go through .... but I attended class with him and translated for him (BTW being fluent in sign language makes diving 100xs easier underwater)

Anyways - we are looking to go on a few dive trips (actually going to the lake the 15th and 16th of June) .... would love to meet some new friends here locally.

Ive been keeping an eye on trips from DQ and LDC, just waitng for a little warmer water.

We have also put together a trip in August (Cruise for 7 nights in southern caribbean and 3 nights in San Juan) if anyone would be interested.

We are still rookies, but love what we have done, and look forward to picking up some advice here and there.

 

[Randy g]

Can't go wrong with the crew at DQ. Welcome to your new addiction. Diving off VB is nothing like diving south of here. If you can dive VB comfortably, you can dive almost anywhere.

 

[RAD Diver]

Look at DQs trips to Cape Hatteras on board the Under Pressure, I know they just picked up another weekend in July.
Water temps will be close if not over 80 be then, we had 75 last weekend.

---------- Post added June 3rd, 2013 at 12:50 PM ----------

Nice video and being the kind of guy I am I have only 1 question, what kind of race car do you have? Or should I say 1/2 of a race car as now she owns the other 1/2. LOL
Randy G will get this as he races bikes & I have a 65 Mustang that has been known to blast a few road race tracks on the east coast.

 

[RAD Diver]

 

[tomfcrist]

There are quite a few of us that dive regularly around here as well as down into North Carolina. My suggestion is to hook up with one of the local dive clubs and socialize a bit. I'm not sure if shark bites is still around but southeastern virginia scuba divers is based out of Newport News, and we are constantly on trips somewhere....from Rawlings to NC to truk lagoon.

 

[Broke Neck]

Very nice mustangs (see the cobra in the back)


Im actually a road race guy myself, run with NASA at VIR and Summit, and just landed gig running my own events in Moyock on Blackwaters base. Looking for August for our first track day


Heres my little mustang (Unfortunately ive sold it to help fund the house we just bought)

331 NA
Tubular road race suspension
315s on all 4 corners
Cobra Brakes






My turbo street car


331
Gforct T5
62-1 Turbo on 8lbs

My daily a couple years ago
BONE STOCK, SUPER CLEAN CAR





Will be building a SpecMiata over the winter, its much more affordable to race, and I personally love running nose to tail with other drivers. I started in a miata,and its just a ton more reasonable to make it to the track with all weeked.


And our "CHUMPCAR" 24 hour long race at VIR

 

[Randy g]

Nice rides! The Miata class would be a fun class that doesn't cost an arm and a leg each weekend. I don't miss those multi-thousand dollar weekends. Having sponsors helps a lot with the expenses but being a privateer you still spend a ton of time and energy to make each race weekend.

I've grew up racing dirt track/circle track on bikes and later in midgets on the west coast. Fast forward 20 yrs and I ended up instructing for 3 time AMA superbike champ Doug Chandler at his high performance riding school and road racing in the AFM/AMA. Once it's in your genes/DNA it is really hard to not race, something, anything, anyplace.

Scooters are as close as I have found for pure fun underwater. It's like being on a 360/360 degree roller coaster underwater that last for 30-60 min.

Here's a couple from a few years ago.

 

[Dehydrated_Atom]

Late to the party but let me throw down on this.



Maybe we should all get together and do a cruise down to Morehead for a weekend of diving!

Also, just curious, what local shop turned away a potential diver because they are deaf? That just sounds ridiculous, and would probably cause me to have words with the shop owner about discrimination. Besides, divers don't usually communicate with sound to great effect outside of tank banging, which I still can never hardly tell where the noise is coming from...