This seasons goals
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My goal this year is to spend some time on the Great Lakes wrecks. I live in Ohio, less than two hours from the greatest fresh water wreck diving in the world and I have not experienced it yet. To my defense though, I have been honing my skills over the past couple of years and now have a dry suit so I think this year I am ready. Nothing to fancy to start with, and I don't even care which ones at this point.
#1 - More boat diving. In 2005 shore diving out numbered boat diving nearly 5 to one. That's just wrong. 
#2 - Get one good dive in OCal. I'm ohfer. Like 0 for 6, I think. I mean, c'mon.
#3 - Get a grip with my shooting underwater. I want to better communicate the stuff I see to the non divers in my life. This means refusing the allure of Macro Nudis (which I love) and more wide angle green water SoCal stuff. I'm shooting all manual now and I'm loving it. I need to bust out the W/A and suck it up.
#4 - Dive NoCal and PNW more. Its close, its the coldwater diving I love and the life is amazing. I didn't get to NoCal in 2005. That stinks.
#5 - Work on my skills more. So many of my friends are becoming DIR divers, I need to continue to practice or I'm gonna get lapped. We just can't have that.
#6 - Dive with more people. I am super duper wacky silly selective with my dive buddies, and in hundreds of dives the last couple of years I've dived with maybe 4 or 5 different people. That is also just wrong. I need to let down the guard a bit and dive with more of the amazing SoCal's that surround me.
#7 - Give more to the SoCal dive community. Because I'm such a cloistered freak, I never see anyone or dive with anyone not on the short list (see number 6.) I have a lot to offer SoCal divers - time, skills, mentorship, dominoes lessons, good wine... lots of stuff. I need to give more and not be such a friggen shut in.
#8 - I want to dive Farnsworth Banks. I'm ohfer there, too. Like 0 for 4 over the last three years. Some day a boat scheduled to go to Farnsworth will actually, you know, make it there. I also want to dive the rigs. Never been. Ohfer (0 - 1)... I need to make that happen in '06.
#9 - More night diving. My weekends are precious, so I dive a lot of night dives during the week. Of the 160 to 170-some dives I did in '05, nearly 1/3 of them were night dives. Lobstering, recreational, touring, shore, boat. etc. I love night diving. Can't get enough. Once or twice a week isn't enough. Who's in???
#10 - I want to take my gear to my bosses house and get his kids in the pool. They see my pics, hear my stories and are way, way into it. I remember when I was in High School, a friend of the family brought over his tank, weights, mask and stuff (pre-BC 70's days) and I rocked out in the pool... It totally lit the fuse for me to get certified 20 years later. His kids are water people and I want to get some fun shots of them with the gear... As soon as it stops raining, I am so there.
Reading this list shows that mostly I need to work on me.
Big shock, there.
OY.
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Ken
#2 - Get one good dive in OCal. I'm ohfer. Like 0 for 6, I think. I mean, c'mon.
#3 - Get a grip with my shooting underwater. I want to better communicate the stuff I see to the non divers in my life. This means refusing the allure of Macro Nudis (which I love) and more wide angle green water SoCal stuff. I'm shooting all manual now and I'm loving it. I need to bust out the W/A and suck it up.
#4 - Dive NoCal and PNW more. Its close, its the coldwater diving I love and the life is amazing. I didn't get to NoCal in 2005. That stinks.
#5 - Work on my skills more. So many of my friends are becoming DIR divers, I need to continue to practice or I'm gonna get lapped. We just can't have that.
#6 - Dive with more people. I am super duper wacky silly selective with my dive buddies, and in hundreds of dives the last couple of years I've dived with maybe 4 or 5 different people. That is also just wrong. I need to let down the guard a bit and dive with more of the amazing SoCal's that surround me.
#7 - Give more to the SoCal dive community. Because I'm such a cloistered freak, I never see anyone or dive with anyone not on the short list (see number 6.) I have a lot to offer SoCal divers - time, skills, mentorship, dominoes lessons, good wine... lots of stuff. I need to give more and not be such a friggen shut in.
#8 - I want to dive Farnsworth Banks. I'm ohfer there, too. Like 0 for 4 over the last three years. Some day a boat scheduled to go to Farnsworth will actually, you know, make it there. I also want to dive the rigs. Never been. Ohfer (0 - 1)... I need to make that happen in '06.
#9 - More night diving. My weekends are precious, so I dive a lot of night dives during the week. Of the 160 to 170-some dives I did in '05, nearly 1/3 of them were night dives. Lobstering, recreational, touring, shore, boat. etc. I love night diving. Can't get enough. Once or twice a week isn't enough. Who's in???
#10 - I want to take my gear to my bosses house and get his kids in the pool. They see my pics, hear my stories and are way, way into it. I remember when I was in High School, a friend of the family brought over his tank, weights, mask and stuff (pre-BC 70's days) and I rocked out in the pool... It totally lit the fuse for me to get certified 20 years later. His kids are water people and I want to get some fun shots of them with the gear... As soon as it stops raining, I am so there.
Reading this list shows that mostly I need to work on me.
Big shock, there.
OY.
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Ken
Come up to the PNW, Ken, and dive with us! I've heard rumors that there are even some wrecks to dive up here, and I know somebody who does that 
TSandM:Come up to the PNW, Ken, and dive with us! I've heard rumors that there are even some wrecks to dive up here, and I know somebody who does that
And I may get up there in the summer. Not sure. But Mid-September I am so there.
Ken
billtylerjr
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dandrian:
I am from Ohio and didnt even realize there was diving there until I moved to Texas. I have heard loosly of the diving there do you have any details you can share? I need to make a trip or two there this summer and perhaps I can take advantage
billtylerjr
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this is a pretty interesting question, and I certainly enjoyed reading Kens list and thought up a short one of my own (not nearly as complete though)
1. since having completing dm i would like to get instructor this summer
2. adv. nitrox/deco (in addition to dsat tec-rec) /blender - and if i am really board, the perhaps cavern?
3. get out to enjoy the jersey coast diving that i spent all last year training for at duch and the new gear
4. really get to know my camera/video setups and start collecting footage / sipadan??
5. if the summer goes well, consider scr/ccr training
1. since having completing dm i would like to get instructor this summer
2. adv. nitrox/deco (in addition to dsat tec-rec) /blender - and if i am really board, the perhaps cavern?
3. get out to enjoy the jersey coast diving that i spent all last year training for at duch and the new gear
4. really get to know my camera/video setups and start collecting footage / sipadan??
5. if the summer goes well, consider scr/ccr training
To dive the Newell Eddy, Monrovia, D.R. Hanna and the Persian along with many more Great Lakes wrecks!
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