Total dive hours

[Rick Inman]

Uncle Pug once bubbled...
... and the dispensers thereof. Start with yourself.

A tree is known by it's fruit, and the only way to know how someone dives is to dive with them.
I actually dived with Uncle Pug once. You've got to be kidding?? This guy can't even afford to buy a full sized hose for his octopus! Or a holder to keep it in. He has to use a piece of old bungee cord he obviously found on the ground while roaming the beaches of Puget Sound searching for dive buddies. Talk about dangerous, he's got a bunch of hose wrapped around his neck! He doesn't have a dive computer. And his flutter kick is a joke! With his knees all bent, he looks like he's trying to clap with his feet or something. He doesn't descend or ascend vertical like PADI teaches, and he's so slow that it takes him almost a full minutes just to ascend from 10 feet to the surface.
He didn't help me much either. When I silted out the bottom while we all looked over a stumpy squid, he never said a word about it. Never mentioned that I didn't have my backup light on our night dive when my primary light died at 100' and he had to hand me his backup. Never said a word about having half a bottle of air when I was dry. Some helper, huh?
After the first dive, it was obvious that one of us was a much better diver than the other - know what I'm sayin'? And still he had the nerve to treat me as an equal.
I tried as hard as I could not to learn anything from a guy like that. However, I maybe picked up a couple things...

 

[Snowbear]

LOL

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

Rick Inman once bubbled...

A tree is known by it's fruit, and the only way to know how someone dives is to dive with them.

So what kind of fruit is Uncle Pug, I wonder ...

Experience is relative. I logged my 700th dive and 475th hour of bottom time last night ... and compared to some of my dive buddies (including Uncle Pug) I'm still a noob ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[scubasean]

Rick Inman once bubbled...

A tree is known by it's fruit, and the only way to know how someone dives is to dive with them.
I actually dived with Uncle Pug once. You've got to be kidding?? This guy can't even afford to buy a full sized hose for his octopus! Or a holder to keep it in. He has to use a piece of old bungee cord he obviously found on the ground while roaming the beaches of Puget Sound searching for dive buddies. Talk about dangerous, he's got a bunch of hose wrapped around his neck! He doesn't have a dive computer. And his flutter kick is a joke! With his knees all bent, he looks like he's trying to clap with his feet or something. He doesn't descend or ascend vertical like PADI teaches, and he's so slow that it takes him almost a full minutes just to ascend from 10 feet to the surface.
He didn't help me much either. When I silted out the bottom while we all looked over a stumpy squid, he never said a word about it. Never mentioned that I didn't have my backup light on our night dive when my primary light died at 100' and he had to hand me his backup. Never said a word about having half a bottle of air when I was dry. Some helper, huh?
After the first dive, it was obvious that one of us was a much better diver than the other - know what I'm sayin'? And still he had the nerve to treat me as an equal.
I tried as hard as I could not to learn anything from a guy like that. However, I maybe picked up a couple things...

Reading this was a great way to spend a break at work...heh

 

[FLArmyBrat]

At this point...900+ mins sounds/ looks much better than 15 hours or 23 dives!

Laurel- The Frog Queen
:royal:

 

[Rick Inman]

NWGratefulDiver once bubbled...


So what kind of fruit is Uncle Pug, I wonder ...

Experience is relative. I logged my 700th dive and 475th hour of bottom time last night ... and compared to some of my dive buddies (including Uncle Pug) I'm still a noob ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

Dived with this guy, too, and he's just as bad as UP! His only redemption is that he can climb a barbrd-wire fence!

 

[CincyBengalsFan]

Uncle Pug once bubbled...
... and the dispensers thereof. Start with yourself.

And finish with yourself. The world is now a happier place...

 

[gilou28]

SUM OF (time at max depth * max depth * difficulty level (temp,depth,environnement,equipement) )

Now the question is to determine the factor used to ponderate the "difficulty level" of the dive....

Another Discussion


Cheers!!!!

 

[drbill]

Hmmm... over 750 logged dives in the last 3+ years. No clue how many over the previous 38 years. Cool water, kelp forest for the most part.

Any dive I do has a very high degree of difficulty associated with it since I'm such a clutz underwater... hoses draped all over my chest- reg, octopus, Air 2, pony reg, console hose and... ??? What's that other hose? Oh, it's a strand of kelp, sorry). I flail with my camera in hand, a danger to any divers nearby.

Hours underwater? Hmmm. Did several dives of 1 1/2- nearly 3 hours on my old HP120. Did a few dives of 20 min too.

Hours on SCUBA Board? I'll never tell. My boss would understand though.

Time to get wet!

Dr. Bill

 

[pipedope]

My early log books were lost in a fire so my first 15 years or so is a guess but probably about 900-1100 hours of sport diving.

I have a bunch more hours working. When you spend 3-7 hours a day in the water for 3-5 days a week you can add up a lot of hours in a hurry. Most of this stuff the diving was not all that hard but the work was often interesting. Rarely was there any vis but depth was generally less than 20 feet. Of course most of it was also with an overhead.

And you thought pipedope was just a silly name......