IANTD, never showed, but some places told me if you have a solodiver card you can dive solo. But in a lot of places no cards have to be shown. They believe divers.
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You got my admiration!!!Just about all of my current diving is in a local river here in Oregon—all done solo. I’ve been solo diving since I’ve been diving, and that started in 1959. Now, at my age (75) my wife wants me to only dive solo where the lifeguards are at on the river (High Rocks on the Clackamas River). So after the lifeguards decided not to be there last summer, I have not been solo diving. Hopefully, with COVID-19 vaccines available, they will again be at the river this coming summer. My certifications are:
LA County, 1963
U.S. Naval School for Underwater Swimmers, 1967
U.S.A.F. Pararescue Transition School, 1967
NAUI Instructor, 1973
In the U.S.A.F., as a Pararescueman, we were actually taught solo diving, as whenever we made a parascuba jump, we were solo. Sometimes, if the jump went badly, we would be solo for quite some time, but usually on the surface.
I have not taken a solo course, but feel at this point that it is not necessary for me. I won’t be solo diving off a charter, and only solo dive one area on the Clackamas River that I’m extremely familiar with.
SeaRat
Hi John,Just about all of my current diving is in a local river here in Oregon—all done solo. I’ve been solo diving since I’ve been diving, and that started in 1959. Now, at my age (75) my wife wants me to only dive solo where the lifeguards are at on the river (High Rocks on the Clackamas River). So after the lifeguards decided not to be there last summer, I have not been solo diving. Hopefully, with COVID-19 vaccines available, they will again be at the river this coming summer. My certifications are:
LA County, 1963
U.S. Naval School for Underwater Swimmers, 1967
U.S.A.F. Pararescue Transition School, 1967
NAUI Instructor, 1973
In the U.S.A.F., as a Pararescueman, we were actually taught solo diving, as whenever we made a parascuba jump, we were solo. Sometimes, if the jump went badly, we would be solo for quite some time, but usually on the surface.
I have not taken a solo course, but feel at this point that it is not necessary for me. I won’t be solo diving off a charter, and only solo dive one area on the Clackamas River that I’m extremely familiar with.
SeaRat
George’s and Andrea’s boat? This pre dates me by a few years.Quite a while ago - 2006 from Ocean Quest