joetex0777
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You have to follow your bubbles to the surface because you cant see your gauges when you press them up against your mask.
You might be a swamp diver if?
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You drive hundreds of miles to dive on a site, not knowing what the vis will be like.
A nod to KLantz (Kenny):
You decide to bring your OW students to a 20' deep mudhole just inside the TX border instead of making them dive in a similar mudhole in Louisiana - all so they can call themselves Texas Swamp Divers.
You decide to bring your OW students to a 20' deep mudhole just inside the TX border instead of making them dive in a similar mudhole in Louisiana - all so they can call themselves Texas Swamp Divers.
Pearldiver07
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You find the bottom when it hits your mask, but you still think it's pretty good viz for a dive.
daniel f aleman
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You're a Texas Swamp Diver if:
You started diving five years before you were certified.
You first dived Cozumel in 1976.
You are on a first name basis with Don Dibble, John Duggan, Arthur Melvin or Peter Oliver.
You know that Copeland's in Corpus is the oldest dive shop in Texas, but you've never entered the shop.
You've come face-to-face with a 64 pound catfish.
You know just how lonnnnng that drive back to Austin from Freeport is.
During a Texas Summer drought, you took a trip to Arkansas to dive in a "crystal clear quarry" that a fellow diver recommended. You only did that once.
You're scared to DEATH of ski boats.
You started diving five years before you were certified.
You first dived Cozumel in 1976.
You are on a first name basis with Don Dibble, John Duggan, Arthur Melvin or Peter Oliver.
You know that Copeland's in Corpus is the oldest dive shop in Texas, but you've never entered the shop.
You've come face-to-face with a 64 pound catfish.
You know just how lonnnnng that drive back to Austin from Freeport is.
During a Texas Summer drought, you took a trip to Arkansas to dive in a "crystal clear quarry" that a fellow diver recommended. You only did that once.
You're scared to DEATH of ski boats.
FIXXERVI6
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Get up at 5 am to drive the 200 miles to Travis with your expensive gas mixes just to crawl around in the mud because you can't see the bottom, then you try to pack up fast to get out before it gets too hot, drive the 200 miles back then hose all the mud off your gear. Call it a good dive then plan the next time your going to crawl through mud again.
Too many times I've been going along looking for the bottom and I find it when I dig into it, I have been known to do a hand over hand walk on the bottom in portions of travis just so I know where the bottom is.
But for some reason I keep going back
Too many times I've been going along looking for the bottom and I find it when I dig into it, I have been known to do a hand over hand walk on the bottom in portions of travis just so I know where the bottom is.
But for some reason I keep going back
Crazyduck
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Driving to Possum Kingdom- 1.5hours
Diving off a bass boating- no giant step entry required
Recovering an Aluminum boat deck chair and heavy mushroom anchor in the same dive- Priceless.
You know youre a Texas diver when you have been diving the same section of coastline and sand bar with no visibility for four years.
Then they pull out a 500lb bull shark; OH thats whats been bumping me on those dives.
UnderwaterTimes | Angler Pulls In Texas State Record Bull Shark: 512 Pounds, 9 Feet Long
You feel bad for the Bull Shark.
You know youre a Texas diver when its 110 degrees outside and you have to put on your drysuit to take your advanced student to tin silo at 60ft in Clear Springs.
They should call it chilly springs!
You remember a time when all open water certification was done at Lake Travis- circa 1990.
You know you married to a Texas Diver when-
Your son gives the shark sign in Cozumel and your wife takes off after the shark!
You son is in shock that she left him and you about drown from laughing so hard that your regulator falls out!
You know youre a Texas Diver when you are diving Hi389A and a turtle tries to munch on what little orange hair you have left.
Clearly thinking its something else. Attempted scalping from a turtle- only in Texas waters.
Diving off a bass boating- no giant step entry required
Recovering an Aluminum boat deck chair and heavy mushroom anchor in the same dive- Priceless.
You know youre a Texas diver when you have been diving the same section of coastline and sand bar with no visibility for four years.
Then they pull out a 500lb bull shark; OH thats whats been bumping me on those dives.
UnderwaterTimes | Angler Pulls In Texas State Record Bull Shark: 512 Pounds, 9 Feet Long
You feel bad for the Bull Shark.
You know youre a Texas diver when its 110 degrees outside and you have to put on your drysuit to take your advanced student to tin silo at 60ft in Clear Springs.
They should call it chilly springs!
You remember a time when all open water certification was done at Lake Travis- circa 1990.
You know you married to a Texas Diver when-
Your son gives the shark sign in Cozumel and your wife takes off after the shark!
You son is in shock that she left him and you about drown from laughing so hard that your regulator falls out!
You know youre a Texas Diver when you are diving Hi389A and a turtle tries to munch on what little orange hair you have left.
Clearly thinking its something else. Attempted scalping from a turtle- only in Texas waters.
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