Who scuba dives?

[FROSTY:Me]

LOL. Choose your buddies and riding companions carefully. I think it was my 3rd dive when we played with a kids shape ball to demonstrate getting narc'd. Timed ourselves on the surface putting the wee shapes in then at 50mtrs It was a good day for fine tuning buoyancy and deco stops. Bugger all happening down there. Grey, barren and cold. That was with 3 instructors, naughty ones.

hey George-nowadays you do the "deep" work at 30m. Don't ask --I know silly aye? But that's the padi way.

[george formby]

hey George-nowadays you do the "deep" work at 30m. Don't ask --I know silly aye? But that's the padi way.

Yeah, i know. My PADI dive tables stopped at 33m when we did that dive on the Maitai Pinnacle. I never repeated it. Pointless.
There are some loose units diving. A Scandinavian bloke who came up to dive now and again would have a joint on the boat, pre dive, and exhale into his BCD so he could smoke underwater.

Each to their own I guess. All I was interested in was crays and they are rarely deep. Might have to take off the tank and put it between me legs to get into a crack but that was the limit of my shenanigans. Night diving made me paranoid. Cue Jaws music.

[Ulsterkiwi]

most narcd I ever got was at the stern end of the Lermentov, out of my skull. Apparently the soupy green water you get there sometimes makes it worse.

I did get that anenome shot when inside the wreck later on, seemed more psychadelic at the time

[5ive]

Did my Padi Open Water course through the Army in the Waiouru swimming pool, and in Lake Taupo, including some extensive underwater navigation training.

Never put a tank on again after that though, all of my diving since has been in salt water on one breath for food/fun.

[FROSTY:Me]

most narcd I ever got was at the stern end of the Lermentov, out of my skull. Apparently the soupy green water you get there sometimes makes it worse.I did get that anenome shot when inside the wreck later on, seemed more psychadelic at the time

Funny you should say that. I was diving a wreck in October. Saw a fish hovering on the bow. looked like an angelfish but in black and white.
But the whole outside edge was a series of "flashing blue lights"
Grabbed for the camera and it disappeared.
Everybody told me I was Narked and seeing things. Took me 3 months to find a picture of the darn thing in a book.
Juvenile angelfish

[TheDemonLord]

I've always wanted to learn how to Scuba Dive - but the cost of Gear and the realisation that I have too many hobbies I would like to indulge in and they are all expensive is a restricting factor.

[Akzle]

but the cost...

haven't you recently obtained a child?

silly cunt.

[Big Dog]

haven't you recently obtained a child?

silly cunt.

That would be one of the expensive time consuming hobbies he mentions.

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[FROSTY:Me]

I've always wanted to learn how to Scuba Dive - but the cost of Gear and the realisation that I have too many hobbies I would like to indulge in and they are all expensive is a restricting factor.

You don't need gear dude--a good training crowd will supply it all.
Vacation diving they supply the gear too.

[george formby]

You don't need gear dude--a good training crowd will supply it all.
Vacation diving they supply the gear too.

Concur, for the hardware anyway. All my diving was on borrowed / rented gear. BCD, tanks, regs. I bought a Mosquito dive computer watch thingy when I realised that I would be doing more free diving. It records each individual descent. Had my own suit, mask, fins etc. I was just about to spring for the hardware when a change of circumstances meant I would mainly be doing shore dives or flopping off a kayak (not a bad thing at all) so committed to the free diving.

[oneofsix]

I've always wanted to learn how to Scuba Dive - but the cost of Gear and the realisation that I have too many hobbies I would like to indulge in and they are all expensive is a restricting factor.

I totally agree, that's why I have completed the online part of the PADI course and am booked for the practical in a couple of weeks. The dive shop is supplying the gear, although my size is challenging them on the wetsuit, I might have to buy that lol.

[5150]

I Like muff diving personally...

[Akzle]

I Like muff diving personally...

don't forget your diving gear...

[caspernz]

That would be one of the expensive time consuming hobbies he mentions.

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Nah I think the child is the result of the hobby, not the hobby itself. Also known as the result of a near-miss. The vagaries of the English language...

[geoffm]

Advanced open water, night and wreck and navigation. Haven't been diving for years although I still have the gear. I used to do it a lot, but given my current level of unfitness it would be a bad idea.
I got down to 48m in the engine room on the President Coolidge in 1999 - definitely nitrogen narcosis starting there, and it went away once we started going up. All decompression dives with drop tanks (2 per day) but a great trip.
Geoff