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Scuba Forum / General / March 2007Why did you start diving?
On another thread there was discussion about people who couldn't swim very well learning to dive. This amazed me because surely you have to love the water to consider diving and IMHO swimming is part of that love. Luckily I lived near a Sydney Harbour beach as a kid and learnt to swim at 3 or 4 and started snorkelling at 6 or 7 by myself ( went earlier hanging on dads back) which I loved. Had a mate who was diver who taught me and went diving with him. Headed off to my honeymoon on the GBR and decided I needed to be legal which is when I got my C card. I started diving because I love the water and the view on top tempted me to see the view from below. Other comments > On another thread there was discussion about people who couldn't swim very > well learning to dive. This amazed me because surely you have to love the > water to consider diving and IMHO swimming is part of that love. I didn't like swimming, because I'm rather nearsited. Didn't like being without my glasses. Didn't like the overuse of chlorine in the base pools, and the cheap googles I tried to use never fit well and leaked. In 1999, when I started checking into diving as a hobby, I found out that I can get well-fitting googles that hae corrective lenses. Coool! Had a co-worker, who was an avid diver, and got me interested in the sport. Been my main hobby since. Doesn't matter if its warm Carribean water, the cold waters of the Pacific,a spring or a quarry. Dennis >> On another thread there was discussion about people who couldn't swim >> very [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Dennis Cool coming from where I do I just can't imagine someone deciding to try diving without a background of loving the water. ps went quarry diving when I was over in the US in 2003 or 2004 not sure why you bother but if you haven't experienced anything else so be it, good buoyancy training learn not to stir up the silt though > >> On another thread there was discussion about people who couldn't swim > >> very [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > you bother but if you haven't experienced anything else so be it, good > buoyancy training learn not to stir up the silt though I've been diving in rock quarries, Gulf of Mexico, Grand Cayman, Virgin Islans, San Diego, Santa Barbara (Channel Islands), and GBR and Coral Sea. I've three quarries within a 2 hour drive. The Gulf is 6 hours away. Carribean, Channel Islands, etc are further away. Why I bother? You hit on it on the last part. Practice, practice, and more practice. That way in more exotic locales, I'm ready for game day. :) Dennis >> >> On another thread there was discussion about people who couldn't swim >> >> very [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] > > Dennis excellent I must consider myself sh.t lucky than. Started diving with great dives 1/2 an hour drive away ( early in the morning and wouldn't happen now (( 10 mins if I wanted a not bad shore dive to play with the blue ringed octopuses ) )) ) and where I live now an hour away. Can't get away as much as i want with the kids but manage at least 4 weekends away plus holidays and when I go to Sydney for business or pleasure N and S head always beckon. Still am amazed that people who have little swimming ability would chose diving but each to their own I live on lake Huron close to the St Clair river and have spent a lot of my summers diving off of boats and just swimming around miles of shore. After doing some snorkelling in Cuba and Mexico I wished I could hold my breath 1/2 as long as my guide. It was either train, train, train or take scuba lessons and stay down really long. As soon as the weather gets nicer I'm going to really find out why I went for my C-Card. On a side note How long does it take for your C-Card to come in??? I took my course in October and have called and emailed the dive shop several times, each time getting the response that it's on it's way. Did I pay for something I'll never receive? > On a side note How long does it take for your C-Card to come in??? > I took my course in October and have called and emailed the dive > shop several times, each time getting the response that it's on it's > way. Did I pay for something I'll never receive? November-December-Jan-Feb ... that's too long. Unless your Shop/instructor had told you that they were giong to give you the PIC Envelope to mail in yourself, I'd call the Ageny directly at this point. Main thing is to be nice, but firm with the Angency: tell them the name of the shop and the instructor and tell them that you believe that you're tracking the status of the PIC Envelope fulfillment. If the Agency says that they haven't gotten it, tell them that its been 4+ months since you passed the class and have already made multiple requests to the Instructor (and have the emails to prove it), and its not your responsibility that it got lost. Ask them if they will call the Instructor to get it resoved and/or if you need to file a Quality Assurance complaint with them or with the BBB in order to get *their* mess cleaned up within the next 30 days. -hh Despite the C-Card problem I really enjoyed my experience at the shop, this is just raising an eyebrow. I'll see if I can get this cleaned up without to much of a mess. > Despite the C-Card problem I really enjoyed my experience at the shop, > this is just raising an eyebrow. I'll see if I can get this cleaned up > without to much of a mess. When we got our C card, it was just a few weeks after completion of the OW dives back in 1998. Last year, we got our enriched air cards and again only a couple of weeks after the certification dives. >>> On another thread there was discussion about people who couldn't swim >>> very [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > why you bother but if you haven't experienced anything else so be it, good > buoyancy training learn not to stir up the silt though I didn't want to dive, period, and actively avoided it for decades. Then some ex-Marine buddies of mine shamed me into it so we could go on a dive vacation, than never happened. Two years later, they wanted to go diving, and I had 400+ dives to their 10-30 dives, and I wouldn't go with them (without practice dives). :-) I lived on the ocean at the time, and wanted to see what the heck was down there! -- John Eells > On another thread there was discussion about people who couldn't swim very > well learning to dive. This amazed me because surely you have to love the > water to consider diving and IMHO swimming is part of that love. I live in the Frozen North. Even as a kid, "swimming" involved at most five blue-lipped minutes thrashing in the sea. The beach was paved with rocks, shells, and busted beer bottles, so I learned to "swim" wearing Keds. So I love the water, and I love swimming. I'm just lousy at it. >On another thread there was discussion about people who couldn't swim very >well learning to dive. This amazed me because surely you have to love the [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > >Other comments I wanted to live in an octopus' garden. >>On another thread there was discussion about people who couldn't swim very >>well learning to dive. This amazed me because surely you have to love the [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > I wanted to live in an octopus' garden. come over to Aus and I'll introduce you to some with blue rings. Beautiful creatures a tad poisonous but so what they are OK to handle and lovely to look at > "GWB" <gwb3...@eatel.net> wrote in message > > I wanted to live in an octopus' garden. > > come over to Aus and I'll introduce you to some with blue rings. Beautiful > creatures a tad poisonous but so what they are OK to handle and lovely to > look at And IIRC, you get to hear everything friends say about you as you're laying there "dead", without breathing as they try to save you from a little nibble. -hh >> "GWB" <gwb3...@eatel.net> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > laying there "dead", without breathing as they try to save you from a > little nibble. Hint don't put the nibbly bit on your hand. Seriously they are very beautifult to look at and as kids with used to poke and torment them to show ther colours > -hh > On another thread there was discussion about people who couldn't swim very > well learning to dive. This amazed me because surely you have to love the [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Other comments I started in college during my senior year (1975) because I had extra time, finished all my required courses and thought it would be fun. Broke my clavicle before the check-out dives and never finished the course. Took it up again 25 years later when friends of mine and my brother suggested it. The friends are no longer diving, brother has moved from Florida to Tennessee (not diving there) and I'm diving as much as possible now. I love it - even in New England. Last dive was in December in 40 degree water. Looking forward to getting back in the water later this month. Also looking toward a possible SoFla trip soon. > Last dive was in December in 40 degree > water. Dry suit? >snip< > I started diving because I love the water and the view on top tempted me to > see the view from below. > > Other comments Mike Nelson. > Mike Nelson. Exactly. >>Mike Nelson. > > Exactly. Count me as part of that too. Always facinated by it, then Jaws came out and The Deep. Still fantasize about finding that treasure one day. But until then will always do it when I can.  Signature***Hitech Redneck******Go Cowboys***drvd@bigfoot.com***** *All Opinions are mine and completely biased * *..nation, conceived in Liberty,...testing whether * *that nation...can long endure. Abraham Lincoln * -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com > On another thread there was discussion about people who couldn't swim very > well learning to dive. This amazed me because surely you have to love the [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Other comments What else could it be?....a girl. It was Lloyd Bridges fault. I just could not resist the temptation to take on all sorts of dastardly villains that would consistently cut my exhaust hose instead of my inlet hose. Ask someone over 50 if this is not clear. Lee > It was Lloyd Bridges fault. I just could not resist the temptation to take > on all sorts of dastardly villains that would consistently cut my exhaust [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Lee They must have gone through 10 of those things per week. (To this day, I still clear my mask by rolling to the left. I always roll in the same direction so that I never had to think about which direction to roll to clear the reg.) -- John Eells |
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