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Scuba Forum / General / July 2007Thanks -- everybody
I just passed my confined water tests and all the written exams for PADI today. Now all I have to do is find some open water to get certified. Thinking about Homestead in Utah. After that, who knows where. I honestly feel that you all helped me, in one way or another. Still having a little trouble swimming level and staying down when I start moving -- getting better, however, and much more stable on the bottom. My instructor claims that it's not uncommon, and when I get a little deeper it will be easier to attain neutral buoyancy and get around -- the closer to the surface you are the harder it is to stay down. Also, try not to take a deep breath before you start kicking. Thanks again. I'll keep you posted. :-) Sheldon "Sheldon" <sheldon@XXXXXXXXsopris.net> pounded away at his keyboard resulting in: :Still having a little trouble swimming level and staying down when I start :moving -- getting better, however, and much more stable on the bottom. My :instructor claims that it's not uncommon, and when I get a little deeper it :will be easier to attain neutral buoyancy and get around -- the closer to :the surface you are the harder it is to stay down. Also, try not to take a :deep breath before you start kicking. Your instructor is correct. Dan Bracuk Never use a big word when a diminutive one will do. > "Sheldon" <sheldon@XXXXXXXXsopris.net> pounded away at his keyboard > resulting in: [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Dan Bracuk Thanks. So far he's been right on everything else. As I've said, and everyone else in the group agreed, I finally found a good one. Can't wait to get down a little deeper and see what happens. > I just passed my confined water tests and all the written exams for PADI > today. Now all I have to do is find some open water to get certified. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Thanks again. I'll keep you posted. :-) Good stuff. The hard part's behind you. Now you get to do the really fun stuff, learn how to dive. If you get the chance, get together with some of these yahoos from rec.scuba. Some of them are really good divers as well as great guys to dive with. Somehow or other the bs is left in the newsgroup. Don't miss a chance to dive with the Florida contingent, but don't get between any of them and a hot looking babe. You'll be crushed. I once found myself in a precarious position between Al Wells and ESG, both slavering over a buxom young lady's cleavage. Of course she'd put a blinking neon pen right in there to draw them, and they were like moths to a flame. I finally had to put a stop to it when ESG tried to put a fork thru Al's tongue as it lay on the table. It was embarrassing but the diving of the day made up for it. I think that was the day we did the Pedophile Dive on Miss Conduct. The guy who runs that boat is the funniest dive op I've ever encountered. The SI is almost as good as the dives. JF >> I just passed my confined water tests and all the written exams for PADI >> today. Now all I have to do is find some open water to get certified. [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > > JF Diving seems to be a magnet for pretty, young girls. I figure if I never get in the water I'll be at least stuck on a boat with bikini-clad beauties. Hey, it's my fantasy. :-P "Sheldon" <sheldon@XXXXXXXXsopris.net> pounded away at his keyboard resulting in: ::Diving seems to be a magnet for pretty, young girls. I figure if I never :get in the water I'll be at least stuck on a boat with bikini-clad beauties. :Hey, it's my fantasy. :-P It's how I met my pretty young wife. Dan Bracuk Never use a big word when a diminutive one will do. >I just passed my confined water tests and all the written exams for PADI >today. Now all I have to do is find some open water to get certified. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > >Thanks again. I'll keep you posted. :-) Looks like you're well on your way. Wasn't too long ago that I was feeling similar anxieties so I can surely emphasise. But it (your confidence) will come in time. Just relax, and give it the time it needs. But what these folks here say is true and is one of the best lessons I've learned here. Just try to have fun for now, and the skills will become 2nd nature in good time. Keep an eye out for when we're gathering for a DW<insert significant initial> event and join us. Congratulations at any rate. ____________________________________________ Regards, Arnold Visit my Travel Photo Website: http://www.mag3.biz/travel_photos/home_page.html Absolutely 100% SPAM free!!!! HONEST!!! :-) >>I just passed my confined water tests and all the written exams for PADI >>today. Now all I have to do is find some open water to get certified. [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > Congratulations at any rate. Thanks. > Still having a little trouble swimming level and staying down when I start > moving -- getting better, however, and much more stable on the bottom. Sounds like a trim issue. Look for ways to adjust where your weight is until you stay horizontal when you stop kicking. Many of us used metal back plates to move the weight off our waists. It's an effective method, but not the only one. > My instructor claims that it's not uncommon, and when I get a little > deeper it will be easier to attain neutral buoyancy and get around -- the > closer to the surface you are the harder it is to stay down. Also, try > not to take a deep breath before you start kicking. Your instructor's at least partly right. >> Still having a little trouble swimming level and staying down when I >> start moving -- getting better, however, and much more stable on the [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Your instructor's at least partly right. Thanks. I'm not sure but I feel I may have not had enough weight for the conditions in the pool. We never did an actual weight check, but it was close. >I just passed my confined water tests and all the written exams for PADI >today. Now all I have to do is find some open water to get certified. >Thinking about Homestead in Utah. After that, who knows where. > > I honestly feel that you all helped me, in one way or another. What a scary thought > Still having a little trouble swimming level and staying down when I start > moving -- getting better, however, and much more stable on the bottom. My > instructor claims that it's not uncommon, and when I get a little deeper > it will be easier to attain neutral buoyancy and get around -- the closer > to the surface you are the harder it is to stay down. Also, try not to > take a deep breath before you start kicking. I find if I am out of the water for a couple of months or so it takes a little while to get the bouyancey correct. It is amazing what you can do by inflating your lungs a bit more or exhaling a bit more > Thanks again. I'll keep you posted. :-) please do dechucka and remember small bubbles all the time >I just passed my confined water tests and all the written exams for PADI >today. Now all I have to do is find some open water to get certified. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >the surface you are the harder it is to stay down. Also, try not to take a >deep breath before you start kicking. Neutral bouyancy is hard in 10 feet of water. Much easier in 30. >Thanks again. I'll keep you posted. :-) > >Sheldon >  Signaturedillon Broadway Photo sucks. Ask me why. snip \ > Broadway Photo sucks. Ask me why. why? > snip > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > why? Right on time, as usual. Signature"I wasn't going to get into any of this until later, but you asked a reasonable question. The problem for me in answering is that I'm theorizing with more intuited logic than facts." -JOF Popeye/ www.finalprotectivefire.com >> snip >> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Right on time, as usual. maybe it is an inside joke or a culturally specific joke but still " WHY"? > maybe it is an inside joke or a culturally specific joke but still " WHY"? It was discussed rather recently... http://groups.google.com/group/rec.scuba/msg/9e79ea0ad14fb297 http://grumman581.googlepages.com/camera-scam-stores > > maybe it is an inside joke or a culturally specific joke but still " WHY"? > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > http://grumman581.googlepages.com/camera-scam-stores Pehraps he could amend it to Broadway photo sucks - here's why http://groups.google.com/group/rec.scuba/msg/9e79ea0ad14fb297 :-) SignatureDennis "For instance, on planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on, while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were more intelligent than man, for precisely the same reasons." --Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, chapter 23. >> maybe it is an inside joke or a culturally specific joke but still " >> WHY"? [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > http://grumman581.googlepages.com/camera-scam-stores >> maybe it is an inside joke or a culturally specific joke but still " >> WHY"? [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > http://grumman581.googlepages.com/camera-scam-stores thanks obviously not a thread I looked at and for good reason or maybe I did and all the N2 is getting to me > thanks > > obviously not a thread I looked at and for good reason or maybe I did and > all the N2 is getting to me The way that threads morph around here, you can't really judge it by "subject" field... It might start out as a dive thread, morph into a gun thread, then to a politics thread... Of course, the reverse is also true... On the other hand, I don't think that I've *ever* seen any thread that was crossposted to soc.culture.thai morph into *anything* that was worth reading... Steve's got himself a couple of admirers over there and obviously they have the hots for him... Anything that gets crossposted over there automatically gets shitcanned as far as I'm concerned... I'm not that crazy about Thai food either, so I doubt that I would be missing anything that wasn't just trash talk by Steve's WebTV-equivalent admirers... >> thanks >> [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > food either, so I doubt that I would be missing anything that wasn't > just trash talk by Steve's WebTV-equivalent admirers... yes no maybe depending on what u r trying to say surprisingly you and Scott r the 2 people from this ng I'd really be interested in meeting. You seem quite interesting and I have never met a redneck trailer park scum person so it would be fun to meet Scott.. > yes no maybe depending on what u r trying to say > > surprisingly you and Scott r the 2 people from this ng I'd really be > interested in meeting. You seem quite interesting and I have never met a > redneck trailer park scum person so it would be fun to meet Scott.. what makes you thing Scott is trailer park scum? > > yes no maybe depending on what u r trying to say > > > > surprisingly you and Scott r the 2 people from this ng I'd really be > > interested in meeting. You seem quite interesting and I have never met a > > redneck trailer park scum person so it would be fun to meet Scott.. > what makes you thing Scott is trailer park scum? His bigotry and tiny testicles. >> yes no maybe depending on what u r trying to say >> [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > what makes you thing Scott is trailer park scum? just wanted to see how long it would take for him to answer seeing I'm in his k/f.Yes I knew he saw it in your post >>> yes no maybe depending on what u r trying to say >>> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > just wanted to see how long it would take for him to answer seeing I'm in > his k/f.Yes I knew he saw it in your post More direct paraphrasing from that guy you say you don't backchannel with, whos name you say you don't know. How...coincidental. Again. Signature"I wasn't going to get into any of this until later, but you asked a reasonable question. The problem for me in answering is that I'm theorizing with more intuited logic than facts." -JOF Popeye/ www.finalprotectivefire.com >>>> yes no maybe depending on what u r trying to say >>>> [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > More direct paraphrasing from that guy you say you don't backchannel > with, whos name you say you don't know. direct paraphrasing an interesting term and this is evidence of what? > How...coincidental. > > Again. |
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