Haiti

<shrugs>

Then maybe they should have gone for proper training rather than some
crappy old beach based PADI shit?

 

Now that *IS* scraping the bottom.


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Well you've lost me Hog.


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Beav

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I should think that with a hard bottom, it would certainly be "OW".


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Someone will give you a minor league bollocking for not snipping.


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Oh Yes and have I found those.

When you find out you are the highest qualified diver in a beach based
outfit. It doesn't bode well.

At least when I dive with the Red Sea Dive College I know all of the
divers have a minimum of instructor rating.

 

If you can get hold of a book called "Shipwrecks from the Egyptian Red
Sea" by Ned Middleton. I've met him a few times and he tells wonderful
tales about his diving.

Nice and close photos.

When I went whale watching at Kaikoura NZ last year and found a sperm
whale longer than the cat we were, on I just wanted to be in the water
with him to appreciate the grace of these huge animals.

 

Sounds like it.

I've got a nice photo here I took of a J Class submarine (they ditched
a few of them after WWII) I was diving on off the heads of Port
Phillip Bay out of Melbourne. I was in the torpedo tube. To get into
it I had to take my tank off my back and push it ahead of me as the
tube was that tight, then back out. You've probably gathered by now I
don't suffer from claustrophobia . . .

 

Really? I hadn't noticed.

 

Same, I think.. forgotten most of it now, but still have the card
somewhere.

 

I didn't think I did, and I'm pretty sure in most situations I don't.

But on the dive, as soon as I went under the water, I couldn't breath.
I was breathing, but was having to make a conscious effort to, and no
matter how much I did breath, didn't feel like I was getting any air.
Probably newbie nerves, but frankly, I'll stick with mountains and
leave the seas to others.

 

Fair enough. Possibly not a good regulator though? Each to their own.
Mountains have never really interested me although I have done a fair
amount of bushwalking and hauled some film camera gear up a couple of
mountains when they pay me to do it.

 

It was a reference to the film Abyss

 

Wasn't it though

I sat on the beach and listened to a mate for 30 mins then jumped in. But
it was only shoulders deep.

ICBW (very) but it appears to me that scuba down to 40feet or so is rather
straightforward.

 

Sorta. You can still over-run your bottom time at that depth but are
unlikely to because you will either a/ be a novice and use up your air
before you get near deco time or b/ not be a novice and get back to
the surface.

That said , the greatest pressure changes take place close to the
surface - double air pressure (and therfore volume in the first 10m
from the surface). If you do run out of air, don't forget to breathe
out on the way up or your lungs will get very messy . . .

But yeah, generally 40ft is a comfortable one where as long as you
know the basics, you are generally fine.

 

That's actually more common than you might think. Some people get over
it, others find something else that's more fun.

 

Kinda my point. You can learn to dive relatively safely in 40ft of shallow
water in a day. Assuming one is not a complete fuckwit and has full control
of the faculties. A Darwin Zone perhaps, as I've seen someone nearly drown
themselves in a 2m swimming pool learning to use a 'lung.

 

And I thought it was a reference to a TV progeam.


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*ding*. I'm not claustraphobic, nor "heightaphobic, but you'd not get me
under water with a tank strapped to my back.

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Starting with being bitten by rattlesnakes?


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