Do any of you SCUBA-dive?

[diverjames 0]

i can't imagine not doing both !
i'm a commercial diver by trade but also love spearfishing !

it's only when we've lost everything that we're free to do anything !

[diverjames 0]

Military? US Army Combat Dive Supervisor
Civilian? Padi Dive Master, Advanced Open Water. Both obtained by virtue of my military ratings.



one of my current divers is a retired army master diver , Hal Letts , do you know him by chance ?

or did you ever Dive Sup. Greg Griffin or John Bogue ? both of which are former Army divers and former teammates of mine.

I know ya'll are a small community so i thought i'd ask.

it's only when we've lost everything that we're free to do anything !

[lawrocket 3]

used to until an horrific ear infection.

I just have trouble handling any depth now.

I sure miss narcosis..

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[skydivingdutch 0]

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Problem is that unlike spearfishing, skydiving requires shitloads of cash. Anyways, I love to spearfish and lobster dive here in san diego. It is the best.

[flyinfishman 0]

NW diving is the best! I was first certified when I was 16, living in British Columbia. I started ice diving soon afterwards- now THAT'S cold! I became a PADI instructor at the ripe old age of 18, joined the Navy and dove some cool spots like Tasmania, Bali, Palau, Guam.

[Ncrowe 0]

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Like NCrowe, I do some spearfishing. Tried scuba but got bored / cold very quickly. Started spearfishing and love it. Like skydiving, it requires committment, focus and a bit of grit to get results.

Problem is that unlike spearfishing, skydiving requires shitloads of cash. Anyways, I love to spearfish and lobster dive here in san diego. It is the best.

Scuba/Spearfish can get pretty damn expensive itself, by the time I got done renting tanks, paying for the charter and buying other misc. stuff I was spending about 130-140 dollars a trip. Now mutiply that by 2-3 times a month and it adds up quick and thats not including the 1,200- 1,500 I spent on gear. Luckily the season was only about 4-5 months long. Had some damn good times though I wish I still had some fish shots to post.

"Don't Mess Around With the Guy in Shades- Oh No!!! "

[Hooknswoop 19]

I used to be a safety diver at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory. 533+ hours of diving 46% NITROX in less than a year.

Derek

[Shawndiver 0]

Yep, originally certified in 1976, Advanced Open Water instructor for both PADI and SSI, taught as a full time instructor for 11 years here in California. Received my SSI Platinum Pro card in 1999, just before I got out of it. Still occasionally dive for fun and abalone though!

Shawn

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[Aviatrr 0]

I've been SCUBA diving since 1994, skydiving since 1996. My SCUBA certs include SSI Master Diver, TDI Advanced Trimix, NSS/CDS & NACD Full Cave. I have about 500 dives - 300 or so are cave, 150 or so are deeper than 200'. Deepest cave dive - 350'FFW. Deepest OW dive - 380'FSW. I do mostly cave and deep wrecks these days.

Mike

[KawiZX900 0]

PADI advanced.... done the Great Barrier Reef in Cairns Austrailia and a couple spots in Japan... Havn't been diving in the states and missed an opportuinity in Guam.

considered using my GI Bill to become an underwater welder then I started listening to the horror stories about people never being quite "right" in the head after too much time in the deep and a torch in their hands... I'd still be curious to know what the training is like... underwater welding. is there anything cooler than the thought of that? thats like ultra high altitude jumping... not that I know of course, but thats what I'd compare it to.

Accelerate hard to get them looking, then slam on the fronts and rollright beside the car, hanging the back wheel at eye level for a few seconds. Guaranteed reaction- Dave Sonsky

[SkymonkeyONE 4]

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Military? US Army Combat Dive Supervisor
Civilian? Padi Dive Master, Advanced Open Water. Both obtained by virtue of my military ratings.

one of my current divers is a retired army master diver , Hal Letts , do you know him by chance ?

or did you ever Dive Sup. Greg Griffin or John Bogue ? both of which are former Army divers and former teammates of mine.

I know ya'll are a small community so i thought i'd ask.

You are talking about "00B" Hardhat diving. That, engineer diving, is entirely different than "infiltration" diving. Hardhat divers from both the army and navy go to the same school to learn their trade and wear the same insignia. The infiltration diving community is entirely separate. We are trained in it as an additional skill and awarded an "ASI" after graduation from the courses. All of our Special Forces training is conducted at our facility in Key West, FL. We run three courses there: the Combat Dive Qualification Course (CDQC), the SF Combat Dive Supervisor Course (CDSC), and the SF Combat Dive Medical Technician Course (CDMT). For CDQC, we get students from all branches (with a specops mission) minus the navy (with exceptions). We train Dive Sups from all branches (even SEALS who can't get a class date at Coronado or Little Creek), and we train all the DMT's in the military. The navy trains their SEALS at BUD/S in Coronado and the Marines train their recon/force recon guys at the Marine Corps Combative Dive Course in Panama City. We do not do any decompression dives in our field as there is no reason. I have as many closed-circuit dives on a Draeger Lar V as I do on OC twin 80's.

[KawiZX900 0]

Holy shit. You're the fuckin man! thats about as hardcore as I've ever heard anyone say it. God Damn. (drops and gives SkyMonkeyOne 20)

Accelerate hard to get them looking, then slam on the fronts and rollright beside the car, hanging the back wheel at eye level for a few seconds. Guaranteed reaction- Dave Sonsky

[camerone 0]

Holy cow, I thought skydiving was expensive if you wanted nice stuff... but then I bought a rebreather, new drysuit, and all the assorted goodies to go with it. I'm out easily more than twice as much as I was for all my skydiving gear...

On the other hand, I'm totally in love with the cold, unforgiving Pacific NW waters...octopi and wolf eels everywhere, and those Canadians sink some really cool ships up in BC for us to play on. I'm looking forward to the Boeing 737 they're sinking next spring!

Winter's the best time of year out here for diving - viz is great in the Sound. It's also the worst time for jumping, with rain and low ceilings. The two mesh perfectly and keep my weekends tied up year round...

[Raefordite 0]

Yep - scuba PADI Advanced Open Water, Camera, Search & Recovery for about 7 years several times per month when located outside of Chicago, IL and Tampa Bay, FL.
Then relocated to central North Carolina and got land locked. Good thing! I only then discovered my man and the sky. Both guy & skydiving go well together or individually, but haven't scuba in about 10 years now . Maybe some day.

[diverjames 0]

gotcha. All of our guys are hardhats. Superlite 17a to me, but i think that's Mark 25 to you ?
The DMT course we did was a handful, so i can only imagine what the CDMT must be like.
The only training we do with the "schoolhouse" is the RNT course.
Good stuff !

it's only when we've lost everything that we're free to do anything !

[Lee03 0]

Yes, I SCUBA dive. Am a Dive Master, but am losing interest in SCUBA, Skydiving is far, far better. The day is approaching when I will no longer SCUBA dive, skydiving has all but replaced it.

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To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

--Nevil Shute, Slide Rule

[Ian84 0]

Sure do. Its all thats stopping me from going crazy out here(lack of dropzone might do that to ya). I got PADI Rescue Diver and I work in the biggest and bestest dive shop on Grand Cayman.

[McDuck 0]

I'm still a certified SCUBA diver, and I go when I get the opportunity, but I'm fully engrossed with skydiving at this point. If I take vacations where they happen to have exceptional SCUBA diving, I take some time to get wet. I just never take vacations where there isn't a dropzone within a 20 minute drive.

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[Aviatrr 0]

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Holy cow, I thought skydiving was expensive if you wanted nice stuff... but then I bought a rebreather, new drysuit, and all the assorted goodies to go with it.

What kind of rebreather? I, myself, like the YBOD..

Mike

[camerone 0]

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What kind of rebreather? I, myself, like the YBOD..

The nearly ubiquitous Drager Dolphin SCR...my first foray into long bottom times. Around 90 minutes under water is pushing how long I can stay warm, so the three to four hour scrubber limitation doesn't really bother me.

I'd like to get another 100 or so dives on it (basically, finish the year), and then it's a toss up for me to either take it through a CCR conversion or sell it and move up to an Inspiration (aka Yellow Box of Death).

I definitely covet the new YBODs on display every time I walk into my LDS...

[Classair 0]

Went through CDC (Commercial Diving Corpration) in Houston Texas. I did bell saturation and mixed gas under water welding on oil rigs North Sea. A 12x12 I beam broke my ribs away from my sternum and pinned me on the bottom for 23 min. I gave it up after that!

Ronnie

[Chute 0]

Love them both.

Bottomless Beers and Blue Skies!

* Brother_Brian *
D.S.W.F.S.B. #2

[NoShitThereIWas 0]

Certified to SCUBA at 17 years old, certified to skydive at 22. Born to do both and love em both. Now I live in Missouri so I'm not sure how much SCUBA I'll be doing unless of course I plan some trips down south to Florida and the Carribean ...

Roy Bacon: "Elvises, light your fires."

Sting: "Be yourself no matter what they say."

[Aviatrr 0]

Well...there ARE a couple of caves in Missouri..

Mike

[NoShitThereIWas 0]

I guess that might be interesting . I'm always up for a new adventure ... but I doubt anything will ever add up to living in Hawaii and having the abundant coral reefs of the Pacific Ocean to frolic in what was practically my backyard (sigh) ...

Has anyone done any diving in Missouri or anywhere else in the Midwest? I've seen signs for SCUBA diving around here but I thought SCUBA diving and the Midwest were antonyms

Roy Bacon: "Elvises, light your fires."

Sting: "Be yourself no matter what they say."