Kamala is the resident "compressor" on dive trips. She goes down with a half full tank and comes back up with a full one.
Well, almost!
The other Brad was mentioning something about hot air...........
Nope...just 'hot'!!
Posted 26 January 2010 - 02:15 PM
Kamala is the resident "compressor" on dive trips. She goes down with a half full tank and comes back up with a full one.
Well, almost!
The other Brad was mentioning something about hot air...........
Posted 26 January 2010 - 02:15 PM
The other Brad likes to live dangerously.The other Brad was mentioning something about hot air...........
Posted 26 January 2010 - 02:21 PM
As an aside...I took my aow within 3 dives of my ow. Why? Because I was scared shitless to go diving without an instructor and it was the easiest way to continue diving under instruction. (Think grassroots rent-a-buddy here only it didn't exist yet). Did I even pass it the first time? Hell no...but then I didn't quit either and several attempts later I legitimately passed it.
After diving with you, it's hard to believe you ever had trouble with anything diving related. You are like a fish now and could probably do 3 dives on one tank.
Posted 26 January 2010 - 02:42 PM
Posted 26 January 2010 - 04:50 PM
Just my opinion and experience....I did my OW cert with a very "nice" and "colorful" LDS. I watched someone who had no business getting their card without further training than a man in the moon. My training since that 3 Stooges show has been with OTW Wench, Bill. He has taken me from AOW to Trimix and I feel like I got more than just training and certification but invaluable knowledge to go along with it. Not only have I gotten the training dives but fun dives along with him that has helped in my advanced diving just by watching his motions and technique underwater. I have also had a very good dive buddy that I met years ago at OTW's shop. Hopefully I will find the same quality friends and divers in my move to Houston. Recent employment requires me to relocate to Houston and I'm really looking forward to it. Move date is Feb 8th. I really never noticed whether Bill was SSI, SDI, PADI, etc because of the sweat he makes you put into your training, but I really looked forward to the C card coming in the mail.
Posted 26 January 2010 - 06:48 PM
Just my opinion and experience....I did my OW cert with a very "nice" and "colorful" LDS. I watched someone who had no business getting their card without further training than a man in the moon. My training since that 3 Stooges show has been with OTW Wench, Bill. He has taken me from AOW to Trimix and I feel like I got more than just training and certification but invaluable knowledge to go along with it. Not only have I gotten the training dives but fun dives along with him that has helped in my advanced diving just by watching his motions and technique underwater. I have also had a very good dive buddy that I met years ago at OTW's shop. Hopefully I will find the same quality friends and divers in my move to Houston. Recent employment requires me to relocate to Houston and I'm really looking forward to it. Move date is Feb 8th. I really never noticed whether Bill was SSI, SDI, PADI, etc because of the sweat he makes you put into your training, but I really looked forward to the C card coming in the mail.
Saw something similar while doing the Enriched Air Class. 4 of the students came in without doing the beforehand course work or exercises. In the end they got certified same as me. I made a comment after the fact to the instructor that at my place of work if we came in unprepared for the course we'd get sent home. The scary part in my mind was that they had done no dives since certification over a year ago and were going on a vacation in Jan or Feb for a week of diving.
Posted 27 January 2010 - 10:36 AM
Anyone up for diving in the Houston area, please be sure and send up a marker so I can find you.
Posted 27 January 2010 - 10:44 AM
Posted 27 January 2010 - 11:00 AM
the real improvement in my diving came from doing the rent-a-buddy program with SingleDivers.com
Posted 27 January 2010 - 04:41 PM
Posted 28 January 2010 - 07:35 AM
Kamala,
I would like to echo what you just said. I was able to refine my skills dramatically simply by watching other divers while diving. It was even more revealing when we were watching a video while on the trip to Cozumel and I saw myself diving after watching other GOOD divers and saying to myself "I LOOK like a beginner when I'm diving" It really made me aware of the things I was doing that needed to be improved. (I still have a long way to go, but that one week really helped me a lot)
Scott
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