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[Canuck in Texas]

I need 2 more dives prior to the Egypt trip in order to reach the 50 dive min.

I am planning to dive the weekend of April 10 and 11. I am open to either Clear Springs Scuba Park in Terrell or Blue Lagoon in Huntsville. Depending on who want to join us?

It would even be nice if an instructor would help me get Meagan (Tiny Texas Cowgirl) certified at the same time. We would get her classroom work done before we arrive there, so all we have to do is get wet.

Let’s make it a weekend of BBQ and diving.

Maurice

[WreckWench]

Sweetie if we lived closer we'd get Meagan certified! There are LOTS of great instructors in the Texas area...and many are members of our site! Good luck!

[Jo Canuck]

pick me, pick me!

Hope you find someone and Meagan can get certified too.

Johanne

[TinyTexasCowgirl]

LMAO this is Texas, it doesn't get cold... Of course, as I right this it is about 32 degrees outside, but that it's cold, right Jo? But any way, just thought I would throw out there, that April in Tx can be VERY irregular, and so far, everything about our weather has been weird this year, HELLO, snow in march? ARE YOU FREAKIN KIDDING ME???

Love you Maurice!

[shadragon]

LMAO this is Texas, it doesn't get cold... Of course, as I right this it is about 32 degrees outside, but that it's cold, right Jo? But any way, just thought I would throw out there, that April in Tx can be VERY irregular, and so far, everything about our weather has been weird this year, HELLO, snow in march? ARE YOU FREAKIN KIDDING ME???

When you need to push ice chunks out of the way it is cold. Anything less than that is diving temp. Of course, I have dove with ice chunks too so I may not be the right person to ask.

[shadragon]

When I did the Red Sea the first dive of the trip was with a local Divemaster who took the new arrivals through a quick orientation dive after a series of standards drills like mask clearing, reg recovery, etc. I was told later they use this session to gauge diver confidence / skill level and used it to decide whether to take people on the more challenging dives.

I had 35 dives when I started in Marsa Alam and was taken on a series of advanced dives by the DM's when they found out I was trained in Canadian waters. On that same trip there was a Rescue diver with a claimed 200 dives that you would not want to take in a kiddie pool.

[uwfan]

When you need to push ice chunks out of the way it is cold. Anything less than that is diving temp. Of course, I have dove with ice chunks too so I may not be the right person to ask.

I haven't dove with ice chunks but I'd regularly put my feet in glacier water as a kid... the "creek" separated us from most of where I wanted to go in civilization via the public bus stop a couple miles away, the most important of those places being the mall and any swimming pools with water deep enough and warm enough to swim in . Guess I'm a poor judge of what's cold too... of course I never SWAM in the glacier water...

[secretsea18]

As a kid, we would open up the beachhouse on Salisbury Beach in MA, we would walk up to Seabrook, NH on the beach. The water was so cold (but no ice chunks), that you would get shooting pains up your legs with even just dipping a toe. Never stopped us from swimming in the waves. Mom would make us sit on the towel periodically, until our lips stopped being blue!. That was cold. brrrrrrrrr

[finGrabber]

the information on the Clear Springs website says the surface temp is 57

this quarry usually has at least 3 thermoclines, it's 60' deep and is spring fed...so I'd expect the bottom to be in the 40's

[Cold_H2O]

I have several instructor buddies... Let me know if you are heading to Blue Lagoon I will see if I can get you in touch with someone from Houston.

[peterbj7]

Shadragon makes a good point. 50 dives in warm easy water don't give you the experience that a single dive does in cold bleak water like Canada or Britain.

[Landlocked Dive Nut]

Simon did not say where that Rescue diver got his 200 logged dives.

Diving in warm, clear waters gives you DIFFERENT experience than diving in cold, bleak waters, not worse or better experience than cold water diving.

Let's not denigrate the quality of diver that can (and does) emerge from diving solely in clear, warm waters! We've got some fabulous warm water divers right here at SD!

[finGrabber]

I was at my LDS last night doing a rescue refresher class...got some intell on Clear Springs...it's currently 47 on the platforms which I think are 15 to 20 feet below the surface. I'd expect the deepest part of this quarry to be in the 30's