Question of the Week #3
#1
Posted 18 March 2011 - 09:21 PM
#2
Posted 18 March 2011 - 09:33 PM
My husband (at the time) told me that he wanted to learn to scuba dive, so for Christmas 2004, I gave him a gift certificate for his OW certification. 11 months go by, and he still has not gotten certified. Christmas is coming around again, and I told him since he didn't use my last gift, I wanted a gift wish list. He complained that he couldn't get certified because he would not have anyone to dive with. This conversation goes on for several weeks. I finally throw my hands up, and say "OK, get me a gift certificate for OW certification for Christmas this year, but if I don't like it, don't get mad at me!"
Turns out I excelled at the lessons, and was really good in the water and had good air consumption (which improved by A LOT when I quit smoking!). The ex, on the other hand, struggled a bit in the pool, in the checkout dives, in our subsequent vacation dives, and his air consumption sucked to the point that I was surfacing with 2/3 of a tank.
By the time the divorce was final, I was a Rescue Diver, and he is still OW.
#3 Guest_PlatypusMan_*
Posted 19 March 2011 - 02:20 AM
Whether you're a casual diver, a dive fanatic, or a dive professional, what initially drove you to start diving?
!982, and the mid-twenty-year-old PlatypusBoy found himself posted by work to Orlando, Fl with a dive shop just up the road from him.
Scuba was on his bucket list, so......
PPM
#4
Posted 19 March 2011 - 05:29 AM
Might have only been a 4 foot pool but i was hooked, but the dream of getting certified would have to wait fout years.
Four years later i was in college, and had taken the previous semester off due to having surgery and was still recovering. Was looking for a few easy credits for my first semester back, and was needing a PE credit and nothing on the list was getting my interest, still i saw scuba. The rest they say is history and now I have recreational and technical certs, and im not done yet.
Diving was my escape from the stress of life as once below the surface i was free and only thing i heard was the sea life and my bubbles. I want to get back to that but time will tell as it will depend on how my back heals and my strength comes back.
Edited by Scubatooth, 19 March 2011 - 05:30 AM.
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#5
Posted 19 March 2011 - 05:48 AM
Edited by Greg@ihpil, 19 March 2011 - 03:10 PM.
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#6
Posted 19 March 2011 - 06:28 AM
...and Mike Nelson
...and Flipper
...and Voyage to the bottom of the sea
Each wreck has a tale to tell about its life and its demise.
If you are observant while diving in dark places listen to the account each has to tell, You cannot come away unaffected.
Changes in Latitude, Changes in Attitude
#7
Posted 19 March 2011 - 07:20 AM
I learned because my boyfriend took his ex-girlfriend on a two week dive trip because I wasn't certified. It was pretty painful at the time but what an amazing gift. I learned to dive, I love diving and I've met all kinds of wonderful interesting people.
Come on and wade way out into the water with me, jump in and take my hand. --Gaelic Storm, Scalliwag
#8
Posted 19 March 2011 - 07:44 AM
But here I am now contemplating being an instructor so it all worked out.
#9
Posted 19 March 2011 - 07:45 AM
#10
Posted 19 March 2011 - 07:46 AM
#11
Posted 19 March 2011 - 08:54 AM
I had been a snorkeler for years ever since we were stationed in the Phillipines when I was a kid. For my birthday in 2009 I decided to go SNUBA diving and absolutely LOVED it. Afterwards, the instructor/guide asked if I had ever considered scuba because I would be great at it. When I got home from vacation, I signed up for OW.
When I told my family I had decided to take up scuba diving, my Mother's reaction was "WELL IT'S ABOUT TIME!! I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THAT ANNOUCEMENT SINCE YOU WERE 2!!".
#12
Posted 19 March 2011 - 09:36 AM
My first ocean experience was an unexpected trip in college that put me off an island of Thailand for a day and even without any prescription in the mask the snorkeling was incredible. That stayed with me for another 6 or 7 years as I landed in Houston after college and realized there was a dive shop that I passed on my way to and from work. I never went in because I didn't think I could afford it but I KNEW it was there. My fourth year teaching my dad passed away and I decided I needed something to push me out of a bit of depression that I'd slipped into. I gave myself the biggest birthday/Christmas present I'd ever had and bought gear and lessons... froze in a Texas lake to finish the course and had the best time drifting along the reefs in Cozumel. Needless to say I was hooked, even if two years later I had to take a twelve year hiatus...I'm making up for it these days!
#13
Posted 19 March 2011 - 10:47 AM
Time on earth is precious, time underwater even more so. Dive life one day at a time, dive your @$$ off!!!
Bill
Time on earth is precious, time underwater even more so. Live life one day at a time. Dive your @$$ off!!!
#14
Posted 19 March 2011 - 01:56 PM
Although I loved it, I didn't get back to it until years later and then got certified in Jan. 2005, back in Cozumel (you can see I've always been a warm water wuss!)
Kept up the progress and got my Rescue Diver Cert. in 2008..... and my obsession is all the stronger, the further I go on! I've interested bunches of my friends, so I hope they don't wait as long as I did!!!
It has changed my life.
#15
Posted 19 March 2011 - 05:19 PM
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