Anybody here SCUBA dive?

[Peripheral Visionary]

If you are planning on using a wet suit sharathpaps, make sure you have enough weight. Don't fight the suit.

That reminds me of a really funny story. We brought a VIP with us on a scuba trip. The place he wanted to see was a deep dive (90 feet), so we planned it early with all the deep water "protocol." He shows up on a hot summer day with this fancy looking 2-inch-thick wetsuit "because it makes me look cool."

"But the water is nearly 80 degrees today! And we're not going to be down there for long. Wear a sweatshirt or something else to be cool-looking. Besides, there's a good 2 and a half knot current where we're going."

He insisted on wearing his super-cool-looking two-inch-thick neoprene wetsuit. He compensated for all that extra buoyancy with about 30 pounds of weight! Yeah, okay, but at 90 feet down, that buoyant 2-inches was little more than 1/4 inch. All that buoyancy was lost, now he's 30 pounds too heavy.

"No problem, I'll simply inflate the ol' BC and be neutrally buoyant again."

Yeah, but in a swift current that inflated BC acted like a pair of water wings, catching the current like a sail and threatening to carry him away in the Gulf Stream. He fought and kicked and was breathing so hard we could hear the tank ring with each breath! Three minutes into it, he's nearly out of air and has to be escorted back to the boat. Yeah, but at least he looked cool.

The rest of us enjoyed another 15 minutes exploring a cool wreck and a leisurely ascent filled with great memories.

[mips]

...although some folk like falsebay.

Great White capital of SA

[Gone fishing]

indeed a friend of mine was diving in the kelp and come out and saw a great white. Makes the bush camps a Unfolozi seem quite tame = certainly too much excitement for me.

[forrestcupp]

I used to know a guy that was an underwater welder. That's not the type of SCUBA diver I would want to be.

But honestly were all geeks here, about the most swimming you will get here is watching Laura Crofts digitally mastered rear end do some cave diving..

[mips]

I used to know a guy that was an underwater welder. That's not the type of SCUBA diver I would want to be.

Depends, some people have a passion for it. I know a local guy that lives here about half a year holidaying and the other half he spends south from your neck of the woods in the Gulf working for oil rig companies, lives in one of the southern states not sure which one. He's a qualified Master Dive Instructor and he makes a killing, I don't even think he dives much if at all, just manages operations stuff. I don't it's a easy job getting to where he is now though and not something I would like to do with all it's associated risks.

[Mopar1973Man]

As for recreational diving it absolutely fun and relaxing. I got my cert. back in California and enjoyed just cruising the coast line and watching animal life happen.

sad though I moved to Idaho and haven't been back out diving in a very long time...

[Paqman]

I used to know a guy that was an underwater welder. That's not the type of SCUBA diver I would want to be.

Good money from what I've heard.

[jtarin]

I don't think diving is allowed in the forums......but I could be mistaken.

[dbombtek]

Diving is a must do if ever there was an experience that you must do it would be to dive.

[Statia]

Hey, scuba friends, did you see that the man himself (Linus Torvalds) cooperates on a scuba log that will also connect to your dive computer?

http://subsurface.hohndel.org/

It works well with my Suunto Cobra 2. It does not have as much functionality as Suunto Dive Manager, nor such fancy graphics, but it is still work in progress. Most important functionality is there.