any serious divers here?

I havent read SeaJays story yest, but I took my class with MHK, who is definitely old school. Valves shut off, masks "lost" line wrapped around your fins and manifold... it got ugly quick! Back kick I got really quick for some odd reason (pushed a little hard, when it should be all about finesse) but boy did I fumble on the damn helicopter turns.. that was so ugly untill I realized its half of a frog ( I can do that) and then half of a back kick ( I can do that) one I thought forward, back, forward, back, then it all made sense. We had to do the basic 5 and all that in about 25' on a decline with our chest 1 hand width off the bottom and try to keep our knees from hitting at the same time.
 
No freakin' way... MHK... He was my first Fundies instructor. Him and Andrew G of 5th Dimension.

I can't say enough about Mike - and for that matter, Andrew too. Read the story. :)

Wow... Boy talk about a flash from the past! :) Please tell MHK I survived cancer, too... And I'd love to talk to him about it when he gets the chance.

Is he teaching again?
 
I get 20 - 30 dives a year. Right now I'm doing my rescue course.

My favorite place is the kelp beds off of Catalina Island. I dont have a drysuit but I'll dive in my wetsuit down into the upper 40's.

The oil rigs off of Long Beach are cool as well, especially when the sea lions come out to play. I do some fresh water diving, Lake Mead (kinda sucks) and Lake Sand Hollow in Utah, water is warmer there and lots of largemouth bass that will swim really close to you.
 
I used to do a bit of FW diving up north, but I've only done one FW dive since moving to florida.
a couple of alligators told me it wasn't a good idea.
 
ya, I've been meaning to get up that way for a while now, but with a reef just a half mile offshore, it's been tough to justify the drive. especially to a non diving wifey.

there's a 14 foot gator that hangs out a few miles up the road from me.
we get them in the swimming pools when the males go lookin' some lovin' and even the golf course divers need a spotter.
they eat about a dozen dogs a year just in the county I'm in.
 
SeaJay wins of course, I am no where a commercial diver but have my own boat and have been diving since 1970. My first dive was in Australia but over 200 of them have been in new York waters where the visability goes from zero to about 3'. Night time is better. I hit almost all the islands in the Caribbean, Hawaii and Tahiti but that is sissy diving.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14504599#post14504599 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Paul B
SeaJay wins of course, I am no where a commercial diver but have my own boat and have been diving since 1970. My first dive was in Australia but over 200 of them have been in new York waters where the visability goes from zero to about 3'. Night time is better. I hit almost all the islands in the Caribbean, Hawaii and Tahiti but that is sissy diving.
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Yup Seajay wins.......no doubt about it!

extreme does not describe his life experiences!

You da man!~

I wish I could rub off some of your experiences!
Richard TBS:rollface: :rollface: :rollface:
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14504690#post14504690 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by liverock
I wish I could rub off some of your experiences!
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WoW, that's certainly not an "offer" ya get everyday! :smokin: j/k

-Tim
 
Yeah - I'm feeling kinda guilty at this point for putting all of that stuff up there on that post. I mean, I wanted to share some of the cool stuff I've been blessed to be able to do, but my overall point was that I still feel like a newbie. I didn't mean to "win" anything.

I was kinda hoping that if people with less dive experience than me saw that I still considered myself a newbie, it'd keep everyone humble. Instead, it made me "win."

There's at least two people here who were certified around the time I was born - and it's not like I'm a youngster! There's probably more here that just haven't mentioned when they got certified... That's humbling! :)

I'm envious of Techdiver's rebreather experience (I haven't seen the need yet, but eventually would like to get into them only to simplify a heavy-logistics dive and reduce the number of tanks required). I'll get into them at some point here soon.

There's also at least two other divers here who dive professionally - I'm sure they put the hours in like I do, so I don't think that I'm doing anything extraordinary.

...So I'm flattered that I "win," but that sure does place a lot of credit on my shoulders that I'm not sure I want... Or deserve.
 
Yes, but at least YOU have someone here willing to "rub you off"... :D

BTW: I thought you and Kym were in Florida swimmin with Manatees this weekend. What are you doing playing around online..?
 
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Weather issues. Not leaving until today around 2pm or so today. We're staying until Monday night instead of Sunday night. Hopefully, this will improve things.
 
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