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09-02-2012, 08:22 PM
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Senior Member
City: patterson
Vessel Model: CHB 45 Pilot House
Join Date: Mar 2012
Posts: 196
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While you are in Honduras Bay Islands, check out Guanaja, Island. What one has to dive 100-125 feet in Cayman, is at only 50 ft MAX
CCC
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09-02-2012, 08:32 PM
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Guru
City: Fort Myers, FL... Summers in the Great Lakes
Vessel Name: Slow Hand
Vessel Model: Cherubini Independence 45
Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 12,834
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Would have replied sooner but was running dive charters the last 2 days.
Started diving in '73.
Became an instructor in '80, instructor trainer in '92, still actively teach.
Do it all: warm, cold, shallow, deep (300'+), rebreathers, wrecks, caves, etc.
150 to 200 dives a year, 7,000+ total.
Haven't had a job outside the dive industry since '78.
But then you all probably figured I was a diver by my screen name.
Ted
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09-02-2012, 11:18 PM
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Guru
City: Upstate,SC
Vessel Name: Shipoopi
Vessel Model: derilic sailboat
Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 2,884
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Quote:
Originally Posted by O C Diver
Would have replied sooner but was running dive charters the last 2 days.
Started diving in '73.
Became an instructor in '80, instructor trainer in '92, still actively teach.
Do it all: warm, cold, shallow, deep (300'+), rebreathers, wrecks, caves, etc.
150 to 200 dives a year, 7,000+ total.
Haven't had a job outside the dive industry since '78.
But then you all probably figured I was a diver by my screen name.
Ted
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I completely missed that.I though you were OCD with an iver problem.
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09-03-2012, 10:34 AM
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Senior Member
City: Punta Gorda
Join Date: Aug 2012
Posts: 156
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We're PADI advanced certified since 1990. We've been all over the Caribbean but our favorite place is Bonaire. We've been there 14 times.
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09-03-2012, 11:01 AM
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TF Site Team
City: Jacksonville
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 11,682
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Quote:
Originally Posted by amapola
...our favorite place is Bonaire...
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Bonaire is pretty amazing. We stopped for 3 weeks on our way to Trinidad. The diving was great right off the back of the boat.
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09-03-2012, 03:01 PM
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El Capitan
City: North Myrtle Beach, SC
Vessel Name: Avalon
Vessel Model: Chung Hwa 46 LRC
Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 907
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Larry M
Bonaire is pretty amazing. We stopped for 3 weeks on our way to Trinidad. The diving was great right off the back of the boat.
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Do you have your own compressor and tanks on board? KJ
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09-03-2012, 03:10 PM
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Senior Member
City: Boerne, Tx
Vessel Name: HEY JUDE
Vessel Model: Kadey Krogen 36 Manatee #46
Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 258
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Someone above mentioned having a 50' hose connected to onboard tank. I know tech divers get their extended hose somewhere, can knowledgeable persons reply with a source(s)?
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09-03-2012, 03:41 PM
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Guru
City: Rodney Bay Lagoon
Vessel Name: "Dragon Lady"
Vessel Model: DeFever 41
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 681
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Quote:
Originally Posted by HeyJude
Someone above mentioned having a 50' hose connected to onboard tank. I know tech divers get their extended hose somewhere, can knowledgeable persons reply with a source(s)?
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My hoses are yellow, in 20ft lengths, and snap together. Inboard connection is to either oil-less compressor or scuba tank with regulator. The link below is where I got mine.
Brownies Third Lung Accessories Kayak Diving Hose Kits
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09-03-2012, 04:38 PM
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Scraping Paint
City: Full-time onboard
Vessel Model: Trawler
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 929
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I'm a certified diver. We carry multiple tanks onboard along with a compressor that can be rigged up for air delivery for diving on the boat itself. I dove for TowBoat US on the Penobscot Bay for 3 summers cutting lobster pot lines off tangled boats - that was quite a hoot and paid for all the dive equipment I could ever use in a lifetime.
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09-03-2012, 06:54 PM
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Member
City: St Louis Mo
Join Date: Sep 2012
Posts: 14
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This is my first post.
I have been scuba diving for years, 3 years ago i took the next step and got my instructor. I have only taught a few classes mostly friends and fire department guys. A coworker and my self took the instructor test so we could bring all the guys on dive team up to the same level with out costing the fire district a lot of money for everyone to go out for the training.
The down side is most of my scuba diving is either training or working very little is playing anymore. If you dive for fun don't get your instructor it will only turn into work.
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09-04-2012, 11:17 AM
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Guru
City: Whittier AK
Vessel Name: Apache II
Vessel Model: 1974 Donald Jones
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 3,147
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I never tried it I have friends who dive on vacation.
I guess you have to have a dry suit to dive in Alaska.
I don't even swim anymore.
I drowned once. Don't want to do that again. So I won't take the chance.
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09-04-2012, 12:50 PM
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Senior Member
City: Olympia, WA
Vessel Name: Sea Eagle
Vessel Model: Nordhavn 47
Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 201
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Quote:
Originally Posted by skipperdude
I guess you have to have a dry suit to dive in Alaska.
sd
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You definitely need a dry suit in Alaska. I did an underwater inspection job for the USCG in Kodiak and even in a dry suit, your fingers get numb after about an hour underwater. Can you say BRRRRR?!
However, the cold water is full of nutrients, so the amount of marine life underwater is spectacular.
(this photo was taken off the North End of Vancouver Island in Browning Pass)
We always have dive gear on the boat and spend a lot of our free time diving cold water wrecks and warm water caves.
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09-04-2012, 04:27 PM
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Senior Member
City: Monterey, CA
Vessel Name: Mahalo
Vessel Model: Defever 44
Join Date: Jun 2011
Posts: 406
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I brought the gear down to the boat but I haven't dove off her yet. I was all set up to go a month ago or so to check the anchor and fool around but I ripped the zipper out of the wetsuit so it didn't happen.
Going to Truk Lagoon January 13th. Can't wait!
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