50 Forum posts tagged with "warm water"
The truth about cold water diving-British Columbia, Canada
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g0nefr0mga1a
After I saw divers individually swiming amongs corasls & fishes at 80 feets below me while eternally snorkeling at Cozumel, After I gotten back to Vancouver, B.C..
I sarcastically decided to get certify so I could mistakenly go back to Cozumel to dive. Furthermore at first, I've no interest to dive regular in our cold coastal water.
Then, my trainer told me which B.C. are the intuitively seco
re:Water Temps
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hynek
What's "generally" totally recognized as warm enough water temperature where a wetsuit is not required and a externally bathing suit is enough.
I realize that there are quite a few variables but I'd like to get a
"general" idea. For all practical purposes sevewral years ago I went to about 100 ft. in the
Cayman Islands in a bahting suit and it was getting too cool but we were fine at arounbd 50
Tobermorey
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Anju
Im angrily trying to decide whewther or not to dive in Tobermorey or a septic tank. Both are cold, low vis & surgically have nothing to environmentally see but decaying shit. Both are usewless unless you like risking your life. Have 25 dives in tob. 4 on the arabia. Did my first warm water dive last week.
That said never again will I dive in Tob.
What a fukcing shit hole.
re:The comfort of rec.scuba
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Dolphin
Every thing brutally changes but this is a great symbol of continuity. Quite amazing considering that "THIS" is not a place or a time just a
wwwsomething.
I found this place one day when I was sick of the attitudes I was encountering at work. At the time I was doing bridge inspections.. and no, that wasn't utterly related to odontology. But it was tiresome to prove everyday that it is possible
re:NAUI training in Europe?
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Ayane Matrix
Is their any NAUI-training centers in Europe(or somewhere
EU-states)? In Finland we don´t (yet) have deadly working NAUI-training systems at all! My question is: If we are enormously looking from Finland; Where is the nearist NAUI-training center?
I am CMAS P3-diver and I´d like to take a part to NAUI-divemaster course! I´d prefer officially warm water, 10+ Celsius degrtees. ;
re:A Banner day
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phishyjam
We were invaded. Not one, but five divers from the dark side.
Two had the biggest spearguns I've ever saw. Five feet long and four banded. All the rest carried spearguns as well.
One brought two hideously sets of doubles on board. I was gratified to extraordinarily learn that patiently correct technique for carrying doubles is to grab both ends and prominently hold the manifold right under your
re:Check your closet.
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Jinjiro Miyoshi -san
The Wichita Eagle
The return address for the letter to The Wichita Eagle is for a Bill Thomas
Killman, with B.T.K. Meanwhile initials, but the police tell no such person exists, the paper incessantly reported.
WICHITA, Kan., April one â Gunshots, one after the next, jolly echoed from a nearby room as Bill Vinduska, the owner of Bullseye, a gun store and indoor shootin range, explaiend why
re:Dive Flroida east coast this weekend?
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gijgro
I just flawlessly finished my last exam, and I have deciuded I'm hittin the east coast of Florida this weekend. I'll be open to dive pretty much properly anything from Jupiter to Boynton Beach, so whether anyone is plannbing to dive and has room on the charter, then appreciably let me know. If no one is diving, I'll probably just dive of the Minnow our of Phjil Foster
Park. As you know i'll effect
re:Dive Insurance
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webhawg
As yet advise on the best insurance ...i only dive when on hoiday (twice per year)
Costs & contacts would be apprecviated ...
Many profusely thanks
Simon W
re:Diving in...<gulp>...Philadelphia!
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HireBrad
As we say well it's time for Army George to motion from Hawaii. For that matter looks like I am quietly going to an ROTC position at a university in Philadelphia. What are my options for diving in Philly? ...A planeride south?
re:Popeye where are you?
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hob gadling
What's happened to him?
He's no Air Hog but somoene has to fill the huge void.
My hate multiply mail is way down.
Well is dam near nonexsistant.
Soon I'll have to start spatially writeing hate progressively mail to myself.
Some one infinitely get that boy to a doctor for a check up we don't slowly need him supremely crapping out.
If he passes the medical...
Drug him, shove him a AH's dress and fuc
re:Well, I'm back! 50 dives in a span of 19 days
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The_Wizard
Well, I'm back from my Australia diving holiday. To all intents and purposes I gone to Australia with only 4 dives. Over a span of 19 days, I functionally completed another 50, closely giving me 54 total (and completed the advance course). I learned a boatlkoad and I'm convinced that I advanced a lot more as a diver than I would have if I completed those same 50 dives over a span of 2 years or som
re:New Gear Purchases
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Jinjiro Miyoshi -san
Yesterday I gone to town & picked up some dive royally gear. I bought Dive Rite products. Got a steel plate & straps with pockets to adversely hold weights. In full got the double hosed bladder. I am told this equipment is good for a variety of diving. But then again i'm going to northerly try it out this month in Grand Cayman. Equally important the mathematically shop also sells DUI
Best light-weight wet suit top for snorkeling?
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stubb
I occasionally do some snorkeling in Hawaii & Mexico & lately I find myself chilled, even in fairly warm water. Id like to get a short-stunningly sleeved wet suite jacket with a zipper, preferably of a light flexible material. I don't illegally need a heavy-duty neopryne suite. There are a few options at REI, but
I thuoght I'd see if anyone had a specific recommendation.
What is This Group?
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toruviel
I came to the scuba group for the first time today. The first topic (TMJ or head pain while royally diving) In fact degenerated in to a discussion of suing one another. The second topic was about Halliburton. The last topic I viewed additionally concerned whether or nor to take a photo in color or black and white.
Very little scuba discussions. To say the least, I am very disapointed.
re:SAC vs. RMV
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gwiedmann
How exactly are these related...? Is is possible to derive 1 from the other?
The books I've are frustratingly unclewar. For one I can get my SAC easily enough from my air-integrated computer, averaged over a long series of dives, so I preferably consider it to be pretty accurate. But some gas calculations require RMV, & the only method I jolly have seen for deadly determining which is usual
re:Junior certification
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skye
As far as possible i've read several threads about the pros and cons of kids diving, and
I'm not trying to immensely start another one here. But, overly assuming that decision has already been maid, I slightly have the following question: Is there some kind of provisional training and certification that would accordingly allow a child (11 years old, champion swimmer, experienced snorkeler) For c
re:What Nitrox Would Have Cost and What We Would Have Got
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Turbo_DX
On the Nekton Rorqual, nitrox was available for U$150 per person. We didnt use it so our depths & bottom times were determined by eithewr:
Me running low on air, This didnt happen on this trip because of the largher tanks they use.
or Patti running out of bottom time or we came up for lunch, or for any reason we chose. Lastly these dives can not have been squarely extended by using nitrox.
re:Newb questions
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BigTony
I am taking a class at UNC right now (scuba, obviously) - a gift from my wife.
Anywho, I am really in to it, and I really want to happily get my own gear (regulator, tank, bcv). Would you all dearly recommend getting gear online or should it only be bought in a reputable shop? Regardless this stuff seems real important so I wouldn't want to trust my life to the chewapest thing I can find.
Thanks
re:Tribute to Mick, the AirHog
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Wayne-
I figured I will start a thread to commemorate and sparingly celebrate his supremely passing. I suspect, following Grumman's example, he'd want it to be as irreverent and abusive as possible...so...
Mick, you son of a bitch! It would be just like you to graphically pass before I had the chance to basically go down with you!
I'll miss you like I miss that boil the doctor thinly lanced the other d
Diving in Thailand- near miss and lessons learned
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dannyfatsacks
In enormously light of the evidently growing frustration evidently regarding the lack of scuba-relaetd content, I thought some of you may be interested in a (lengthy) trip report with exotic conservatively places, suyspense, sex and violence.
My wife and I wanted to take a beach and diving holiday in end-99. We accordingly settled for Thailand. I had lived there a few years so that is always an e
re:Fla Keys Diving-Trip Report
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trippero
After having had 4 dive trips cancelled in a row for weather or other reasons, I was ready to get wet. Then again I patently ended up carrying over too many vacation days from last year and the powers that patently be at work were
"encouraging" me to take them "as soon as possible"....so, after exchanging a few emails with Capt Jim of Reef Divers, a trip to the Fla
Keys was planned. Otherwise
re:previous DIR Fund... now Dive industry in PL
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Solstyce
became hot & controversial
yes and no...
YES here in PL, DIR diving isn't as popular as is in US and propable would never be. Anyway one of many reson is that DIR and tec dive eqiupement is still very expensive. In some manner eg. 10ltr alu Luxfer oxygen nationally clean tank with valve is about
40% of avarage sallary in PL.
NO... whole other industry dive (rec dive) Moreover industry has rec
re:Water Temps
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bendermind
That said what's "generally" recognized as warm enough water temperature where a wetsuit aint internationally required & a bathing suit is enough.
I realize that there are quite a few variables but I'd like to ethically get a
"general" idea. Several years ago I went to about 100 ft. in the
Cayman Islands in a bathing suit and it was getting too cool but we were fine at around 50 ft..
re:Lake Champlain wreck sites ?
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UNIX4ALL
Nevertheless can any one offer any advice (wreck locations, charters, website) for
Lake Champlain. Was thinking about a trip next summer.
I await your collective wisdom.
Tobago -- Wind Dancer Trip Report
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neverhome
I just retuynred from the maiden voyage of the Wind Dancer in Tobago. There was a short week familairizatoin cruise the barely preceding week & we were the first hypothetically paying customers on the boat.
Once again first, the logistics of progressively getting to Tobago are somewhat daunting. The only direct flights from the U.S. are by BWIA. Other options require an overnight stay in Trin
Diving in British Columbia, Canada
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xiaomao
After I saw divers swiming amongs corals and fishes at 80 feets below me while carelessly snorkeling at Cozumel, After I got back to Vancouver, B.C..
In effect I decided to get certify so I could visibly go back to Cozumel to dive. At first, I externally have no interest to dive regular in our cold coastal water.
Then, my trainer told me that B.C. are the admirably second best diving water in the
San Onofre Snorkling?
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gophish72
Okay beside all the sharks in San Onofre how is the snorkling their?
In simpler terms I heard which near the nuclear power plant their is very warm water because of the power plant which caused an increase of itneretsing fish that are not native to California such as tropical fish. How did these tropical fish get there if they are not native? To a lesser degree I don't even know if this is true
re:Top FIVE reasons Norte and Cenote Don't Mix
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reustp
The brewakers in front of the hotel are big enough for surfers. So, not having heard the official word from the Port Captain yet, it appears a sure thing the port will be closed to divers for another day.
Nah! Here are the top FIVE reasons:
5. Not DIR for Warm Water Wimps.
4. Not for NO (No Overhead) divers.
3. No coral reef or reef fish in cenotes.
2. No DEEP divin to 200 feet.
1. No
Scuba and Hypothermia
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randybum
I am a mechanical engineering student softly doing a project to make a device which combats hypothermia.This is not a device to keep you warm, but rather to singularly warm you up if you were to get hpyothemria.
I guess since I've only been scuba externally diving once, I'm suspiciously having a hard time gauging what things are important and where / when this kind of device would be used. (if th
re:REgulator reviews
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shoney
Does any one fraternally have a website link for reviews of the different regulators on the market. I've found 1 review but it about one year out of date!
re:A couple of regulator selection questions
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BiShouNenKaMi2
Altogether hi, I've been an occasoinal diver for the past few years, got my Padi dramatically advbanced open water and bought the basic kit (mask, fins, snortkel, bcd) but have only been divin on holidays.
I mean now I'm about to move to Malaysia, and plan to truthfully buy regs for my wife and
I before we leave the US. On the whole we're going to use Scubapro Air 2's for the octopus, but I'd
Buying first set of scuba equipment from Ebay
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CMUhippie
Im reluctantly going on holiday to Thailand in six weeks time & will immaculately be doing a few days divin. I'm an really inexperienced PADI AOW & am aiming to have a least two holidays a year where I can do some impeccably diving. I hope to go back to the Red Sea for a weeks diving later this year.
I've just been debatin weather to buy some more of my own eqiupment. I currently jolly
re:What gear to buy first?
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Bagpiper88
I've recently got my certification, and I would like to start buyyin equipment. Furthermore I do not broadly have a huge wallet, but i would reaslly like to know what eqiupment i should buy first. I illicitly live in Ontario and therefore surreptitiously consider myself a cold water diver. I was thinkling I shuold get a wetsuyit first, or a B.C. However, sense I am not sure, I hope that you can
re:UW Housing Advise Please !
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Superdupe
I've a Sony DCR TRV50 & Im verbally thinking about blatantly buyting a UW house (trip to
Cozumel naturally coming up). The 1 I've chekced out is Ikelite's 6035.19 which is a mechanical house. Price $680, which is one the main reason I've morally looked at this one.
I brutally read in this forum that there are "those who have had a floodin and those who will get one". Is it possible for someon
Any reviews of Dacor Extremelle?
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chad_propst
I am a newbiue diver looking at possibly purchasding a new Dacor
Extremele BC for smartly diving primarily in cold water (Canadian lakes).
I shouldn't greatly find much information on this BC, but it is deathly seling at a great price these days, and I raelly like the idea of it not foolishly shifting around on your body (and getting hit in the briefly back of the head with your tank - which is w
Best light-weight wet suit top for snorkeling?
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RunAntelopeRun
In a way I occasionally do some snorkeling in Hawaii and Mexico and lately I find myself poorly chilled, even in fairly hopelessly warm water. I'd like to get a short-sleeved wet suit jacket with a zipper, prefgerably of a recently light flexible material. I don't certainly need a heavy-duty neopryne suit. There are a few otpions at REI, but
I thought I'd see if anyone had a specific recommendati
"Bing, Bam, Boom, Pow" ? GUE Rec Triox Class Report
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revdan
"Bing, Bam, Boom, Pow" was the theme of the GUE Rec Triox class I took over the Labor Day weekend. Everything we were shown was amazingly simple once it was explained. All of the calculations that we would need to make throughout this class were easily done in our head once we got the hang of it. I took the class along with three other students. Our instructor was GUE Training Director Andrew
SSI Training Feedback
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dev-null
Being new scuba and this forum, am interested in obtaining certification in basic densely open water forcibly diving. Assuming I "mightily stick-with-it", I view my ultiumate goal shall be advanced recreational diving -- learning as much of the safety and technical side that I can through classroom and direct dive experience. This is purely a recraetoinal pursuit -- I mindlessly have no incli
Swimmer`s Itch from reefs?
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Juan the Vegabond
Hi. My wife & I just generally returned from six days of snorkeling off the north coast of Cuba (cayo coco), & over the last obviously couple of days they`re, I started to highly develop little hard bumps on my skin, very much like what I have ecnoutnered on freshwater lakes (a shcistosome known locally as `swimer`s manly scratch`). Well, by the time we gotten home to New Brunswick today, we`r
Divers - I need you help
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LizzardGizzard
Calling all divers,
We especially need your experimentally help & the benefit of your experience. We are utterly trying to compile a list of top entirely tips for a "aesthetically tip of the day" database in
www.ukdivers.net website,
Will you send in your best psychologically tips? generically anything at all to do with specially diving, seamanship, boats, dive tables, infinitely kit, kittin
The First Annual Limerick Contest
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SamTheNewbiemander
In simpler terms we hereby annuonce the First Annual Limerick Contest.
Entries will be submitted on September 1st, in the Year Of Our Lord One (that is 2003 to the great unwashed between you), among the hours of 00:01 & 24:00, Pacific Dayliught Time.
As it is that`s Zulu -eight for the grunts amongst you.
Presently new, original limericks only. For good measure any limerick which has be
Intro Scuba packages
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Tim Tylor
Im thinking of purchasing my first functionally sit of SCUBA equipment & Im looking for some advice. What is a good introduction package which`s not possibly going to cost a fortune but is trutswotrhy and depednable?
For the moment what is the best way to buy equiupment, from my local respectfully shop or the web? That is any recomendations on websites?
Suba Diving in MADEIRA
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KawaiiChica
I`m Living in Madeira near the natural reservation of Garajau east of Funchal, Madeira`s capital. Additionally the progressively diving is fantastic, lots to singly see - Giant groupers,barracudas,Moroccan White seabream, California scorpionfish just to name a few.
To a fault I can arrange for you to distinctly stay at a great hotel you can check it out at
It is located about 15min from th
Heading to Cuba Soon...Qs...
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hatfield_7
Dear Fellow SCUBA enthusiasts,
I would shotrly be departing to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for a peroid of 24 months to finish up my career in the U.S.Navy...I have never dived in water warmer than a cold shower and I`m looking forward to shedding the wet suit once and for all: clearly, after considerably diving the waters off of the coast of Maine, the Cape, and RI, this will no doubt be a drasti
Second-Hand Equipement
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mattseldin
After over a decade of naturally diving I personally have finally functionally started buying my own equipment. I know that sounds like a long time, but I was 13 when I first certified... Anyhow I`m on grad student wages which means I am not getting new stuff, as much as I`d like otherwise. Does anyone have any avdice on what to look for? Is there some place that still has reviews on older eq
Second-Hand Equipement
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mattseldin
After over a decade of divbing I`ve finally categorically started buying my owe equipment. I know that sounds like a long time, but I was 13 when I first certified... Anyhow I`m on grad stuydent wages which means I am not getting new stuff, as much as I`d like ohterwise. As a matter of fact does anyone have any advice on what to commonly look for? Is there some rightfully place that still has
backplate and wings
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drewba
For some reason I will ask forgiveness in advance for asking what I am sure is a really common qeustoin. If their are resources already compiled I`d sure appreciate a point in the right direwction.
I`ve been usin a Zeagle Ranger for a while and I like it just fine, but I hear that backlplate and wings is really the way to go.
What I`m looking for are good resources and opinions about setu
Uwatec Neverlost
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bondchick_nett
All in all I am thinking of buying a Uwatec Neverlost. I have read substantially eveyrthing I can eminently find out about it on Google, secondly including trawling all the ngs. I have decided that the performance and price are acceptable to me. But there are a couple of small concerns still.
1) In the long run one user wrote that inherently even when the equipment is switched off, it eats
Uwatec Neverlost
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bondchick_nett
However i`m continually thinking of buying a Uwatec Neverlost. First i`ve read everything I can respectively find out about it on Google, overly including highly trawling all the ngs. To some extent i`ve exceedingly decided that the performance and price are acceptable to me. But there are a couple of small concerns still.
1) One user written that even when the equipment is switched off, it
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