Thread: Scuba Diving

Anyone here SCUBA dive? I've been off a couple years but plan on taking it up again in the Spring.

I dove many years ago. Great sport if you've got the money. I got to experience Nitrogen Narcosis in a hyperbaric chamber. Awesome!

X

Back in the 90's I went diving every weekend I was off. As time passed life got in the way of fun and all of my dive buddys quit. We dove every mud puddle including the Ohio River in South East Ohio. I still have all of the gear and would love to go again. Everything would need inspected and tested. I hate to spend the money getting all of the gear up to spec for a couple of dives though.

Don

PADI Advanced Open Water diver here. I love diving, and go as often as I can. Went diving whilst on a cruise last October, enjoyed some spectacular reefs down in Cozumel (one of my favorite dive spots... 200 ft. visibility! clearest water in the world).

PADI Open Water diver since 1991. I used to dive regularly, but not so much the past 10 years or so. We are planning to do a trip to Cozumel this fall. Several of us have talked about it, but our lives never really let it line up between military stuff (our friend in the National Guard has been to the Sinai Peninsula, Afghanistan and now Iraq) and another friend doing his residency training.

The older I get the more I like simplicity. I am considering buying new regs, since my Dacor regs breathe horribly. I also want to ditch the dive computer (also Dacor) and go back to analog gauges.

Only diving I have done in the Carrbbean is in the Dominican Republic. Compared to the Northeast US waters I am used to it was diver's heaven to me, but I constantly heard people say that Cozumel was much better. Sheesh, I couldn't see how anyone could complain about the waters in the DR, so Cozumel must be one helluva place.

I too like analog guages. Never used digitals but it would seem they would be hard to read under certain lighting and glare conditions?

I got to go diving off of Cancun 6 years ago and I have always wanted to do it again, but i never found myself in a location that would top the clear waters of Cancun... Yet.

Originally Posted by droche

I too like analog guages. Never used digitals but it would seem they would be hard to read under certain lighting and glare conditions?

Glare hasn't been much of an issue. Lighting isn't much of an issue. You can't leave the LCD display in direct sunlight when you're topside, but underwater it's about the same as analog to me.

I dive,

have dove in: Guam, Yap, Pilau, and Saipan

still have not touched the water stateside though.

and i would likely fight that cozumel isnt the clearest water in the world

In guam the water is a constant 84 degrees year around. simply lovely.

Originally Posted by sensei_kyle

PADI Open Water diver since 1991. I used to dive regularly, but not so much the past 10 years or so. We are planning to do a trip to Cozumel this fall. Several of us have talked about it, but our lives never really let it line up between military stuff (our friend in the National Guard has been to the Sinai Peninsula, Afghanistan and now Iraq) and another friend doing his residency training.

The older I get the more I like simplicity. I am considering buying new regs, since my Dacor regs breathe horribly. I also want to ditch the dive computer (also Dacor) and go back to analog gauges.

Originally Posted by droche

Only diving I have done in the Carrbbean is in the Dominican Republic. Compared to the Northeast US waters I am used to it was diver's heaven to me, but I constantly heard people say that Cozumel was much better. Sheesh, I couldn't see how anyone could complain about the waters in the DR, so Cozumel must be one helluva place.

I too like analog guages. Never used digitals but it would seem they would be hard to read under certain lighting and glare conditions?

I've dove in Cozumel a couple of times, awesome, its an incredible place to dive. If you have the chance do it. I've been there, grand cayman, and the great barrier reef. Was a lot of fun but its been about a decade since I've been the water.