Who am I and what diving do I do?

[MattS]

Name
Matt

Location
Emsworth

First Qualified
1995

Club Member
Southsea Sub Aqua Club BSAC 9

Highest Diving Qualification
BSAC Advanced Diver
ITDA Advanced Trimix

Instructor Yes/No
BSAC OWI

What other training have you found most rewarding

What’s your standard Kit
Evolution

Where do you usually Dive
South coast

Number of Dives
1000+

Deepest Dive
75m

Longest Dive
2 1/2 hours

Favourite Dive
Too difficult
USS Arkansas is the one I would most like to do again.

Worst Dive
There have been a few interesting moments.

What dive/trip would you most like to do
Jutland

What ONE other question should I have included?
What TWO other questions should I have included?

[daz]

Name
Daz

Location
Bristol

First Qualified
Sometime in 1997 - PADI OW

Club Member
Nope, I'm a free spirit

Highest Diving Qualification
NACD Cave
IANTD/TDI Adv EANx/Deco

Instructor Yes/No
Padi AI and then decided it was a mugs game

What other training have you found most rewarding
PADI Rescue

What’s your standard Kit
Hogarthian config, twins or single

Where do you usually Dive
Just about anywhere

Number of Dives
750 ish

Deepest Dive
68m

Longest Dive
120 mins

Favourite Dive
Special one at Babbacombe for the cuttlefish
The Rosecastle off Newfoundland
Any in Indonesia.
Room of Tears in Carwash, Mexico

Worst Dive
Um... Probably Red Sea, many years ago when my buddy decided to bolt from 45m

What dive/trip would you most like to do.
Galapagos probably

What ONE other question should I have included?
Why does Digger manage to pull, when he has a face like a bulldog licking piss off a thistle?

[Scuttler]

Name
Ian

Location
Weymouth

First Qualified
May 1999

Club Member
The Diving club - Reading (from when I used to live in the area)
Weymouth & Portland BSAC (0853)
YD
SWM

Highest Diving Qualification
PADI DM/BSAC DL, TDI AN&DP - in progress!

Instructor Yes/No
No

What other training have you found most rewarding
Mark Powell's AN&DP Course....it's also been the most demanding

What’s your standard Kit
Twin 12 heisers & standard HOG setup

Where do you usually Dive
Mostly in Weymouth.....plus any overseas when I can

Number of Dives
Stopped logging when I was DMing I think I have about 160-170 logged and possibly as many as 80 unlogged.

Deepest Dive
46m

Longest Dive
70 mins

Favourite Dive
Zenobia - Truly awesome

Worst Dive
I've learned from the mistakes I've made and erased all other details from my memory

What dive/trip would you most like to do
There are too many to list but!! Scapa, Britannic, Galapagos, Truk, Gaansbai

What ONE other question should I have included?
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[Keith Whittaker]

[Name
Keith

Location
Fremantle, West Australia

First Qualified
Oct 2003 - PADI OW

Club Member
Underwater explorers club of WA, ex - Plymouth Sound BSAC & Aquanauts Dive club

Highest Diving Qualification
PADI DM

Instructor Yes/No
IE scheduled for September

What other training have you found most rewarding
PADI Rescue

What’s your standard Kit
BP & Wing, 12L single

Where do you usually Dive
Swan River, Rottnest Island, Anywhere really

Number of Dives
218 ish, but logbook stolen from car recently.

Deepest Dive
32m

Longest Dive
98 mins

Favourite Dive
Ningaloo Reef, Nurses quarters at Rottnest, Le Poulmic off Plymouth Breakwater.

Worst Dive
Havn't had one yet!, just being u/w makes it a good dive.

What dive/trip would you most like to do.
Bikini, Antartica, Great Whites without a cage.

What ONE other question should I have included?
Would you like all of this money?

[jimbob]

Name
Jim

Location
Eastbourne, East Sussex

First Qualified
PADI Open water 08/2003

Club Member
Meridian Divers Coagulation

Highest Diving Qualification
PADI Rescue Diver

Instructor Yes/No
No, (but I am regional coach for the Sussex Grandmother's Egg Sucking squad)

What other training have you found most rewarding
Learning something from everyone I've ever dived with. (I've kept a list in case I have to sue)

What’s your standard Kit
Single 12 or twin 12s

Where do you usually Dive
Newhaven, Eastbourne, Brighton and Mallorca

Number of Dives
130(ish)

Deepest Dive
34M

Longest Dive
63 minutes

Favourite Dive
Newhaven harbour arm, swooshed about by the swell in the middle of a shoal of fry.

Worst Dive
Lancer II (Hot, bothered and stressed in a current, discovered the fascinating relationship between overbreathing regs and panic. Managed to break the cycle but I've never dived since without it at the back of my mind)

What dive/trip would you most like to do
Anything, sign me up.

What ONE other question should I have included?
Are you happy at your current certification? Stick or Twist?

[Kirstie]

Name
Kirstie

Location
Plymouth, Devon

First Qualified
PADI Open Water Oct 2002 (but didn't dive for 18 months after that)

Club Member
Aquanauts Dive Club

Highest Diving Qualification
Master Scuba Diver - currently on DM internship

Instructor Yes/No
No

What other training have you found most rewarding
Going diving is the best training you can get

What’s your standard Kit
Single 12, backplate and wing, maybe progressing to twin 12s this year

Where do you usually Dive
Plymouth and Cornwall

Number of Dives
140ish

Deepest Dive
42m

Longest Dive
70-odd mins

Favourite Dive
Being accompanied by a seal at Drawna Rock, seeing a Pygmy Seahorse in Sulawesi

Worst Dive
Marazul, Tenerife. So rough when we (me, Turbie, Ratty, Scubasue, Kate and Scuba1) surfaced that I never thought we'd make it back to the shore

What dive/trip would you most like to do
Quite like to do the Zenobia again, but without the pressure of doing four courses on it.


What ONE other question should I have included?
Do you retch if you get seawater in your mouth?
Yes.

[Captain Deco]

Name
Jason

Location
Great Totham, Essex

First Qualified
PADI Open water 06/2004

Club Member
Dover Underwater Explorers. no-one else will have me

Highest Diving Qualification
TDI adv.EANx and Deco procs.

Instructor Yes/No
No

What other training have you found most rewarding
GUE fundamentals with Rich W. One of the best courses I have ever done.

What’s your standard Kit
Twin 12s in Hogarthinan style.

Where do you usually Dive
Eastbourne, Brighton, Swanage, Dover, Stoney and Gildy. And anywhere I can.

Number of Dives
262

Deepest Dive
51.8m (Only qualified to 45m)

Longest Dive
83 minutes under Brighton Pier in 8.2m

Favourite Dive
The SS Cuvier in Dover. Gorgeous viz, Gorgeous wreck, my first decent spidge (a bowl), great Dive boat (Neptune) and great company.

Worst Dive
This one

What dive/trip would you most like to do
Truk Lagoon. The Lusitiania. The Britannic.

What ONE other question should I have included?
Do you come here often?

[jackadam]

B]Name[/b]
Sean

Location
Nr Darlington, Durham

First Qualified
PADI Open water 07/1997

Club Member
Darlington Dolphins BSAC

Highest Diving Qualification
IANTD Trimix

Instructor Yes/No
Assistant Club Instructor since 2002

What other training have you found most rewarding
Instructor Development course was extremely useful - not just for diving.

What’s your standard Kit
Twin 12s

Where do you usually Dive
Seems to be off the Tyne at the moment

Number of Dives
Well over 300 - But stopped logging since I got the Vr3 in 2004.

Deepest Dive
54 m

Longest Dive
90 minutes (ish)

Favourite Dive
Coln

Worst Dive
Early training dive for me and with my son - Attempting to buddy breathe in crap viz in Ullswater, still have nightmares.

What dive/trip would you most like to do
Boring but has to be Truk

What ONE other question should I have included?
None - Just right

[Howard Payne]

Name
Ms Roxy Chablis (If Jay gets his finger out)

Location
Wimbledon, London

First Qualified
Feb 04

Club MemberDive Wimbledon

Highest Diving Qualification
GUE Tech 1

Instructor Yes/No
Yes - PADI

What other training have you found most rewarding
Finishing Tech 1 With Richard Lundgren - Terrific Guy & Instructor
Surviving the first bit of Tech 1 with Kerslake - Terrific Guy & Absolute Bastard

What’s your standard Kit
Shares in Halcyon

Where do you usually Dive
Dover, Eastbourne, Brighton, Swanage, Weymouth, Portland, Plymouth

Number of Dives
c.300

Deepest Dive
52m

Longest Dive
100min

Favourite Dive
The SS Cuvier in Dover
M2 In Amazing Viz
The Duke - Just Stunning
The Moldavia
UB130
St Dunstan
Elphinstone Egypt
Neptuno Cuba

Worst Dive
They all have something to offer

What dive/trip would you most like to do
Cave diving in Mexico
Graff Zeppelin - The Baltic

What ONE other question should I have included?
What's modern these days?

[nettlebum]

Name
Ness

Location
London, soon to be Newcastle

First Qualified
September 1998

Club Member
Member of a group of dive buddies that like to dive and laugh lots.

Highest Diving Qualification
PADI OWSI

Instructor Yes/No
Yes.

What other training have you found most rewarding
Getting out there and diving - does that count?

What’s your standard Kit
Anything that's going, usually single 15 and pony.

Where do you usually Dive
Poole, Portland and Wrayspuddle for teaching

Number of Dives
8-900ish

Deepest Dive
65m in the tropics, 50m in UK.

Longest Dive
92 minutes shallow bimble

Favourite Dive
The next one.

Worst Dive
No such thing.

What dive/trip would you most like to do
Cocos, Galapagos, Scilly Isles, Palau, Shetland....

What ONE other question should I have included?
What is your top diving tip?