Who am I and what diving do I do?

[Buoyant Babe]

Originally Posted by scubajay

What ONE other question should I have included?
Do you fancy some bum love?

[wilbo]

.. anyone else?

[Snash]

Originally Posted by wilbo

.. anyone else?

oh go on then

Name
Snash = Simon Nash

Location

Just outside Leamington Spam

First Qualified
1980 - BSAC Third Class

Club Member
Currently trying to dodge the membership sec of Leamington & Warwick BSAC; but mainly dive with group of friends ex Edinburgh Uni.

Highest Diving Qualification
BSAC Advanced

Instructor Yes/No
No, thank you.

What other training have you found most rewarding
NACD - Full Cave

What’s your standard Kit
Single 12 & pony

Where do you usually Dive
West coast of Scotland

Number of Dives
Coming up to 2000

Deepest Dive
72m - not big and not clever, but it was damned good fun.

Longest Dive
75mins - cant be ar5ed with long deco.

Favourite Dive
Apart from getting engaged underwater in the Maldives, it would have to be Smoo Blowholes near Cape Wrath.

Worst Dive
Out of many - losing the cliff and being narked to bu55ery (not in a good way on) Calve Island back in 1985. Buddy was in same boat and I am still amazed either of us made it.

What dive/trip would you most like to do
Rockall

What ONE other question should I have included?
Red or white?

What is your top diving tip?
Its not a competition - do what you want and don't be pressured by others

[Fiona]

Name
Kinda obvious

Location
Cheshre

First Qualified
Feb 1994

Club Member
The Winchester Club, BSAC

Highest Diving Qualification
BSAC Advanced

Instructor Yes/No
BSAC OWI

What other training have you found most rewarding
GUE Fundamentals

What’s your standard Kit
This year twin 12's

Where do you usually Dive
Last year South Coast - this year Vobster

Number of Dives
680

Deepest Dive
60m but we don't do those anymore

Longest Dive
80 mins

Favourite Dive
Manta Station - Maldives
Osprey Reef GBR, just watching sharks.

Worst Dive
Been a couple, but Day 2 fundies

What dive/trip would you most like to do
Hopefully Galapagos

[Roobydoo]

Name
Steve

Location
Grand Cayman

First Qualified
2000 I think

Club Member
Nope

Highest Diving Qualification
CCR Trimix

Instructor Yes/No
Yes - PADI /IANTD/HSA/SSI

What other training have you found most rewarding
Working with disabled divers - very humbling, and makes you realise not to take anything for granted

What’s your standard Kit
Standard single tank set up when working, Inspiration when not

Where do you usually Dive
Cayman Islands

Number of Dives
Lost count, but over 1200

Deepest Dive
90m

Longest Dive
3 hrs

Favourite Dive
North Wall, Cayman, face to face with a Hammerhead

Worst Dive
First time I dived the KPW in Scapa. Narked out my box - I couldn't find a 26,000 ton battleship..... My buddy had to slap me out of it

What dive/trip would you most like to do
Micronesia in detail, South Africa


What ONE other question should I have included?

[JasonP]

Name
Jason

Location
Kingston

First Qualified
1991 PADI OW, Airlie Beach, Qld

Club Member
No

Highest Diving Qualification
TDI advanced trimix/IANTD cave

Instructor Yes/No
God no

What other training have you found most rewarding
IANTD cave

What’s your standard Kit
Twins 12s or twin 7s plus 1-2 7l ali stages

Where do you usually Dive
UK and all over

Number of Dives
900+

Deepest Dive
70m

Longest Dive
About 90 mins

Favourite Dive
The ballroom of the President Coolidge or Sac Actun in Mexico

Worst Dive
Datchett, 5m of water, 1m of mud

What dive/trip would you most like to do
Truk

[ChristianG]

Originally Posted by wilbo

.. anyone else?

Oh, all right.

Name
Christian

Location
Terrigal, a tad north of Sydney, NSW, Oz

First Qualified
1957 or 1958, can't remember. Qualification? Don't be stupid.

Club Member
Terrigal Underwater Group

Highest Diving Qualification
Mind your own business.

Instructor Yes/No
Never, never ever.

What other training have you found most rewarding
Huh?

What’s your standard Kit
If you must: wing, twins steels, long hose, hog configured.

Where do you usually Dive
South West Pacific - WHAT a back yard!!!

Number of Dives
Absolutely no idea - who cares?

Deepest Dive
74.something metres, when 75 was considered OxTox territory. Probably a lot worse (?) than that more years ago than I care to remember.

Longest Dive
No idea.

Favourite Dive
Dive area? Chuuk Lagoon
Wreck? S'Jacob, Papua New Guinea
Dive? Any dive in the Maldives when we were the first divers there.Yup, you read that right.

Worst Dive
Chuuk. A night dive on the Hoyo Maru, the "upside down" wreck (174 odd metres in length) where stupid managed to get lost amidships and eventually extricated himself immediately next to the screws.Not an event that I usually publicise. Buddy? Hah!

What dive/trip would you most like to do.
Chuuk, again.

What ONE other question should I have included?
No idea, many of these questions are embarrassing enough already thank you very much.

Cheers,

Christian
CG

[DannyB]

Name
Danny

Location
Epsom

First Qualified
1997

Club Member
No

Highest Diving Qualification
TDI CCR Normoxic trimix

Instructor Yes/No
Nope

What other training have you found most rewarding
TDI CCR Normoxic, first course felt I earnt rather than bought

What’s your standard Kit
Classic Inspiration

Where do you usually Dive
UK and all over

Number of Dives
150-200 i think

Deepest Dive
60m

Longest Dive
90 mins

Favourite Dive
Zenobia

Worst Dive
Quail, crap viz in the dark on about dive 15

What dive/trip would you most like to do
Bikini

[Sixsquid]

I guess it must be my turn

Name: Just call me Bridgette

Location Berkshire but moving

First Qualified 12 October 2003

Club Member Bracknell Sub-Aqua Club (BSAC BSAC Hee hee hee)

Highest Diving Qualification ITDA Advanced Ntech Diver with acc deco

Instructor No but got IFC

What other training have you found most rewarding Cavern course with Martyn Farr

What’s your standard Kit Just moving from twin 10s to Twin 12s, Ali40 deco cylinder and liked side mounted main gas. Reckon it's a rebreather next year though

Where do you usually Dive Anywhere I can, subject to weather and money, and you'll usually find me at Wraysbury on a Wednesday evening

Number of Dives 179 (27/7/07)

Deepest Dive 50.2m (for all of about 4 minutes)

Longest Dive 76 minutes

Favourite Dives to date Angelita (cenote), St Dunstan, Basil & Chrisoula K

Worst Dive Worst diving experience will have been that horrible shore dive with all the failures but the most boring dive would have to be the sea bed out of Brighton

What dive/trip would you most like to do More cenotes, some sea caves and a lava tube. And an ice dive sometime, somewhere..... Oh, and an aircraft carrier in 20 metres with a shit load of gas

What's the most useful tip ever passed on to you? Don't even bother trying to work out why he did/said that.

What ONE other question should I have included?
What dives and with whom has made you laugh your arse off, narked or otherwise?

Swanage Pier with Scribley and Bond last June - just very, very funny
Vobster with SteveChesh & Mike Phillipson - Sychronised dSMB deployment
Almost every dive with Vonny in Egypt - her underwater impressions are as funny as the topside ones
Last Weds with the Dude and Digger - farce can be highly amusing

[Ahoy]

Name
Simon

Location
Dwell in Liverpool. Hail from the 'true North' though!

First Qualified
1990

Club Member
Yep, LUSAC

Highest Diving Qualification
Dive Leader (pending award for 2.5 years due to laziness)

Instructor Yes/No
As above, done IFC though!

What other training have you found most rewarding
Nitrox always handy

What’s your standard Kit
Nothing out of the ordinary. Wing, 12+3 or (rarely) 2x12s

Where do you usually Dive
Egypt once a year, a few, infrequent UK outings...

Number of Dives
Not sure around the 200 mark i'd imagine

Deepest Dive
50m!

Longest Dive
Dunno

Favourite Dive
Either Wheeler Reef, GBR or a corker on Woodhouse Reef, Tiran a few years back. First ever dive was Beadnell, that was top!

Worst Dive
Bull Bay, Anglesey - 1cm viz...

What dive/trip would you most like to do
Galapagos