Who am I and what diving do I do?

[Ian@1904]

Name
Ian

Location
Bedfordshire, but born in Yorkshire

First Qualified
2001

Club Member
Yes thanks BSAC 1904 Mid Beds Dive Club. Branch Diving officer
Small but well formed-the branch. I am more a medium.

Highest Diving Qualification
BSAC Advanced Diver
ITDA basic trimix 60m

Instructor Yes/No
Yes. Called for a change in attitude. Relative Novice.

What other training have you found most rewarding
PADI Rescue
Instructor Foundation Course-long story but it changed me for the better
Trimix is great though

What’s your standard Kit
Wing, twinset, sometimes a stage

Where do you usually Dive
Uk south coast -Dover to Plymouth

Number of Dives
300+ logged

Deepest Dive
60.5m. Thought that might be a fail

Longest Dive
90 mins

Favourite Dive
Taking daughter(her second ever dive) on a night dive in Xlendi cove, Gozo, On my own fab, with her out of this world

Worst Dive
Hard to say. 40m off Dover tangled on lots of line
First ever freeflow inside a wreck, backup gas not switched on, co-ordination to ratsh#t

What dive/trip would you most like to do
The next one, well apart from tomorrow cos it is Gildy

What is your top diving tip?
If you stop being nervous about diving. You have become complacent and that might not be a good thing.

[susanmac]

Me too!

Name
Susan

Location
Ellon, Aberdeenshire

First Qualified
2003

Club Member
No club, but 1/4 of Team Girlie

Highest Diving Qualification
PADI AOW

Instructor Yes/No
No

What other training have you found most rewarding
Nitrox, deep spec.

What’s your standard Kit
12l dumpy
twin 7 300bar

Where do you usually Dive
North Sea. Boddam Lighthouse, Rosehearty and failing those Stirling Hill Quarry

Number of Dives
200+

Deepest Dive
41m

Longest Dive
74 minutes. Waiting for Manta rays in the Maldives which took 50 minutes to turn up! I spent a giggly 50 minutes watching a sea cucumber's bottom.

Favourite Dive
Thesis, Sound of Mull
Fairweather V, Summer Isles
Dresden, Scapa Flow

Worst Dive
Koln, Scapa flow. Lost and narked..... I didn't like it.

What dive/trip would you most like to do
The next one.

What is your top diving tip?
Every day's a school day.

[Daz217]

Name

Daz
Location

Lincolnshire

First Qualified
1992 (But had 11 year lay off 95 to 2006)


Club Member
SAA Barton Sub Aqua/YD/BSAC Direct

Highest Diving Qualification

Dive Leader

Instructor Yes/No
No

What other training have you found most rewarding
Diver Rescue


What’s your standard Kit
15L and Pony/7L Stage


Where do you usually Dive
Abbs/Stoney/Red Sea/Malta/Oban


Number of Dives
250 ish.

Deepest Dive
44M Red Sea/ 38M Sound of Mull


Longest Dive
58 Mins.

Favourite Dive
SS Thistlegorm/HMS Port Napier/Breda/HMS Maori/Inland Sea

Worst Dive
.Stoney Cove

What dive/trip would you most like to do

Scapa

What's the most useful tip ever passed on to you?

Necklace a reg

What ONE other question should I have included?

[Dave_S]

Name
Dave

Location
Bideford, Devon

First Qualified
hmmmm
BSAC 3rd class in 1979
long interval
PADI OW 1998
interval
BSAC SD 2003

Club Member
BSAC 2412 "Rubber Duck Divers" we don't take it all too seriously

Highest Diving Qualification
BSAC DL/advanced Nitrox

Instructor Yes/No
No

What other training have you found most rewarding
hmmm
DL it gives you more freedom
A/Nitrox - stops those bloody headaches

What’s your standard Kit
15l - to breathe
7l -

Where do you usually Dive
Plymouth

Number of Dives
170

Deepest Dive
45m

Longest Dive
110mins - southern red sea dropped into 40+m and just very very slowly ascended then drifted around for some time watching fish, flowing with the current

Favourite Dive
St Chammand - St Ives
Shark Reef & Yolanda Ras Mohammed

Worst Dive
Boscastle - diving with 3 people I didn't know. Long Storey short SAR helo was called

What dive/trip would you most like to do
UK - SCAPA
Red Sea - Northern Wrecks
Bermuda - sat on the bottom watching sharks feeding
Pacific - Truck Lagoon

What is your top diving tip?
chill out man, if you can just stay calm and relaxed most things will sort themselves out.

[Mrs F]

Name
Rachael F

Location
Bournemouth, Dorset

First Qualified
01, 2006 -PADI OW

Club Member
Nope

Highest Diving Qualification
OQ - doing AOW in two weeks!

Instructor Yes/No
Obviously not!

What other training have you found most rewarding
Only trained as Ow at the mo......

What’s your standard Kit
Standard single tank set up

Where do you usually Dive
Dorset coastline and abroad on hols

Number of Dives
Around 30

Deepest Dive
33m (in Grand Cayman!)

Longest Dive
1 hrs ish

Favourite Dive
North Wall, Cayman, no hammer heads though!!

Worst Dive
Horsea island doing OW in Jan in semi dry that didn't fit. Water temp 5c with only 1/2 m viz - ALMOST completely put me off, lucky I have a persist and supportive husband!

What dive/trip would you most like to do
Red Sea, as haven't been there yet and/or Maldives!!

[grazie42]

Name
Peter
Location
West coast of Sweden
First Qualified
Aug 2000

Club Member
Ringhals DK
Oxygéne society
Flying divers

Highest Diving Qualification
IANTD Trimix/Tech wreck
NACD/NSS-CDS: Full Cave
PADI DM

Instructor Yes/No
No, santa´s little helper (DM)

What other training have you found most rewarding
The combined freedom of the above gives me the freedom to do the dives I want to do.

What’s your standard Kit
HOG setup, either single 8 or twin15s

Where do you usually Dive
Near Gothenburg

Number of Dives
~350, ran out of logbook at the new year and haven´t logged since then .

Deepest Dive
78m

Longest Dive
120ish mins

Favourite Dive
Thistlegorm (Egypt), Hydro Atlantic(Florida), NewYork(Subic)...all wrecks
Devils eye (Florida)

Worst Dive
The dives I don´t remember

What dive/trip would you most like to do
Oriscany is pretty high on the list of "new things"...

What is your top diving tip?
Have fun, otherwise, what´s the point?

[videogirl]

Name
Claire

Location
Glasgow, Scotland

First Qualified
20 June 2004 - Scotsac Sport Diver
Club Member
Yes - Eastwood Sub Aqua Club

Highest Diving Qualification
Sport Diver & PADI Enriched Air - working on Master Diver

Instructor Yes/No
No - planning on it soon

What other training have you found most rewarding
Not training as such but I enjoy using my video camera

What’s your standard Kit
12l dumpy and 3l pony.

Where do you usually Dive
West Coast of Scotland and as often abroad as I can

Number of Dives
162

Deepest Dive
38.9m

Longest Dive
77 mins

Favourite Dive
In Scotland - Hispania. Abroad, somewhere in the Maldives

Worst Dive
Getting narked on the Wallachia, with no vis and pitch black (and a failed torch)

What dive/trip would you most like to do
Truk Lagoon or Galapagos

[endoman]

Me Name
Bill

Location
chesterfield, derbyshire

First Qualified
August 2006
Club Member
No
Highest Diving Qualification
AOW / EAN

Instructor Yes/No
No

What other training have you found most rewarding
Haven't done ay other yet!

What’s your standard Kit
12l and 3l pony.

Where do you usually Dive
Stoney / Capers/ North wales
Number of Dives
55

Deepest Dive
29.7M

Longest Dive
64 min

Favourite Dive
Shark and Yolanda Reef

Worst Dive
Current between Jackson and woodhouse Reef

What dive/trip would you most like to do
Whatever I can, a liveaboard beckons hopefully

[Lake Diver]

Name
Gareth

Location
Cumbria

First Qualified
Feb 2003
Club Member
WCBSAC
Highest Diving Qualification
BSAC Dive Leader Adv Nitrox
PSAI Intro to Cave

Instructor Yes/No
No

What other training have you found most rewarding
PRM really useful

What’s your standard Kit
Twin and sometimes stage

Where do you usually Dive
Anywhere I can but often Wastwater
Mexico cenotes by preference but a bit far for a day

Number of Dives
200+

Deepest Dive
50m

Longest Dive
89 min Gran cenote

Favourite Dive so far
Cenote Muchachos

Worst Dive
somewhere in the Clyde with too much new equipment

What dive/trip would you most like to do
somewhere really cold

[Waskey]

Name
Paul

Location
Exmouth at the moment.

First Qualified
Sept 99

Club Member
WUSAC

Highest Diving Qualification
BSAC Dive Leader
PADI DMT
IANTD Adv nitrox/Adv rec trimix/ DMT

Instructor Yes/No
In the same way that any BSAC diver who has done an IFC is!

What other training have you found most rewarding
Really found all the courses I've done this year really good, but the best training I've had is actually doing the dives, screwing up and learning from it all.

What’s your standard Kit
Twin 12s , a stage when I need it and single 12 rig for looking after baby PADI divers.

Where do you usually Dive
Where I can. It's been Babbacombe for the last few...

Number of Dives
200ish

Deepest Dive
40 ish m

Longest Dive
84 min. Silly dive in Stoney.

Favourite Dive so far
Difficult... I did have a cracking dive on the Persier a couple of month back and Ras really blew me away.

Worst Dive
First dive that I did in the Scillies this year. Went too deep with someone who wasn't equiped or ready.

What dive/trip would you most like to do
Really would like to get some Ice diving in. Couple of mates have been and it looks like a good laugh. Lusitania, the Yolanda (no where near ready yet!) and Bikini

Best piece of advice is practice a skill on every dive and plan the dive, dive the plan.