Who am I and what diving do I do?

[AidanS]

Name
Aidan Smith

Location
Newcastle Upon Tyne

First Qualified
winter/spring 2007 (BSAC ocean diver)

Club Member
Newcastle University Sub Aqua Club (NUSAC)

Highest Diving Qualification
BSAC sports diver (getting through dive leader)

Instructor Yes/No
no

What other training have you found most rewarding
O2 Admin was good helped with dive leader

What’s your standard Kit
was single dumpy 12s whoever need to buy my own cylinders so in process of buying twins

Where do you usually Dive
North East coast, only ever dived UK (cold water)

Number of Dives
70

Deepest Dive
30m

Longest Dive
75 minutes

Favourite Dive
farne islands so far!

Worst Dive
just dont ask

What dive/trip would you most like to do
indonesia

[Scu-bamboo]

[quote=AidanS;895798]Name
Nat

Location
Dewsbury/Batley

First Qualified
October 2007

Club Member
not really a club - but just a group of mates who all go diving together.

Highest Diving Qualification
PADI Adv OW

Instructor Yes/No
No - But someday!!!!
(Then all the bad divers will have an excuse!)

What other training have you found most rewarding
The conversations in Steves Van on the way home from diving are good for learning!

What’s your standard Kit
Single 12. Hire drysuit thats too small and my shiny regs!

Where do you usually Dive
Capernwray or Sheffield

Number of Dives
15 official OW
and a fair few pool sessions but im not allowed to log them

Deepest Dive
35.8m

Longest Dive
51 (very cold) mins

Favourite Dive
The murky depths on Stoney and unqualified in Turkey

Worst Dive
lets not go there...

What dive/trip would you most like to do
Borneo! Borneo! Borneo!

What ONE other question should i have included?
umm..
'What do you feel like when you're underwater?'
Euphoric!

[AidanS]

[quote=Scu-bamboo;895822]

Originally Posted by AidanS

Name
Nat

Number of Dives
15

Deepest Dive
35.8m

A person who has done 15 dives and a deepest dive of 35.8m, girl you are obviously fearless of rapid assents and decompression illness! xx

[mikecsmith]

Psssh Aidan,

Just because nampby BSAC trainee's have to wait months before getting in the open water, never mind past 20m. :P

DISCLAIMER: The above is a joke, I was trained originally by PADI as an AOW in Thailand but I'm now doing BSAC Sports Diver in the UK and Aidan is helping train me in the delightful art of DSMB deployment amonst other things.

P.S. Pub on Monday Aidan?

[andrallan]

Name
Andrew

Location
Dhahran, KSA

First Qualified
Jan 2000 (PADI OW)

Club Member
BSAC 1600 "Groupers"

Highest Diving Qualification
BSAC FCD
ITDA Trimix

Instructor Yes/No
YES (BSAC AI / IT)
IHMP Medical Director
ITDA Gas Blender

What other training have you found most rewarding
PADI Rescue

What’s your standard Kit
Single (Al 80 or Steel 15) on a travel wing
Twin 12s + stages for techy stuff

Where do you usually Dive
Red Sea, Gulf, Cyprus

Number of Dives
700 ish

Deepest Dive
68m

Longest Dive
A little over 2 hours

Favourite Dive
Zenobia

Worst Dive
The only "dive" I never logged. About 3 minutes in minimal vis in a so called marine reserve near Limassol. Just about every piece of kit I had rented from a well known dive centre in Cyprus failed!!

What dive/trip would you most like to do
South China Sea Wrecks

[John63]

Originally Posted by andrallan

What dive/trip would you most like to do
South China Sea Wrecks

Guess who's got this provisionally booked for 2009

[Scu-bamboo]

[quote=AidanS;895889]

Originally Posted by Scu-bamboo

A person who has done 15 dives and a deepest dive of 35.8m, girl you are obviously fearless of rapid assents and decompression illness! xx

Ohh belive me i was scared!!
like half a meter of vis, in the freezing cold right at the bottom of stoney neer the hydrobox!
was really fun though!!!
i couldn't stop grinning from ear to ear when the dive had finnished!!
and i think Dive Bhudda will tell you that!

xxx

[AidanS]

Originally Posted by mikecsmith

Psssh Aidan,

Just because nampby BSAC trainee's have to wait months before getting in the open water, never mind past 20m. :P

DISCLAIMER: The above is a joke, I was trained originally by PADI as an AOW in Thailand but I'm now doing BSAC Sports Diver in the UK and Aidan is helping train me in the delightful art of DSMB deployment amonst other things.

P.S. Pub on Monday Aidan?

would love to go to the pub with you mate - however i am working on an opencast 8.30 the following morning and being drunk on site could quite easily kill me! will come for a few though! xx

[AidanS]

[quote=Scu-bamboo;896213]

Originally Posted by AidanS

Ohh belive me i was scared!!
like half a meter of vis, in the freezing cold right at the bottom of stoney neer the hydrobox!
was really fun though!!!
i couldn't stop grinning from ear to ear when the dive had finnished!!
and i think Dive Bhudda will tell you that!

xxx

what can i say i am a stoney virgin! xx

[Scu-bamboo]

Stoney is a good laugh, nice depth what ever diving you want to do.