Who am I and what diving do I do?

[Juz]

hmmm, can't seem to add to the OP, so here it is again:

This has been done before, but it's probably worth updating. It'd be great if both the old and the new members completed it.
This is not a 'look how good I am/experienced I am thread, it's about getting to know what motivates you as a diver or has led you to the diving you do now.

A friend often reminds me how 'anti' deep diving I was a few years back and how I called all deep divers 'Macho tossers'. I’ve changed and my diving has changed, although deep divers are still Muppets!


Name
Juz

Location
Bucks

First Qualified
31/12/99 - PADI OW

Club Member
Kinky Divers - SAA Club

Highest Diving Qualification
PSAI CCR Explorer Mixed Gas Diver
(Most people call it MOD3)

Instructor Yes/No
YES SAA

What other training have you found most rewarding
O2 Admin was good

What’s your standard Kit
Inspiration CCR

Where do you usually Dive
Brighton and Dover mainly

Number of Dives
800 ish

Deepest Dive
101m

Longest Dive
140 mins

Favourite Dive
Planning and Execution - Deep dive at Dotty
Just for Fun - New Comet/Herman out of Dover

Worst Dive
First sea dive on twins, separated from buddy, trapped in a wreck, Reg pulled from mouth. Learnt al great deal about my ability to control panic and also learnt to ALWAYS necklace a reg

What dive/trip would you most like to do
HMS Victoria

What's the most useful tip ever passed on to you?
Mine was Get a Buddy SMBCi - the SMB with the little crack bottle - amazing bit of kit!

What ONE other question should I have included?
Don't Know


Juz

[Mark Chase]

Name
Mark Chase

Location
Kent

First Qualified
1989

Club Member
YD Massive & Delta Divers

Highest Diving Qualification
IANTD Full cave CCR TDI Trimix CCR

Instructor Yes/No
Nope

What other training have you found most rewarding
Glider pilot 285 Squad Air Cadets in 1981

What’s your standard Kit
KISS CCR or Twin 7s

Where do you usually Dive
Brighton, Dover, Littlehampton

Number of Dives
Dont know but March 08 I just hit 500 since Aug 2001 when i baught a Sunnto and started logging them.

Deepest Dive
105m The Russian Tug in Egypt

Longest Dive
235mins

Favourite Dive
The Duke
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Worst Dive
Final day of DIRF at Vobster.

What dive/trip would you most like to do
The Jutland Wrecks

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

If you realy need it take two.

What ONE other question should I have included?
WHy do you dive?[/quote]

[JAG]

Originally Posted by Juz

That's a great question! Added to my original post.

Mine was Get a Buddy SMBCi - the SMB with the little crack bottle - amazing bit of kit!

Juz

Mine was why buy kit when your mates shed is unlocked

[broady]

Name
Graham

Location
Faversham, Kent

First Qualified
May 1998 - PADI OW

Club Member
No

Highest Diving Qualification
IANTD Technical Diver & IANTD CCR Mod1

Instructor Yes/No
ex-Rally driving instructor - does that count?

What other training have you found most rewarding
IANTD Technical Diver

What’s your standard Kit
Inspo Vision

Where do you usually Dive
South Coast UK + 3 foreign dive hols a year

Number of Dives
200

Deepest Dive
57m - San Fransisco Maru wreck, Truk Lagoon

Longest Dive
110 mins

Favourite Dive
Fujikawa Maru or indeed any of the Truk Lagoon wrecks!

Worst Dive
ANy dive with a guide - ugghh !

What dive/trip would you most like to do
Truk again with CCR, or Bikini

What ONE other question should I have included?
Does my bum look big in this ?

[onthetrain]

Originally Posted by Sixsquid

Not the ones on 16th Feb this year though

Except when I dive with Sixsquid or Jo

[Hickdive]

Name
Steve

Location
Glasgow

First Qualified
December 1985 – BSAC Novice Diver

Club Member
Yes Divetech BSAC 1067

Highest Diving Qualification
BSAC ERD

Instructor Yes/No
Yes BSAC Advanced Instructor No.1201

What other training have you found most rewarding
BSAC ITDC

What’s your standard Kit
Look here if you must;
Smelly Old Box (Hickdive's) - Conger Alley

Where do you usually Dive
West Coast of Scotland

Number of Dives
884

Deepest Dive
58.8m Helena Faulbaums

Longest Dive
70 mins

Favourite Dive
Wallachia – I’ve dived it so many times it’s like an old friend

Worst Dive
Forth & Clyde Canal at Kirkintilloch – it didn’t have a bottom, it just got thicker ‘til you stopped.

What dive/trip would you most like to do
Norway/Truk/Bikini/Jutland

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

The Bob Stather fin kick. It’s now more commonly called the frog-kick but the first person I ever saw doing it was Bob in the late eighties and I’ve been copying him ever since.

What ONE other question should I have included?

Is a Tunnocks Tea Cake a biscuit OR is it a cake?

[ray]

Name
Ray Walker

Location
Wakefield but now Aldbrough 100meters from the sea and getting nearer

First Qualified 1972

Club Member
BSAC Kirklees 0836 but deciding weather to leave my present club of over 20 years and join Hull BSAC Branch? , Dumped the old club and joined a proper club HULL!.

Highest Diving Qualification
BSAC Advanced diver, CCR, Advanced Nitrox, Gas blender, RYA Navigation Instructor

Instructor Yes/No
No

What other training have you found most rewarding
Diving and still learning, most of training courses done years ago!.

What’s your standard Kit
Inspiration Classic, 7ltr pony.

Where do you usually Dive

30 miles off Hornsea East Coast North Sea

Number of Dives
A lot

Deepest Dive
72 Meters

Longest Dive
Most dives are over 90 mins inc deco.


Favorite Dive
Can't tell you but the people who have signed up for North Sea diving with me off my patch of coast will dive it!.

Worst Dive
Had a few over the years.

What dive/trip would you most like to do
If I want to do it, I do it so no regrets yet.

What ONE other question should I have included?
Had any problems with any aspect of diving.
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[Diving Dude]

Name
Howard 'Diving Dude'

Location
Stanmore, NW London

First Qualified
1993 - PADI OW

Club Member
YD Massive and DUE

Highest Diving Qualification
IANTD MOD 3

Instructor Yes/No
No

What other training have you found most rewarding
Wreck penetration with mark Powell

What’s your standard Kit
Inspiration CCR

Where do you usually Dive
Between Brighton and Dover mainly

Number of Dives
650+ inc 150+ on RB

Deepest Dive
OC 70 mtrs RB 78 mtrs

Longest Dive
190 mins

Favourite Dive
HMS Audacious, Donegal

Worst Dive
Stoney cove, about dive 50, taking my son for his first drysuit dive to 25 mtrs

What dive/trip would you most like to do
UK - Jutland
Blue water - Truk/Bikini

What's the most useful tip ever passed on to you?
Don't dive with Digger

What ONE other question should I have included?
Why is the Dude sooooo cooooool


EDIT

Either KH Mal or one of the foxturd gimps has changed my avatar. Actually l quiet like it

[Steve Jones]

Originally Posted by Juz

Aww, come on Steve, join in the fun.

Juz

Well actually I was making a serious point, surely it would be better to have a "live" database of peoples profiles.

Ahh well better I just keep taking the tablets.

[And]

Name
Andy

Location
East Yorkshire

First Qualified
April 2002

Club Member
Local BSAC Club and YD of course

Highest Diving Qualification
BSAC DL, GUE Tech2, GUE Cave2 (all the same to me)

Instructor Yes/No
Those who can do, those who can't... teach

What other training have you found most rewarding
Its all rewarding but probably the scooter workshop with Andy Kerslake enabled me to get comfortable on scooters quickest.

What’s your standard Kit
DIR config

Where do you usually Dive
no particular place

Number of Dives
500+ (lost dive log a while ago)

Deepest Dive
72 mtrs

Longest Dive
215 mins, Ressel, 1100 mtrs in.

Favourite Dive
Ressel, Trou Madame, Shark Reef/Yolanda

Worst Dive
Never had a bad dive, but Vobster was pretty grim one winter.

What dive/trip would you most like to do
Too many to name

What's the most useful tip ever passed on to you?
Don't dive with muppets. You're only as good as your last dive