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<font color='#810541'>I’ve just finished reading “Deep Descent” and am half way through “The Last Dive” and it’s got me wondering. Deep Descent regards the Andrea Doria as the “Everest” of wreck diving – it’s hard to get to, technically challenging and has caused several deaths, so I can see the comparison. However, because scuba technology is always advancing, my guess would be that deeper wrecks are becoming / will become accessible – whereas Everest will stay the tallest mountain. So what is your “Everest” of diving? What are your aspirations in a diving sense?
I’ll start with a few of mine; these are only aspirational goals so I don't have a definite plan of action to realise them - yet!:
Obviously – to have as many ascents as descents is the underlying desire; to do plenty of diving and keep enjoying it.
Locations:
Scapa Floe
Truk Lagoon
Bikini Atoll
Ice Diving at the North Pole
Experiences
The SETT (yippee, doing that one in April)
NASA Neutral buoyancy lab (giant pool with model space shuttle in where astronauts train – I’d like to do that in SCUBA gear AND in a space suit!)
Hard hat / surface supplied.
Dry dive in a pot (by choice, not for treatment!)
I’d love to try on a JIM suit but my guess is that would be difficult to organise!
Wildlife (if I was any good with camera’s, these would be my ideal subjects, but I’m not so I’ll make do with seeing them in their natural habitats)
manta ray
blue whale (I’m not certain I’d necessarily want to be in the water)
basking shark
Deep Stuff:
Reading about Mark Chase & AndyP’s 102m dive in the Blue Hole shows me that I have a long way to go in terms of skills and fitness for that kind of extreme – but gives me something to aim for.
The Brittanic - ditto the above comment, I have a long way to go from my current diving to something like this.
<font color='#810541'>I’ve just finished reading “Deep Descent” and am half way through “The Last Dive” and it’s got me wondering. Deep Descent regards the Andrea Doria as the “Everest” of wreck diving – it’s hard to get to, technically challenging and has caused several deaths, so I can see the comparison. However, because scuba technology is always advancing, my guess would be that deeper wrecks are becoming / will become accessible – whereas Everest will stay the tallest mountain. So what is your “Everest” of diving? What are your aspirations in a diving sense?
I’ll start with a few of mine; these are only aspirational goals so I don't have a definite plan of action to realise them - yet!:
Obviously – to have as many ascents as descents is the underlying desire; to do plenty of diving and keep enjoying it.
Locations:
Scapa Floe
Truk Lagoon
Bikini Atoll
Ice Diving at the North Pole
Experiences
The SETT (yippee, doing that one in April)
NASA Neutral buoyancy lab (giant pool with model space shuttle in where astronauts train – I’d like to do that in SCUBA gear AND in a space suit!)
Hard hat / surface supplied.
Dry dive in a pot (by choice, not for treatment!)
I’d love to try on a JIM suit but my guess is that would be difficult to organise!
Wildlife (if I was any good with camera’s, these would be my ideal subjects, but I’m not so I’ll make do with seeing them in their natural habitats)
manta ray
blue whale (I’m not certain I’d necessarily want to be in the water)
basking shark
Deep Stuff:
Reading about Mark Chase & AndyP’s 102m dive in the Blue Hole shows me that I have a long way to go in terms of skills and fitness for that kind of extreme – but gives me something to aim for.
The Brittanic - ditto the above comment, I have a long way to go from my current diving to something like this.
