Official HBT SCUBA thread

[JestersRed]

nice mares abyss ryanh. jester and i both have them and they are smokin regs.

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[Ryanh1801]

Passed my Master diver and rescue test tonight!! Just have to do a deep dive at the end of the month and ill have my cert. Hopefully Ill be able to in role in advanced nitrox and decompression procedures this summer. Ill have to see how much money I can store away.

 

[Poindexter]

My gills have been drying out for a couple yearsnow, I have about 300 dives logged. I am/ was most of the way throguht the YMCA Divemaster courses. Basic Nitrox, two wreck certs.

I did a couple caverns in FLA with an instructor. I concluded the inside of a rock looks very much like the outside of a rock.

My favorite dives are warm water shipwrecks. My dive gear is in North Carolina with my library, I have probably at least 2-3 dives on all the NC wrecks you have read about, south of Cape Hatterras.

I have seen 200+ feet of visibility in NC only twice, it is very unusual. 75-100 feet is not unusual in late spring and early summer.

My three favorite wrecks to dive again would be the Eagle on Marathon Key, FL, the Bianca C in Grenada and probably the Cassimir in NC. U352 on a weekday with no crowds maybe, I still have (distant) living relatives in Germany.

I dived a hog rig, but I am not to be confused with a dir-nazi.
Sold my drysuit several years ago, I am not that young anymore.

 

[FishinDave07]

Well, i don't scuba...i freedive:rockin:

This was 3 fisherman, 3 hours in Long Key, FL

Made the best Paella with these suckers

 

[paulthenurse]

Sold my drysuit several years ago, I am not that young anymore.

Why does older equate to wetter? As I get older I find myself putting the wetsuit on later and later in the summer and earlier and earlier in the fall. Of course, part of it is where we dive. Best case scenario, late August, calm seas, no recent storms to stir things up, we'll get into the mid 40's once you crack 70 feet. And the absolute best vis I've ever seen up here was around 60 feet, but that was in February and the water was 15- 20 degress warmer than the air.

We dove the USS Kirtz (sp?) twice last year with Olympus in Morehead City. Great dive, can't wait to go back.

PTN

 

[JeepDiver]

Found this old thread and decided to bump it up. Been Certified since 94, a few hundred dives logged, but haven't gotten wet in 2 years. Planning a tring to the keys this spring to remedy that situation though.

Got a dive rite plate (have stainless, but switched to alumninum due to weight for traveling), apexs regs, sunto gauges

 

[clamflats]

I got certified in 68. We will wait for the sea temp to get to 50 before we look for the first BUGS to show up. The first dive we will probably get resident winter overs but they will taste great coming from cold water. Largest one we got last year was 15 lbs.