"if you can dive here, you can dive anywhere"

[gcarter]

Here's another anecdote... a few years ago, during an ITK, a diver from the PNW was talking about how easy we had it here with such easy conditions. All the while he was rubbing his hands and getting almost violent in doing so. This was the first time he dove without gloves and he had grabbed on to rocks covered in fire coral. While not life threatening, he was in misery and I think he missed a few dives.

Hubris or stupidity, you decide. Either way, if you feel you have nothing to learn, you should expect pain in your future. Me? Not being much of a masochist, I rather enjoy the fact that I have yet to need a wetsuit since I moved to Key Largo. It's going to hit 82F today. I love my new home.

I hate you.

 

[bowlofpetunias]

I have to say that I found my dives in Florida to be some of the easiest diving I have ever done but I was very impressed with the buoyancy control, SA and overall skills of the divers I was fortunate enough to dive with!

 

[Wolfie]

+1

BTS? That's too cold for me. I think I'll send HowardE instead. I'll think fondly of you when I splash.

 

[The Chairman]

Don't hate me cuz I'm warm guys!

For those who have cabin fever and want to see what REAL diving is all about, I would suggest that you call this cute little Cuban, aka mselenaous and come down to dive in my back yard. Lemme show you how diving was meant to be.

 

[Wookie]

Hubris or stupidity, you decide. Either way, if you feel you have nothing to learn, you should expect pain in your future. Me? Not being much of a masochist, I rather enjoy the fact that I have yet to need a wetsuit since I moved to Key Largo. It's going to hit 82F today. I love my new home.

I will smile when you eat those words during REVO training, cause if you can make 2 hour runtimes while training on a totally foreign way to dive and still pay attention, you are a better man than I. I know you are insulated, but not as much as you used to be....

 

[The Chairman]

I will smile when you eat those words during REVO training, cause if you can make 2 hour runtimes while training on a totally foreign way to dive and still pay attention, you are a better man than I. I know you are insulated, but not as much as you used to be....

He said the temps were in the mid seventies... that works fine for me. Heck, I dove all week in the Peacock system during a cold February in a bathing suit. When you're built like a manatee, you get to dive like one.

 

[Wookie]

He said the temps were in the mid seventies... that works fine for me. Heck, I dove all week in the Peacock system during a cold February in a bathing suit. When you're built like a manatee, you get to dive like one.

I'll throw a garden hose over the side when you come swimming up.... Y'all have such cute little faces.

 

[jar546]

There is no such truth to "If you can dive here, you can dive anywhere". There are way too many factors involved in all types of diving location.

There is truth, however to how much one particular location can be easier than another. When I leave the cold north with 34F water beneath the ice, and head to Florida or any other tropical like destination, it is much easier and enjoyable to dive when I can shed dry gloves with next to no dexterity, a drysuit, hood, thermals, added weight and trade 3 feet of visibility for 30 or more while wearing a 3mm shorty, no hood, gloves and very little weight.

When we certify students, it is always in a lake or quarry with temps that vary from 45 to 65 (usually only at the surface), average vis of about 6' in a 7mm suit, hood, added weight, etc., blah blah blah. When they go away on their first diving vacation in warm water with good vis, they always tell us how much easier it was to dive (and more enjoyable).

If we certified a diver in the warm tropical waters then brought them back here for their first dive in cold water with poor vis and cumbersome gear, I don't think we would have the same result.

 

[Doppler]

Gonna see you there, mate!?

I owe you a beer... or something like that!

 

[Hank49]

He said the temps were in the mid seventies... that works fine for me.

mid 70s? Brrrrrrr. 5 mm, hood.....lots of sunshine.....maybe.