CuriousRambler
Contributor
Hey everyone,
I'm recently getting back into diving, and hoping to make it a sustainable hobby. It's been an on again-off again relationship for me for a long time. A lot of that I can attribute to never having found a buddy who wants to and can dive regularly.
So here I am, looking for that buddy! I live outside Stockton, so no local diving to be had. I've only dove Monterey a couple of times, and frankly wasn't impressed. I'd love to find somebody who knows that area and can show me why so many people love it. Since I know I'm going to be driving regardless, I'm equally happy running into the bay area (least preferred, thanks to traffic), Monterey, or even Tahoe.
My "distant goal" for diving has always been tech diving. I've always been drawn to wrecks, so training toward deep and penetration (heh..) are my ultimate objectives. Based on available training in the area, and the reputations each agency holds, I've more or less settled on the GUE route. Currently, I feel like I've got a fair amount of prep work before I'll feel ready to try fundies, so I'd like to find somebody who's got similar interests, and is similarly willing to dive for fun, but also for practice to eventually jump into fundies, and maybe training beyond that into the tech pipeline.
Currently I'm AOW/nitrox through PADI, diving single Al80's wet. For all intents and purposes, I'm around 25 logged dives, after losing a couple dozen 10+ year old dives with a lost logbook. Working on DAN Diving First Aid for Professionals (O2 admin, etc) currently, but the "hands on" is indefinitely stalled by COVID.
Obviously no diving taking place for the foreseeable future, but I'm curious if there are any like-minded folks out there who might be interested in planning things out post-apocalypse!
Edit: grammar fail.
I'm recently getting back into diving, and hoping to make it a sustainable hobby. It's been an on again-off again relationship for me for a long time. A lot of that I can attribute to never having found a buddy who wants to and can dive regularly.
So here I am, looking for that buddy! I live outside Stockton, so no local diving to be had. I've only dove Monterey a couple of times, and frankly wasn't impressed. I'd love to find somebody who knows that area and can show me why so many people love it. Since I know I'm going to be driving regardless, I'm equally happy running into the bay area (least preferred, thanks to traffic), Monterey, or even Tahoe.
My "distant goal" for diving has always been tech diving. I've always been drawn to wrecks, so training toward deep and penetration (heh..) are my ultimate objectives. Based on available training in the area, and the reputations each agency holds, I've more or less settled on the GUE route. Currently, I feel like I've got a fair amount of prep work before I'll feel ready to try fundies, so I'd like to find somebody who's got similar interests, and is similarly willing to dive for fun, but also for practice to eventually jump into fundies, and maybe training beyond that into the tech pipeline.
Currently I'm AOW/nitrox through PADI, diving single Al80's wet. For all intents and purposes, I'm around 25 logged dives, after losing a couple dozen 10+ year old dives with a lost logbook. Working on DAN Diving First Aid for Professionals (O2 admin, etc) currently, but the "hands on" is indefinitely stalled by COVID.
Obviously no diving taking place for the foreseeable future, but I'm curious if there are any like-minded folks out there who might be interested in planning things out post-apocalypse!
Edit: grammar fail.