Man, this brought back some memories. I guess I could give some of you hopefuls and adventurous ones an update of my experiences;
I did work for a company that found my courses for me. I had all the gear (dry suit, BCD, Bags, and a Tacoma) so I was set. I had a lot of fun while diving. I had a couple of scares with some Colorado lake trout. I've dove in mountain lakes before and never had a problem, but for some damn reason these trout had a thing for facing off with me about 2 feet away, then dart full military speed at my face over and over until I stirred up a mud cloud that we lost each other. It's funny now, but i never heard myself scream through a regulator like that before
Anyways, I did it about a total of 3 or 4 times. Each time my gear failed on me. Regs free flowed, BCD seal separated, and dry suit sprung a leak. However, I purchased all this dive gear in High school when I worked at a scuba shop in Colorado Springs and everything had about 100 lake dives and 5 years of storage time under their belts. So i wasn't too surprised. So to sum that up, this is really hard on your gear.
The golf course that i did all this at would always let me use their utility cart and the refreshment cart lady always hooked me up with free food and drink in exchanges of casual se...conversations
I had a blast doing it and might pick it back up when I'm out of school.
Why did I quit? I had an accident in the Tacoma. I was fine, but the Tacoma was totaled and I wasn't about to haul 600 pounds of stinky golf balls and scuba gear in the back of the Audi so that was that.
I did work for a company that found my courses for me. I had all the gear (dry suit, BCD, Bags, and a Tacoma) so I was set. I had a lot of fun while diving. I had a couple of scares with some Colorado lake trout. I've dove in mountain lakes before and never had a problem, but for some damn reason these trout had a thing for facing off with me about 2 feet away, then dart full military speed at my face over and over until I stirred up a mud cloud that we lost each other. It's funny now, but i never heard myself scream through a regulator like that before
Anyways, I did it about a total of 3 or 4 times. Each time my gear failed on me. Regs free flowed, BCD seal separated, and dry suit sprung a leak. However, I purchased all this dive gear in High school when I worked at a scuba shop in Colorado Springs and everything had about 100 lake dives and 5 years of storage time under their belts. So i wasn't too surprised. So to sum that up, this is really hard on your gear.
The golf course that i did all this at would always let me use their utility cart and the refreshment cart lady always hooked me up with free food and drink in exchanges of casual se...conversations
I had a blast doing it and might pick it back up when I'm out of school.Why did I quit? I had an accident in the Tacoma. I was fine, but the Tacoma was totaled and I wasn't about to haul 600 pounds of stinky golf balls and scuba gear in the back of the Audi so that was that.
