RAWalker
NA

Age

49

About RAWalker

Biography:

A New York guy living in the southwest.

Raised 15 minutes from Jones beach on Long Island- New York. It wasn´t until I moved to the desert of Arizona that I bacame a diver.

I dive locally at Lake Pleasant year round but prefer trips to tropical locations.

As a diver I believe in continued education and am a member of the Academy of Scuba Complete Diver Program.

Training is knowledge and experience. Unfortunately experience isn't knowledge. Unless you get training you'll only be experienced at repeating your own mistakes.

You can never be too well trained. If this makes me a card collector I'll wear the label proudly!

I´m continuing my SCUBA education by taking specialties with AcademyofScuba.

Location:

Mesa Arizona USA

Interests:

Mountain bike, fish, water ski, computers, travel, photography

Gender:

Male

Blog / MySpace URL:

http://www.divebuddy.com/rawalker

Certification Agencies:

PADI/NAUI/SDI/DAN

Dive History:

After a discovery dive in Bora bora during a vacation in 06 I was infected with the dive bug.
I got my OW cert in March of 07 at Lake Pleasant in AZ. A week later I was in Aruba for dives on the Antola and Pendernales wrecks. That August I took a trip to San Carlos for 6 dives and AOW cert. December 8th 2007 and September 20th 2008 I add cleanup dives to my log at Sagauro lake in AZ for Project AWARE. I've gotten to dive in Ft Lauderdale and also a couple of dives in Cabo San Lucas, 3 dives in Cancun and 2 dives from Casino Point dive park in Catalina in June of 09 to add to the list of locations that I've dived. I can be found at Lake Pleasant regularly for training and to keep in practice between trips.

Certification History:

PADI - Divemaster
PADI - Master Scuba Diver
PADI - Rescue
PADI - Advanced Open Water
PADI - Open Water
PADI - Equipment Specialty
PADI - Peak Performance Buoyancy
PADI - Enriched Air
PADI - Project AWARE
PADI - Altitude Diver
PADI - Underwater Navigator
NAUI - Rescue Diver
SDI - Underwater Navigator
SDI - VIP
DAN - Diving Emergency Management Provider
Emergency First Responder
Seasigns - Diver

Certification Level:

PADI-Divemaster / NAUI -Rescue Diver

Dive Classification:

Instructor / Assistant Instructor / Dive Master / Dive Con

Years Certified:

Three Years

Dive Equipment:

Backplate: OMS SS/AL w/ comfort harness
Wings: 30# Oxycheq Mach V / 45# OMS Bungee
BCD: Sherwood Tortuga w/ Gemini integrated octo
Regulators: Oceanic Delta IV FDX10 / Aquatec Air 3 integrated octo
Computers: Oceanic VT3 & Atom 2.0 wireless air integrated
Fins: Hollis F1/ Sherwood Kinesis EX
Mask: Cressi Focus / Tilos Frameless 2 window

SB Challenge:

OWSI

Rebreather Experience:

Evolution