"They don't cry blood."
No, wait. That was parenting advice.
No, wait. That was parenting advice.
Best scuba advice you’ve received
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“Splurge on decent regulators; the rest is just set dressing” . . .
Eric Sedletzky
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Guille G
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“Slow down!”
The other two were from my wife:
1. “Stop annoying me while I enjoy the sun and just go diving already”
2. “Forget about Puerto Vallarta, let’s move to the Caribbean instead!”
Also, “don’t tell your mum we’re letting you do this”. From the guys who were running discover scuba sessions for kids at a club pool and let me and a friend suck a tank dry at the pool every day over two or three summers. Given how my teens went, it was solid advice outside diving as well.
The other two were from my wife:
1. “Stop annoying me while I enjoy the sun and just go diving already”
2. “Forget about Puerto Vallarta, let’s move to the Caribbean instead!”
Also, “don’t tell your mum we’re letting you do this”. From the guys who were running discover scuba sessions for kids at a club pool and let me and a friend suck a tank dry at the pool every day over two or three summers. Given how my teens went, it was solid advice outside diving as well.
Chavodel8en
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Very early in my diving, a buddy told me to look up intermittently.
Very good advice. If you're trimmed properly, your attention is automatically forward and down. A blue whale could swim right over you and you'd miss it.
Locally I've seen molas, cormorants, otters, seals/lions, jellies, of course lots of fish, etc. Still on the look-out for the rare NoCal turtle, dolphins, the landlord, and of course a giant whale.
Very good advice. If you're trimmed properly, your attention is automatically forward and down. A blue whale could swim right over you and you'd miss it.
Locally I've seen molas, cormorants, otters, seals/lions, jellies, of course lots of fish, etc. Still on the look-out for the rare NoCal turtle, dolphins, the landlord, and of course a giant whale.
Get a p-valve for your dry suit.
From a guide on my first dive with my new camera:
Get the camera close to the subject, then closer until it is too close, then closer still - now take the photo
From my Advanced instructor:
If I give you the OK sign and you're not 100% OK, don't lie to me and give an OK back.
Get the camera close to the subject, then closer until it is too close, then closer still - now take the photo
From my Advanced instructor:
If I give you the OK sign and you're not 100% OK, don't lie to me and give an OK back.
That regulator bit really turned out to be sage advice.
I still have that first regulator, a Cyklon 300; and that price -- a couple hundred bucks -- was imposing as all hell to a teenage kid with a crap Summer job, as a line cook, in the late 1970s.
Nowadays, it is typically parked on one of my pony bottles; but I still have no issue whatsoever, using it for a primary, which I wound up doing the other day, when I had a sudden hose failure on another rig -- still breathes beautifully and dry in any position.
But I don't even recall how many wetsuits, drysuits, and sundry other skin diving equipment that I all-but destroyed over the years . . .
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Best diving advise I ever had, you ask?
1 - Captain Bob Tillman, who operated the Bugaloo out of Marathon Shores for many years - "You really don't want to run a charter boat"
2 - Heard from many shop owners, Don't open a dive shop.
3 - From Thomas Roan, navy master diver retired, "Some money is better than no money".
4 - "Divers go dive, Instructors instruct." Former YMCA regional training director.
1 - Captain Bob Tillman, who operated the Bugaloo out of Marathon Shores for many years - "You really don't want to run a charter boat"
2 - Heard from many shop owners, Don't open a dive shop.
3 - From Thomas Roan, navy master diver retired, "Some money is better than no money".
4 - "Divers go dive, Instructors instruct." Former YMCA regional training director.
Forgot this one -
“Don’t let the bastards get you down.”
Sam Miller III
He told me that many times.
“Don’t let the bastards get you down.”
Sam Miller III
He told me that many times.
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