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    How do you clean your equipment?

    I wash in plain old fresh water ... water temps here locally in Indiana are in 30's, may get colder as we are having a cold snap, an inch on ground now and still snowing ... in summer gets as high as 87 some years on surface with t-cline at 20 ft or so ... not musch to see in the quarry below...
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    When your spouse isn't a diver

    My wife has been certified for 19 years, and has about that many dives in that time ... no quarries, only Ginnie Springs and Bahamas and Keys ... if she will go on a trip w/me it is with NO students etc, not even local, and dive only a couple times a week; no beers after class with the group; no...
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    Wife doesn't know...

    you screwed the pooch on this one ... I am an instructor and she asked me last year how much I spent on dive gear over the years ... I added it up and divided by 3 and said :ohh, $3,000 ... I got the couch that week ... even though I was an instructor and diver LONG before we met, and even...
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    Why are you called.....The Great Screen Name Thread

    I am and dunno how I got that, other than 2 years ago or so when I signed up must have used the business address at the time :-) I think my signature says Hobster on it
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    Poor Students, or Poor instructors?

    well these topics are all in PADI OW course if the standards are followed (except single reg buddy breathing) ... if the instructor is worth a darn these are covered well and in-depth in classroom, pool and OW, and students are proficient, at least then. It is up to the students to aquire...
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    Why are you called.....The Great Screen Name Thread

    It started when I taught a class of co-workers. All had nicknames, and my DM kidingly asked if I was Hobster. It kinda stuck. When I got online, hobster was taken on AOL, so I became TheHobster. My business name is Hobster Diving, and I used to be thehobster.com as well Beats my college...
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    How was Gilboa Quarry on New Years?

    from a friend I heard there were 50+ divers there, viz excellent, water temp low 40's ... trout in mating coloration and the males getting the hook jaw as well Bummer was a trout was found dead after some diver abuse somehow ... evidently some of the trout have been found with knife slashes!
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    What the the Scuba Diving movies?

    Jaws -- nuiff said with its scariness and example of an embolism The Deep -- 10 minutes of Jackie Bissett in a white t-shirt underwater; and was shot on the Rhone, a current popular dive site Blue Water; White Death -- early 70's late 60's documentary on whitey also, The Abyss, Sphere...
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    A question...

    Might be worthwhile to borrow from the techies and have a small lift bag and a reel to send up when you get away from the group and do your safety stop under it
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    Tragic - Tragic - Tragic

    First off, best to the family ... same ocean buddy pairs very common in SoCal ... unfortunate Keep us abreast of the details as they come out
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    DIR in NC?

    I don't know if they do DIR or GUE, but ya might check with Olympus Diving in Morehead City ... their TRaining Director, Bob Decker, would know www.olympusdiving.com
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    A Sad Day: Dive Report

    Well SoCaldiver, I made the trip east as well ... I know what ya mean about Catalina ... I had gone 12 years and when I went back, fell in love all over again ... the next time back did San Clemente as well ... the diving at Casino Point was new to me, in the 70's we did not dive there, and the...
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    Dumbest Thing You Have Done...

    had 4 tanks slide out back of van as my drive is on an incline ... stopped three. In this case batting .750 was not great ... vaalve went through my dress shoes and broke my toe :-(
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    Gotta ... get ... to ... water...

    well, I went a weekend ago in beautiful Muncie, IN ... good viz and water was in low 40's ... was fun ... I did my grad work in Arizona, I know the "all beach" feeling after having spent the previous 10 years in Orange County, California
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    Finally Certified!

    Before discounting the whole back BC idea, move your weights around to the back more and see if that helps ... as far as the danglies, there is nothing a clip or two and a tech necklace can't solve ... $10 max!
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    padi or naui

    Depending on who you listen to, the standards are consistent with real world diving needs; or have a number of confidence builders built in. I've taught both ways and see no difference in the skills of the divers I have certified. The big key is the instructor and how effective he/she is in...
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    Speaking of Nitrox...

    here it's $5 for air and 12.50 for nitrox - most air fills are for classes, not divers going locally. Economies of scale. Fewer fills to pay the compressor price nitrox is more expensive due to 1. buying O2 2. compressor parts being o2 clean as well 3. additional training in mixing...
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    reasons for being an instructor...

    WOW, long and thought provoking ... in 22 years ofi instructing, as a PT instructor (although 8 were at a university as faculty), my reasons have changed At first it was because I needed to do it to keep my coaching job. Then I REALLY got into the diving, and I honestly LOVE to teach. Now as...
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    Why haven't you posted a pic in your profile?

    I'll add mine now ... what the heck
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    The Truth About Nitrox

    If I missed it, I am sorry, but I feel that for people like me:48, overwieght, & 3 orthopedic surgeries (shoulder, knee, back), I use nitrox on all recreational dives. I know that nitrox is not statistically significant safer than air for the average diver. I am not average. I have three...
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