Tod
Contributor
Howdy all!
I recently signed up for this forum (out of bordom at work), primarily because I was looking for ideas and feedback from other solo divers. Like most of you, I have been solo diving for a while and have recently enrolled in a SDI/TDI class (just to get the card) through my "local" dive shop (45 miles away).
Due to my location, I am not a "wreck" diver nor a cave diver. We do have several mine shafts in this area, but I wouldn't recommend going in most of them. Most of my "technical" diving is altitude stuff. While there's a bit of learning to do (about thoretical pressures), I wouldn't really consider it a very technical dive, necessarily. In fact, most of the higher elevation lakes are rather borning. There is, however, some historical finds with some of these lakes (near my location) as many were built for the hydraulic mining era of Northern California's gold rush days and some of the then-new lakes covered old mining camps and smaller town sites. So there is a bit of archaeologoical interest in some. If not, beer cans and fishing tackle is what you'll find in most!
Anyway, I thought I'd try to say hello in here, as this was my primary area of interest. If I should not of done this, my appologies - some boards are rather nontollerant of newbies.
Dive safe, dive often!
I recently signed up for this forum (out of bordom at work), primarily because I was looking for ideas and feedback from other solo divers. Like most of you, I have been solo diving for a while and have recently enrolled in a SDI/TDI class (just to get the card) through my "local" dive shop (45 miles away).
Due to my location, I am not a "wreck" diver nor a cave diver. We do have several mine shafts in this area, but I wouldn't recommend going in most of them. Most of my "technical" diving is altitude stuff. While there's a bit of learning to do (about thoretical pressures), I wouldn't really consider it a very technical dive, necessarily. In fact, most of the higher elevation lakes are rather borning. There is, however, some historical finds with some of these lakes (near my location) as many were built for the hydraulic mining era of Northern California's gold rush days and some of the then-new lakes covered old mining camps and smaller town sites. So there is a bit of archaeologoical interest in some. If not, beer cans and fishing tackle is what you'll find in most!
Anyway, I thought I'd try to say hello in here, as this was my primary area of interest. If I should not of done this, my appologies - some boards are rather nontollerant of newbies.
Dive safe, dive often!