Buckeye diver new to forum

[Barracuda2]

Hello All. I'm new to the forum, but I have a lot of logged and unlogged dives behind me. At the age of 9 I saw one of the first underwater movies ever produced - "Beneath the 12 mile Reef" with a very young Robert Wagner and Gilbert Roland. I was caught hook, line and sinker by the images that my young eyes saw. I bought my first tank, reg, and wet suit ( BC's were not even thought of yet) from a hardware store in 1958 and started exploring local lakes and quarries. The older I get, the worse it gets (so says my wife)
Looking forward to participating in the forum.

Barracuda2

 

[Tractor Tom]

I'm a new/old diver myself. Got certified in 1978 in Hawaii while there with the 25th Infantry. Bought most of my gear at the swap meet and made a lot of beach dives around Hawaii and a couple in Georgia and Florida in the next couple years. Then sold the gear and got out of it for a LONG time. Now I'm back, buying new gear and getting ready for some coldwater diving here in the Great Lakes and perhaps in an Ohio Quarry later in the season...

You'll find a lot of nice folks here on the board and lots of opportunity to share what you know with the rest of us.

 

[wb416]

Barracuda2 once bubbled...
Hello All. I'm new to the forum, but I have a lot of logged and unlogged dives behind me. At the age of 9 I saw one of the first underwater movies ever produced - "Beneath the 12 mile Reef" with a very young Robert Wagner and Gilbert Roland. I was caught hook, line and sinker by the images that my young eyes saw. I bought my first tank, reg, and wet suit ( BC's were not even thought of yet) from a hardware store in 1958 and started exploring local lakes and quarries. The older I get, the worse it gets (so says my wife)
Looking forward to participating in the forum.

Barracuda2

1958??? Did they have dive equipment then?

Where abouts in NW Ohio... East or West of I75? Where do you normally dive?

We're probably not too far apart.

Welcome to the board.

Bob

 

[Barracuda2]

frankenmuth_tom once bubbled...
I'm a new/old diver myself. Got certified in 1978 in Hawaii while there with the 25th Infantry. Bought most of my gear at the swap meet and made a lot of beach dives around Hawaii and a couple in Georgia and Florida in the next couple years. Then sold the gear and got out of it for a LONG time. Now I'm back, buying new gear and getting ready for some coldwater diving here in the Great Lakes and perhaps in an Ohio Quarry later in the season...

You'll find a lot of nice folks here on the board and lots of opportunity to share what you know with the rest of us.

If you're talking about Gilboa Quarry, maybe I.ll see you there. I frequent the place quite a bit.

Barracuda2

 

[Barracuda2]

cwb once bubbled...



1958??? Did they have dive equipment then?

Where abouts in NW Ohio... East or West of I75? Where do you normally dive?

We're probably not too far apart.

Welcome to the board.

Bob

I live in Williams County - the last county before MI and IN - near Bryan, Oh - Archbold, OH

Denny

 

[Tractor Tom]

Fellow I met a few weeks ago says he makes the trip down there a couple times a year for diving...I'll probably tag along in the spring to put in some time in my new drysuit. It's about 3 hours from where I'm living in Frankenmuth...

 

[wb416]

Barracuda2 once bubbled...


I live in Williams County - the last county before MI and IN - near Bryan, Oh - Archbold, OH

Denny

I'm over in Sandusky County in Fremont. Maybe we'll meet up sometime.

 

[Barracuda2]

frankenmuth_tom once bubbled...
Fellow I met a few weeks ago says he makes the trip down there a couple times a year for diving...I'll probably tag along in the spring to put in some time in my new drysuit. It's about 3 hours from where I'm living in Frankenmuth...

I live only about 40 min. away from Gilboa. Isn't it funny the way a dry suit makes us older guys real whooses. When diving around here or the Great Lakes, I won't even look at my wet suit until about the end of July. Have you been to Gilboa yet?

Denny

 

[TCDiver1]

Just wanted to say thanks for beating my Spartans in the Big Ten tourney.ut:

Seriously, i was rooting for your guys to win it so they would make the show, we were already in. Too bad they lost and are out.

 

[Tractor Tom]

Denny,

Nope, not yet. I need to get a drysuit class out of the way before I get really crazy about diving every weekend. Have a farm to take care of most weekends too, so Scuba will have to fit in somewhere this season.

Like I said earlier, I'm just coming back. I took a refresher about two years ago, and made some dives, and started buying up some new equipment. In January I made six dives off three different islands in the Carib (that was tough, let me tell you) and now I'm looking to get into some serious cold water diving. My Drysuit has never been wet, the seals aren't even trimmed yet. So I expect all that will start up as soon as the ice goes off the lakes around here.

Last I heard, Gilboa was closed due to ice on the surface. Is it still that way?

Tom in Frankenmuth