Great Lakes diver...new to this site & forum

[JCKCSYCMD]

Greetings...just testing out the various site options. Ran across some links to this forum and it appears to be worth adding to my favorites list. Not as much NDR (non-diving relating) junk as a couple of other sites.
Primarily I am Great Lakes diver 30+ years. Over the years have quite a few dive buddies, but recently my son has been my primary dive buddy.

Motto #1:
A bad day on (under) the water,
is still better than,
a good day in the office.

:iwagima:

 

[JCKCSYCMD]

Sorry...Thread clutter...Testing reply mode.........& options
:mean:

 

[bridgediver]

I love the great lakes!! I try to get there at least once a year even though its almost as far as the carribean for me.

 

[mad]

I don't know great lakes... here only small and dirty :wacko:

 

[JCKCSYCMD]

Return greetings to Italy,
My daughter loves it over there.
Regarding your comment not knowing the Great Lakes (US version, Great Diving, and with all the commercial shipping, historical battles, etc., estimated near 3000 wrecks in the Great Lakes chain. Starting from either Lake Michigan or Superior, one can go out to the Atlantic Ocean, or down the Mississippi. Largest fresh water body. Some of the wooden sailing ships from 300 yrs ago are essentially intact, preserved by the cold water. Add in the more modern large steel ships and quite an assortment of wrecks. The Great Lakes wrecks also come with the historical reality that these were tragedies, and not intentional sinkings.

 

[mad]

wow, cool!!
I'd like to dive in them but all I can efford now is THIS in Switzerland next Friday with 9°...

 

[JCKCSYCMD]

Looks like a different type of diving. Although some of the coasts of Lake Superior, Huron, and Georgian Bay are rock, cliffs, etc., not much in the way of caves, but a few caverns and swim throughs. Yet it is those same rocky coasts, and treacherous bays and islands that have caused some of the wrecks we enjoy diving.

 

[JCKCSYCMD]

Also thanks for the European web sites. My daughter is home from college. She has been in Austria and Germany the past two years. She is finishing up degrees of international business pre-law and a second major in German. She was my interpretor tour guide for a couple of links.

 

[cldwdiver]

Welcome to the boards.

Sounds like we started around the same time. I also have 30+ years under my weightbelt.

Born and raised here in MI and started diving in the Great Lakes and in-land lakes of this great state.

Have fun and enjoy. Lots of good info on these boards.

 

[JCKCSYCMD]

cldwdiver:
Similar timing and location in your response.
So let's try and see if this rings a bell: Corunna Rd, Underwater Specialists, owner Dick Batchelder, who later went on to own Riding Rock Inn in San Salvadore on the outer Bahamas. Was (is?) midwestern major Ingersol Rand compressor rep for decades. Dick was my instructor, and dive club mentor. That's back when NAUI & PADI cards were co-issued for an extra $5.
Does this sound familiar?

The current dive shop on Corunna is a different location, and Kim has no affiliation back to Batchelder.