JeffG:You need 2 X-Scooters too
Yeah, I'd have one now but Like I said, I'd have to buy 2. No problems though, It's nice to have friends that have spares
Recreational Diving vs Tech Diving
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Yeah, I'd have one now but Like I said, I'd have to buy 2. No problems though, It's nice to have friends that have spares
JeffG
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I just thank god the chick I'm dating is just going to be a Cozumel Commando....chickdiver:2x rebreathers and training- comes in somewhere in the neighborhood of $30,000- and that is not a joke
JeffG:I just thank god the chick I'm dating is just going to be a Cozumel Commando....
I had to re-read that. I read it as "I just thank god the chick I'm dating is going Cozumel Commando....
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JeffG
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That could be a good thing tooamascuba:I had to re-read that. I read it as "I just thank god the chick I'm dating is going Cozumel Commando....
Must have: Mixing station!
Here is my take on the difference between Recreational and Technical divers.
Recreational Divers: Vacations, exotic locations, local dives, air, reefs, Garibaldi, turtles, colorful fish, diving with my wife and family, PADI OW is good enough, mostly warm oceans, single tanks, LED lights, someone to schlep the gear, a strong teenager helps you back on the boat, guided tours, all the dive gear fits in one rolling bag, whale and dolphin sittings, mantas, nudies, kelp forests, hot tubs, no deco, maybe rent a scooter, Mexican Taxis, Jim Bowie knifes, dive masters that have a sense of humor, very low death rate, $5.00 air fills, wetsuits, nobody cares what color your fins are, snorkel or no snorkel nobody cares, no Kool-Aid and you will probably never see the inside of a decompression chamber. The only downside is some people laugh because we look like dorks.
Technical Diving: First you need a 55 gallon drum or two of money or you are a drug lord. Drysuits, twin tanks and deco bottles, nobody helps carry your ton-o-gear, you need a wheelbarrow, cart or several trips to get you stuff to the boat or shore, you like diving under the ice, you are required by all certifying agencies, instructors and DIR rules to only wear black, for foreign travel you need to lease a container for gear transport and did I mention you now have a leak in your drysuit at 160 in water that is +/- 35 deg and an hour left for deco? In addition, you think you are the smartest, most experienced diver on the boat, you spend $200 on gas to dive the Doria, your very life depends on the $3.00 worth of line you have stretched over 300 in that cave, somebody always has a better scooter than you, 25+ training dives, five agencies, your wife/husband will never dive with you again, very difficult to find a buddy that is as rich and has the same amount of time off you do, Its really hard to find a buddy that has the skills you do and that will do exactly what you say to do, you end up diving solo (read more bottles), someone always silts the site and blows your chance at using your $10,000 HD video camera, you hope to God someone finds you soon because that beam you just swam by has trapped you in the pursers cabin, you bring hundreds of aspirin just in case and you have DAN on speeddial.
One the plus side, the rec divers dont laugh or think you look like a dork.
Dave
Recreational Divers: Vacations, exotic locations, local dives, air, reefs, Garibaldi, turtles, colorful fish, diving with my wife and family, PADI OW is good enough, mostly warm oceans, single tanks, LED lights, someone to schlep the gear, a strong teenager helps you back on the boat, guided tours, all the dive gear fits in one rolling bag, whale and dolphin sittings, mantas, nudies, kelp forests, hot tubs, no deco, maybe rent a scooter, Mexican Taxis, Jim Bowie knifes, dive masters that have a sense of humor, very low death rate, $5.00 air fills, wetsuits, nobody cares what color your fins are, snorkel or no snorkel nobody cares, no Kool-Aid and you will probably never see the inside of a decompression chamber. The only downside is some people laugh because we look like dorks.
Technical Diving: First you need a 55 gallon drum or two of money or you are a drug lord. Drysuits, twin tanks and deco bottles, nobody helps carry your ton-o-gear, you need a wheelbarrow, cart or several trips to get you stuff to the boat or shore, you like diving under the ice, you are required by all certifying agencies, instructors and DIR rules to only wear black, for foreign travel you need to lease a container for gear transport and did I mention you now have a leak in your drysuit at 160 in water that is +/- 35 deg and an hour left for deco? In addition, you think you are the smartest, most experienced diver on the boat, you spend $200 on gas to dive the Doria, your very life depends on the $3.00 worth of line you have stretched over 300 in that cave, somebody always has a better scooter than you, 25+ training dives, five agencies, your wife/husband will never dive with you again, very difficult to find a buddy that is as rich and has the same amount of time off you do, Its really hard to find a buddy that has the skills you do and that will do exactly what you say to do, you end up diving solo (read more bottles), someone always silts the site and blows your chance at using your $10,000 HD video camera, you hope to God someone finds you soon because that beam you just swam by has trapped you in the pursers cabin, you bring hundreds of aspirin just in case and you have DAN on speeddial.
One the plus side, the rec divers dont laugh or think you look like a dork.
Dave
matt_unique
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A boat is definitely a necessary diving expense. You're looking at $20K and up even for a small one.
Then begins the seasonal costs associated with all things....boat maintenance...gear servicing ($300 - $400 for me)...etc...etc. The costs mentioned so far are all just entry costs.
--Matt
Then begins the seasonal costs associated with all things....boat maintenance...gear servicing ($300 - $400 for me)...etc...etc. The costs mentioned so far are all just entry costs.
--Matt
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WarmWaterDiver
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Good post, Caribbeandiver. My wife & I will get to Bikini and Truk yet, one of these days. I have all the necessary gear for both of us (and then some . . . ) It would be prudent for us to do some extra practice in a pool somewhere once we book such trips, before embarking on them - thanks for the reminder.
We took tech training but still primarily dive 'rec' when on vacations. This really confuses some people. Like when you show up to rent tanks because you just want to shore dive, the 2 of you, so you can take your own time and do photo stuff and critter finding and just plain mellow out on your own schedule, and you present your highest earned C-card after filling out the papers full of weasel words so you can get some tanks to put in the back of your rental truck, after all, that's why you traveled thousands of miles to be here, and they get all squinchy-faced on the other side of the counter, often also saying 'I don't think there's much tech diving here, at least not from our shop sir'. Nothing we took said it had to be a one way door - but humor is where you can find it!
Not to mention the looks you get when rigging up, then actually diving, independant doubles on vacation. Hmm, maybe we're missing an opportunity in dive photography - maybe we should be concentrating on getting above water shots before we go in!
We took tech training but still primarily dive 'rec' when on vacations. This really confuses some people. Like when you show up to rent tanks because you just want to shore dive, the 2 of you, so you can take your own time and do photo stuff and critter finding and just plain mellow out on your own schedule, and you present your highest earned C-card after filling out the papers full of weasel words so you can get some tanks to put in the back of your rental truck, after all, that's why you traveled thousands of miles to be here, and they get all squinchy-faced on the other side of the counter, often also saying 'I don't think there's much tech diving here, at least not from our shop sir'. Nothing we took said it had to be a one way door - but humor is where you can find it!
Not to mention the looks you get when rigging up, then actually diving, independant doubles on vacation. Hmm, maybe we're missing an opportunity in dive photography - maybe we should be concentrating on getting above water shots before we go in!
Where in the list of tech diving expenses does airfare fit in? If we only had good diving caves in Washington . . . Sigh.
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