Scuba anyone?

[Giles]

@goosehd:

Glad you’re ok G and I hope Paula is too.  Is this incident worse that the regulator one from the previous trip for her mentally or is she joking about it now and you guys can have a laugh?

I think she was only slightly worried about me.  The crew of the dive boat took it in their stride and fed her tea and fruit.

I was actually pretty knackered last night and went to bed super early, but feel fine today.  The regulator incident was a major learning - and now laughing - experience…

Neither will scar us for life, but both in their own ways, will make us better divers.  I spent the whole of dinner last night analysing what went wrong and how I could have avoided it, in the end I had to promise to shut the fuck up

[goosehd]

Glad that you two can look at this positively and not throw in the towel!!  From a completely naive view, why not have two identical computers instead of different ones?

[Giles]

Basically, because they are about £600 each.  So our spare is my old one.

[goosehd]

Well that makes complete cents….

[Giles]

[Jett129]

Glad that worked out,and obviously the old…Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you a better diver etc. What was your maximum depth?

[Giles]

28.3 metres.  But it was the sewcond dive of the morning and we had done a fairly deep profile on the first dive….

[JDelage]

I had a computer fail when I was on the Red Sea live aboard. It's one of those computers that centralizes both the diving and air tank info, so I didn't have any air info. I obviously aborted the dive (without problems) but then had to rely on the crew to loan me a pressure gauge and fit it on the first stage of my regulator. Without this I would have had to skip the remaining dives…  ??? My regulator now sports an old fashion gauge. There's something to be said for redundancy...

[mclaincausey]

In information security, this concept is called "defense in depth," where you have layers of defenses against shit that can go wrong so that it takes an unlikely combination of failures for a risk to be realized. I think it is certainly worth keeping that principle in mind for life and death pursuits like scuba diving, climbing, skydiving, etc.

I would like to try scuba diving in Maui this month but I suspect I won't be able to since I'll be up to my eyeballs in taking care of the little. One day…

[JDelage]

Maui has world class snorkeling options (whereas the diving is just good) that you can combine with beach time for the wee ones. I can give you specifics if you're interested.

[Jett129]

Snorkel Bobs is an excellent place to rent snorkeling gear from,and they also supply maps of all the best snorkeling spots.

[mclaincausey]

Thanks folks–I would need to get certified. Sending a note @JDelage

[T4920]

My Scuba plans were put on hold last year due to adverse weather conditions, but I decided to book some intro dives on my trip to Egypt prior to (hopefully) doing my Open Water Certification in Thailand next Jan.

Absolutely loved it, being hissed at by Moray Eels popping in and out of their little caves was a highlight.

[Giles]

Congrats......

I have a new hole in my wetsuit jacket courtesy of a Moray I pissed off yesterday

[T4920]

@Giles I wasn't specifically told to stay away from them, but my instinct told me I should keep some distance. Thanks for for vindicating my cautiousness..

Also saw some Lionfish and Stonefish. My friend saw an Octopus a little deeper but I had to stay with an instructor close to reef at about 10 meters.

It's definitely confirmed that Open Water is something I'd like to pursue, hope to do that along with a handful of extra dives over a week on Koh Lanta island.

[Karol]

@Giles LOL in these moments you are glad that it's not the dry suit

[Karol]

@T4920 Yea!!! Thats the spirit! What part of the Red Sea was that? What was the temperature?

On another note, the forum keeps surprising me. Never knew we have this thread

[Giles]

@T4920 said in Scuba anyone?:

that Open Water is something I'd like to pursue

You def should. It is such a multi-dimensionally different thing to normal everyday life....

[Giles]

@Karol said in Scuba anyone?:

you are glad that it's not the dry suit

100% - but glad there was something between teeth and skin......

[Karol]

@Giles 3mm? 5mm? 7mm?