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| Sump Monster ![]() Current Rebreather/s: Not Bought Yet Other Rebreather/s: Not Bought Yet Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Wells, Somerset, UK
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| Re: Get to Know each other :-) Name Duncan Price Location Wells, Somerset, UK (10 mins from Wookey Hole) First Qualified Sure Rebreather Qualified Rick Stanton taught me how to dive his homebuild in about 5 minutes. Club Member CDG Highest Diving Qualification BSAC Snorkel Diver Instructor Yes/No Sort of..as former TO of Welsh Section CDG and regional examiner. What’s your standard Kit Sidemounts + homebuild Where do you usually Dive Caves Number of Dives 600 Deepest Dive 85m OC, 65m CC Longest Dive 36 hours - we dived into a cave, pushed some sumps, camped underground and came out the next day. Favourite Dive Any that I surface wiith clean underwear. Worst Dive Ones where I soil my underwear. What dive/trip would you most like to do Wakulla to the end and beyond. |
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| John Routley ![]() ![]() Current Rebreather/s: | Re: Get to Know each other :-) duncan you do make me laugh, your just so much my hero if that list came from any one else i would run a mile but from you my old mate it just deserves so much respect kind regards john routley Name Duncan Price Location Wells, Somerset, UK (10 mins from Wookey Hole) First Qualified Sure Rebreather Qualified Rick Stanton taught me how to dive his homebuild in about 5 minutes. Club Member CDG Highest Diving Qualification BSAC Snorkel Diver Instructor Yes/No Sort of..as former TO of Welsh Section CDG and regional examiner. What’s your standard Kit Sidemounts + homebuild Where do you usually Dive Caves Number of Dives 600 Deepest Dive 85m OC, 65m CC Longest Dive 36 hours - we dived into a cave, pushed some sumps, camped underground and came out the next day. Favourite Dive Any that I surface wiith clean underwear. Worst Dive Ones where I soil my underwear. What dive/trip would you most like to do Wakulla to the end and beyond.
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| New Member Current Rebreather/s: Inspiration Vision Other Rebreather/s: Join Date: May 2006 Location: Nottingham
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| Re: Get to Know each other :-) Name Alex Location Nottingham, moving to York First Qualified August 2002 Rebreather Qualified December 2006 Club Member Octagon Divers in Nottingham; I'll be looking for some friendly club in York area soon Highest Diving Qualification OC Adv. Tx, Inspiration MOD1 Instructor Yes/No no What other training have you found most rewarding GUE Fundamentals What’s your standard Kit Inspiration Vision Where do you usually Dive I am not a big traveller- mostly dive in the UK (lots of training dives in Stoney-my back yard pond + Scapa, South Coast, Donegal ) , also Crimea and Red Sea Number of Dives ca. 450 Deepest Dive 84m, Agness Blakie off Balaklava, Crimea Longest Dive 120 min Favourite Dive Agness Blakie, Justicia Worst Dive Never had really bad dives. Possibly the ones which took a lot of effort for preparation and never happened for no reason What dive/trip would you most like to do Flying Enterprise; Florida caves; deep wrecks of Crimea; ....... long list...... What ONE other question should I have included? Is your partner a (technical / rebreather) diver? No; she even can't swim |
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| Yak Current Rebreather/s: MK 15.X Home Build Other Rebreather/s: Classic Kiss Home Build Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: North...
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| Re: Get to Know each other :-) Name Stuart Location The backwoods of the northwest on the horse & carrot plains First Qualified Started diving in 1992, was told to get a cert in 1994 Rebreather Qualified IANTD Rebreather Diver after 20min on a Cis Lunar in Kirkintilloch pool in 1995 Club Member CDG Highest Diving Qualification CDG QD as it lets you use just about anything Instructor Yes/No It was suggested I rethink my career when I tried so no. What other training have you found most rewarding Training with an Argentinian freediver in Thailand. Really enjoyed learning SRT for caving, first training trip on rope was into Alum Pot via the Long Churn with snow coming down the shaft, it was great. What’s your standard Kit Classic KISS reinforced with duct tape. Where do you usually Dive Caves or west coast of Scotland for the sea Number of Dives Stopped logging at 1000, probably 2500'ish Deepest Dive 124m OC, 98m CCR Longest Dive About 4hrs in Trou Madame in France or 6hrs in Murrayfield recompression chamber ![]() Favourite Dive The Ressel in France Worst Dive The Ressel in France, triple light failure with deco bottles not staged on the line What dive/trip would you most like to do St Kilda, west coast Canada or Alaska, I like cold, clear water What ONE other question should I have included? I've just been watching the news and it's been annoying me... Where do they find ski masks in the Middle East? It must be about 100deg
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| New member ![]() Current Rebreather/s: | Re: Get to Know each other :-) Name Nigel V. Hewitt I do have a middle name but I don't normally tell it to Americans as it only gets me into trouble. They aren't always sure what a Nigel is but they know for sure that a Vivian is a girl, I just spell it funny. The day a company show at Comdex in Las Vegas involved me arriving jet lagged to hell and back and discovering I was rooming with somebody called Chris so I left a note and crashed out... You can guess the rest. Location Brighton, Sussex, UK Less than 600 meters from where we park the club boats. First Qualified OC 1998 It all stated with a try dive on holiday like it does for so many people. Only my holiday was an archaeological trip to the Orkney Islands so the try dive was in a dry suit in Scarpa Flow. Rebreather Qualified Inspiration TDI mod 1 in 2002 IANTD Mod 2 in 2004 Club Member Sussex Diving Club BSAC Nautical Archaeological Society British Freediving Association Highest Diving Qualification AIDA ** Freediver (You wanted the one that took the most work and gave the highest sense of smug self satisfaction I assume.) Instructor Yes/No BSAC ADI (the lowest rung of the ladder) What other training have you found most rewarding Diving probably the NAS Airlift course or maybe it was Martyn Farr on Caverns for muppets. What’s your standard Kit Inspiration Vision but it's not standard kit. Add suit inflate tank, Bob Howell's ADV and BOV. Reg on the O2 with shutoffs). Metalsub brackets on both sides for clip ons. Then, if appropriate, add two 7L/232bar stages containing bottom mix and 100% with injection whips and fill the pockets with spares and hang on blobs and reels. Where do you usually Dive UK South Coast Number of Dives Only 250 total of which just over 100 are on the CCR. As I dive 'more tech' I seem to dive less often. I don't get a huge amount of time to just go and dive. Also I have a very silly hobby for somebody who gets seasick very easily. Deepest Dive 60 meters. Most of the stuff I'm interested in is in the 40-60m range. Longest Dive 2 hours. I claim I don't like hanging on a string but the deco does seem to add up if you want to spend time understanding a lump of rusty metal. Favourite Dive Elisabeth Osborne : 1820 wooden wreck (classic fat-bottomed shape) in the Gulf of Finland. I really didn't think there were things like that left to dive. Worst Dive Some shallow reef with a badly packed scrubber (suicide 101). What dive/trip would you most like to do Jutland. It's booked for next May. I'm sure I'll find another one after that. It would be sad if there was one key 'must do' dive and everything from then on was down hill. What ONE other question should I have included? Do you want to buy my torch? I suppose I should acknowledge how much help I've had over the years. I came to diving relatively late in life (48) and I've had some problems. Being a working physicist may make the theory easy but the in water skills have been hard work at times. Then my track bike racing caught up with me and I thought the heart attack would finish diving but no, the medical people beat me up every year but pass me to dive. I've needed more time and more help from instructors, buddies and others and I appreciate it.
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| CK #051 Current Rebreather/s: Classic Kiss Other Rebreather/s: Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Bury St Edmunds, UK
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| Re: Get to Know each other :-) Name Dave Location East Anglia, miles from good vis. First Qualified 2003 Rebreather Qualified 2007 Club Member BSAC Highest Diving Qualification PSAI Mod1 Instructor Yes/No Nearly... What other training have you found most rewarding HGV, Driving BIG trucks... ![]() What’s your standard Kit CK 5s &/or 3s, single 7 bailout. Where do you usually Dive was Scotland, but now South east coast. Number of Dives 250 ish Deepest Dive 53m (Weilhelm, Norway.) Longest Dive ~1.5 hours Favourite Dive Frankenwald (Norway again) Worst Dive Shore dive in Dunbar Scotland, at night, on a windy day, Washing machine dive. Only after the dive did we see how bad the sea was, when it sprayed us as is washed over the harbour wall, as we got changed... What dive/trip would you most like to do Saratoga. What ONE other question should I have included? Who is your worst dive buddy, A my wife.... ![]() |
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| RBW Member Current Rebreather/s: | Re: Get to Know each other :-) Name Cameron Takacs Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada First Qualified 1999 Rebreather Qualified 2004 Club Member No Highest Diving Qualification HSE part 2 Instructor Yes/No yes, Not Rebreather What other training have you found most rewarding On the Job trainning What’s your standard Kit Stock Classic Kiss Where do you usually Dive Great Lakes Number of Dives A bunch Deepest Dive 50 meters on the Rebreather Longest Dive 4 hours Favourite Dive The Lilly King drift in the St. Lawrence river Worst Dive There have been some bad ones at work What dive/trip would you most like to do Any Trip, I never travel for fun What ONE other question should I have included?[/quote]
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| Cap Ron scourge of the NW ![]() Current Rebreather/s: | Re: Get to Know each other :-) Name Ron (duh) 42yoa, losing my hair and my mind. LocationThe Oregon coast, at the Columbia River Bar, also known as the Graveyard of the Pacific, 2,000 shipwrecks within 50 miles First Qualified98 Rebreather Qualified'00 Club MemberYup, NWdivebuddies Highest Diving Qualification mod 5, CCR Cave Instructor Yes/No Meg, Jetsam, CCR What other training have you found most rewardingSwiftwater rescue training, Maritime Institute (for USCG Masters License) What’s your standard Kit Meg, oxycheq harness and wing, pair of 40cf or pair of 80cf alum depending on depth/runtime. Green force LED light, USIA drysuit, OMS slipstream lightweight fins, Draeger Panarama Nova FFM. Where do you usually DivePuget sound, Washington, Nanaimo, BC, Canada, Playa Del Carmen Mexico Number of Divesover 500 Deepest Dive400fsw Longest Dive3 hours Favourite Diveone with a mission Worst Divethat one where I got that little bend in the elbow What dive/trip would you most like to doLooking at Truk What ONE other question should I have included? Why are you here playing on the net when you could be out diving? or, Whats your sign, Sailor?
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| Al Delisle Current Rebreather/s: Megalodon Other Rebreather/s: Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Victoria BC Canada
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| Re: Get to Know each other :-) Name Al Location Victoria, British Columbia First Qualified PADI OW 1982 Rebreather Qualified 2007 MOD 1 Club Member No Highest Diving Qualification ANDI TRI-MIX Diver IANTD MOD 1 Instructor Yes/No No What other training have you found most rewarding All of it What’s your standard Kit CCR-Megolodon (soon anyway) Where do you usually Dive Cold water of PNW Number of Dives 1100+ on OC 6 CCR (newbie) Deepest Dive 250 OC 150 CCR Longest Dive 99 Mins Favourite Dive Any dives that take a lot of planning to execute. Worst Dive I had a lot of bad dives, can remember the worst one What dive/trip would you most like to do Truk lagoon What ONE other question should I have included? |
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| . ![]() Current Rebreather/s: Megalodon Other Rebreather/s: Join Date: Feb 2005
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| Re: Get to Know each other :-) Name Tim Location Minnesota (Oh ya, you betcha) First Qualified NASDS - 1978 Rebreather Qualified 2005 Club Member I am leery of any club that would have me as a member Highest Diving Qualification Trimix (OC/CCR) Cave Instructor Yes/No absolutely not What other training have you found most rewarding Tom Mount & I had some nice conversations about martial arts What’s your standard Kit Meg (well, it started out as one anyway...) Where do you usually Dive Wreck Valley (NE US), Florida (caves _and_ wrecks...ooooh). Trying to get into the minnesotan groove Number of Dives stopped counting/logging Deepest Dive 328-ish feet Longest Dive 3.5 hours Favourite Dive the caves, man, the caves Worst Dive Recent Key West trip where _every_ dive resulted in a gear malfunction What dive/trip would you most like to do Wakulla, Britannic, Fitzgerald Last edited by trob09 : 18th June 2007 at 02:34. |
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