PADI scuba divers??

[andy_s]

rhinochopig said:

andy_s said:

rhinochopig said:

andy_s said:

rhinochopig said:

-DeaDLocK- said:

lawrence567 said:

Ok,

Nice vid from SEAL BUDS training - one of their reqs is a 50m pool swim.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b614bld3V78

I was a 'Plongeur d'Abord' (ships diver) and freshwater army diver/leader in the French army, we rounded off our course with a 50m, a 'decaplage/recaplage' (unequip/equip) to 15m and various other tortures - you get used to it after 6 months spent in water every day...

Some very interesting reading, mel, I was looking at taking it all back up again a few years ago but with an intention to try to learn more technical diving (mix/rebreathers). Unfortunately a man can only have two or three expensive hobbies according to SWMBO...

(The underwater tips above are spot on - try to graze the bottom as well, but mind your nose...!)

Where you in the legion?

Does hugging the bottom help - how, I've never heard that tip before?

Yes - 2REP
As for grazing the bottom, I was taught this way under the presumption if you were a few metres down you'd have less buoyancy and so could concentrate effort on going ahead rather than going ahead and staying down - this may be completely bogus of course but it seemed to work OK.

A chap I know (marine) did the infamous assault course many many years ago on an exchange visit - The expletives he used to describe how hard it was are still ringing in my ears and fitness was his obsession

It does seem to attract an eclectic bunch of very tough individuals - my local fish&chip shop owner is ex-legion.

I bet it was an interesting experience. What made you pick the legion?

Funnily enough two things - firstly the 18 month waiting list for the British Army at the time (well, Parachute Regiment anyway - how times change) and secondly bumping into a REPtile while bumming around Europe. I asked the typical 18yr old bone question 'is it hard?' and he looked at me and said 'it's got to be hard to be worth having', which may have been a precursor to a gay rape scene but at the time I thought that was a pretty cool summation.

Eclectic is the word. I still work with guys I knew 20 years ago, we're very tight, but from a disparate source of backgrounds as you can imagine. Very nice gentlemen. We did have our fair share of the certifiably insane and the Big L is a strange place with its own mentality but, as the woman said, no regrets.

[pits]

mblade123 said:

CaptainSlow said:

lawrence567 said:

Dear Divers....

I'm after soemthing which, i'm not sure exists...
I'm looking for a small ocygen tank, you've probbaly seen them on films like james bond etc, about the size of a deoderant can that give you a few breaths of air.
Do such things exist?

yes here

http://www.spareair.com/

Air rather than oxygen though, also please don't use one for diving.

One breath from death. Well thats what we called them when we used them out in the middle east in the early 90s.

Ive read some of this thread and It beggers belief.
Ive been in the diving game for over 25 years now. Started out with SAA then did a PADI cross over to eventualy become an instructor. This was in the mid 80s when I was thinking of doing it abroad. Even then I had misgivings about thier quick turn around and money orientated ways of doing things so I jacked that in and started on the HSE comercial route eventualy working offshore with all the silly gasses, bells and deep stuff so you could say I have a little insite into what its like under the ogin.

As many have said on here 12 dives does not in any way make you a rescue dive. You may well be one on paper but when the proverbial hits the fan you WILL NOT know what to do. Panic is a wonderful thing, it sorts the men from the boys. That and experiance.

Ive seen comercial diving Instructors panic at times and its only through experiance that you can sort things out.
After only 12 dives your still getting to grips with breathing under water (One of the most unnatuarl things a person can do)let alone all the equip. Throw a person panicking into the equation and id hate to imagine the outcome.

Its not your fault its the system. Someone before me said that he had refused to be pressured by the Instructor to do his AOW because he didnt think he was ready. Good for him. he might have saved someones life in the long run.

Right thats my 2 pence worth.

On a lighter note. Good luck to you and progress slowly. In a year or twos time I hope you look back at this thread and in the words of the great Homer Simpson look at it and go "DOH"

Ever do any work with my uncle, he is/was considered one of the top rated divers around the world, and did loads of off shore work, most of it was salvage, Piper Alpha, Kursk etc.

I have been considering diving, my old man is starting to do his PPL to fly, and has asked if I want to do it, but I have no interest in flying, and considering that, half my family is from Shetland where the sea is life, I have always been lured to the sea and diving, only thing is, I will need a full face mask as I can't breath through my mouth properly, or hold anything in my mouth without feeling sick.

[rhinochopig]

pits said:

mblade123 said:

CaptainSlow said:

lawrence567 said:

Dear Divers....

I'm after soemthing which, i'm not sure exists...
I'm looking for a small ocygen tank, you've probbaly seen them on films like james bond etc, about the size of a deoderant can that give you a few breaths of air.
Do such things exist?

yes here

http://www.spareair.com/

Air rather than oxygen though, also please don't use one for diving.

One breath from death. Well thats what we called them when we used them out in the middle east in the early 90s.

Ive read some of this thread and It beggers belief.
Ive been in the diving game for over 25 years now. Started out with SAA then did a PADI cross over to eventualy become an instructor. This was in the mid 80s when I was thinking of doing it abroad. Even then I had misgivings about thier quick turn around and money orientated ways of doing things so I jacked that in and started on the HSE comercial route eventualy working offshore with all the silly gasses, bells and deep stuff so you could say I have a little insite into what its like under the ogin.

As many have said on here 12 dives does not in any way make you a rescue dive. You may well be one on paper but when the proverbial hits the fan you WILL NOT know what to do. Panic is a wonderful thing, it sorts the men from the boys. That and experiance.

Ive seen comercial diving Instructors panic at times and its only through experiance that you can sort things out.
After only 12 dives your still getting to grips with breathing under water (One of the most unnatuarl things a person can do)let alone all the equip. Throw a person panicking into the equation and id hate to imagine the outcome.

Its not your fault its the system. Someone before me said that he had refused to be pressured by the Instructor to do his AOW because he didnt think he was ready. Good for him. he might have saved someones life in the long run.

Right thats my 2 pence worth.

On a lighter note. Good luck to you and progress slowly. In a year or twos time I hope you look back at this thread and in the words of the great Homer Simpson look at it and go "DOH"

Ever do any work with my uncle, he is/was considered one of the top rated divers around the world, and did loads of off shore work, most of it was salvage, Piper Alpha, Kursk etc.

I have been considering diving, my old man is starting to do his PPL to fly, and has asked if I want to do it, but I have no interest in flying, and considering that, half my family is from Shetland where the sea is life, I have always been lured to the sea and diving, only thing is, I will need a full face mask as I can't breath through my mouth properly, or hold anything in my mouth without feeling sick.

My wife uses that excuse too.

[mblade123]

rhinochopig said:

pits said:

mblade123 said:

CaptainSlow said:

lawrence567 said:

Dear Divers....

I'm after soemthing which, i'm not sure exists...
I'm looking for a small ocygen tank, you've probbaly seen them on films like james bond etc, about the size of a deoderant can that give you a few breaths of air.
Do such things exist?

yes here

http://www.spareair.com/

Air rather than oxygen though, also please don't use one for diving.

One breath from death. Well thats what we called them when we used them out in the middle east in the early 90s.

Ive read some of this thread and It beggers belief.
Ive been in the diving game for over 25 years now. Started out with SAA then did a PADI cross over to eventualy become an instructor. This was in the mid 80s when I was thinking of doing it abroad. Even then I had misgivings about thier quick turn around and money orientated ways of doing things so I jacked that in and started on the HSE comercial route eventualy working offshore with all the silly gasses, bells and deep stuff so you could say I have a little insite into what its like under the ogin.

As many have said on here 12 dives does not in any way make you a rescue dive. You may well be one on paper but when the proverbial hits the fan you WILL NOT know what to do. Panic is a wonderful thing, it sorts the men from the boys. That and experiance.

Ive seen comercial diving Instructors panic at times and its only through experiance that you can sort things out.
After only 12 dives your still getting to grips with breathing under water (One of the most unnatuarl things a person can do)let alone all the equip. Throw a person panicking into the equation and id hate to imagine the outcome.

Its not your fault its the system. Someone before me said that he had refused to be pressured by the Instructor to do his AOW because he didnt think he was ready. Good for him. he might have saved someones life in the long run.

Right thats my 2 pence worth.

On a lighter note. Good luck to you and progress slowly. In a year or twos time I hope you look back at this thread and in the words of the great Homer Simpson look at it and go "DOH"

Ever do any work with my uncle, he is/was considered one of the top rated divers around the world, and did loads of off shore work, most of it was salvage, Piper Alpha, Kursk etc.

I have been considering diving, my old man is starting to do his PPL to fly, and has asked if I want to do it, but I have no interest in flying, and considering that, half my family is from Shetland where the sea is life, I have always been lured to the sea and diving, only thing is, I will need a full face mask as I can't breath through my mouth properly, or hold anything in my mouth without feeling sick.

My wife uses that excuse too.

Depends who your Uncle is. All the divers I know consider themselves the "best in the world". No disrespect but the amount of divers I know who have said they were on the 1st boat out to the Kursk would fill a 747. (And yes I was there but not as a diver)

[pits]

mblade123 said:

rhinochopig said:

pits said:

mblade123 said:

CaptainSlow said:

lawrence567 said:

Dear Divers....

I'm after soemthing which, i'm not sure exists...
I'm looking for a small ocygen tank, you've probbaly seen them on films like james bond etc, about the size of a deoderant can that give you a few breaths of air.
Do such things exist?

yes here

http://www.spareair.com/

Air rather than oxygen though, also please don't use one for diving.

One breath from death. Well thats what we called them when we used them out in the middle east in the early 90s.

Ive read some of this thread and It beggers belief.
Ive been in the diving game for over 25 years now. Started out with SAA then did a PADI cross over to eventualy become an instructor. This was in the mid 80s when I was thinking of doing it abroad. Even then I had misgivings about thier quick turn around and money orientated ways of doing things so I jacked that in and started on the HSE comercial route eventualy working offshore with all the silly gasses, bells and deep stuff so you could say I have a little insite into what its like under the ogin.

As many have said on here 12 dives does not in any way make you a rescue dive. You may well be one on paper but when the proverbial hits the fan you WILL NOT know what to do. Panic is a wonderful thing, it sorts the men from the boys. That and experiance.

Ive seen comercial diving Instructors panic at times and its only through experiance that you can sort things out.
After only 12 dives your still getting to grips with breathing under water (One of the most unnatuarl things a person can do)let alone all the equip. Throw a person panicking into the equation and id hate to imagine the outcome.

Its not your fault its the system. Someone before me said that he had refused to be pressured by the Instructor to do his AOW because he didnt think he was ready. Good for him. he might have saved someones life in the long run.

Right thats my 2 pence worth.

On a lighter note. Good luck to you and progress slowly. In a year or twos time I hope you look back at this thread and in the words of the great Homer Simpson look at it and go "DOH"

Ever do any work with my uncle, he is/was considered one of the top rated divers around the world, and did loads of off shore work, most of it was salvage, Piper Alpha, Kursk etc.

I have been considering diving, my old man is starting to do his PPL to fly, and has asked if I want to do it, but I have no interest in flying, and considering that, half my family is from Shetland where the sea is life, I have always been lured to the sea and diving, only thing is, I will need a full face mask as I can't breath through my mouth properly, or hold anything in my mouth without feeling sick.

My wife uses that excuse too.

Depends who your Uncle is. All the divers I know consider themselves the "best in the world". No disrespect but the amount of divers I know who have said they were on the 1st boat out to the Kursk would fill a 747. (And yes I was there but not as a diver)

Jimmy Irvine, he was part of the 17 divers chose from around the world to go down to the Kursk, he is on one of the documentaries about it, he also did salvage and body recovery on the Piper Alpha, and a few others

[Starfighter]

Dupont666 said:

Ok I will give my local place a call... does anyone have any experience of bigSquid.co.uk in Clapham? They look quite good, but if anyone knows or has had experience that would be good.

Try looking on here - www.ukdivers.com