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Any of y'all scuba dive besides Maurice?

I'm working on the book now and supposed to do the test and confined dives when we go to Florida. This chit is confusing!!

i'd be willing to bet noah could tell ya anything ya need to know

I have been cerified for a long time. Just relax and everything will be fine.

Have you seen the PADI open water diver manual??? They ask you questions about stuff that are worded COMPLETELY different than how they word it in the text!!!! Confuses the chit out of me. I'm not exactly the sharpest text book knife in the drawer anyway. Give me a dog or a horse with a problem, and generally I can fix it, but ask me who the 4th president was and you'll get a blank stare.

Here is an example....


"What part of the boat is the Bridge?"

This is what the exact text reads.

"A boat's bathroom is called the head, and the kitchen is the galley. The steering wheel is called the helm, which is found on the Bridge. The bridge is often in the wheelhouse, a cabin with all the controls that make the boat do what the captain wants (most of the time)."

Now correct me if I am wrong, but that does not tell you WHAT the bridge is, it only tells you what is found on it, and where it is.

How bout this, the bridge is the driver's seat, the wheel house is the cab of the truck.

Have you been talking to my husband ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? That is EXACTLY what he told me down to the word. I understand what it is now, but it does not say anywhere in the text what it is, only where it is.

Hahaha, ask away son  ;D

Umm, son? SON?? Who you taking to boy? I am a WOMAN lol  ;D

I will work on it tomorrow and ask any questions I have.

Hahaha, sorry  ;D  I half ass read this on my phone without seein' who posted it lol!!!

Shoot, I thought your husband was a rig diver?  You got to know your chit to do that stuff

I'm glad that you could see I was joking.

Maurice isn't a rig diver, he is over the remote controlled subs. He just dives for the fun of it.

Well any questions you have I'd be happy to answer... as for "certification"... IMO... all it's good for is giving you the ability to fill tanks when you need them...  the REAL education comes from diving yourself, and diving with masters when you can... I lost interest in scuba once I got past OW2... about that time some people too close to me got hurt doing "standard" profile dives...  scuba has a level of uncertainty to it... each person is affected differently at extreme depth... and unless you're a navy diver with a deco tank waiting on you... diving at depths greater than 100' on scuba is (albeit a small probability) like playing russian roullete...

Had several guys I know take a "hit" at depth and get paralyzed.... EXPERIENCED deep divers.  One went down to pull out a stuck anchor and when he went to yank the thing out, a nitrogen bubble formed in his spine and that was it.

I can freedive just as deep as any scuba and not have to worry about that chit.   Less gear, less drag, and less headaches...  when scuba friends have to get in the boat to do their deco's... I just keep diving  ;) ;D

... I've dove with kooks that had certs out the wazoo... book smarts, however,  don't translate well at depth when chit hits the fan haha  ;) ;D

Noah, you'll understand what I mean by saying this.

Maurice says that diving has the same phsycogical effect that riding a horse at night with a full moon gives you. That feeling of excitement but also anticipation because you can't see that far ahead. Does that make sense?

I can't say that I am not scared to death, because I am, but Maurice, and his best friend, Deano, will be my instructors and they are both master divers as well and extreme safety nuts from working offshore, and deano is ex military so I don't think there is much to worry about recklessness.

Is the test multiple choice or fill in the blank?

Little bit of both.

(http://i1080.photobucket.com/albums/j325/pigrig1/IMG_1401.jpg) me on the right with my two brothers that live in san francisco  on a week dive trip in fiordland nz.

pigrig you should go to the doctor and get that taken care of. I have heard of guys getting crabs but that look really scary ;D

I have been diving since I was 8. I am 36 now.

The book and most of the class is the dive tables. Which are mostly run by dive computers now. But you SHOULD know them! Compression sickness can and will kill you and is no fun.

Everything else under the water you will gain by experience. Have fun and enjoy yourself.

Be safe and be cautious and you will be fine.