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[captain]

I have the compressor and the boat. I have dived the pretty reefs in the past but generally find them boring after a few dives.
I much prefer exploring the bottom of a place where hidden surprises might lie and no other diver or very few have gone before. Generally those places can be as close as my backyard or my neighbors backyard not an airliner ride away.
From the beginning the thrill of diving was to be able to go where no one has been and seek what may be hidden there. One of my favorite things is to spend a day in my boat on Lake Ponchatrain watching the sonor and diving on what ever contacts I get. Mostly it's a lost crab trap but you never know.

[Bryan]

NOW LISTEN UP ALL MY VINTAGE DIVING PARTNERS IN CRIME.....Take a deep breath and go read the word of the Prophet Fred Roberts from the book of "Basic Scuba"...........And all was good

[Nemrod]

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What were we talking about again Some one remind me so we can get back to it

Oh, diving will not go away, it will just become more focused and less consumerist oriented and fewer in number. I think it is a good thing that vacation divers are dwindling in number and interest. I won't lose any sleep over it and Dive Training will not have to write articals about "What it looks like when you are not an (you fill in blank)________ " type stuff or how to color coordiante your fins with your snorkel. Can you imagine that divers today do not consider scuba a sport. They claim it is a relaxing passtime/hobby . Relaxing my a----. Captain, do you relax when your fighting a fish up from the bottom?

Nem

[luis]

Dave

All this talk about safety is just like being in ScubaBoard (a.k.a. ScaryBoard). Safety is way over rated…just dive hard…take many chances…and have fun.

As we say in white water kayaking, alpine skiing and by many adrenaline junkies:
You got to live on the edge…If you are not living on the edge, you are taking too much space.

I have being hearing that one major reason the sport is loosing popularity is because it is not really a thrill seeking, adrenaline driven sport, that so many young people are looking for. It is not considered an extreme sport anymore.

Diving is a safe sport. The most dangerous part of diving (and any of my other sports) is driving to the dive site. And we are not even talking about dealing with the car drivers in Puerto Rico.

Maybe I will go and read some “Basic Scuba”.

[dhaas]

OK,

I hear all of you. All right in your choices. My point was www.vdh.com does the same thing pointing fingers at why diving isn't "like it used to be". That's all.

Living where you can invest in your own boat and have places to explore is great. I see it up here, though on the Great Lakes as Tom says, what's for him (pretty reefs, etc.) is boring up here to me. Dark, cold, iffy weather, etc. Plus wrecks with zippo marine life. Sorry, a wood deadeye or rusting steel hinge ain't that exciting to me.....

Yes Scubaboard is full of retards, too. If diving were so dangerous, all those "poodle jacketed" color coordinated outfit divers would be filling morgues every weekend.

After two large beers I've even lost what I was trying to say.

Time to go do my own version of the Australian Aborigine "Walkabout".

Later,

dhaas

[Nemrod]

Love you Dave, now go have another beer .

Nem

[swimjim]

I'm the guy who dives the Great Lakes and marvels at 150 year old shipwrecks. Yes the viz on the deeper wrecks is limited to 150 feet these days. Rough I know, but I can deal with it. There's fish life on them but it requires stealth and patience to get close. Tom dives the oil rigs, which is cool in it's own right. We'll have to dive each others fav's sometime. That's the point really. We don't have 10,000 posts and 25 dives. We go diving. Most of us were trained back in a day before the turds floated up like Scuba Board. I don't worry to much about the dive industry. It will take care of itself no matter what I do. If I need a compressor in ten years, so be it. I'll keep diving as long as I can. I don't earn a living from it. Don't want to. I'll support guys like Bryan and certain local dive shops who get it to the end.

Jim

[capn_tucker]

NOW LISTEN UP ALL MY VINTAGE DIVING PARTNERS IN CRIME.....Take a deep breath and go read the word of the Prophet Fred Roberts from the book of "Basic Scuba"...........And all was good

I have read the words of the Prophet, chief engineer of the Holy Voit many times.. I think I will look through the Blessed Book yet again..

[Scuba Cowboy]

NOW LISTEN UP ALL MY VINTAGE DIVING PARTNERS IN CRIME.....Take a deep breath and go read the word of the Prophet Fred Roberts from the book of "Basic Scuba"...........And all was good

To be perfectly honest, I'd rather have her read it to me

[captain]

I'm the guy who dives the Great Lakes and marvels at 150 year old shipwrecks. Yes the viz on the deeper wrecks is limited to 150 feet these days. Rough I know, but I can deal with it. There's fish life on them but it requires stealth and patience to get close. Tom dives the oil rigs, which is cool in it's own right. We'll have to dive each others fav's sometime. That's the point really. We don't have 10,000 posts and 25 dives. We go diving. Most of us were trained back in a day before the turds floated up like Scuba Board. I don't worry to much about the dive industry. It will take care of itself no matter what I do. If I need a compressor in ten years, so be it. I'll keep diving as long as I can. I don't earn a living from it. Don't want to. I'll support guys like Bryan and certain local dive shops who get it to the end.

Jim

Jim,
If they ever get those water heaters installed on the Great Lakes I be on the way to visit you.

[swimjim]

Well there's always global warming. Ha. Of course 30 years ago it was global cooling Look to mid to late August. Surface temps can exceed 70 with bottom temps in the 50's . I know to you that's the dead of winter. Alas for temp's, it's the best I can offer.

Jim