The New Scuba Diving Forum

[dirtydog]

The New Scuba Diving Forum is now open, several dive schools and shops will be posting info about their companies, their courses, their dives etc over the next few weeks, if you have any questions about courses or anything then please post them in the appropiate forum, ie Mermaids if your interested in diving from the Pattaya area etc etc etc.

The New Diving Forum click here

[Marmite the Dog]

And if your name is Kingwillykfugfg, stop posting crap in there.

[danbo]

I took a scuba diving course once. We had to train in a gravel pit in West London - it was bloody freezing. It's hard to get across just how much I hated it and just how bad I was at it. An indication of my skill level was that I unscrewed the air connection of my 'buddy' whilst I was checking their kit....To my eternal shame I also took a pee in the wet-suit that I had borrowed from the instructor.

What interested me was that people were going to dive in the gravel pit for enjoyment on a Sunday Morning - An hour getting ready, icy water, 20 minutes under taking careful note of depth against time to guard against getting bendy and then another hour getting out of the bloody kit and washing it......and all to float about in water with a visibility measured in centimetres....The only good part from my point of view was that wearing the kit out of water made everyone walk like penguins....I'd have no problem getting up early on a Sunday morning to meet up with like minded people and walk about like penguins, but I dammned if I want to get wet.

[slimboyfat]

congratulations on the new section.

wonder if macha was planning on having one on his website too

[Marmite the Dog]

^ After 9 months you'd think he'd have it sorted, but it seems he is just as cluless now as he was back then.

[dirtydog]

wonder if macha was planning on having one on his website too

No idea, we have lots more stuff in the pipeline but if we opened everything up at the same time we would have too many inactive forums, but most months we open a new section.

[kingwilly]

And if your name is Kingwillykfugfg, stop posting crap in there.

Hey - does that mean I've been banned from a room within the unbannable forum ? Smeg and Kerux will be jealous!

[Thetyim]

I'm devastated.
I was hoping for the Beastiality Forum this month.

[slimboyfat]

I'm devastated.
I was hoping for the Beastiality Forum this month.

and i bet you have many pictures just waiting to be posted there

[Thetyim]

Only one actually, but it is a good 'un.
A farang and a young camel.

Never mind, let's keep our fingers crossed for next month.

[dirtydog]

I took a scuba diving course once

I took 2 scuba diving courses in the UK, I passed with flying colors on both until it came to the time for the outside of the nice warm swimming pool bit, those foks expected me in January to go into some gravel pit or some dodgy part of the Sea around England and enjoy it, the gravel pit had ice on it and the highlight was some old dumped car with a visibility of about 2 foot, the sea dives I didn't even ask about as normal people in the UK do not go into the Sea in January, so I dropped out of both classes, I mean you have to be insane or on a real lot of money to go into the sea in the UK in January, luckily I was neither, I think something like that would shrivel up your bollocks for life.

[mad_dog]

Do they run courses on muff diving?

[Marmite the Dog]

Do they run courses on muff diving?

You'd better ask GoW.

[DrAndy]

How about some good info on snorkelling

most places I have been to around Thailand do not compare very well with other locations

there must be some goodies..easy to reach would be an advantage

[danbo]

Snorkelling! That was another bloody disaster. You'd think it would be easy wouldn't you, breathing through a short tube - It's not you know, I was a hopeless wreck coughing and spluttering....made a right fool of myself. I just considerate it fortunate that I had a go in the shop first, goodness knows what would have happened if I had tried it in water.

[barbaro]

I got my PADI certification from a course in Utila, Honduras in 1994. Very beautiful. Tropical fish, great visibility. We also did a night dive.
Probably did about 20 dives after getting certified.

Stupidly, I never mailed in my PADI log to the organization to get my PADI card.

If I ever dive again I'll have to take the course over again, not just thre refresher.

Diving is a wonderful and beauful experience.

As for DD diving in the Wintery UK waters, with low visibility, I feel the same way.

The course in my hometown are in bone-chilling freezing water with hardly any visibility at all.

Happy diving.

[keeshouAhDoGe]

Got my first three licenses at Puerto Galerro in Mindero, Philippines. Nice diving there and the Dive Masters and Instructors lived there for years, so they knew the dive sites well.

Good visibility (not quite as good as the Similans) and less expensive than Thailand.

[forreachingme]

Got my first three licenses at Puerto Galerro in Mindero, Philippines. Nice diving there and the Dive Masters and Instructors lived there for years, so they knew the dive sites well.

Good visibility (not quite as good as the Similans) and less expensive than Thailand.

funny drift dives there ! Island channels

Current is strong, speed diving, the group has to be bound, if the instructor or leader knows well the area it is really nice, pass arches, stop after bigger rocks, really enjoyed diving there, if i remember well it was off coast from Sabang Beach...

[keeshouAhDoGe]

Current is strong, speed diving, the group has to be bound, if the instructor or leader knows well the area it is really nice, pass arches, stop after bigger rocks, really enjoyed diving there, if i remember well it was off coast from Sabang Beach...

Yes, you go past Sabang and out to an area called the 'canyons". There is a shark cave there as well and sometimes the currents really rip, for some excellent drift diving.

[Roc]

Do they run courses on muff diving?

Ken should start a company in Pattaya,he'd make a mint!