Re: I thought this was a SCUBA forum
- From: "Geo" <ghmorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 12 Oct 2005 13:19:22 -0700
Whistler wrote:
>
> George was not strictly DIR when I dove with him in Florida. How close
> depended on your point of view, I think. He didn't like jet fins, I
> think he had a recreational rig with the SPG on the inflator hose, stuff
> like that. But I'd say the closer you got to issues of deco, gas choice,
> bottle marking, etc. the closer you'd find him to DIR.
What Whistler says.
I did move to jets when I went cave and also found they worked better
on wrecks. Still have some bad habits like a computer on single-tank
rig plus a few others like rigging the SPG on my shoulder.
>
> Fitness was an issue with him taking a GUE course, if I recall
> correctly, and he switched to a NAUI instructor who was a really nice
> guy (I met him) and whom George maintained was an excellent diver and
> instructor.
Fitness was definitely an issue. Have since lost 80 pounds, more like
130 by next summer. Will be nice. I'm all IANTD. Tony Phillips for
Trimix, Mikey Rodriguez for Cave. I believe you're thinking of Tony who
also taught NAUI recreational programs.
http://www.leapoffaith.ws/aboutus.htm
> Since George regularly did wrecks by himself that I
> probably will never do, I'd say he was right.
>
Mostly dove with Al Wells, Kathy Rose and the guys from AUE. All
excellent divers. Al filled in most of the blanks left after courses
and generally kept me on the straight and narrow, AUE guys were "do it
every week" experts. Amazing bunch to dive with.
I have photographic proof of quasi-DIR status, sometimes much more
quasi- than DIR :)
http://tinyurl.com/aqrxv (bottom left and next page bottom right).
> But when George and I joined Mike Blitch on that liveaboard to the Dry
> Tortugas, you didn't have to be in the know to separate that boat into
> them and us. Our gear, our profiles, our activities pretty much divided
> us from the rest, even Eric, Mike's friend and the shop owner who
> organized the trip.
>
Mike is a walking/talking poster for DIR. Amazing diver, super guy.
>
> They were all off shooting as many fish as they could see, going as deep
> as they could as fast as they could, shooting back to the surface at
> twice the speed we were. Many of them were wearing 3mm shorties. I was
> in a full 3mm with hood, George was in a 5mm I think, also with hood,
> and Mike ditched his wetsuit after the first dive and switched to his
> drysuit.
>
I dive dry sometimes. Bought a CLX-450, big mistake, should have been a
tri-lam.
>
> The three of us ended up doing two drift dives together at the end of
> the second day. Everyone else disappeared off to the left and right in
> search of game. We drifted long, slow and shallow, riding the current
> in a very quiet fashion, coming up well after all the others.
>
> When it came time for the night dive on the air force communications
> tower, George, Mike and I were the only ones awake. The captain called
> the dive based on the fact that the surface current was running one way,
> the wind another and the swell was passing 6ft. We had a good time
> lighting up the air force communications tower with our HID lights, but
> I've always regretted that the conditions kept us from diving because
> I think it would have been quite fun.
>
The trip back was amusing too. :)
Geo
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