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Taking the Scuba Diving classes.

thefuzz

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Always wanted to take diving lessons but never made the time (yet).

I bought scuba lessons for the wife years ago which turned out to be a horrible gift considering she has had numerous surgeries for Crohn's disease and her intestines could rupture if she goes past a depth of about 10 feet (or something like that). Whoops....my bad, and I thought the vacuum I bought her one year for Christmas was a bad gift!

So how long do you have to go to get certified?

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Always wanted to take diving lessons but never made the time (yet).

I bought scuba lessons for the wife years ago which turned out to be a horrible gift considering she has had numerous surgeries for Crohn's disease and her intestines could rupture if she goes past a depth of about 10 feet (or something like that). Whoops....my bad, and I thought the vacuum I bought her one year for Christmas was a bad gift!

So how long do you have to go to get certified?

Dang, that sucks.

It's 3, 4 hour classes, so 12 classroom and pool hours. Plus, one Lake dive and an open water dive (deep sea). So far it's fun, the book part of it is a little boring, but certainly useful.

Looking online at spear guns now.

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Cool!

I'd use SCUBA certification to go down to the Cooper River in SC for some Megalodon teeth...

I snorkeled in the Bahamas and dove to a depth of like 25 feet... My head felt like it was in a vise...

Hopefully I will be grouper fishing 20 miles off Wrightsville Beach within the next few weeks. I can't wait.

Yea, holding your breath while going more than 10 feet, and breathing while you are decending below 10 feet is much different.

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Got certified on Guam about 8 years ago.

Used to dive all the time while I was on the island, not really gone since I have been back.

It is a lot of fun and something everyone should know how to do just in case global warmist are right.

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Just started them, pretty stoked to start spear fishing.

Should be good times.

Any divers on this board?

I used to be certified. Loved it! I thought that salvage diving sounded like fun! I dove some old quarries where I froze my cajones off! Then I scuba'd in Hawaii with the fishes.

There used to be a dive shop in Matthews that was either named or had a sign in the window that read, "WATER SPORTS!" I looked at that one day and told my GF, that's not what I remember "WATER SPORTS" being about. :D

She told me I was being disgusting. (This form a woman, who when we were about to have an argument, would flash her breasts at me. I always forgot what we were about to argue about!)

I had a subscription to "Skin Diver" (no jokes) for about 20 years. At one time, I had 3 different masks and 4 set of fins, depending on what I wanted to do. I always wanted to do a HALO jump into the water!

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Dang, that sucks.

It's 3, 4 hour classes, so 12 classroom and pool hours. Plus, one Lake dive and an open water dive (deep sea). So far it's fun, the book part of it is a little boring, but certainly useful.

Looking online at spear guns now.

When I was in college, a class mate of mine designed a spear gun that worked off the pressure in your tank. If your talk got to low , then it had a safety device and wouldn't fire. It sure beat the heck out of the old bungy cord guns! I think it was put into production.

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