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2nd Sunday w/ CHUM
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New To CHUM
- Thread starter outback
- Start date
Cave Diver
Nurse Shark
- First Name
- Carl
Howdy, and welcome!
B
bottomstomper
Guest
Hello, this is my first visit. I've had a diving problem since 2000. Also new to the Houston area, work for an offshore company in Louisiana.... Someone handed me a regulator in Boston, MA (i took a hit off of it....next thing i know im lying face down in the bathtub with fins and a wetsuit on... credit cards maxed out... you know how it is). Looking for support in my addiction...
Smoochy
Nurse Shark
- First Name
- Trish
If by support you mean alcohol, sure. But then that leaves you looking for support on that "problem" elsewhere.
Welcome aboard fellow n00b!
rashley in McAllen
Hi y'all,
I am Randy Ashley, user name rashley, and live in McAllen, TX. McAllen is about an hour from the coast at South Padre Island. Thanks to ReefHound for inviting me to join, and I look forward to meeting/diving with you guys.
I have been diving for 11 years and LOVE it.
Randy
Hi y'all,
I am Randy Ashley, user name rashley, and live in McAllen, TX. McAllen is about an hour from the coast at South Padre Island. Thanks to ReefHound for inviting me to join, and I look forward to meeting/diving with you guys.
I have been diving for 11 years and LOVE it.
Randy
Yankee Diver
Nurse Shark
- First Name
- Jeff
Welcome to CHUM, you may have just volunteered yourself to be the unofficial SPI tour guide when CHUM comes back down next year to dive the Clipper again.
jimdiverman
Nurse Shark
- First Name
- Jim
New to CHUM...
Greetings from your neighbor to the east, that bastion of fried seafood, hurricanes and Dixie beer; you guessed it - Louisiana. Although I don't spend much time here, they tell me its nice in May and October. All other times of the year bring your rain gear and mosquito repellent. But I know my comrades in Houston know that drill as well.
Well I started out diving when someone introduced a 2 for 1 intro course to me at the mall when I was Christmas shopping in 1998. I got PADI certified in OW, AOW and Rescue, and then faded out of the diving picture with a few exceptions for the next 7 years, until 2006 when I started diving on the live aboard Juliet out of Miami and Provo. I finished up 6 specialties on a one week trip and master scuba diver.
In May of this year, I met a friend of a friend while diving on the Oriskany and that led to continuing my training again. The friend is the owner of a local dive shop in Houston, and he introduced me to Cave Diver in June, and since then I have taken Advanced Nitrox, Deep Diver, Cavern and Twin Sets. We are trying to put together a trip to NFL in late December/early January to complete full cave. Anyone interested? On the last trip I got to meet Gary Taylor. (I am in the picture that Cave Diver posted from Little River, on the left end).
I am looking forward to going further into the tech diving realm with PSAI and Cave Diver. Right now I am in the market for a primary light; I am leaning toward the Salvo 10.4A 21W version. I also need a good dry suit. (Any recommendations?) and I think I like the Faber LP 108 twin sets. Cave Diver uses the HP-130s, but they are a bit beefy for me at present. I think I need to keep working out on my Bowflex a little longer before I can handle those comfortably.
I get to Houston occasionally for business, but am always up for a trip to go dive somewhere. Give me a shout.
Chat with you soon.
Jim
Greetings from your neighbor to the east, that bastion of fried seafood, hurricanes and Dixie beer; you guessed it - Louisiana. Although I don't spend much time here, they tell me its nice in May and October. All other times of the year bring your rain gear and mosquito repellent. But I know my comrades in Houston know that drill as well.
Well I started out diving when someone introduced a 2 for 1 intro course to me at the mall when I was Christmas shopping in 1998. I got PADI certified in OW, AOW and Rescue, and then faded out of the diving picture with a few exceptions for the next 7 years, until 2006 when I started diving on the live aboard Juliet out of Miami and Provo. I finished up 6 specialties on a one week trip and master scuba diver.
In May of this year, I met a friend of a friend while diving on the Oriskany and that led to continuing my training again. The friend is the owner of a local dive shop in Houston, and he introduced me to Cave Diver in June, and since then I have taken Advanced Nitrox, Deep Diver, Cavern and Twin Sets. We are trying to put together a trip to NFL in late December/early January to complete full cave. Anyone interested? On the last trip I got to meet Gary Taylor. (I am in the picture that Cave Diver posted from Little River, on the left end).
I am looking forward to going further into the tech diving realm with PSAI and Cave Diver. Right now I am in the market for a primary light; I am leaning toward the Salvo 10.4A 21W version. I also need a good dry suit. (Any recommendations?) and I think I like the Faber LP 108 twin sets. Cave Diver uses the HP-130s, but they are a bit beefy for me at present. I think I need to keep working out on my Bowflex a little longer before I can handle those comfortably.
I get to Houston occasionally for business, but am always up for a trip to go dive somewhere. Give me a shout.
Chat with you soon.
Jim
Cave Diver
Nurse Shark
- First Name
- Carl
Welcome to CHUM, Jim. Good to see you on here and I am looking forward to our next diving trip!
Captain HardHead
Nurse Shark
- First Name
- Doug
Welcome Jim. The Oriskany might be the trick to getting me to go tech. I've seen the Island, but want to enter the hangers and below.
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jimdiverman
Nurse Shark
- First Name
- Jim
Captain...
I'm with you. That's why I keep telling Cave Diver that he needs to get his PSAI wreck diver instructor certification so we can all go play inside the Mighty O. (Even Gary agreed with me.)
Jim
I'm with you. That's why I keep telling Cave Diver that he needs to get his PSAI wreck diver instructor certification so we can all go play inside the Mighty O. (Even Gary agreed with me.)
Jim
Cave Diver
Nurse Shark
- First Name
- Carl
You mean Advanced or Technical Wreck. I already teach the other one
jimdiverman
Nurse Shark
- First Name
- Jim
welcome jim,
I love the 108's and have a couple of sets that I sidemount. Great tanks for about 80% of my diving.....especially considering they are generally holding around 135cf
I don't know what it is exactly, but it seems like I am okay with the weight of the 108s, but the weight of the 130's seems to really tax me alot more. The listed weight empty is only 2 pounds per tank more for the 130s. Of course filled and with doubles, you are probably talking another 7 or 8 pounds though. It must just be my comfort limit at this point for the weight my body is willing to comfortably bear.
Did you need to up size your burst disk to get clearance for the overfill pressure, or is the factory burst disk adequate at the overfill pressure (since the tank is nominally 2400)?
Jim
jimdiverman
Nurse Shark
- First Name
- Jim
Yes
Yes, that one.
You mean Advanced or Technical Wreck. I already teach the other one
Yes, that one.
Cave Diver
Nurse Shark
- First Name
- Carl
All in good time.iratewithhat:
Now, back to our regularly scheduled New To CHUM programming. . . . .
iratewithhat: Now, back to our regularly scheduled New To CHUM programming. . . . .
- First Name
- Ryan
Actually the tanks are Plus rated for 2640 psi. Burst disks will hold at higher pressures but when you have 50 dollars of helium in them.....a little extra insurance is nice.
I know what you mean about that "little" bit of extra weight. That's the one reason I prefer 108's over 104's.