frogfish 5 Posted March 10, 2007 Once you have all the required paperwork to demonstrate you have the necessary paperwork, it's also necessary to file another copy of everything with the Department of Redundancy Department again. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Graham Abbott 0 Posted March 10, 2007 Another relatively new diver here... Just hope I pass as advanced with all you old skool divers out there PADI Open Water 1996 PADI OWSI 1998, now in none teaching status! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fotofish 0 Posted March 10, 2007 Oh what the heck I might as well join in. PADI 1970 PADI OWSI 1975 SSI Nitrox 1999 Have a great day and enjoy life Stephen Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
frogfish 5 Posted March 12, 2007 (edited) No, but here are some courses and certifications I'm definitely interested in! PADI Fork Foot specialty - 5 days intensive training in the special techniques of using split fins. PADI Advanced Macho All-Black Gear specialty - Looking cool! PADI Enriched Nachos Underwater Gas Crisis Emergency Rescue Specialty - Stand back everyone! We may have to cut away the wetsuit. Madre de Dios! PADI Post-Dive Ethanol + Citrus Blending Specialty - Daiquiris? Mojitos? PADI OW - Gee, that hurt. Elite training in enduring extreme pain (repetitive dives while listening to Rap music). PADI BOW WOW - Canine diver, limited to max depth of 24 meters or length of the yard. No pit bulls or St. Bernards. PADI AOW - That really hurt! PADI WAAAAH - New certification level for precocious customers divers aged 3-6 years. PADI Recreational Ballistic Hazard Recovery Specialty - Qualified to sneak onto gold courses at night with scuba gear and a mesh bag! PADI Investigative Diver Specialty - Find out who is the father of Ana Nicole Smith's baby! More? Robert Edited March 12, 2007 by frogfish Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
John Bantin 101 Posted March 12, 2007 I just remembered... Last year I went off to do a PADI open Water Diver course with Nitrox included, for an article in Diver. Everyone wondered if I'd pass They made it more difficult because, blimey, they did it in German! (I don't understand a word.) I bluffed my way through! I amazed me that on Day One I was surounded by frightened newcomers and by Day Four they were all experts! They never sent me a certificate though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wagsy 0 Posted March 12, 2007 I handed my PADI instrutor rating back in 2000. They then asked my why Kept my SSI one though just so I had one. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NickJ 2 Posted March 12, 2007 BSAC 3rd Class 1970 BSAC 2nd Class 1980 CMAS Troisieme Etoile (three star) 1980 PADI Nitrox 2005 I got some spear-fishing awards in the sixties, but not so proud of those these days ... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DeanB 19 Posted March 12, 2007 Holy cow Nick, You passed your BSAC 3rd class when I was 1 years old... Have a beer on me old timer... Dive safe DeanB Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NickJ 2 Posted March 13, 2007 Eee it were tough in our day! Six months for a BSAC Third Class after regular night classes and passing a certified Snorkel Diver course before we were allowed anywhere near the sea with a tank; none of this namby pamby Open Water Diver in three days stuff by greenhorns who wouldn't know the difference between Boyle's Law and Sod's Law even if it blew their eardrums off. And beer, I could tell you about beer! After the one 30minute dive of the day in 40degrees F off Durdle Door in March, and with feet so numb you could walk on broken glass without feeling anything because you never got round to finishing glueing the bootees in that kit you had to cut out, we'd spend the rest of the day around a warm fire in a pub and tell each other how great the dive was because the viz had improved to five feet after yesterday's rain had cleared! Still, diving in the new millenium with a bloody walking stick sucks a bit, even if it can be useful as a staff to bump off over friendly tiger sharks Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
frogfish 5 Posted March 13, 2007 (edited) Still, diving in the new millenium with a bloody walking stick sucks a bit, even if it can be useful as a staff to bump off over friendly tiger sharks Here's an idea, Nick (one codger to an another). With the boomer generation (about the only ones who can afford diving kit or trips these days) moving toward their (ok, our) golden years, what about a folding zimmer frame BC made from marine-grade stainless. Plenty of places to hang or hook bits of kit. I could bolt my camera housing to the crossbar or something. And the tech version, which would cost more of course, could be black. Edited March 13, 2007 by frogfish Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Drew 0 Posted March 13, 2007 Village People Certified '88 IANTD Trimix/Rebreather 95/96 Bahasa "Rice" DM (haven't done the practical for OWSI yet and I don't think I ever will) 00 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
frogfish 5 Posted March 13, 2007 Village People Certified '88IANTD Trimix/Rebreather 95/96 Bahasa "Rice" DM (haven't done the practical for OWSI yet and I don't think I ever will) 00 Village People took me a minute, and I'm from San Francisco too. But I'm sure you were the cutest in your whole class! OK, OK, here's mine CMAS "Bahasa" 1-Star '93 (w/ Markus Tolang at Maumere) PADI AOW '98 (w/ Larry Smith, at Kungkungan Bay) PADI Rescue Diver '00 (w/ Dave Collett, at Puerto Galera) PADI EAD/Nitrox '01 (w/ Dave Collett, at Puerto Galera) IANTD Deep Air '05 (w/ Avandy Djunaidi, in Bali) NickJ: I'm told that Mares has pre-empted us on marketing the underwater Zimmerframe-built-into-a-BC. But they don't call it that, they call it the "HUB". Robert Delfs Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Drew 0 Posted March 13, 2007 Village People took me a minute, and I'm from San Francisco too. But I'm sure you were the cutest in your whole class! Hey hey, the Village People certification was done in Boston under my university. And there was definitely no cuties in my class. I was hoping to jump in on the Wellesley classes but got disqualified for being the wrong gender... the nerve! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Steve Jones 0 Posted March 13, 2007 (edited) learned with BSAC in '86 then did my PADI OWSI in Malta 1992 with none other than John Bantin.... small world Steve Edited March 13, 2007 by Steve Jones Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
John Bantin 101 Posted March 14, 2007 learned with BSAC in '86 then did my PADI OWSI in Malta 1992 with none other than John Bantin.... small world Steve Yes Steve, and you were a pretty boy then with girls's hair, and I was in my prime.... How things get turned around, eh? JB Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
frogfish 5 Posted March 14, 2007 Bad luck, John - You should have kept that portrait of Dorian Gray. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
John Bantin 101 Posted March 14, 2007 Bad luck, John - You should have kept that portrait of Dorian Gray. Was he in a '60s rock band too? (Only joking!) I've reached the time in my life when waking up each morning is the most important thing I do. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Steve Jones 0 Posted March 15, 2007 Yes Steve, and you were a pretty boy then with girls's hair, and I was in my prime.... How things get turned around, eh? JB definately had girl's hair, but I wouldn't have described myself as pretty BTW, was it you that played Tom Selleck's stunt double in Magnum P.I. S Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DeanB 19 Posted March 15, 2007 Holy crap... I always wondered what happened to the great 'Chuck Norris'... Dive safe DeanB Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
frogmansub 0 Posted March 15, 2007 John, have you still got the leather chaps that went with the 'tache ? JP Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
John Bantin 101 Posted March 15, 2007 John, have you still got the leather chaps that went with the 'tache ? JP I say, I know a lot of jolly good chaps. What are you alluding to? Are you intimating I might be...you know...French! Jean Bon Temps Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kelpfish 15 Posted March 15, 2007 BASCI OW 1976 NAUI OW 1981 (because I had to for some damn marine biology certification) PADI Instructor 1984 Beer Belly Certification 2007 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
