Any scuba divers here?

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JRay8

JRay8

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My wife and i got padi open water certified last year. we dove at a resort in jamaica and cant wait to go again. we are planning a trip in may and want to have dive computers for our next dive. we want basic/entry level (affordable) wrist mount computers as we are only certified to 60 feet and dont plan on any difficult dives. any advise on shopping for them or does anyone have a used computer or two for sale?
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I use Suunto dive computers and have been very happy with them. I have an air integrated console model and a wrist model. Have hundreds of dives on them.
 
I can't recommend any with todays tech but I'm sure you will agree its an amazing hobby. I got certified in Okinawa Japan in Dec 94 and had 75 dives in 3 months. Diving a WWII battle site was quite the adventure.
 
I used to hold a professional license as an Assistant Instructor and Divemaster - I also worked in a dive shop.

Your "basic" open water license is all you will ever need to dive, and does NOT limit you to 60 feet. In fact, one of my first open water dives after certification was down the Devil's Throat in Cozumel - well over 60 feet deep. It's all what you are comfortable with...

I've been out of the shop for about 10 years, and no longer teach - but my best recommendation is to look at Aeris computers. It looks like they still have the best bang for the buck:

DiveAeris.com - Scuba Diving Computers - XR-1 Nx

I would get a nitrox compatible computer. Most computers now appear to be air/nitrox anyway.

Suunto is another popular computer manufacturer, in that I would look at the Vyper. I never really cared for Suunto because they have more buttons to push...more buttons = more chances to make a mistake.
 
Computers... man, am I ancient, when I dove, all I had was a watch! :eek:

I got a YMCA "SKIP" certification in Texas back in 1969, vacationed in Florida that summer where it wasn't recognized so got PadI certified so we could buy air, then got my NAUI certificate when I lived in Puerto Rico and worked weekends for the dive shop next door in the early 70's.
 
I'm both impress and jealous on the diving certificate... I've been fascinated with scuba ever since I read a bunch of Cousteau's books and watched his shows on TV... never had a real inclination to learn or get certified myself especially since I'm pretty much a non-swim... I went into the navy as a non-swim and had to talk to a head shrink about why I didn't swim... I told him I lived in Texas where the deepest water was just over ankle deep, and that my mother always told me to "stay away from water until I learned to swim."....:confused::confused:

closest I ever got to scuba was when I was learning to water ski back in the early '70's and the party teaching me used to tow me under water when I would fall off the skis and forget to let go of the rope. :redface::rolleyes:
 
My wife and I dive along with our two grown children and my son's wife. We love it. Did a shark dive in the Bahama's.
My wife has a computer that plugs into the BCD. I don't know the brand nor do I know how it works. She loves it and downloads the info onto our computer at home. So, I've not been much help, have I?
Do a good turn daily!
Don
 
My wife and I used to dive about 25+ years ago. Even dove in the Bahamas on our honeymoon back in 1983. I don't think we've been since before the oldest son (now 24) was born. All the equipment is still in the closet, I'll bet it's real good shape now!
 
tim self said:
I can't recommend any with todays tech but I'm sure you will agree its an amazing hobby. I got certified in Okinawa Japan in Dec 94 and had 75 dives in 3 months. Diving a WWII battle site was quite the adventure.
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I was teaching scuba there then... Left there in May of that year, used to teach for a shop in Okinawa City. Did something like 500-800 dives a year when I wasn't deployed. Love Oki! Used to camp on Ie Shima for long weekends diving.

I owned/operated a store for 5 years in Fl when I got out. Lost my ass!

Haven't been wet in 11 years or so? Lobster season '01 last dive I think.
 
I haven't been wet in close to 6 years. Kidney failure and a good friend getting killed ended my diving. Got certified in 93 and made over 800 dives. I was into caves and the deeper stuff. I had 2 OMS wrist computers. I was never into the air integrated ones, just personal preference. Just remember- Plan your dive, and Dive your plan.
 
Got my first YMCA cert in 72, had to memorize the NAUI dive tables. Our intructor was a retired US Navy seal. Our Cert Dive was at Beaver Lake in Arkansas in December. It sleeted and snowed all weekend. Visability was 8-10 ft.

Went and recertified as PADI with my wife in the 90s got in a couple of dives in the Keys but a torn ligament in her knee ended that.
 
Wow, so many great stories. thank you for sharing. we are headed back to jamaica in may. i cant wait!
 
Long time ago I dove. We use to go off Atlantic City driving to various wrecks. The only problem you could not see more than a few feet in front of you. Loved doing it cannot anymore.
 
All you guys and 10 foot vis:biggrin:. I got certified in a quarry, (lebanon deep). It was freezing and absolute zero vis below the thermocline. But I wouldn't trade it for anything else.
 
hmmmmm

I never did go beyond just learning the basics for scuba - back in the 50's. In those days a computer would have weighed enough to substitute as an anchor on a Destroyer.
 
Got my open water Cert in Lake Mead in Nevada, you should see all the fast 454 Chevys and 427 Fords laying on the bottom of that lake!!!

No freeboard in the darn things and the fools would run 70-80 mph across the lake and come close to the beach and chop the throttle and that was the end of that, down they went! I'll never know why they didn't bring them up!
 
I'm an avid diver; love it. Always have! I don't get wet as often as I used to. I hold a PADI Divemaster cert, but never had the funds to go farther before babies, woodworking and car notes got in the way.

Suunto computers are top-notch. I admit I don't own one; I have a Dive Rite watch-style computer.

@Tim Self: I'm amazingly jealous of your WWII dive sites!

@Florida Marine: The quickest way to make a million in the dive business? Start with two million!
 
joefrog said:
I'm an avid diver; love it. Always have! I don't get wet as often as I used to. I hold a PADI Divemaster cert, but never had the funds to go farther before babies, woodworking and car notes got in the way.

Suunto computers are top-notch. I admit I don't own one; I have a Dive Rite watch-style computer.

@Tim Self: I'm amazingly jealous of your WWII dive sites!

@Florida Marine: The quickest way to make a million in the dive business? Start with two million!
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Babies, woodworking and car notes, I wonder how many of us have been down that road !! I don't remember why, but it seems like I have been there before, Is it true that you inherit insanity from your kids???
 
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