Greetings Northwest Divers! And thank you for letting me join your club. I lived in Seattle for 5 years, we moved down to Arizona for 2 years, and in about 2 weeks we are moving back! In January of 2004 the in laws and I went on a eastern carribean cruise. I really never had the desire to scuba dive, the thought sort of scared me. All that pressure, the bends!!!
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Ha ha! Well my brother-in-law was going to take a dive class on the ship and I couldn't let him out do me, so I joined him. We did our pool dives on the ship, 2 open water in St. Thomas and 2 open water in Nassau. I was HOOKED! Nassau has a lot of reef sharks and we dove on the set where they were filming "Into the Blue" but that is another story. Back home in Seattle, 2 months later, I did one dive in Redondo. Froze. Then 6 months later my buddy brother-in-law and I went to Nainaimo and worked on our advanced openwater. Well, I didn't finish because of seasickness.
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We moved to Arizona and I waited to dive, waited to dive, ](*,) longed for a dive. Finally this may I got the chance to go on a weekend dive trip to San Carlos, Mexico San Carlos is supposed to have excellent vis. But for some reason, this particular weekend, it was horrible. I joked, “Hey this is just like being back in the Puget Sound again.” But I finished my advanced class and got nitro certified at the same time. So it wasn’t a total loss. Over the next couple weeks I got the chance to do 4 more dives in Lake Pleasant, here in Phoenix. The vis sucks here in the lake too. But even so I found myself starting to like it. Just so long as I got to dive. Now we’re moving back to Seattle and I’m definitely interested in taking a dry suit course and diving with some of you.
-Brian