Certification Level and Specialties

[lars2923]

Place your certification level and specialities here so others may find you.

[lars2923]

PADI Oxygen First Aid
PADI Rescue Diver
PADI Medic First Aid
PADI Instructor CPR/AED
PADI Divemaster
American Red Cross CPR/AED for the Professional
PADI Multilevel
PADI Night
PADI Peak Performsnce Bouyancy
PADI Deep
PADI Enriched Air
PADI Underwater Naturalist
PADI Wreck
PADI Computer
PADI Underwater Navigator
PADI Advance Open Water
PADI Master Scuba Diver
PADI Diving Society
IANTD Optima Rebreather
IANTD Advanced Recreational Trimix
Drysuit
Videographer
PADI IDC (02/24 - 04/13)
Passed the IE 4/14/07- Now PADI OWSI
Working on PADI MSDT

[Sarah]

Lars,

So you're saying you're new to diving?!

Sarah

[Cezar Melo]

CMAS Open Water
CMAS Advanced
CMAS Diver Master
PADI Enriched Air
PDIC Medic First Aid
PDIC Rescue Diver
PDIC Instructor Assistent

see ya.

[gobfish1]

just remember , boys and girls

You can buy the gear, you can buy the cards and if you kiss the right ass, you can buy the boat ride but you can never buy experience.

[lars2923]

Yea,

Been diving for a little bit. Sort of become the mother hen when
it comes to watching others. Alway thinking about the safety of
others, thats why the training. I don't want to be unprepared.
Having a well rounded Knowledge base, using something learned
in one area to apply to another has really rounded out my abilities.
My friends say of there is anyone they would want to be lost at
sea with, it Lars.

It's a way of life.

[deep flight]

just remember , boys and girls

You can buy the gear, you can buy the cards and if you kiss the right ass, you can buy the boat ride but you can never buy experience.

AMEN TO THAT!!

you can add undewater wisdom to that line . .

PDIC Instructor Trainer
TDI NITROX instructor/deco/extended range . . trimix by mid this year . . hopefully . . Limited viz/night/nav/deep/medic-first aid/CPROX/rescue/Dive Supervisor. .blah blah . . and unofficially, wreck (trained, but didn't get the c-card). .

number of logs? dunno. . .stopped logging at a thousand dives back in 2000. but that would include my training dives. yep. i log my training dives. that way i remember who did what as well as track underwater behavior of students for future reference. that's the only thing i log nowadays. call me a control freak . . am proud of it!

to the newbies, log your dives. i wish i didn't stop logging them. now it's hard to start again . .

[SeaDog]

PADI-Open Water
PADI-Advanced Open Water
PADI- Rescue Diver
American Red Cross CPR/AED for the Professional
Equipment Repair Certification for Sherwood and Atomic Gear
Thinking of trying Voodoo gas next or Digital Underwater Photography.
Rebreathers are WAY OFF the list for me...I've heard too many horror stories. and I guess it just spooks me.

[lars2923]

Don't let rebreathers spook ya.
2 things to do, after you've decided to buy one.
1) Monitor your PPO
2) Stay within the manufactures recommendation for the life of your scrubber
You've be fine... they are a blast... I believe the future of diving.
Get in now and you'll be sitting pretty when the crowd comes running for a rebreather.