diving 1/19

Anyone interested in diving/ spearing this weekend? Long range forecast from wunderground puts a 6ft nw swell as the forcast. Been dying to try out my underwater camera.

-Brian G

If I didn't have a chest cold I would take you up on it. ZERO bottom time for me for a while. I'd better stay above the water for now.

If I didn't have a chest cold I would take you up on it. ZERO bottom time for me for a while. I'd better stay above the water for now.

The man who braves snow storms and 9 degree weather does have a weakness! Hope you get better soon so we can get some fishing in, you're falling behind in AOTY.

-Brian G

Brian,

Art and I will probably be heading out on thursday and saturday...most likely monterey but not sure exactly where.

Thursday will have to be somewhere where I can head out after 8:15AM (gotta take Omar to school) and be back by about 5:00PM (gotta pick Omar up from school)...but Saturday can be a farther trip with no time restrictions.  I'd kind of like to go check out someplace south of Monterey but I'm not positive if I'm ready for that yet.

Thursday will have to be somewhere where I can head out after 8:15AM (gotta take Omar to school) and be back by about 5:00PM (gotta pick Omar up from school)

Primo, I'm off on Thursday, let's hit Monterey for a quick dive. This will be my first dive trip and I simply want to get in the water,  swim around the shallows to get my feet wet Let me know!

Excellent Primo, it'll be good to finally get you out there. 

I'll let you clip my fish to your belt. 

...so how much weight do I need to bring?

I'm 240lbs (and sexy) on a 7M wetsuit 

...so how much weight do I need to bring?

I'm 240lbs (and sexy) on a 7M wetsuit 

10% of your weight in lead is the general rule of thumb.  But everyone is different and some skinny guys I know wear 27lbs.  I don't think I've ever worn more than 22lbs. 

So I'd start with 24lbs and bring a couple 2lb and 1lb weights to fine tune. 

...and if "sexy" is a euphemism for "man boobs", then you might need a few extra pounds. 

I'm 240lbs (and sexy) on a 7M wetsuit 

Moochie you made me spill my drink!

Being your first time out I would dive with less weight so you can float on top easier. Gotta be able to float and control your breathing.

-Brian G

Like spinal tap says, the general rule of thumb seems to be 10% + a couple of pounds, but everyone is different.

Also like Brian says, you should probably go a bit light the first couple of times until you're comfortable. Once you're comfortable you can fine tune the weight.  I'm at about 215 and my first few times out I was diving with 20 (I'll have to check to be sure, I posted it here somewhere) but struggled to stay down so I added a couple of pounds and that seems to have made all the difference.

I personally would prefer to have to struggle a bit to stay down than to come back up.

Thanks for da tips fellas

The other question is: if I drown, who will be brave enough to save my life and administer CPR 

On a side note: I will be taking a CPR class with Aquan sometime soon - I figure it would be nice to be prepared - just in case the problem presents itself

Looking forward to playing in the tide pools

I just picked up an UW camera at Sport Chalet.....I predict a report even more epic than the last. 






 

What camera did you end up getting?

Brian, sorry for having gotten your thread off track.  Are you interested in diving on saturday?

http://www.sportchalet.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2838854&cp=1191831&pageDisplay=actfam&pageType=family&int_nextBucket=0&totalProductsCount=63&doVSearch=no&doVSearch=no&pageCount=4&pageBucket=0&pageNum=2&int_prevBucket=0&page_bucket=0&page=3&showSizeSearch=false&hasPagination=false&parentPage=family


I was looking at the GoPro but they wouldn't match their own online price   The vupoint is cheap but takes decent pics on land. We'll see how it holds up.


Where we going....for either day?
 

What camera did you end up getting?

Brian, sorry for having gotten your thread off track.  Are you interested in diving on saturday?

I got the canon SD800 ( wide angle with image stablization) with the canon WP-DC9 underwater housing. I just gotta buy a 8 gb sd card for it.

-Brian G