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Buffalo
07-02-2006, 08:05 PM
Been sorting out my new venture today of Scuba Diving.
It’s something I’ve wanted to do for some years now.

So far today I've got of ebay,
BCD - Tigullio Searider,
SCUBAPRO REGULATOR Mk2 1st Stage With R190 2nd Stage & R190 Octopus.
Both at a great price.

all I need now is a console "pressure & depth gauge"
and a couple of 12 ltr tanks, the tanks I can't get off ebay as it's a non postable item, only local pickup.
new price will be around £140 for each tank, I would rather buy second hand so long as the tanks are in test.

i've already got things like wetsuit, fins, mask, ect
I do a lot of snorkelling; the water gets quite clear in the summer as you can see by the pictures.
This is me :D
http://www.sheringhamsurf.com/data/underwater02.jpg
.
http://www.sheringhamsurf.com/data/underwater01.jpg
.
http://www.sheringhamsurf.com/data/gullies.jpg
.
http://www.sheringhamsurf.com/data/bottom.jpg
.
http://www.sheringhamsurf.com/data/jellyfish.jpg

I wonder if anyone has had a go at snorkelling or Scuba Diving,
would be nice to know.
I think it's a great thing to try out, we have quite a few shipwrecks just offshore and underwater gullies.

vidcc
07-02-2006, 09:33 PM
I would recommend you get those regs serviced before you use them (I assume you know this but thought it worth mentioning anyway)
is there any reason you want two tanks?

If you are serious about diving may I suggest you go for a computer console

My old beaten up Aladin Air has served me well. Many like the wrist mounted guages but i like the consoles as the compass is attached. I will say that I regret going for the digital compass over an old fashioned mechanical version.
http://img462.imageshack.us/img462/4605/0359fd.jpg

http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/318/0348zc.jpg


consider a dry suit if you are a UK diver. wet or semi dry suits are ok in the summer but you will get cold.

Buffalo
07-02-2006, 10:39 PM
Thanks for the reply,

I'm trying to keep the cost to a minimum,
I could quite easily go out and spend £1000+ but that's just not me.
no reason to spend such money, I think if you get quality second hand goods
and like you said, have them tested.
for me, I would be pleased knowing it's cost me feck all to setup.

I want two tanks as I find 40 mins in the water would not be enough for
what I want to do, The longest time snorkelling was 2 hours,
mainly going with the tide, probably covered a 2 mile stretch mapping the ground as I went,
vast variation of ground, from one side of the town it's mainly chalk base going onto flints then into gullies at the west side of the town.

I will have a look for a computer console, may get a bargain,
that's why I like eBay so much, That Aladin Air looks ideal.

I'm quite lucky on the wetsuit side of things as I do surfing,
I have a 5mm spartan winter suit and a 3mm summer suit.
just recently I was just given a 6mm neoprene drysuit, well pleased with it,
the dump valves and seals are ok.

I got a Beaver tech weight system belt last week also off eBay, it can be filled with lead shot.
http://www.sheringhamsurf.com/data/weight.jpg

Nice one :D

Skweeky1
07-02-2006, 10:44 PM
I saw that jellyfish on the beach in blackpool today
I prodded it with a stick
I think it was dead

Also, I don't feel compelled to being under water. Scaryyyy :fear:

vidcc
07-02-2006, 10:48 PM
What level training are you at?

Buffalo
07-02-2006, 11:12 PM
I saw that jellyfish on the beach in blackpool today
I prodded it with a stick
I think it was dead

Also, I don't feel compelled to being under water. Scaryyyy :fear:

@ Sonja,
it's the time of year, i've not known of anyone being stung by them.
the biggest jellyfish washed up at Sheringham was 110 cm wide
http://www.sheringhamsurf.com/data/jellyfish01.jpg
I still don't know what species it is.

The quickest way to kill a Jellyfish is to prod it with a stick
what are you like :lol:

I think i may do my video blog, under the sea!
It's a whole new world :D

@ Vidcc, not done any paddy course,
I've just picked info up over the years, my first dive will be inshore out of the tide, just keep it simple to strart with.
Local shipwreck just offshore from weybourne 200 yards of the beach but in 16-18 metres of water, very deep beach with lots of tide on the flood.
will be interesting but I won't go alone on that dive.

missie
07-02-2006, 11:20 PM
Me aunt was stung by a jellyfish in Norway.

She's ok, me Grandpa pished on her, like.

manker
07-02-2006, 11:35 PM
http://img462.imageshack.us/img462/4605/0359fd.jpg:smilie4:

Now that's a proper bragging post, j2 could learn a lot from you as we can clearly see that you own this Aladin Air because you took a phoatie of it with a current FST post as a backdrop - not like j2's pic of Pele shaking hands over the back of an elephant.

Like that proved anything :dry:

vidcc
07-02-2006, 11:36 PM
@ Vidcc, not done any paddy course,
I've just picked info up over the years, my first dive will be inshore out of the tide, just keep it simple to strart with.
Local shipwreck just offshore from weybourne 200 yards of the beach but in 16-18 metres of water, very deep beach with lots of tide on the flood.
will be interesting but I won't go alone on that dive.
Paddy is ok for "plug and play" diving but Bsac or other "progression standard" type clubs for the UK would be a better. IMO it would be worth the money to at least get an open water cert. from paddy. However I'm not going to make any judgements on training, I hope you at least know about bottom time, ascension rates, safety stops, surface time before next dive and maximum bottom time and depth of next dive. but I would seriously suggest you find a pool to practice uprighting and dumping air with the dry suit before going out under the briney.

Good luck and be safe.:)

Buffalo
07-02-2006, 11:37 PM
Piss is good fresh water is not, nice one missie.

just found this,
Norway.
reported deaths of more than 300 puffins & blinded nearby farmed salmon, caused by the Aequorea vitrina jellyfish.

Norway :no:

@ vidcc, Nice one dude, And thanks for the advice :D
we have two lacal clubs
http://www.norfolkdiver.com/ - http://www.angliandivers.co.uk/
Will see how I go.
I have a mate who has passed the Paddy and has done offshore diving with norfolk diver, it's a good club but not cheap.

vidcc
07-02-2006, 11:43 PM
:smilie4:

Now that's a proper bragging post, j2 could learn a lot from you as we can clearly see that you own this Aladin Air because you took a phoatie of it with a current FST post as a backdrop - not like j2's pic of Pele shaking hands over the back of an elephant.

Like that proved anything :dry:

I'd like to say it was bragging but that consol to many divers is probably the equivalent of using a mobile phone more than 5 years old in a trendy bar.... or in computer terms...a commodore 64 :cry:

missie
07-02-2006, 11:46 PM
Me Bestefa/Grandpops was Norweigen. :happy:

Had his own island too. :smilie4:

manker
07-02-2006, 11:54 PM
:smilie4:

Now that's a proper bragging post, j2 could learn a lot from you as we can clearly see that you own this Aladin Air because you took a phoatie of it with a current FST post as a backdrop - not like j2's pic of Pele shaking hands over the back of an elephant.

Like that proved anything :dry:

I'd like to say it was bragging but that consol to many divers is probably the equivalent of using a mobile phone more than 5 years old in a trendy bar.... or in computer terms...a commodore 64 :cry:But we are in no doubt that you own this outdated apparatus - which is to your credit.

You're just more thorough than j2.

Buffalo
07-02-2006, 11:54 PM
Me Bestefa/Grandpops was Norweigen. :happy:

Had his own island too. :smilie4:

How cool is that missie, nice one.
a lot of people nowadays would give anything to live at a place like that or to own a small island.
at a guess I think the waters of Norway must be clear water all year, the trouble with the north sea it's so brown in the winter,
it's true :lol:

vidcc
07-03-2006, 12:04 AM
But we are in no doubt that you own this outdated apparatus - which is to your credit.

You're just more thorough than j2.


not like j2's pic of Pele shaking hands over the back of an elephant.




Is it hard to believe that J2 owns a picture of pele shaking his hands on the back of an elephant :unsure: or is there more to the story :huh:
would it help if he put said picture in front of his monitor and took a picture of it?

missie
07-03-2006, 12:07 AM
I visited it when my Beste was still alive, I was about 8yr old at the time.
It was full of gooseberries and foliage, but I didn't see a single troll roaming around. :snooty:

When he passed away, he left it to me ma and her 2 sisters.
My Tante (aunt) lived on the island next to it, and didn't speak a word of Engerlish, but she was so funnay. It was my job to carry the fish caught to her in a plastic bucket, still flopping around everywhere to gut for dinner.

Kinda put me orf eating seathings. :unsure:

manker
07-03-2006, 12:35 AM
But we are in no doubt that you own this outdated apparatus - which is to your credit.

You're just more thorough than j2.


not like j2's pic of Pele shaking hands over the back of an elephant.




Is it hard to believe that J2 owns a picture of pele shaking his hands on the back of an elephant :unsure: or is there more to the story :huh:
would it help if he put said picture in front of his monitor and took a picture of it?Indeed it would - he just wasn't forward thinking enough, or simply wasn't in a position to :smilie4:

He linked to a picture of someone he claims is his daughter with Pele and a small elephant.

Buffalo
07-03-2006, 12:39 AM
@ Missie, Don't let that put you off fish :D
The memories you have must be great, you should see if you can go back one day. That would be cool.
I grew up in a fishing community, some of the old fishermen were fecking bastards when I was a kid, yet I was a local lad & not a foreigner, but was still treated like shit.
When you was young you was put to the test, taken to sea when no man should of been there, but I survived, very hard times :lol:

I'm glad your family have still got the island; can I pitch my tent sometime.
I bet it's damn cold in the winter.

vidcc
07-03-2006, 12:44 AM
BTW... just noticed a mistake...PADI..not paddy

Buffalo
07-03-2006, 12:46 AM
It's my Irish italian blood :lol:

missie
07-03-2006, 12:49 AM
My family are still there yesh, I have an uncle that owns a fish farm over there.
It's mostly flying fish and rainbow trout, as far as I know. But another uncle, in Scotland, goes out on a trailer for a (not very good) living.

Fish make me a wee bit squeamish nowadays, but I own a huge tank I intend on filling with fish a plenty when/if I get a house. It used to hold angels, tetra's, mollies, guppies, a silver shark and a crab. Stoopid crab crawled out through the filter tube hole to freedom and then was chewed to bits by my old alsation dawg. :pinch:

missie
07-03-2006, 12:51 AM
I had to help crack a red tailed shark over the head with a dessert spoon.
Wasn't nice at all. :no:

vidcc
07-03-2006, 12:57 AM
but i did it too

Buffalo
07-03-2006, 01:15 AM
Feck missie that's messed up, poor crab, how cool is that Dog! :lol:
as for the shark! omg, :lol: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9toEKpwtrKM&search=wazup Old but funny!
I've never had a fish tank, they say it's quite hard to get the water right.
but you sure had a good mix of fish must of looked great.
some of the locals now use Lobster storage tanks filled with sea water, as the lobsters are now worth mega bucks they can keep a vast supply of fresh Lobster, Yum!
my special Lobster curry, very nice :D

j2k4
07-03-2006, 01:17 AM
:smilie4:

Now that's a proper bragging post, j2 could learn a lot from you as we can clearly see that you own this Aladin Air because you took a phoatie of it with a current FST post as a backdrop - not like j2's pic of Pele shaking hands over the back of an elephant.

Like that proved anything :dry:

I'd like to say it was bragging but that consol to many divers is probably the equivalent of using a mobile phone more than 5 years old in a trendy bar.... or in computer terms...a commodore 64 :cry:

As usual, you miss the point, but hey-it wasn't my point. :P

manker-

You are not aware the chain-of-evidence rule applies to communal property, also?

I am not responsible for something I can blame on my ex. ;)

Buffalo
07-03-2006, 01:37 AM
He linked to a picture of someone he claims is his daughter with Pele and a small elephant.

What, this one?
http://www.sheringhamsurf.com/data/pele.jpg

thewizeard
07-03-2006, 05:57 AM
I saw that jellyfish on the beach in blackpool today
I prodded it with a stick
I think it was dead

Also, I don't feel compelled to being under water. Scaryyyy :fear:


http://www.sheringhamsurf.com/data/jellyfish.jpg

hope you dont mind me hotlinking it Buffy...


well it's obviuos to see that that jelly fish is going somewhere, but I don't think he could have made it round to Blackpool from Sherringham in one day, so it's probably a cousin....

spenz
07-03-2006, 08:13 AM
I suck at scuba diving. Last time i did it. i sank deeper into marianas trench until my trainer got me in the middle of the depth. luckily wasn't deep enough to blow my ears and eyes and nose. and god knows what else could be blowing due to extreme pressure!

Buffalo
07-03-2006, 10:41 AM
Just found two more pictures,
http://www.sheringhamsurf.com/data/rock.jpg.http://www.sheringhamsurf.com/data/gullie01.jpg

Just found out about the jellyfish,
Compass Jellyfish,
http://www.sheringhamsurf.com/data/jellyfish.jpg
.
Lion's Mane Jellyfish - sting is powerful, divers who have been stung in the face report it like a wasp sting.
http://www.sheringhamsurf.com/data/jellyfish01.jpg

@ Nigel, I don't know how far they can travel in a day :lol:
will be interesting to see if they are about this season and in what quantity.

I'm not going to prod them with a stick like sonja did :lol:

missie
07-03-2006, 11:47 PM
but you sure had a good mix of fish must of looked great.

had loads more, my fave was the purple red fighter that was picked to bits by f*cking angels. so gonna set it up again damn soon.

half the fun, sickly, is watching how they react with each other.
then they tear each other to pieces. :unsure: :happy: :unsure:

missie
07-03-2006, 11:50 PM
the tetra had loadsa babies before we seperated her and loads were eaten.

it was f*cking surweet. :unsure: :happy: :unsure:

spenz
07-04-2006, 04:30 AM
damn after seeing this thread i want to try scuba again! ^o^

Buffalo
07-07-2006, 01:10 PM
All sorted!
Scuba Delayed Surface Marker Buoy NEW £12.54
Scubapro MK2 / R190 Regulator / R190 Octopus S/H eBay £61
Tigullio Searider BCD S/H eBay £61
Faber 15ltr Cylinder NEW £120 inc tax & p&p from adventuresindiving.co.uk

Had to get a new cylinder as if I buy one out of test date it will cost me around £50 to get a test on it, pretty pointless buying second hand.
The BCD is almost like new, been used only on 3 dives.
The regs are 4 years old, like new condition.


well pleased with my setup,
keeping the cost to a minimum is the way to go :D

spenz
07-08-2006, 02:48 AM
Buy a brand new one, pretty dangerous down there. =/

thewizeard
07-08-2006, 07:06 AM
Been sorting out my new venture today of Scuba Diving.
It’s something I’ve wanted to do for some years now.

So far today I've got of ebay,
BCD - Tigullio Searider,
SCUBAPRO REGULATOR Mk2 1st Stage With R190 2nd Stage & R190 Octopus.
Both at a great price.

all I need now is a console "pressure & depth gauge"
and a couple of 12 ltr tanks, the tanks I can't get off ebay as it's a non postable item, only local pickup.
new price will be around £140 for each tank, I would rather buy second hand so long as the tanks are in test.

i've already got things like wetsuit, fins, mask, ect
I do a lot of snorkelling; the water gets quite clear in the summer as you can see by the pictures.
This is me :D
http://www.sheringhamsurf.com/data/underwater02.jpg
.
http://www.sheringhamsurf.com/data/underwater01.jpg
.
http://www.sheringhamsurf.com/data/gullies.jpg
.
http://www.sheringhamsurf.com/data/bottom.jpg
.
http://www.sheringhamsurf.com/data/jellyfish.jpg

I wonder if anyone has had a go at snorkelling or Scuba Diving,
would be nice to know.
I think it's a great thing to try out, we have quite a few shipwrecks just offshore and underwater gullies.

Well.. it has been a few years since I did any serious scuba diving... but the Oosterschelde sea arm in The Netherlands is great for Scuba Divers :fact:..also it's close to a well know coffee-shop... lol

http://images.google.nl/imgres?imgurl=http://www.taucher.net/photos/photo1608/Zeelandbrug_044.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.taucher.net/photos/photo1608/&h=368&w=490&sz=22&hl=nl&start=2&tbnid=Sd_OcvOuaTMeMM:&tbnh=95&tbnw=127&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dscuba%2Bdiving%2Bin%2Boosterschelde%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Dnl%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN

spenz
07-08-2006, 10:47 PM
I till prefer scuba over snorkelling. snorkelling for me is just like watching fishes in the aquarium, while scuba makes you feel you're one with the sea and fishes. ^_^

Buffalo
07-08-2006, 11:08 PM
This is one of our local shipwrecks "SS Rosalie" Lat / Long : 52 ° 57 ' 0 '' North - 1 ° 8' 30'' East
it's very close to shore, but it's very deep, around 16mtrs
Weybourne norfolk UK
http://www.sheringhamsurf.com/data/weybourne.jpg

@ thewizeard, I bet the waters are very good, coffee shops, omg! I don't think I would be diving if i smoked some coffee shop stuff :lol:

@ Spenz, I agree snorkelling is good but you are very limited, I just had to get the diving gear this year, the water is so good at the moment.
I'm quite lucky with the amount of Local shipwrecks on this coastline.

Buffalo
07-12-2006, 10:12 AM
Scuba Party Boy (Dry Test Dive)
http://www.sheringhamsurf.com/data/scuba001.gif

I'm all set for my birthday dive tomorrow,
I want to see if it's possible to drink a tin of special Brew in one shot @ 20Mtrs.
I don't think it's been done before with beer, so it will be interesting, I just hope I don't puke it up.
http://www.sheringhamsurf.com/data/drink.jpg

Proper Bo
07-12-2006, 10:40 AM
zomfg, the world's first euphemism picture:o

Proper Bo
07-12-2006, 10:41 AM
http://www.sheringhamsurf.com/data/scuba001.gif
"Michael Barrymore shows off his new pool safety equipment":smilie4:

manker
07-12-2006, 10:46 AM
http://www.sheringhamsurf.com/data/scuba001.gif
"Michael Barrymore shows off his new pool safety equipment":smilie4:
:lol:

I think you may not have seen the last of that pic, Baz :schnauz:


Hope your dive tomorrow goes well.

Proper Bo
07-12-2006, 10:46 AM
bettar pickcha:
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/553/scuba0012aw.gif
"Michael Barrymore shows off his new pool safety equipment"

Proper Bo
07-12-2006, 10:48 AM
I think you may not have seen the last of that pic, Baz :schnauz:


Is that not a good thing?:unsure:

Buffalo
07-12-2006, 10:48 AM
http://www.sheringhamsurf.com/html//emoticons/lmao.gif

spenz
07-13-2006, 01:48 AM
lol Good dancer.it's like acow disguised in human form. ^_^