Any Scuba divers Here?
 

thailand 2 months ago

http://www.maxcandy.com/thai2003max-0213.jpg

been diving since i was old enough to put a mask on

never been to the far east

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Holy shit that looks like a swimming pool!!!!
Awesome.

I started diving in '89 but I haven't been since I had kids 2 years ago. :(

Last place I went was off of Antigua and Dominica in the Carribean.... Amazing. Saw some animals off Dominica that I've never seen anywhere else.

My favorite is wall diving... such an amazing sensation to just cruise down hundreds of feet of vertical reef like you were sky diving.:thumbsup

the walls in the caymans are amazzing

keys diving is good

some decent wrecks close to here

shallow dives are always nice because you can dive all day and not worry

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Tthat looks like Phi Phi don... I went scuba diving there ..... it's off of phuket... anyone who has not been there needs to go.....


when we went... whale shark... fucking bus in the water.....

love diving egypt too,

i know i have nice tits

;)

http://www.maxcandy.com/maxegypt-031.jpg

some awesome spring dives in north florida

caves as well

dont know if i could cave dive though

dove the Big island and Kauai several times

Divemaster...for years..love it. Nice pics!

Nice pics, me a scarity cat to dive.

Those caves in Florida are very cool indeed...and have killed quite a few divers.

Dirty_DS
Vegas Pervert

Your very close was north of phi phi don, similans islands, the land of crystal clear water


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I wish


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Nice Pics....

Anyone try diving in Belize? Did a live aboard for a week in Belize and it was great!!!

heard Belize is great

thats why im not doing it

the kelp bed are another great dive if you dont mind the great whites

ambagris cay in belize is paradise

its on my list of to do dives

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I hear that....

dude,

sharks only eat people, when they are very hungry and there is nothing else to eat, basically never

you have better chance of pit bull taking bite than great white

Whats your point? Would you want to get bit by either?

I went diving for my first time this year. It happend on Bali and I loved it so much, the first thing I did when I got to Miami for the
show was to drive down the keys and find a divinschool.

Max, your pic rocks :) I think I need to go an a vacation again..

I got certified while in college about 5 years ago .. During the class we dove in the springs around Gainesville and took a trip to Key Largo .. I havent been diving since .. I need to get some friends who are certified :winkwink:

front end of 30 foot shark, no bullshit, this is my photo

it is called a whale shark for those in the know

http://www.maxcandy.com/whaleshark.jpg

WOW...thats very cool...were you close enough to touch?

yes i touched it, it does not even have teeth, though the first time you see one, you will swear its JAWS

Yeah..they are beautiful, I was hoping to go see some about a year ago..but plans fell through.

goto Koh Tao thailand

What depth were you at..60-80 feet or so?

I dove with a whale shark off Kona coast

was amazzziiinnngggg 75 ft of viz

Im not worried about a shark eating me

IM worried about a shark mistaking me for a seal in the kelp beds and taking a chunk out of me

shark dont like to eat people

mostly they just take a bite realise how nasty we are and spit us out

:winkwink:

there are only 3-4 really bad species of shark

dangerous that is

Great white
Bull
Tiger
and probably a couple others

I dove with reef and nurse shark in the keys several times a week when i lived in Key west

I use to mate on the dive boats for trade on tanks

:Graucho :thumbsup

I been there :thumbsup

Phi Phi Island, It's so hot over there :glugglug

Diving is pretty relaxing :)

your are right, if they think your a seal other prob.

but it is safer underwater than swim or surfing on,

manta ray from thai/burma border

http://www.maxcandy.com/mantaburma.jpg

It's the little fuckers you gotta look out for..Moray's etc...they like to nibble..:winkwink:

saw the whales sharks at 30 to 60 ft in thai off koh tao

Mantas are amaaazzziinnngggg

snorkeled with one in Mexico

watched the thing glide like an airplane

I miss breathing underwater daily

I had a great blue water lagon in my backyard on Big Coppit Key

Jewfish, shark, cuda, parrotfish, lobster, tarpon, ect ect 6-10 feet of viz ( good for a canal)

now i have a nice brakish water lake but 0 viz

good fishing bad diving

im afraid ill run into a gator out there with like a foot of viz

I know, I saw nice animals, i never saw before.

I been 2 days on Phi Phi Island & 5 Days Phuket ( Patong Beach )

You been on more places in Thailand ?

i have lived 3-6 months of year, for 6 years there love it

:glugglug

Did you see Phuket Fantasea ?

yes, but prefer hash house harrier bar

Yeah, But it was nice too see.

The bars in thailand are always good. No matter where you go :thumbsup

Anyway i grab another beer & Going to watch some tv

Later :thumbsup

cheers

it looks a little like Juicy :helpme

Hi Max!
we met at one of the shows about 3 years ago. You ran off with my digital cam corder for the night and I was too pissed to find you!:1orglaugh :1orglaugh
You had a girl with you that was a personal helper but had done one soft set.

I have been diving since 1983, mostly in the UK where the vis is at best 10 metres but there are plenty of great wrecks in the English channel thanks to our Geram friend in their subs. We often dive virgin wrecks and I have a garage full of portholes, lumps of brass and a couple of bells!:thumbsup

Been diving on the barrier reef, on a liveaboard in the Red SEa, (spectacular on the thislegorm) Malta, Cyprus, Gozo, Scotland's west coast (stunning, cliffs, 20-30 metres vis, top notch, cold)

All this tourist diving though is a bit follow the leader, and I prefer to go out on a wreck in 40-50 metres and explore where no man has been before. Certainly gets the adrenalin going!:thumbsup

Best places in the world to dive: Cozumel (MEX), been there twice, just love it....

Fernando de Noronha (here in Brazil): the best time of the year to dive here is July (visibility 30+ meters), lots of turtles, dolphins, whales, reefs, sharks and all kind of fish, you guys should really visit it some time...

I am and I love it. I got into diving in college and liked it so much that I ended up working at the dive shop the whole four years and went through my assistant instructor and SLAM stuff with them. I've never been to Thailand, but we used to take customers and students down to the Keys and all over the Caribbean and it was always good diving. I love the Keys and Honduras is absolutely breathtaking. We also used to do weekend trips to Ginnie Springs and Vortex Spring in N. Florida. I watched two guys get pulled out of there who had gotten turned around, ended up back at the grate and then run out of air. It was horrible. I never enjoyed cave diving after that. :(

Those are great pics, btw. :thumbsup

:( absolutely amazing... terrific & fantastic *slowly claps hands* i congradulate you on suceeding in something wonderful i've never had the chance to experiance... I'm very proud and happy! Maxcandy... You always bring out the sunshine in me! :thumbsup

Really nice pics! post more of them!
The whale shark pic is really cool!

Regards
Renzo

I just went diving for the first time about 2 weeks ago in the Dominican Republic. It was really pretty but hurricane Isabell was off the coast so the pull was really strong. I got banged up aganist the coral a few times. I can't wait to go again. I'll probably go while we are in the Keys for Fantasy Fest. If anyone is going down for that maybe we should all schedule an afternoon to go diving.

Any other cave divers on the board ?
We leave the shallow warm water & great viz for the pussys.
Try diving this:
# diving with 200 feet of solid rock over your head [ up doesn't =out]
# dive twins + pony
# mix gas / nitrox var
# in water med. oxygen deco
# max. bottom time = 2mins. [ you suck an 88 dry in 4 mins. at 200 ft if your normal breathing rate is 20lt/min at 1 bar ]
# 40 mt. shottie in the middle of the lake with the deco. tanks, a bottle @ 40 mt, another at 25 mts + the med. o2 @ 6mt.
# dive 9mm wetties so you don't freeze [ water temp=2 degrees]
Anyone for a paddle ?

getting finished with asst inst... not enough dives for instructor yet. =(

Cozumel on the 16th, India next summer.

Cheers

will try to post a few more diving pix shortly

cheers

Another manta shot, i think these things are form other planet

http://www.maxcandy.com/Manta2-burma03.jpg