Tenerife Diving

Ben Panter wrote:

> If you hang around for a while you'll soon see that none of us really
> care. It's a childish debate for childish people. If you're wanting to
> start a flame war you need to be a bit more innovative.

My last one was years ago on the cannonically
correct bolts to use on a backplate. To this
day I'm not sure if the other guy was just
winding me up....

....but wound up I was.

nigelH
(or should that be wound in?)

Not sure I should have asked now, I have dived with PADI,BSAC clubs and
more, and there are tossers in all of them, obviously the training is
important but both organisations produce excellent divers in the main.
Thanks for the serious replies though. Not sure I would like top be at 50m +
with a buddy who discriminates which organisation you have trained with.
Anyway safe diving in 2005 to ALL divers.
"j t" <wreckferret.146@virgin.net> wrote in message
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> >
>> I suspect most of them will be kind of like...
>>
>> *plonk*
>>
>> CAS
>>
>>
>> you have a sense of humour !!!
> { i like it }lol.....
>
>

"Mick Harrison" <michael@harrison1190.freeserve .co.uk> wrote in message
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> Not sure I should have asked now, I have dived with PADI,BSAC clubs and
> more, and there are tossers in all of them, obviously the training is
> important but both organisations produce excellent divers in the main.
> Thanks for the serious replies though. Not sure I would like top be at 50m
> + with a buddy who discriminates which organisation you have trained with.
> Anyway safe diving in 2005 to ALL divers.

Do have a lovely time in Tenerife - I did my Open Water out there in the
worst conditions they had seen in decades - the most rainfall in 20
something years and still had 15-20m viz!!!

Be sure to do Yellow Mountain and Stingray City (or Stingray World - I can't
remember which one is the Tenerife one and which the Carribean!).

I'm not sure I'd like to be at any depth with a narrow minded biggot, let
alone 50+...

Unfortunately I can't recommend you a dive centre as I went with Atlantic
Divers (who were excellent) but they have sold it on to someone else. I
would imagine they would sell to someone decent but I've heard no reports
since.

CAS

On 2005-02-23 01:05:43 -0800, "CAS" <calumscottREMOVETHISBIT@yahoo.com> said:

> "Mick Harrison" <michael@harrison1190.freeserve .co.uk> wrote in
> message news:cvgcri$f2h$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk...
>> Not sure I should have asked now, I have dived with PADI,BSAC clubs and
>> more, and there are tossers in all of them, obviously the training is
>> important but both organisations produce excellent divers in the main.
>> Thanks for the serious replies though. Not sure I would like top be at
>> 50m + with a buddy who discriminates which organisation you have
>> trained with. Anyway safe diving in 2005 to ALL divers.
>
> Do have a lovely time in Tenerife - I did my Open Water out there in
> the worst conditions they had seen in decades - the most rainfall in 20
> something years and still had 15-20m viz!!!
>
> Be sure to do Yellow Mountain and Stingray City (or Stingray World - I
> can't remember which one is the Tenerife one and which the Carribean!).
>
> I'm not sure I'd like to be at any depth with a narrow minded biggot,
> let alone 50+...
>
> Unfortunately I can't recommend you a dive centre as I went with
> Atlantic Divers (who were excellent) but they have sold it on to
> someone else. I would imagine they would sell to someone decent but
> I've heard no reports since.
>
> CAS

From what I remember it's often just referred to as Los Chuchas? (the
rays) or similar. At least that's the one just out of Las Galletas
harbour...

The diving in Tenerife is really nice - not the most life on many
dives, but there are some really cool bits of landscape - arches and
caves and so on...

The viz was pretty good as well - 15 to 20m most days and 40-50m on the
day we did the Cita del Mar (trawler in about 45-60m).

I even got to drive the dive center boat for a while ;->

Dan L.

In message <cvaqc3$7eo$1@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk>, Mick Harrison
<michael@harrison1190.freeserve.co.uk> writes
>I am going to Tenerife soon and hope to do a couple of dives there. Although
>I have done hundreds of dives around the uk, Norway, Ireland, Northern
>France etc I have never done any warm water dives, Can some one advise what
>to take with me and any info on Dive charters in Tenerife.
>
>Cheers Mick, Maltby SAC.
>
>

After much research I dove with Diversity located on the Marina, (Puerto
colon), in Playa de las Americas. Kit up in the shop, walk along a
marina pontoon to the rib. Very organised and friendly people.

--
Richard Faulkner

j t <wreckferret.146@virgin.net> skriver:
> hmmmm.. wonder which is best ??.. you decide.... lol..
> cant wait for the responses..lol lol....

The one that happens to have the instructor that suites your
personality best :^) Taking months, evens years is not especielly good
it this times means less diving. Taking days could mean losing
essentioal steps. Speed isn't everything. Btw, all organisations have
classes taking different time. My PADI cource took over a month. One
pool-dive of theory lession a week, the a dive out week-end. But if
can also be done i three four days. I have seen CMAS/BSAC can be done
in about a week. The intensity of the training doen't differ between
the orgainsation it exists within. What is best depens on the student.
Short intensive courses could be best for they how have easy for the
theory part, and hard for the practicall stuff. Intesive traing tends
to need less repition, you are redoing the exersizes wile they are
fresh. You learn quicker, this also could mean that if you don't keep
up the knowledge you loose it quicker! But usually mens that after the
same amount of time you are a little better off. However the ration is
very personal so it's hard to say anything. (The same goes for
warm/cold water training.) Don't having to do hard stuff, freazing,
tends to make it easier to learn the start moments. Adding the harder
stuff later when havung a solif ground often tends to make it stick
better. On the other hand, lazyness errors that are learnds as you
getaway doing when it's easy can stick and make relearning harder.

The main think i.m.h.o. is to get out diving, and during this be a
thinking critical diver. No education can take away the need os
diving.


/ Balp
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