Evansville Scuba Club

Mine was mask clearing. I am in no way putting down my instructor nor the agency I learned under, but I really wish I would have had to practice the skill over & over. Instead we were only required to demonstrate the skill once in the pool & once in open water. That is probably the 1 skill that gives new divers the most trouble. I was nowhere near comfortable doing that skill & guarded the mask on my face with my life. After some dives & practice down the road, it finally started to become comfortable to clear & then finally remove my mask. I STILL can not open my eyes underwater though.

I got shivers when we surface swam over the ledge from 6ft to 80 ft deep. Maybe I’m a little scared of heights?

I’d imagine it was probably buoyancy. I’ve got it pretty much under control now, but it did take awhile. Other than that it was probably paying attention to my instructor instead of the fish and cool stuff underwater!

One of my best friends dad ran a dive shop here locally. He bugged me for years to get certified and I always shrugged him off because I thought it was too expensive a hobby for me. I had always been interested in diving though. As a kid watching all the movies with cool diving scenes, I always thought that would be cool to do.

Finally in 2000, he had convinced me and since I had another close friend who was going to go through the training as well, I signed up. Enjoyed every bit of open water training so I immediately signed up for advanced open water. I finished all the classroom work but didn’t do the checkout dives. Life, as it often does, stepped in and I didn’t get a chance to dive again for many years.

Fast forward to 2006 and my soon to be wife and I are planning a honeymoon in the Bahamas. Needless to say, diving was immediately high on my list of things to do while there. Figured I’d take a refresher course and my wife signed up for training to see if she’d like it. She finished her training and we had some great dives there (thanks to Stuart Cove’s). When we got back we decided to continue our dive training and got active with this club.

While the economy has affected our diving recently, we plan on doing as much as we can. Our long term goal is to move south, near a coast line, buy a boat, and dive, dive, dive!

A buddy and I were going on a cruise. Figured that with all that water around, might as well see what’s in it. Then there was a Louisville dive shop modeling French cut wet suits – ooo-la-la! jolies demoiselles! Never did take the cruise, but kinda got hooked on scuba.