Hi lads sorry but after some PADI info I am off to Corsica next week and was planning to do my open water and poss my advanced if I have time If I do my online learning courses here is they all I need to do ?
Do I need a medical or anything like that ?
Putting cave diving to rest in the back on my mind for now off to see what UK diving has to offer for a year or two first and look into doing more courses to get me trained up
but a while ago circumstances led me to join the BSAC . . . . So I never let on I was already a diver and I just did whatever they asked me to and went to the lectures, purely to see what it was like. . . . I really enjoyed it, even though I knew everything they were "teaching" me, as they were a great bunch.
the "circumstances" involved a lass
OK Fulk, I'll come clean - the "circumstances" involved a lass I'd taken a shine to, so I was quite motivated to keep the dastardly secret . . . . What got me rumbled in the end was a genuine logged "novice dive" to -85 m in a big Italian spring. (The CDG member I was cave diving with that day happened to be a BSAC instructor, so he mischievously suggested it could count towards my novice qualification and was legitimately able to sign off the dive in my BSAC logbook.) Our Diving Officer later gave me a right telling off for missing out a decimal point and I just couldn't keep my face straight. He was a grand bloke and saw the amusing side of it immediately.Seriously though, that BSAC branch was a great bunch of folk and I thoroughly enjoyed being a member for a year or two.Ewan, the only reason I've (so far) not suggested you might like to join us when our group is on a diving project is because most of the time I operate in the Dales (a fair journey for you) and we tend to decide where we're going at the very last minute (in order to choose the optimum site for the conditions on any day). Also, a lot of the time we just carry our own stuff. However I've not forgotten your offer and (when things work out) I'll try and get in touch with enough notice for you to come along. In the meantime, keep on diving. It really is hours in the water that counts.
Ewan, I used to be in the Derbyshire section of CDG. Before that I was a qualified BSAC diver, in fact I was a founder member od the Buxton Branch of BSAC.I don't dive now but I've still got most of my gear. if any of it is any use to you come and see me. I live in Chapel.