anyone else into SCUBA?

[emclean]

or is one expensive hobby enough for you.
i will be starting my open water class this week and am looking for places to dive (this summer). what in out there in NWI, or the rest of the state?

 

[LLDJR]

I did SCUBA when I lived in Florida for 15 years pretty much all open water, West Palm, Gulf, BVI's, I really miss not being able to dive.

I know a guy that dives Michigan a lot, but thats about it.

 

[shibumiseeker]

Advanced open water and rescue diver certified here, but I don't dive as much as I'd like, too many other hobbies and not enough good diving in Indiana.

 

[esrice]

Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus

I remember that from school. Weird.

 

[360]

Not certified, but I have been a few times down in the Caribbean. I could live under the water. Way awesome.

A guy I know discovered Captain Kidd's wreck off the coast of Dominican Republic a few years back. That was pretty cool.

 

[Bapak2ja]

Advanced Open Water with over 60 dives, mostly in the Caribbean but also in Red Sea, Mindanao, Bali, and Atlantic coast of Florida. I do not know of any good diving in Indiana. France Park near Logansport, IN is the best training/practice site I know of in northern Indiana.

I have gone to Gilboa near Ottawa, OH several times. Cold, murky but well marked and a good place to do training dives. It also has a separate section for deep dives, but you have to clear it with the management before you can use it. They are strict about things there. Too many accidents with poorly trained divers.

 

[rhinoabe]

I did my rescue diver certification at France park and saw some LARGE paddle fish.

 

[Jack Ryan]

Advanced open water for about 15 years now but I don't dive much.

 

[singlesix]

Advance Open Water. Last time I drove was when I was stationed in Hawaii. Just not into driving mud holes around here.

 

[Woodsman]

PADI certified Open Water Diver for many years, but have not had any time to do any diving for quite while. Great fun though...

 

[T-rav]

Advanced Open Water with over 60 dives, mostly in the Caribbean but also in Red Sea, Mindanao, Bali, and Atlantic coast of Florida. I do not know of any good diving in Indiana. France Park near Logansport, IN is the best training/practice site I know of in northern Indiana.

I have gone to Gilboa near Ottawa, OH several times. Cold, murky but well marked and a good place to do training dives. It also has a separate section for deep dives, but you have to clear it with the management before you can use it. They are strict about things there. Too many accidents with poorly trained divers.

Im from Logansport. I belive you can still dive at France Park out on the west end of 24 HOWEVER if ya know some people there is an awesome shut down quarry to dive in on the east end of 24 before you get to town. Have heard from pretty reliable sources there are fish down there as long as a man is tall.

 

[Hondo]

PADI advanced open water....about 200 hours of underwater time....The large fish T Rav mentioned are probably paddle fish...they are common down there and used to be in France Park too....

 

[tedbower]

Naui open water since 1984 , used to live in california and dove and spearfished almost every weekend, dove hawaii, cozumel ,grand caymen . Spear fishing is a blast , lobster diving at night also fun. Have lived in indiana for 17 yrs and never once had any interest in diving in murky water.

 

[LLDJR]

NAUI certified here, SCUBA is an awesome activity

 

[buzzard pickins]

SCUBA: SOME COME UP BARELY ALIVE. JUST JOKING.

 

[Militarypol21]

Was certified 6 years ago out of Florida, had some great experiences. As for Indiana, the bathtub or local pool is about it

 

[CoyoteCreekGuns]

Took Scuba classes in college (dad was a scuba guy when we lived in Florida) but ruptured my ear drum during one of the exercises and now cannot go more than about 5 feet under water without my ears killing me (oh and clearing them doesn't help)...

 

[ATM]

PADI Divemaster.

Dove all around the Caribbean through the years but not much recently.

 

[1032JBT]

Advanced diver, Rescue Diver, DR1 certified rescue diver for my departments dive team..........although all that is null and void since I blew an eardrum last year. No more diving for me, at least for now. I am going to try again in a year or two.


France Park is good, Blue Springs isn't bad, Metropolis, IL was pretty good. I know there were some of our divers that went cave diving a few years ago out of state and they all loved it.

I unfortunately never really got to dive anywhere nice though.........90% was black water.

 

[T-rav]

PADI advanced open water....about 200 hours of underwater time....The large fish T Rav mentioned are probably paddle fish...they are common down there and used to be in France Park too....

Have you seen them before??