I always loved the water. When I was a little kid and had floaties on my arms, and I jumped right into the pool. One summer, while on vacation at a friends lake house, I made am impromptu snorkel out of a garden hose and tried to explore the depths. What was below? In college I swam in the pool almost every morning to try to stay in shape. One early morning, while doing my laps, bubbles rose from the deep. The university SCUBA club was having a training session in the pool right below me. I knew at that moment I needed to have SCUBA in my life.

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I joined the team, and got open water certified through East Bay Dive Center in Warren RI. I had my open water training at Ft Adams, RI. I was hooked and I soon purchased all the gear I needed to start diving on my own.
After I graduated, I made friends with local divers and began experiencing the technical world of scuba diving. My dive buddies at the time would later become my scuba mentors and help me grow along the way. I looked into tech diving, and got my advanced open water certification, EAN nitrox certification, advanced EAN nitrox certification, and decompression procedures certification through New England Dive Center in Wallingford CT. There I was able to get the proper training needed to complete the more advanced and technical dives.

With all the training under my belt, I need to dive. I was diving almost every weekend since my certifications. I was driving to Divers Cove in Essex, and New England Dive in Wallingford all the time. I have purchased more technical gear, computers, dry suits, regulators, slates, reels, lights etc. But the best training in the world comes from actually doing it. As with any sport, practice and practice until the tasks at hand become embedded as muscle memory. You become very proficient in buoyancy, trim, and getting gear on and off that you don’t have to think about it. You can really enjoy your dive and relax. The sport of diving has its dangers (especially with complacency), but when you practice drills and plan for things to go wrong, you better educate yourself and become safer in the water.

I enjoy relic hunting and bottle collecting, but I also enjoy diving deep wrecks where not too many people have been before and performing decompression stops and gas switches. You need to apply the right tools to the right situation. You don’t need to bring the same gear from a 140′ dive to a 20′ dive. Adjust your gear appropriately for the diving conditions. Be trained for the types of dives you are performing, and practice, practice, practice.
I plan on continuing my training to Trimix, and possibly rebreather in the future…

A little training goes a long way…

As always be safe, and Dive Dive Dive!

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