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Ian@1904
21-11-2005, 21:04
I seem to recognise a few names from YD :)
FWIW I am Treasurer for BSAC 1904, one of the smaller branches ;)
I started diving in 2001 under PADI and converted into BSAC as a Sports Diver early 2003. I am now a DL, and have started down the instructor route. :eek:
I generally dive on twinset and sometimes a stage these days. Big fan of Nitrox. Doing 50+ sea dives a year, not bad as I am based in Bedfordshire.
Ian
I seem to recognise a few names from YD :)
FWIW I am Treasurer for BSAC 1904, one of the smaller branches ;)
I started diving in 2001 under PADI and converted into BSAC as a Sports Diver early 2003. I am now a DL, and have started down the instructor route. :eek:
I generally dive on twinset and sometimes a stage these days. Big fan of Nitrox. Doing 50+ sea dives a year, not bad as I am based in Bedfordshire.
Ian
Hi Ian,
What you doing slumming it over here.
I've been meaning to send you our dive list for a possible joint trip next
summer if you are still up for it. Have about 30 boats booked for 06 so will
get onto it.
Rgds
TerryH
Steve Pearson
21-11-2005, 21:11
Hi Ian
Welcome aboard
Steve
Adrian Kelland
21-11-2005, 23:27
Evening Ian.
Adrian
Hi Ian,
Nice to see you. It was a good day out on Friday.
Janos
Greetings! Yes even Egbert is dancing on here!
Ian@1904
22-11-2005, 12:43
Hi Ian,
What you doing slumming it over here.
I've been meaning to send you our dive list for a possible joint trip next
summer if you are still up for it. Have about 30 boats booked for 06 so will
get onto it.
Rgds
TerryH
Yes please. Send what dates you have available for next year. We are already sorting trips to Gibraltar, Portland, Oban and Swanage.
Ian@1904
22-11-2005, 12:44
Hi Ian,
Nice to see you. It was a good day out on Friday.
Janos
Certainly was, even if someone moved the wreck........ ;)
mark willoughby
22-11-2005, 15:49
yeah hi ian...im a Y/D
Steve Walsh
22-11-2005, 20:44
Me YD too but I dont use this name over there, some of the SW lot will know who I am.:D
How come you get to stay as Odin, Odin?
Ian@1904
22-11-2005, 21:34
Me YD too but I dont use this name over there, some of the SW lot will know who I am.:D
How come you get to stay as Odin, Odin?
I assume you mean the SWM?
I am an occasional lurker there but under a different name ;)
Mark Wayt
24-11-2005, 19:44
Blimey. It's like a YD decamp!
Evening all.
Just for the record, am a member of BSAC York 50 (GaryC's the ex-DO there) but as I'm out in Malton I rarely get to dive with them unfortunately.
Mark.
Blimey. It's like a YD decamp!
Evening all.
Just for the record, am a member of BSAC York 50 (GaryC's the ex-DO there) but as I'm out in Malton I rarely get to dive with them unfortunately.
Mark.
Hi Mark
We really do need to remedy that next year. You are perfectly placed for Brid and hopefully next year will be better than this weather wise. Will try and get you out on the RIB.
Gary
Alan Ewart
25-11-2005, 09:14
Blimey. It's like a YD decamp!
Evening all.
Just for the record, am a member of BSAC York 50 (GaryC's the ex-DO there) but as I'm out in Malton I rarely get to dive with them unfortunately.
Mark.
Which just goes to prove that far too many of us have far too much time on our hands in the current weather conditions.
Diving anyone?
Alan
(another YDer)
Nigel Hewitt
25-11-2005, 09:37
Blimey. It's like a YD decamp!Some of us were here long before we discovered YD.
Adrian Kelland
25-11-2005, 10:30
Some of us were here long before we discovered YD. Do you think anyone will believe that? :) That there was forum life before YD, although not as we know it.
DO you think anyone will believe that? :)
I do :)
What is this YD and why is it important?
Do you think anyone will believe that? :) That there was forum life before YD, although not as we know it.
Before even this forum there was UKRS, NDG and Scuba-UK: that was back in the days when everyone wanted to read stuff off line
Mark Wayt
25-11-2005, 14:19
Before even this forum there was UKRS, NDG and Scuba-UK: that was back in the days when everyone wanted to read stuff off line
I recognise a fair few from good old UKRS - Keith, Pete and Nigel amongst others.
Adrian Kelland
25-11-2005, 14:26
Before even this forum there was UKRS, NDG and Scuba-UK: that was back in the days when everyone wanted to read stuff off line
I did know of UKRS and Scuba-UK. I never liked news groups (well the way they worked) so never took part.
Adrian
I did know of UKRS and Scuba-UK. I never liked news groups (well the way they worked) so never took part.
Likewise. I was on Usenet when I was a student, but got into diving after then and subscribing to threads back then was a pain as my house was connected to t'interweb with two yoghurt pots and a bit of cave-line. ;)
Janos
Nigel Hewitt
25-11-2005, 15:38
I never liked news groups (well the way they worked) so never took part.Heresy! Heresy!
To the bonfire! To the bonfire!
(nobody expects the...)
Adrian Kelland
26-11-2005, 15:25
Likewise. I was on Usenet when I was a student, but got into diving after then and subscribing to threads back then was a pain as my house was connected to t'interweb with two yoghurt pots and a bit of cave-line. ;)
Janos
2 yoghurt pots!
(when I were a lad...)
:D
Ian@1904
26-11-2005, 18:15
Just heard officially that I have passed my TIE, with a merit on the test 54/60, thank goodness for multi-choice I say. A very challenging test if I might say so. I feel I actually learnt stuff from the test rather than it being a test of my knowledge.
I will see about the PIE in the Spring
I now have access to the instructor area - thanks Keith
Adrian Kelland
26-11-2005, 18:23
Well done Ian. I reckon I only scrapped my pass :(
I will probably never do the PIE as I don't really enjoy the instructing lark, but it did get others back doing it too. They must have feared me... :D
Again, well done.
Adrian
but it did get others back doing it too. They must have feared me... :D
Be afraid.... VERY AFRAID!!!!
James - Narked@50
26-11-2005, 22:11
Hi Ian
It's a YD fest alright, just joined myself and already I am getting confused which forum is which? It's just like home!
James
Ian@1904
26-11-2005, 23:04
Hi Ian
It's a YD fest alright, just joined myself and already I am getting confused which forum is which? It's just like home!
James
Yup we just need:
Digger and his DIY rebreather
Bryan and his unusual slant on life
Tom just for being a nice guy
Doug P-well maybe not
Alan Ewart
26-11-2005, 23:06
Hi Ian
It's a YD fest alright, just joined myself and already I am getting confused which forum is which? It's just like home!
James
Nah, no DIR posts or flame wars:D
Nah, no DIR posts or flame wars:D
Hurrah! Well said!
Nigel Hewitt
27-11-2005, 16:00
Nah, no DIR posts or flame wars:D
We can't even fight the old BSAC 100% O2 battle because they sorted it out.
How are we going to have any fun here if we can't kick up a fuss?
Bring back the "A" test campaign?
Paul Oliver
27-11-2005, 16:35
How about a make Buddy Commando's compulsory campaign? ;)
or you men could carry all the kit for us girls :D
Only if you make the tea and sandwiches, do the washing up, wash my thermals (and iron them!)
Alan Ewart
27-11-2005, 19:14
We can't even fight the old BSAC 100% O2 battle because they sorted it out.
How are we going to have any fun here if we can't kick up a fuss?
How about insisting the girls grow beards :D
Paul Oliver
27-11-2005, 20:41
or you men could carry all the kit for us girls :D
Don't we end up doing that anyway ;)
I did know of UKRS and Scuba-UK
UKRS was one of the more useful & friendly news groups of all time (not like rec.scuba, which was good for a flame war, if you liked that sort of thing).
Ah, the nostalgia,
IainC, proud owner of a NigelH backplate (Nigel, you should have had them numbered, like a limited edition print :-) )
Nigel Hewitt
28-11-2005, 19:25
IainC, proud owner of a NigelH backplate (Nigel, you should have had them numbered, like a limited edition print :-) )LOL. We did 344 of them.
It was an accident.
I went to a dive show looking for a plate and was offered one at £200.
I had signed off a laser cutting bill at Combro, the small engineering company run by my brother and myself, a few days earlier and it took a pallet truck to move it all.
I baulked.
I had a design which only needed a few changes to be exactly what I wanted.
I wanted one custom made but the minimum order for tooling and set up for cutting and folding was about £200 and made seven.
I wanted to sell six on but got ten takers on UKRS and some others interested.
So we did another ten...
When they were gone and there were more requests we ordered 25 which put the price to us to the level that we could put them through the office and make enough to cover the credit card machine etc.
It was fun but the costs steadily went up and in the end my brother asked if I'd drop it and I felt we'd done well out of Combro keeping it on the books at that price that long.
Adrian Kelland
28-11-2005, 19:32
UKRS was one of the more useful & friendly news groups of all time (not like rec.scuba, which was good for a flame war, if you liked that sort of thing).
Ah, the nostalgia,
IainC, proud owner of a NigelH backplate (Nigel, you should have had them numbered, like a limited edition print :-) )
I have the combo plate too :)
1 of 344
I have the combo plate too :)
1 of 344
I think mine came out of the second batch so I claim number 8 :p
Adrian Kelland
28-11-2005, 20:00
I think mine came out of the second batch so I claim number 8 :p
They are all 1 of 344 :D
Mark Wayt
30-11-2005, 15:41
Hi Mark
We really do need to remedy that next year. You are perfectly placed for Brid and hopefully next year will be better than this weather wise. Will try and get you out on the RIB.
Gary
Sounds great to me :) Brid's only 10 mins from my house - and the garden's big enough for camping in to save a huge jaunt back to York if needs be :)
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