Karina

Hello everyone I just found this forum while doing a google search, and it's wonderful! I've been wishing I had someone to discuss scuba with.

I live in Reno, Nevada, and I'm as new as newbies come in diving. I got my open water certification last summer, but haven't been able to dive since then due to a foot injury. Now that I'm finally well enough to dive again, and the water is warming (Lake Tahoe is brutal if you don't have a dry suit, like me), I'm hoping to really get plugged into this full force. I don't do anything half-hearted, and this looks like the perfect time to charge in! So anyway, I just want to say hello and let you all know I exist. So hello

glynneco

Welcome! got pics of Tahoe diving?

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Is that the bottom of the quarry or is the vis just really bad today?

Karina

I don't, sadly. But hopefully I'll be able to get some this summer. Ironically, Tahoe is so clear and clean that it's not necessarily the most interesting place to dive. My dive shop usually goes to Sand Harbor, which is just endless sand and some large boulders with crawdads around them. It's really quite barren. Supposedly there's a wreck out toward Emerald Bay, though, which could be fun. I'm not sure how deep it is...

Thanks for the welcome, this seems like such a wonderful resource, and very helpful, friendly people

Vegas

Hi Karina! Welcome!
Glad to see another "newbie" in Nevada! I live in Vegas and completed my O/W certification 8 days ago out at Lake Mead. We had wind, bad surface chop, Cold water, and LOW vis....
....yet, I am so hooked already, I went back for more yesterday!
Two more dives - still windy, but the sun was out - and the vis was alot better.

I am sort-of savoring being new - letting myself get excited over even the simlest things - ("hey! that's a thermocline! How Cool!") .... If I amuse my more experienced dive-buddies, well, Let 'em giggle! LOL!
I figure I'll just keep diving locally, keep enjoying myself, and when "big adventure" comes in the deep blue see, I'll be comfortable and able to pay more attention to what I'm seeing, instead of having to concentrate all my attention on all the basics of how to do this or that.

I'm sorry you had to wait for so long to start diving again, but I am so happy to hear that you're back full throttle!

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Karina

Thanks for such a friendly reply! I hate not knowing anything, but being a novice really is wonderful for the excitement every new experience brings. I actually certified in upstate New York while I was visiting family, and we swam out to a small sunken fishing boat covered in zebra mussels. I about had a heart attack when a fat three foot long carp came swimming up along side me (visibility was awful, so I didn't see it till I was practically next to it). I laughed pretty hard at myself over that one, which was amusing in itself, laughing through the regulator. Anyway, it was a very mundane dive by normal standards, but of course for me it was like traveling to the moon and back. I'll definitely have to get used to the new world!

It really sucked having my foot so messed up for so long, so now that it's mostly better, I can't wait to go diving. It's practically consuming me! If you ever manage to drift up north, let me know!! It's nice to see a fellow Nevadan, even if it is so far away.