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About Certs Buddies Photos Mike Barnhart - mikebarnhart Monrovia MD 21770 Male 55 years old Blue Marble Divers Atlantic Edge Dive Center Joined On: 1/23/2011 Last Login: 5/05/2023 Experience: Expert Total Dives: 22 (519 mins) Looking For: Dive buddy - just friends Master Scuba Diver (PADI) 5/24/2012 Deep (PADI) 9/21/2012 Drift (PADI) 4/19/2012 Night (PADI) 4/19/2012 Altitude (PADI) 3/24/2012 Rescue (PADI) 5/29/2011 Advanced Open Water (PADI) 5/15/2011 Other (PADI) 4/30/2011 Enriched Air/Nitrox (PADI) 4/21/2011 Emergency First Response (PADI) 4/07/2011 Open Water Diver (PADI) 3/27/2011 View All 19 Buddies View 18 Profile Photos

Always looking for interesting places & people!
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Certs: OW, EFR, EANx, Aquarium, AOW, Rescue, Altitude, Night, Drift, Drysuit, Master, Deep, DM
Completed DM Program with Atlantic Edge 9/2013- atlanticedge.com/node/1505

> Equipment:
Regulator: Mares Proton Metal 42 w/Mares Proton Octopus
BCD: Sea Quest Pro QD with SureLock II Weight System
Computer: Cressi Archimede II 3-gauge Console
Wetsuit: Bare Velocity 3mil Progressive Stretch
Drysuit: Whites Fusion Bullet
Tanks: Catalina 80cf Aluminum w/ProValve
Mask: Atomic Aquatics Subframe
Snorkel: Aeris Barracuda Dry
Fins: Aeris Velocity XP Split
Camera: Sealife DC1200

> Upcoming Dives:
none. arrrgh!

> My pirate name is:
Dread Pirate Vane
Like the famous Dread Pirate Roberts, you have a keen head for how to make a profit. You’re apt to follow wherever the wind blows you but like anyone confronted with the harshness of doing robbery on the high seas, you can be optimistic at times. You tend to blend into the background occasionally, but that’s okay, because it’s much easier to sneak up on people and disembowel them that way. Arr!

> How to Fail Your Open Water Test
1. Tell your instructor you will race him to the surface.
2. Lie face down and motionless while holding your breath.
3. Loudly proclaim that safety stops are for "wussies."
4. Show up with a set of tables based on your own algorithm "that’s WAY better."
5. Spit in your wetsuit and pee in your mask.
6. Ask your instructor, which fin goes on which foot.
7. Tell your instructor there is no way you can lift a cylinder with 2000 pounds of air in it.
8. When asked for your dive plan, you hand over a bundle of travel brochures.
9. Put a bounty on opening your instructors dry suit zipper underwater!
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Comments

mikebarnhart - 3/28/2012 5:33 AM 24-Mar-2012 Altitude Cert - Mt. Storm, WV via Atlantic Edge www.mtstorm.com

mikebarnhart - 3/28/2012 5:32 AM 22/24-Cancun Mexico Reef Diving & Cenotes (cavern) Diving via Scuba Fred’s www.scubafreds.com Cenote DOS OJOS - Riviera Maya Mexico www.cenotedosojos.com

mikebarnhart - 3/28/2012 5:29 AM 2/3-Jul-2011 NC Wreck Diving off Beaufort, NC via Discovery Diving www.discoverydiving.com

mikebarnhart - 7/01/2011 8:39 AM 28/29-May-2011 Rescue Diver - South River, Annapolis, MD via Atlantic Edge http://www.atlanticedge.com/node/1511

mikebarnhart - 5/25/2011 9:49 AM 14/15-May-2011 Advanced Open Water - Millbrook Quarry - Haymarket, VA via Atlantic Edge http://www.atlanticedge.com/node/1509

mikebarnhart - 5/02/2011 7:59 AM 30-Apr-2011 Aquarium Dive - National Aquarium in Baltimore, MD via Atlantic Edge http://www.atlanticedge.com/course-details/aquarium-diver

mikebarnhart - 3/29/2011 8:17 AM 26/27-Mar-2011 OW Dive 1-4 - Mt. Storm, WV via Atlantic Edge www.mtstorm.com

mikebarnhart - 1/23/2011 7:23 PM 23-Nov-2010 OW Dive 1 & 2 - Coki Beach, St. Thomas USVI via Coki Beach Dive Club www.cokidive.com

mikebarnhart - 1/23/2011 7:13 PM 14-Nov-2010 Initial Class - The Lab School, 4759 Reservoir Road, NW, Washington, DC via Atlantic Edge Dive Center www.atlanticedge.com