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Diver Spotlight: Robert Hudson

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While Robert loves diving with new friends, his favorite buddies are his daughter Jaden (photographed here with Robert) & wife Lanya. As he said of diving with Jade Scuba Adventures, “I liked seeing my wife, Lanya, learn more in her Drysuit class than she did in her Open Water class with another agency!”

Every month we feature an interview with one of our “Friends of Jade Scuba Adventures.” Often, these are divers that have greatly developed their skill sets through a few classes with them. With this series, we hope to inspire others to keep improving their dive skills, build their dive community & have fun diving!

Robert has officially been hit with the “scuba bug!” First certified as a teenager, within the past 18 months he has really “dove in” with over 200 dives & a goal to hit just that number in this year alone. As he works toward his Divemaster certification, Robert’s advice to newer divers is: “Keep diving. More time in the water is going to equal skill. Don’t get frustrated. Keep diving with people you trust. Dive with people who have a higher skill level than you do.”

If there is anyone in our dive community that is ALWAYS excited to dive with a buddy, it’s Robert! In his own words: “I’m happy to lead dives & get people to check out new dive sites. There’s cool stuff out there! I’m always trying to get more people involved in diving.”

Q & A with Robert

Why did you choose Jade Scuba Adventures for your training?“It started off as convenience, because the shop is close to my home. That evolved into seeing their attention to detail and the concern of the instructors to make better divers.”
Where have you traveled for scuba?“We’ve dove in Florida, Hawaii, Cozumel, & Grand Cayman. We do warm water for travel but enjoy diving cold water at home as well.”
Why did you choose to start diving?“My whole life I’ve always been around the water: swimming, fishing, camping by the water. So scuba was the next natural progression to be totally immersed in it. I watched some reels of scuba & thought it looked cool.”  
Robert is a service technician for JSA so you will often see him in the shop leak testing a dry suit or rebuilding a regulator.
Robert has completed many courses with JSA. In this picture from the fall of 2024, he is working on his Foundations course in backmount doubles.

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Tech Diving Essentials: Mastery with Shearwater Computers

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Why do you see so many Shearwaters at our Pacific Northwest dive sites? Because they’re a great dive computer for beginners to tech divers!

Intro to Tech is a topic you will see us frequently discussing in the first half of 2025. Tech diving is not just about going deeper for longer. In fact, many Pacific Northwest divers are already using strategies and gear that would be considered “tech-level” in other waters.

Many divers get to a point in their dive career where they are considering- what’s next?

In this series, we will delve into how to advance as a “tech-level” diver such as perfecting skills like buoyancy & trim, propulsion, dive planning, improving rescue skills & use of alternative gases. To support their improved skills, serious cold-water divers also need redundancy in their gear, exposure protection appropriate for our conditions & gear to plan your dives.

Jade Scuba Adventures (360-233-6825) can assist you with building these skills & pairing the right gear with them!

Why is the Shearwater Perdix 2 perfect for every diver (including beginners)?

  • Large, bright, easy-to-read screen that you can customize (full color 2.2″ screen)
  • AA battery is easy to replace and long lasting
  • Vibration alerts help divers complete their safety stops without having to watch the screen
  • Easy navigation through options and excellent user interface
  • Air integration with the purchase of a Shearwater Swift transmitter for greater ease of monitoring your gas level
  • Internal dive log stores around 1000 hours of dives and easily uploads to your device
  • Solid history of firmware updates even on older computers
  • Worldwide two-year warranty

Why is the Shearwater Perdix 2 perfect for advancing/tech divers?

  • Great add-on to your current dive computer to start tech training (redundancy)
  • Integration with up to four tanks works beautifully for tech divers!
  • Most-used algorithm (Buhlmann ZHL 16-C) with Gradient Factors to customize your conservatism

What if I want a less expensive dive computer?

The Shearwater Peregrine is also an exceptional dive computer at a lower price point than the Perdix 2, but it does not have air integration. Is this a factor for the type of diving you do? What kind of diving are you expecting to do in the next five years? Air integration can be particularly useful for divers that might otherwise have their hands occupied (dive professionals, scubility partners), have trouble reaching/reading the face of an SPG, divers who like to measure their stats, divers with multiple tanks & more!

I’m sold! How do I order one?

Text/call Ashley at 360-233-6825 or email info@jadescubaadventures.com