Moving From Uk To Texas A & M Uni.....

[adam.crouch]

Hey. Think i'm moving to texas A&M uni in august for 4 months from the UK.... Anyone live in the area? what is the university like? anyoneone on here at the uni?

Thanks Adam

 

[SkiFletch]

Never been to the school, but hope you like warm weather

 

[adam.crouch]

Never been to the school, but hope you like warm weather

Yeah warm is good.... how warm though? Any good diving around there?

 

[SkiFletch]

Dunno about diving near there. Texas is Gulf Coast, so diving would likely be centered around wrecks, and old sunken oil rigs, not reefs... There's supposedly a bunch of good places to dive out of Houston just a little bit down the road. One piece of advice if you do go diving, make sure you go over hand signals with your dive buddy especially if you get paired with an American. Having dove with a few Europeans, I've noticed we tend to use a few hand signal variations over here, prolly good just to make sure before you're down there... whoops.

As for the heat, september's gonna be something you're NOT used to . Should be fantastic weather from October till you leave though.

 

[steelhealr]

College Station is land locked, so, locally, quarries or lakes. HOWEVER...Mexico has some of the best diving around: Cozumel. Next country down from Mexico is Belize with EXCELLENT diving...been to both. Then..another flight...the Caymans...best diving in N. America. The Gulf near Houston is not gonna offer much but you can still dive and see some stuff.

Texas gets hot in the summer.....tornados....and in fall can get some hurricanes.

I can say ONE THING tho': great barbecue, great Mexican food, large beers (everything is bigger in Texas) and I'll stop there.

SH

 

[adam.crouch]

College Station is land locked, so, locally, quarries or lakes. HOWEVER...Mexico has some of the best diving around: Cozumel. Next country down from Mexico is Belize with EXCELLENT diving...been to both. Then..another flight...the Caymans...best diving in N. America. The Gulf near Houston is not gonna offer much but you can still dive and see some stuff.

Texas gets hot in the summer.....tornados....and in fall can get some hurricanes.

I can say ONE THING tho': great barbecue, great Mexican food, large beers (everything is bigger in Texas) and I'll stop there.

SH

Sounds good. I'll get a good tan then ... and the UK will feel freezing forever when i get back...

Best get filling in this 20 Page application for and get down to london to get a visa.

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[mav8989]

It's a haul but check out Cozumel - claimed to be second only to the Great Barrier Reef.

 

[Adrinal]

I'm getting old. I stayed there 20 years ago when I was in high school. There wasn't much to the town then. Eric Borneman lives in Huston and there are some serious reefing crews out there. There are some awsome coral reefs just off Texas. I'm pretty sure Dallas has a very large reef club too.

 

[adam.crouch]

I'm getting old. I stayed there 20 years ago when I was in high school. There wasn't much to the town then. Eric Borneman lives in Huston and there are some serious reefing crews out there. There are some awsome coral reefs just off Texas. I'm pretty sure Dallas has a very large reef club too.

Cool cool, I'll have to try sort some diving out there when i'm over.... Would be cool to find someone at the uni so i can make some friends lol...