Shaka Doug
Contributor
Please forgive me if it appears that I'm blowing my own horn, but, I reached a diving milestone last week and I am very happy to share the news with the entire Hawaii Ohana.
It's been a long time coming (almost ten years) but I finally made it. On Thursday, 4/19/07, I logged my 3,000th Maui Dive! I'm pretty stoked about it. My first dive here on the island was on August 2nd, 1997. It was off the Back Wall at Molokini. I made a promise to myself that day that I would be sure to log each and every dive here. I can't tell you how many good memories that log brings back now. It is certainly one of my prized possessions. It's getting pretty thick now too!!!
I have a lot of you "SCUBABOARDERS" to thank. Since joining SCUBABOARD in 2004, I've had the pleasure of taking many 'boarders out for shore dives in the Makena, Wailea and Kihei area. Thanks so much for giving me a reason to get wet!! We've seen mantas, sharks, countless turtles, eels, octopus', whales, dolphins, eagle and sting rays, monk seals, and much, much more! (Still waiting for my whale shark!) There've been some poor conditions, amazing sights, and really funny situations that have come and gone but overall I would say that I've never had a "bad" dive here. No accidents, no injuries (well, I did get bit on the finger by a big moray on January 2, 2000 at Ulua Beach, but that's been it). Maui shore diving is top notch and I look forward to many, many more hours under the sea. It will be another three years or so before I hit the 4,000th dive mark and I intend to keep on diving here and racking them up. I invite more of you "SCUBABOARDERS" to come see me.
Thank You SCUBABOARD! Thank You Jacques Cousteau! Thank You SCUBA WORLD (the shop I got my first C-Card at in 1981), Thank You Maui People! Thank You B&B SCUBA for all of that sweet air you've provided! Thank You to the Powers of the Universe and the Law of Attraction that have put me in this place, here and now, to make diving my life. It's been a wonderful life so far! And to everyone else who has helped keep me blowing bubbles along the way, "Thank You Very, Very Much!!!!!"
To all of you who dive now and in the future, I hope you will also log each of your dives. You never know when it will end and for many of us, diving is one of the greatest activities we ever participate in. I am proud of my log book and I could never remember many of the things that happened on my dives without it. It would truly be a shame to have not logged my last 3,000 dives.
"Thank You" for reading this post! I would love to show you some of my favorite sites on Maui some day! Aloha!
It's been a long time coming (almost ten years) but I finally made it. On Thursday, 4/19/07, I logged my 3,000th Maui Dive! I'm pretty stoked about it. My first dive here on the island was on August 2nd, 1997. It was off the Back Wall at Molokini. I made a promise to myself that day that I would be sure to log each and every dive here. I can't tell you how many good memories that log brings back now. It is certainly one of my prized possessions. It's getting pretty thick now too!!!
I have a lot of you "SCUBABOARDERS" to thank. Since joining SCUBABOARD in 2004, I've had the pleasure of taking many 'boarders out for shore dives in the Makena, Wailea and Kihei area. Thanks so much for giving me a reason to get wet!! We've seen mantas, sharks, countless turtles, eels, octopus', whales, dolphins, eagle and sting rays, monk seals, and much, much more! (Still waiting for my whale shark!) There've been some poor conditions, amazing sights, and really funny situations that have come and gone but overall I would say that I've never had a "bad" dive here. No accidents, no injuries (well, I did get bit on the finger by a big moray on January 2, 2000 at Ulua Beach, but that's been it). Maui shore diving is top notch and I look forward to many, many more hours under the sea. It will be another three years or so before I hit the 4,000th dive mark and I intend to keep on diving here and racking them up. I invite more of you "SCUBABOARDERS" to come see me.
Thank You SCUBABOARD! Thank You Jacques Cousteau! Thank You SCUBA WORLD (the shop I got my first C-Card at in 1981), Thank You Maui People! Thank You B&B SCUBA for all of that sweet air you've provided! Thank You to the Powers of the Universe and the Law of Attraction that have put me in this place, here and now, to make diving my life. It's been a wonderful life so far! And to everyone else who has helped keep me blowing bubbles along the way, "Thank You Very, Very Much!!!!!"
To all of you who dive now and in the future, I hope you will also log each of your dives. You never know when it will end and for many of us, diving is one of the greatest activities we ever participate in. I am proud of my log book and I could never remember many of the things that happened on my dives without it. It would truly be a shame to have not logged my last 3,000 dives.
"Thank You" for reading this post! I would love to show you some of my favorite sites on Maui some day! Aloha!
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