Carlos Danger
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Here's to you Sir! 
50 Years of Diving
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Congrats Bob! I'm right behind you! Forty eight years! Started at an old sand quarry in NJ called Virginia Lake. I was a Jr Lifeguard and the head life guard had a scuba unit I drooled over. Healthways double hose, a real tank and a Dacor D-Pack. I somehow acquired a really good depth gauge that the head guard really liked. Told me that he would give me dive lessons as a swap for that gauge....Done deal, so here I am nearly 50 years later!
Congratulations and happy birthday, that is awesome!
In my wildest dreams I hope to be in the game for 1/2 that time.
Pete
In my wildest dreams I hope to be in the game for 1/2 that time.
Pete
Congratulations Bob and Happy Birthday 
DiverAmy
Prism2 CCR Diver
Congrats, Bob. Reading that brought a tear to my sentimental eyes. I only got certified in 2008, but always wanted to be a scuba diver. I love this activity more than any other! Thanks for blazing the trail.
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Bob DBF
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Thanks to all for the congratulations, just getting old is not as easy as one might think.
In science fiction you can fly to another world and in fantasy you can walk thru a mirror to get there, diving has been the one activity that has made some of these worlds available to me. I've been diving year after year because I can just buy another new adventure by the air fill.
A few years back, when boat diving the Channel Islands with my daughter, I ran into a diver with a BP/W solo diving at 80 something years old. So, knock on wood, I'm planning to be that guy.
Bob
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Even a blind pig gets an acorn once in a while.
In science fiction you can fly to another world and in fantasy you can walk thru a mirror to get there, diving has been the one activity that has made some of these worlds available to me. I've been diving year after year because I can just buy another new adventure by the air fill.
A few years back, when boat diving the Channel Islands with my daughter, I ran into a diver with a BP/W solo diving at 80 something years old. So, knock on wood, I'm planning to be that guy.
Bob
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Even a blind pig gets an acorn once in a while.
Congratulations, Bob. Wonderful that your Dad taught you and shared his passion with you. I hit 50 years of diving last year... never thought that would happen when I took my first breath from a SCUBA tank.
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Bob DBF
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I just ran across your post
A huge congratulations is in order!
1963 seems like a long time ago and it was! Your career spans the actual genesis of recreational diving...LA Co UW Instruction program was about 8 years old, NAUI about a little over 2 years old and over six years before PADI was hatched.
Lets hope you have 50 more exciting years..
SDM
PS..there is a post by "couv" about my diving career in the Socal section
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I agree that Bob has hit a milestone and a huge congratulations are in order.
As I re read his congratulatory post yours caught my eye..
A 1000 Page book called "The New Science of Skin and SCUBA diving." I and I some how suspect many are not familiar with a 1000 page diving manual. Can you provide additional information as when this 1000 page book was printed?
Perhaps a LCCC or ISBN numbers?
Eagerly await your response
SDM
A huge congratulations is in order!
1963 seems like a long time ago and it was! Your career spans the actual genesis of recreational diving...LA Co UW Instruction program was about 8 years old, NAUI about a little over 2 years old and over six years before PADI was hatched.
Lets hope you have 50 more exciting years..
SDM
PS..there is a post by "couv" about my diving career in the Socal section
---------- Post added July 27th, 2013 at 06:06 AM ----------
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I agree that Bob has hit a milestone and a huge congratulations are in order.
As I re read his congratulatory post yours caught my eye..
A 1000 Page book called "The New Science of Skin and SCUBA diving." I and I some how suspect many are not familiar with a 1000 page diving manual. Can you provide additional information as when this 1000 page book was printed?
Perhaps a LCCC or ISBN numbers?
Eagerly await your response
SDM
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Bob DBF
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Thanks Sam.
I think Beaverdivers got carried away, and although it may have seemed that long to a kid who just wanted to hit the water with SCUBA, it is only 207. "The New Science of Skin and SCUBA Diving" was originally printed in 1957 by the Conference for National Co-operation in Aquatics, my copy is the revised edition 1962, LCCC 62-9376. All the techniques for lost reg, doff and don, buddy breathing, including illustrations were for Double Hose regs and old school quick release buckles.
Bob
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