RickI
Contributor
Universities can make a great setting for instructor courses, talk about some intense immersion. You used to work with Neil Watson? I remember filling his takes regularly when he orbited through Ft. Lauderale and between exits from Bimini. Always had his marine corp hat on. What did you do for him?
Those were some strange times during the boatlift. Good story! I can recall a good friend walking the beach tagging turtles and digging up endangered nests when a bunch of boat people from Haiti beached. Strange times in SE Florida.
Those were some strange times during the boatlift. Good story! I can recall a good friend walking the beach tagging turtles and digging up endangered nests when a bunch of boat people from Haiti beached. Strange times in SE Florida.
I took my YMCA Basic as my phys ed class at Temple University with the infamous Dr. Peter Lynch. I learned so much in my basic class, a 3 credit University class, that 1-1/2 years later, my NAUI ITC was a breeze.
I think Bryan and Mary bought the shop from Chuck without buying the other shop first, but I didn't know them then. I met them when their shop was across from Searstown. Early in my dive instructor career I worked half-time for the Brookses and half-time for Neal Watson who had office space in UnderSeas Sports. Neal was and still is one hell of a nice guy.
A favorite story of mine occurred while doing an early evening beach dive in the winter after the Mariel Boat Lift. Two friends and I were diving off one of the streets North of Sheridan St. in Hollywood...I think it was Cody Street. I know it was winter because we were all wearing our black rubber wetsuits (remember them?), which is an essential part of the story.
As we returned to shore after the dive, we saw two officers of the law waiting for us on the beach...laughing their butts off. Apparently someone in the nearby apartments or condos reported "Cubans swimming onto the beach" and called the police on us.![]()