Barracuda2 once bubbled...
You got that right!! It's nice to hear from some of the "older, mature" guys.
When I was a teen, I even remember jumping into one of those gum rubber one piece suits that, once you were in it, (and it took a bottle of talcum powder to do it), you wadded up the opening and tied it off as tight as possible so it wouldn't leak; put on the duck fins, round mask. steel 70 with j-valve. We weighted ourselves according to how deep we were going because BC's were not yet thought of. if we were too heavy, we crawled around the bottom or came up and got rid of a few pounds; if we were too light, we picked up a rock and carried it around with us. All my friends thought I was nuts, ----and they were right. Ahh, those were the days-----and as far a diving, I'm glad they're gone.
Barracuda2