cammerfe
New
I've recently become aware that I've let my diving take a back seat to all the other activities in my life. And I suppose that's what you might expect as one becomes more sedentary. But it wasn't always that way.
I made a deal with my father when I was in the eighth grade and when the grades were what he demanded, I became the proud possessor of A Healthways Divair scuba rig, a Squale mask and a set of Voit fins. I taught myself to use this equipment safely because there was no such thing as an organized instruction program at that time.
I heard about a night school class in a neighboring community when I was a senior in high school and registered late. I found that I already had developed the skills necessary to be a safe diver and could actually have scored 100% on the final test on the day I first showed up.
While out of state at college I started selling U S Divers equipment to fellow students from my dorm room and when I moved back home and went to work, I took over the vacated position in the night school as instructor.
Two years later Bob Wisner, a former UDT diver and owner of the local string of dive shops in Metro Detroit, having visited my class several times, called and told me that there would be a weekend get together in Chicago to form a new instructor association. That was the birth of PADI. My card ID number is 42 in that group. By the time PADI formed, I had already graduated over 200 students through my classes in the Plymouth, MI night school.
It's overwhelmingly good to see the growth of the sport.
KS
I made a deal with my father when I was in the eighth grade and when the grades were what he demanded, I became the proud possessor of A Healthways Divair scuba rig, a Squale mask and a set of Voit fins. I taught myself to use this equipment safely because there was no such thing as an organized instruction program at that time.
I heard about a night school class in a neighboring community when I was a senior in high school and registered late. I found that I already had developed the skills necessary to be a safe diver and could actually have scored 100% on the final test on the day I first showed up.
While out of state at college I started selling U S Divers equipment to fellow students from my dorm room and when I moved back home and went to work, I took over the vacated position in the night school as instructor.
Two years later Bob Wisner, a former UDT diver and owner of the local string of dive shops in Metro Detroit, having visited my class several times, called and told me that there would be a weekend get together in Chicago to form a new instructor association. That was the birth of PADI. My card ID number is 42 in that group. By the time PADI formed, I had already graduated over 200 students through my classes in the Plymouth, MI night school.
It's overwhelmingly good to see the growth of the sport.
KS
