High School underwater graduation

[Green Mountain]

Did anyone else see the kids from the scuba class get their diplomas underwater in the school pool?

It was cute. The principal had to get certified so he could go down and present the diplomas. They all had on thier caps and gowns , tanks and regs. Family and friends set around the pool.

I didn't get the name of the school.

 

[DivingGal]

Originally posted by benncool
Did anyone else see the kids from the scuba class get their diplomas underwater in the school pool?

It was cute. The principal had to get certified so he could go down and present the diplomas. They all had on thier caps and gowns , tanks and regs. Family and friends set around the pool.

I didn't get the name of the school.

Not sure if it was what you saw, but I saw one for a school in Montreal - the story aired over the weekend.

 

[Green Mountain]

The report was on this weekend. So it must have been the same report that you saw.

Too bad there are not more scuba shows on TV. Of course I'm partial to scuba but when ever there is a travel show, for example, they only show a blip of the scuba diving available in the area.

 

[DivingGal]

There is usually not much aired of "local" diving.

Earlier this month scuba diving got a plug when a pair of the "wackie" announcers from a local radio station did their show u/w. I think it was for the week -- everytime it was their"show" down they went with full com units. Unfortunately, they really did not get much coverage on TV -- so unless you knew about it, or were a listener to their station, you probably didn't hear about. I only knew about it as they got their training and borrowed the necessary equipment from a LDS that I work through.

I know that most of the LDS in my area try to get the media involved when we do "beach" clean-up, and we do get press that way.

As for other scuba shows -- not much of them either up here ;-0 -- guess I'll just have to go diving to get my thrills

 

[danceswithoctopus]

I think part of the problem is that SCUBA tends to be a rather bad spectator sport and unless vis is really awesome it's tough to produce interesting video. Then you have the difficulty of producing an unique story line. So the news media have no real reason to be interested in SCUBA unless it's periferally connected to some other sort of story: the local beach clean-up, for example, or the divers who volunteer at the local aquarium. Of course, diving accidents get press ('local diver runs out of oxygen') but I'd prefer to keep those sorts of events from happening.

What we need is to bring back Mike Nelson! Hey, why not? They're doing it with a bunch of other old TV.

 

[JimC]

Earlier this month scuba diving got a plug when a pair of the "wackie" announcers from a local radio station did their show u/w. I think it was for the week -- everytime it was their"show" down they went with full com units. Unfortunately, they really did not get much coverage on TV

My wife and I almost stoped, got into our kit to dive into the tank with them on our way back from diving on the St Lawrence. But we decided we just wanted to go home and pass out.

They stayed underwater for 48 hours straight to raise funds for a charity.

 

[DivingGal]

Originally posted by JimC


My wife and I almost stoped, got into our kit to dive into the tank with them on our way back from diving on the St Lawrence. But we decided we just wanted to go home and pass out.

They stayed underwater for 48 hours straight to raise funds for a charity.

Thanks for correcting the information. Don't blame you for heading straight home to crash -- exactly what I did this past weekend.

 

[art.chick]

There have been some good fictitious shows; Sea Hunt managed to work underwater drama into good stories. There was also an interesting feature from that era about wreck diving for lost treasure. The potential exists. I think as far as the news items go, most TV News crews don't have qualified underwater cameramen.

 

[seabass]

If you get a TIVO box you can setup an automated search for keywords such as scuba or dive. TIVO will automatically scan the descriptions of all programs on all channels and record the ones with the keywords.

 

[Tractor Tom]

Many years ago, while I was serving a hitch in Uncle Sam's Army in Hawaii (25th Division, 1/21st Infantry "Gimlets"), a couple of the guys "re-upped" underwater. That made some of the local papers, with a half dozen divers, all in Army fatigues and full diving gear, in 30 feet of water with their hands raised...

When it came time for me to reup, I fired the cannon at the 5:00 retreat ceremony after taking the oath and signing on for another 3 years. After the gun, the whole post comes to a stop and salutes, the flag, which I was standing under...kind of cool.

Franknemuth Tom