soggybadger
Contributor
The wife got a two for one offer on a try dive with a six pack of beer. With hindsight that was some expensive beer.
Welcome to ScubaBoard, the world's largest scuba diving community. Registration is not required to read the forums, but we encourage you to join. Joining has its benefits and enables you to participate in the discussions.
Benefits of registering include
Wow! How many scuba divers owe your Dad for getting started diving? I'm guessing there are some right here on Scubaboard.I went downstairs in 1968. My dad was the state director for Ga, Tn and Ky for the YMCA scuba program. Back then, Ken Brock was the director who would later direct NAUI.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I used to hang around the shop in Laguna Beach and look through the windows at the scuba equipment after skin diving all day during the summer. One day Rick Nelson walked in with a big bag of hamburgers and an empty set of dive tanks.
He and the guys came out in a couple minutes and asked if I had eaten anything? I was kind of hired there and then to clean up, put tools away and wash off dive gear.
In turn I got a little work lifting furniture and setting up office space for the editor of Skin Diver magazine (Ken Seebold) six who was among the first to do some of the deeper stuff at Truk with Al Tilman and Sylvia Earle and came back with pictures.
Couple summers later the shop got me entered in the Los Angeles County Skin Diver Program. I got certified as a Skin diver over the summer and the following February I was allowed to enter the NAUI program as a prospect. I passed eventually but it was very difficult for a little kid of 14.
That was 1972 and I can still do every dive I did at 25 . (mostly)
We used to do stuff that was unthinkable by today's standards but we were pretty used to living in a different era. Before convenience.
Sally Santmeyer