It was that post from her journal that put me in touch with Lynne when she was still a fairly new diver ... and started a friendship that lasted for a decade before her death. She had just completed her AOW class, and had about 17 dives when I first went diving with her and decided to "adopt" her and teach her some things she hadn't learned in her classes ... like how to descend without landing tank-first on the bottom, and how to hold a safety stop. That last was finally achieved by showing her a jellyfish mid-water which fascinated her so much she forgot to get all fidgety in the water column and lose her buoyancy control. It was through subsequent dives that she learned about and eventually became the ultimate spokesperson for the GUE method of diving ... although I am not a GUE-trained diver (except for taking Fundies twice), I recognized in her a mindset that was a perfect match for that approach to diving. Lynne was a unique person in many ways ... very sharp, not real athletic but more than made up for it in determination, and someone who absolutely loved diving. It took less than two years from when I first met her to the point when she had turned it around and was teaching me things about diving that I didn't know. I still miss her ... a lot. She was, and remains, a role model for new divers who are fortunate enough to come across her insights on this and other boards.
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
