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My post from long ago- post number 77.
When My wife and I last visited Cozumel aka "Coz" we were in the senor bracket -- now we are in the antique category
A snippet from an event of long ago
"My wife Betty and I last visited Cozumel about 30 years ago...It was becoming too commercial and too crowded even at that early date for us-- we always attempted to remain ahead of the wave of dive locations popularity.
We had a great time with two Bonne Terre mine guides so many years ago. They had never dove open water, but were very comfortable in the salt water open ocean and for some unknown reason perhaps by natural selection we buddied up with them for most of the week.
The word had got out among the staff and other vacation divers that we were not typical Cozumel vacation divers
On the very last day of our visit we had made several dives and were underway to the second and last shallow dive site of our week long vacation.
I speak Spanish and had been speaking "Spanlish" all week with the crew. I inquired in Spanish as to how long to the next dive site ? Their reply in Spanish "45 minutes."
I returned to my seat along the gunnels informed my wife and our week long buddies buddies that we had 45 minutes to relax
Then I said what the heck ? Why not ? So I said " You are from the Missouri the 'Show Me State' - I will show you-- Pull out your dive bags start fiddling with your equipment" which they did. Soon the entre boat of divers were pulling out there dive bags, preparing their equipment and putting on their wet suits
As soon as every one was fully prepared to dive we shoved out bags under the seat and resumed out conversations for another 40 or so minutes to we arrived at the last dive site.
Some started chuckling that they had been had others were so hot the deck was steaming .
At the end of the dive and our vacations the Missourians insisted that it would be their honor to carry our equipment to our room for packing - Who could refuse that offer ?
We will never forget those two Missourians from Bonne Terre and the fun we had !"
the message is clear --Never trust an old diving couple who began diving before Cousteau
sdm
My post from long ago- post number 77.
When My wife and I last visited Cozumel aka "Coz" we were in the senor bracket -- now we are in the antique category
A snippet from an event of long ago
"My wife Betty and I last visited Cozumel about 30 years ago...It was becoming too commercial and too crowded even at that early date for us-- we always attempted to remain ahead of the wave of dive locations popularity.
We had a great time with two Bonne Terre mine guides so many years ago. They had never dove open water, but were very comfortable in the salt water open ocean and for some unknown reason perhaps by natural selection we buddied up with them for most of the week.
The word had got out among the staff and other vacation divers that we were not typical Cozumel vacation divers
On the very last day of our visit we had made several dives and were underway to the second and last shallow dive site of our week long vacation.
I speak Spanish and had been speaking "Spanlish" all week with the crew. I inquired in Spanish as to how long to the next dive site ? Their reply in Spanish "45 minutes."
I returned to my seat along the gunnels informed my wife and our week long buddies buddies that we had 45 minutes to relax
Then I said what the heck ? Why not ? So I said " You are from the Missouri the 'Show Me State' - I will show you-- Pull out your dive bags start fiddling with your equipment" which they did. Soon the entre boat of divers were pulling out there dive bags, preparing their equipment and putting on their wet suits
As soon as every one was fully prepared to dive we shoved out bags under the seat and resumed out conversations for another 40 or so minutes to we arrived at the last dive site.
Some started chuckling that they had been had others were so hot the deck was steaming .
At the end of the dive and our vacations the Missourians insisted that it would be their honor to carry our equipment to our room for packing - Who could refuse that offer ?
We will never forget those two Missourians from Bonne Terre and the fun we had !"
the message is clear --Never trust an old diving couple who began diving before Cousteau
sdm
