Hi guys, I know posting things to more than one forum is usually discouraged but I also know introduction forums often don't get much traffic so here's my intro post. I hope I get to meet some of you in the future.
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I'm a 32 year old computer programmer in Vancouver BC and can't for the life of me figure out why I haven't gotten into diving yet. When I was 17 I got my first job in the computer industry. I was working for a company in Victoria that produced a diving show for the Canadian discovery channel. It was called "Safari ocean adventures" and was jointly produced with the Royal BC museum, also in Victoria.
I haven't watched the tapes in years but it featured dives around the island and BC, I remember Race Rocks specifically but not much else. I ran the computer network in our market square office and maintained this new thing called a "website" using notepad and NSCA Mosaic. (this was in 1994) I put little screen grabs of each dive on the website the week it was airing and I used to get emails from divers all over the world who found the website and wanted to come dive with the guys on the show. Unfortunately the dive footage was recorded some time before through the museum and our company was mainly doing research on the locations and wrecks, writing it up as narration and putting it all together into a weekly show. Everyone in the office had been diving though and they were always going to "get around" to introducing me to it but they never did.
Fast forward about 16 years and now I'm working for a small engineering shop that designs transmitters for wildlife tracking tags, almost exclusively for marine animals and I'm suddenly desperate to get in the water I'm a skier/snowboarder, love kayaking and hiking, all the good BC stuff. I like to mess with 70s japanese motorcycles on the weekend, and that's about it. I'm looking forward to getting involved in the sport and especially meeting other divers in the Vancouver area. My poor credit card is still recovering from christmas but I'm planning to book my OW class in a few weeks.
Carl
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I'm a 32 year old computer programmer in Vancouver BC and can't for the life of me figure out why I haven't gotten into diving yet. When I was 17 I got my first job in the computer industry. I was working for a company in Victoria that produced a diving show for the Canadian discovery channel. It was called "Safari ocean adventures" and was jointly produced with the Royal BC museum, also in Victoria.
I haven't watched the tapes in years but it featured dives around the island and BC, I remember Race Rocks specifically but not much else. I ran the computer network in our market square office and maintained this new thing called a "website" using notepad and NSCA Mosaic. (this was in 1994) I put little screen grabs of each dive on the website the week it was airing and I used to get emails from divers all over the world who found the website and wanted to come dive with the guys on the show. Unfortunately the dive footage was recorded some time before through the museum and our company was mainly doing research on the locations and wrecks, writing it up as narration and putting it all together into a weekly show. Everyone in the office had been diving though and they were always going to "get around" to introducing me to it but they never did.
Fast forward about 16 years and now I'm working for a small engineering shop that designs transmitters for wildlife tracking tags, almost exclusively for marine animals and I'm suddenly desperate to get in the water I'm a skier/snowboarder, love kayaking and hiking, all the good BC stuff. I like to mess with 70s japanese motorcycles on the weekend, and that's about it. I'm looking forward to getting involved in the sport and especially meeting other divers in the Vancouver area. My poor credit card is still recovering from christmas but I'm planning to book my OW class in a few weeks.
Carl
