Eric Sedletzky
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Pilot of Pacific Grove crash remembered by friends, family | KTVU FOX 2
Friends of the pilot killed in Saturday's plane crash off the Monterey Coast said James Vincent was a good friend who loved adventure.
Owner of Any Water Sports and Aquarius dies in plane crash.
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Heartbreaking. I used Aquarius many years ago before James owned it. Back when Bruce Sawyer was the owner. I did a discover-local-diving with them for an introduction to shore diving in Monterey. That was back in 2006.
Condolences to the families and friends of those who were killed.
Condolences to the families and friends of those who were killed.
wnissen
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Thanks for posting. It's a good shop, lots of longtime employees there. I didn't realize he was the owner.
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Eric Sedletzky
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That airport has claimed many lives for some reason. John Denver was one.
The plane crash that killed John Denver had nothing whatsoever to do with the airport and everything to do with the poor location and configuration of the fuel tank selection lever which resulted in loss of control of the aircraft.
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Eric Sedletzky
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Horribly tragic for all involved -- both friends and family.
James saved my butt, back during the covidiocy, when businesses were shuttered all along the Central Coast -- Aquarius included -- and while our governor was "sucking down oysters and profiteroles" at The French Laundry (James's wry comment). He asked me to drop by, behind the darkened shop, "Prohibition-style" -- and filled the bed of my truck with 80s for next to nothing, so that I could, at least, continue with work for a couple of weeks. "They're doing absolutely nothing here," he had said, of the racks of rental tanks.
I'll never forget that.
Ironically enough, David Houghton, another friend and the owner of Aqua Safaris in Santa Cruz -- and an avid pilot, died in much the same way, along with his entire family, back in 2011.
I have no great love of small planes . . .
James saved my butt, back during the covidiocy, when businesses were shuttered all along the Central Coast -- Aquarius included -- and while our governor was "sucking down oysters and profiteroles" at The French Laundry (James's wry comment). He asked me to drop by, behind the darkened shop, "Prohibition-style" -- and filled the bed of my truck with 80s for next to nothing, so that I could, at least, continue with work for a couple of weeks. "They're doing absolutely nothing here," he had said, of the racks of rental tanks.
I'll never forget that.
Ironically enough, David Houghton, another friend and the owner of Aqua Safaris in Santa Cruz -- and an avid pilot, died in much the same way, along with his entire family, back in 2011.
I have no great love of small planes . . .
James and Jamie were good people and friends. Not perfect people, but good enough. Never did anything to me that wasn't positive.
I am going to miss them for many, many years.
I am going to miss them for many, many years.
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John Denver god bless him I was cruising around got stuck on a couple of beaches today listening to this
He did a second dive on the same tank refusing a fill tsk tsk tsk
He did a second dive on the same tank refusing a fill tsk tsk tsk
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