Roll call: Any old NASDS divers out there?

[dogdrjohn]

I just found this thread - my NASDS card is # B3126 from Aqua Sports in Redwood City CA. No date on the card, but my NAUI card from the same course series #40699 is dated Sept. 1967, signed by Les Newport of Aqua Sports. I was re-certified in 1998 by PDIC after nearly 30 dive free years, and my friend, who took the original classes with me in 1967, was re-certified last year after we talked at a 40 year high school reunion.
Went to Grand Turk with him in May 2009 - saw Manta and dolphins underwater on his first 4 dives in 30 years. Told him he hit the jackpot. Going to Dumaguete Philippines with him in May. Never too old to get wet. In fact, a high school friend just finishing chemo/radiation therapy is thinking of learning to dive so he can go with us. He didn't learn back then. We live so far apart - Washington, California, and Maine - that that is the best chance for us to get together and see each other again - on a dive trip to someplace warm.

 

[DogFrog]

Randy..

Dick Hammas... That’s the name I could not remember. I have no what happened to any of them.

Somebody I went to the college with had something to do with SSI I think. I remember trying to replace my card a few years back (the original one is still in my wallet but could fall apart at any time.) and called them. The name of the person in charge rang a bell.

About a year after the college I was in a BIG auto wreck as the passenger coming back from a day of diving. Almost didn’t make it. The Drs. made a strong point that I should give up diving due to some of the bones I broke (joints). So my diving dreams went out the door and I drop out of that world. I wish I had not listened to them.

But no joint replacements yet.

 

[RandyKowalski]

Thanks DogFrog
Spoke with Marlene at SSI and she will ask Doug when he returns. Dick was one of the Instructors at the College.... Very smart man and a GREAT Teacher. I enjoyed his lectures. He taught the more advanced barometric pressure theories and made them easier to understand thus easier to teach. He is a retired Recon Marine as well as a Prof. at one of the Colleges in Southern Calif. (can't remember which one) Sorry to hear about your auto accident..... YOUR ALIVE.... more important than ANYTHING. You can always start instructing again. I did and I found that the skills that I developed at the NASDS College came back to me. Testimonial to John Gaffneys vision and Tony Zemos/Dick Hammas quality Instruction.
All the Bess to you and your Family
Randy

 

[grayeagle]

1976 resead ca. at aloha dive by rody winton. i tried to get my cert card back but found out the NASDS had a fire and burned the records. recertified by padi 1998.

 

[kwflfire]

NASDS certified 1977 in Key West

 

[Al Storm]

I was NASDS certified in 1975 at the Anchor Shack in Hayward California by Ben Rush. My original plastic card is still in good shape. Don't see any reason to waste $45 to replace it with SSI. Anyone else certified at this location during this time?

 

[burdettl]

Certified 1972, C&G sports/Dive shop Panama City, Ronnie Groom #340, can't find my old card. Looking to replace it

 

[diversteve]

Certified 1972, C&G sports/Dive shop Panama City, Ronnie Groom #340, can't find my old card. Looking to replace it

Instructions are here:

SSI Scuba Schools International: SSI - NASDS - CERTIFICATION CARDS

 

[T B]

certified by NASDS in 1962 or '63 at Ski N Dive.

 

[burdettl]

Card # S7354 April 72, Panama City Beach, C&G Sports, Ronnie Groom was my instructor