Stories behind usernames...

[scubajunkee]

Mine's pretty self-explanatory...

but I do remember a friend saying that I'm addicted to scuba. I just told him I'm a Scuba Junkie and the name stuck. I pretty much dive every weekend here in the warm waters (50F-55F) of Monterey, Ca.

Ericson

 

[Quarrior]

Quarrior - hmm where do I do 90% of my diving.

 

[ShakaZulu]

Easy, love sharks, thus Shaka. I'm also from South Africa originally, add a bit of glue, and you get ShakaZulu...........

 

[dlndavid]

Easy, love sharks, thus Shaka. I'm also from South Africa originally, add a bit of glue, and you get ShakaZulu...........

Would you be sniffing said glue?

 

[FreeFloat]

http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?t=55660

But I'll recopy my original answer here again.......

I've never really had a nickname. But last year when I started lurking this board - it didn't take me long to decide I wanted to post. At the time I was not yet certified scuba but did a lot of Freediving. I tried out a few combinations with Free in them and nothing looked quite right. Well my "other" passion is my racing sailing dinghy which naturally "floats" (even while swamped or capsized, there's a few stories about that) - so I stuck the Free and the Float together and it looked about right.

For a while, as is my Internet custom in unfamiliar places, I didn't even reveal my gender - and FreeFloat was androgynous enough to get away with that as well. Then as I took scuba training and learned the art of neutral buoyancy the Float part just made more and more sense.

I like it so much that I've marked my gear with "FF" or "FreeFloat". I even have a few diving type people (buddies and otherwise) who have no clue as to my real given name, to them I'm just FreeFloat...........

 

[jamiep3]

Pretty boring actually

James R Porter III
Family called me Jamie to distiguish me from my dad Jim
Created the identity for another website when I first had internet access about 8 or 10 years ago, and it's easy to remember.

 

[DennisW]

My name of course with either my middle or last initial. You decide which.

 

[ReefGuy]

Got into diving because of my reef tank. Reeftank didn't sound quite right, so...

 

[Hank49]

Remember the Joe Walsh song back in about 75 called "Funk 49'? But now that I'll be 50 this year.....hmmmm.

 

[Rick Murchison]

Maybe I'll ask the SB gods if I can change it someday...

Well.... it's certain that if you don't ask it won't change...
S