Ten years!

[red sea wrecker]

congrats

 

[kathydee]

Congrats! That's great Lynne! Thanks for all the friendship & support as I was coming up .

Just had to check my own C card - 9 years ago today I was certified OW. Little did I know what a wonderful world awaited!

 

[spectrum]

Congratulations on the 10 year anniversary and the development, sustained activity and support you have lent to others.
Pete

 

[MaxBottomtime]

Congrats!, but one small question. Certified after two dives? I haven't been around any OW classes for awhile but is that all that is required now?

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

Whatever became of Uncle Pug?

He still checks in from time to time ...

Congrats on your milestone, Lynne ... it's been a great 10 years, and I'm privileged to have known you for most of it ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[Seya]

Congratulations. Keep on having a great time

Sent from my SGH-I337M using Tapatalk

 

[nimoh]

Congrats!, but one small question. Certified after two dives? I haven't been around any OW classes for awhile but is that all that is required now?

I believe it was intended to mean second dive of the day, and not second dive lifetime total.

Congratulations Lynne!

 

[TSandM]

Yes, nimoh has it right. It was the second dive, of my second day of OW dives. I did the required 4, although honestly, I should have been required to do several more before anybody cut me loose to dive on my own. Nonetheless, I survived the next 16 dives, until NW Grateful Diver took me under his wing and started teaching me how to do more than not drown on scuba

 

[dumpsterDiver]

July 5th, 2005 . . . I climbed out of the water from the second dive, and my instructor shook my hand, and told me I was a certified diver.

It's been an amazing ten years. I've done somewhere around 1300 dives, in most of the major regions where people go diving. Australia, Indonesia, the South Pacific, the Caribbean, the Philippines, and up and down the Pacific North American coast. I've been fortunate enough to see a great many amazing things, from a humpback whale off Lanai, to the giant mantas in the Socorros, to the unbelievable profusion of beautiful and bizarre nudibranchs that enliven almost all dive sites. I've had training from a variety of organizations and people, which has been an interesting (and sometimes very frustrating!) process. I've even gotten to go somewhere that no one else had ever been before, and yes, I have a line arrow at the end of a previously unexplored passage, which likely no one will ever dive again

And ScubaBoard has been with me for almost all of it. I was sent here by a mentor not long after I learned to dive. I met NW Grateful Diver here, and he's a large part of the reason I still dive, and haven't killed myself doing it. I found out about DIR here (I miss Uncle Pug) and it was a perfect fit for me. I met a lot of people here who I later got to know in person, who have enriched my diving and my life: Mo2vation, HBDiveGirl, KMD, RLee, Bismarck (now GShockey). I've gotten advice on dive ops and lodging (thank you, Red Hat Mama!). I've learned about diving and marine life (thank you, Doc Intrepid, Doppler, and people like Max Bottomtime).

It's been a great ten years, and I'm looking forward to what the next decade brings, in travel, diving, discoveries, and people!

Then:

Now:

You looked sexier in the wetsuit.
Also, I always suspected you were that "weird doctor lady", but I was never sure. That video still cracks me up, even though I don't understand all the references.

Congratulations on 10 years!

 

[Merry]

Congratulations Lynne! Just think of all the adventures and exciting memories of marine life that most people will never have.
Here's to your next decade of diving!