Scuba Experience

• I had wanted to SCUBA dive since I was a young boy.  I remember faithfully watching every Jacques Cousteau show and wanting to explore the underwater world.
• However, I was under the impression SCUBA diving was very expensive, so this discouraged me for a long time.  Turns out, after the up-front expense, it is not that much more expensive than any other sport/outdoor hobby one might choose to spend money on.
• I decided to take my Open Water SCUBA course in 1992 after a trip to Florida.  My wife and I visited the Florida where we enjoyed snorkeling in Key West, Pennecamp and Biscayne.  I wanted to be able to stay under the water longer and observe/interact with the marine life.  I was unable to do so.
• My brother and I signed up for the Open Water course at American Sport Diver in Kirkland.  At that time the store was owned by Kaye Nealy and she had placed a 2-for-1 coupon in the Entertainment '92 coupon book.  That drove our decision to use that store.
• We completed the PADI Open Water course in June of 1992.  I was the only student in the class to get a 100% score on the written test.
  

I have logged almost 300 dives  All of my diving has been done in the cold water of Puget Sound and British Columbia.   Except for a few instances where I was able to dive in California and Europe.  I have also participated in the DiveQuest program at EPCOT in Florida.  .

After trying the instruction path in Scuba diving (YMCA work) I decided that being an instructor kind of takes the fun out of diving.  It is stressful having to worry about a bunch of inexperienced divers in the water.  So I have decided not to pursue that course.  I will probably take some technical diving courses when life settles down.

I continue to be a volunteer diver at the Seattle Aquarium.  I work in the Pacific Coral Reef (PCR) Tank.

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This page last updated on Thursday, July 08, 2004.