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Jim
FYI
A 6X9 book in official bibliophile terminology is identified as a "16mo"
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It was leaned that you were born in 1960 therefore only 56 years old and only certified since 2004 that is only 12 years as a bubble blower I, and many other have cautioned hard charging divers such as you ...pace your self and don't burn out. .
Lots of things in diving happened long before 1960 and 2004.
As previously mentioned LA Co UW Instructors established the world's first ADP in 1967 - 49 years ago and at that time you were only 6 years old. The credit for an ADP goes to Chuck Peterson who you can view in an article in SDM Vol 1 Nr 1 December 1951. I am proud to state I was involved with development of the program and often lectured at the Thursday combined meeting I suspect that is the program you should have investigated for your present book.
I can rightfully assume that you are unaware since you were only 4 years old that I was awarded "Outstanding Contributions to Underwater Instruction " for creating a number of training exercises some still in use in the watered down courses and the creation of the diver/instructor/ classification which was rejected by LA Co but later accepted by the majority of all the major programs. When you were 9 years old I was awarded "The out standing UW instructor of the year" NAUI was 9 years old and PADI had just been formed...the other programs such as the one you promote were way off in the future
About 25 years ago 13 or so years before you entered the diving community I organized and hosted the very first diving US bibliophile meeting in my CenCal home. it was attended by dive bibliophiles and dive authors from the western US and connected by telephone with in the US and letters from distant lands. It would had been great to have had you attend and received your input from the eastern US and quarry diving
I was an early dive bibliophile; I began collecting after I was separated from the USAF during the Korean conflict and never stopped.. I now have the largest private dive library in the US and possibly the world consisting of over 2000 plus volumes, some dating to the 1800s most very rare, some extremely valuable, many inscribed by noted authors , (6 or 7 by Lotte and Hans Hass, about the same by JYC etc etc,) I also have 13 vintage and current periodicals bound in Library binding and innumerable items of diving ephemera.
Over the years I have authored 4 dedicated columns in regional and national dive publications as well as having been honored as having the very first dedicated diving based newspaper column , much of which was gleaned on extensive historical research and/or personal experiences based on now almost 70 years of diving.
One of my most memorable honors was to be on the cover as well as authoring articles and as the first guest editor of the now defunct Skin Diver magazine. The only person obviously to receive that honor
I have used my library to read for personal pleasure and have as a ready reference for any number of authority on any given subject in the now expanding world of recreational diving.
The last 15 years of my instructional activity was spent teaching Advanced Diving at Orange coast college in Costa Mesa California. It was in ever word a true advanced course with prerequisite of the college Skin diving course followed by Basic Scuba. 18 weeks duration 3 hours lecture on Thursday followed by a dive experience on Saturday, either a dive (or two) or field trip, 300 miles north to Jade Cove for cold water, 120 miles south to San Diego to dive the canyon for deep diving, a day at Commercial Diving Center (CDC) to dive commercial heavy gear and swimmer helmets followed by a chamber run to 165 feet and a two day dive experience at Catalina with food provided and prepared by students from the college Culinary Arts department-- That is what I consider an Advanced SCUBA Course.
Since retirement I have devoted my time to lecturing; local dive clubs, Cal Poly University Scientific Diving Program (SDP) the local San Luis Obispo UW Search and Recovery annual DivCon and The Long Beach SCUBA Show.(FYI several years ago I was honored with "The SCUBA Service Award" -google my name and SCUBA Show )
Accordingly I certainly do not need nor am I in the mood to expand my current library to include your book therefore will graciously decline your offer to purchase your forthcoming book but as previously stated I wish you well in this and all future endeavors and certainly encourage others to purchase your book for reference and as a cornerstone of a dive library
Should you ever travel west to the currently dry golden state you have an open invite for a visit
Cheers from a hill over looking the bluse Pacific
SDM
FYI the entire library will be inherited by son Dr. SAM IV who is a board certified ER & Hyperbaric doctor as well as a NAUI (Life) PADI instructor and a SSI Pro 5000 diver- The only 3 father /son team to be honored as a SSI Pro 5000
sdm
FYI
A 6X9 book in official bibliophile terminology is identified as a "16mo"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It was leaned that you were born in 1960 therefore only 56 years old and only certified since 2004 that is only 12 years as a bubble blower I, and many other have cautioned hard charging divers such as you ...pace your self and don't burn out. .
Lots of things in diving happened long before 1960 and 2004.
As previously mentioned LA Co UW Instructors established the world's first ADP in 1967 - 49 years ago and at that time you were only 6 years old. The credit for an ADP goes to Chuck Peterson who you can view in an article in SDM Vol 1 Nr 1 December 1951. I am proud to state I was involved with development of the program and often lectured at the Thursday combined meeting I suspect that is the program you should have investigated for your present book.
I can rightfully assume that you are unaware since you were only 4 years old that I was awarded "Outstanding Contributions to Underwater Instruction " for creating a number of training exercises some still in use in the watered down courses and the creation of the diver/instructor/ classification which was rejected by LA Co but later accepted by the majority of all the major programs. When you were 9 years old I was awarded "The out standing UW instructor of the year" NAUI was 9 years old and PADI had just been formed...the other programs such as the one you promote were way off in the future
About 25 years ago 13 or so years before you entered the diving community I organized and hosted the very first diving US bibliophile meeting in my CenCal home. it was attended by dive bibliophiles and dive authors from the western US and connected by telephone with in the US and letters from distant lands. It would had been great to have had you attend and received your input from the eastern US and quarry diving
I was an early dive bibliophile; I began collecting after I was separated from the USAF during the Korean conflict and never stopped.. I now have the largest private dive library in the US and possibly the world consisting of over 2000 plus volumes, some dating to the 1800s most very rare, some extremely valuable, many inscribed by noted authors , (6 or 7 by Lotte and Hans Hass, about the same by JYC etc etc,) I also have 13 vintage and current periodicals bound in Library binding and innumerable items of diving ephemera.
Over the years I have authored 4 dedicated columns in regional and national dive publications as well as having been honored as having the very first dedicated diving based newspaper column , much of which was gleaned on extensive historical research and/or personal experiences based on now almost 70 years of diving.
One of my most memorable honors was to be on the cover as well as authoring articles and as the first guest editor of the now defunct Skin Diver magazine. The only person obviously to receive that honor
I have used my library to read for personal pleasure and have as a ready reference for any number of authority on any given subject in the now expanding world of recreational diving.
The last 15 years of my instructional activity was spent teaching Advanced Diving at Orange coast college in Costa Mesa California. It was in ever word a true advanced course with prerequisite of the college Skin diving course followed by Basic Scuba. 18 weeks duration 3 hours lecture on Thursday followed by a dive experience on Saturday, either a dive (or two) or field trip, 300 miles north to Jade Cove for cold water, 120 miles south to San Diego to dive the canyon for deep diving, a day at Commercial Diving Center (CDC) to dive commercial heavy gear and swimmer helmets followed by a chamber run to 165 feet and a two day dive experience at Catalina with food provided and prepared by students from the college Culinary Arts department-- That is what I consider an Advanced SCUBA Course.
Since retirement I have devoted my time to lecturing; local dive clubs, Cal Poly University Scientific Diving Program (SDP) the local San Luis Obispo UW Search and Recovery annual DivCon and The Long Beach SCUBA Show.(FYI several years ago I was honored with "The SCUBA Service Award" -google my name and SCUBA Show )
Accordingly I certainly do not need nor am I in the mood to expand my current library to include your book therefore will graciously decline your offer to purchase your forthcoming book but as previously stated I wish you well in this and all future endeavors and certainly encourage others to purchase your book for reference and as a cornerstone of a dive library
Should you ever travel west to the currently dry golden state you have an open invite for a visit
Cheers from a hill over looking the bluse Pacific
SDM
FYI the entire library will be inherited by son Dr. SAM IV who is a board certified ER & Hyperbaric doctor as well as a NAUI (Life) PADI instructor and a SSI Pro 5000 diver- The only 3 father /son team to be honored as a SSI Pro 5000
sdm
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