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And the ocean, under the pulsation of lighthouses and noise of bell-buoys, advances as usual, looking as if it were not that ocean in which dropped things are bound to sink.
________--Marianne Moore, A Grave
About Bryan St.Germain
Biography
Misspent youth, Madrid & London, '50s and '60s. Theatre Designer, London & USA, '70s. Corporate Training Developer, '80s. Unpublished Author, '90s. Scuba Instructor, '00s. Married for thirty years.
Trained by Eric K, Robert M, Stacey M, Dave T, and others. Thank you for your encouragement.
Dive History
Three-quarters of my dives have been cold and drysuited, diving mostly on the left coast from San Diego to Port Hardy. My all-time best warm-water dives were in Madagascar and the Seychelles, diving with a shark researcher. My favorite cold-water site is the wrecks off Nanaimo (British Columbia).
Certification History
My OWD checkouts were conducted in two local Oregon rivers. I was startled, years later, to review my divelog and find a 58-minute dive among those training dives. Cold water, too. Bought a drysuit after dive eleven, being a bear of spare frame (but not of little brain).
At the urging of my instructors, and not without misgivings, I went pro with SSI's Dive Control Specialist, Open Water Instructor, Adapted (aka Disabled) Diving Instructor, and Advanced Open Water Instructor ratings. Last year I became a Dive Control Specialist Instructor, so now I'm training my competition for what few teaching gigs exist here.
I also learned Advanced Nitrox and Decompression Diving through TDI. All of this in less than ten years. A long strange trip indeed.
Certification Level
SSI Dive Control Specialist Instructor
# of Logged Dives
500 - 999
Years Certified
Six - Ten Years
Dive Equipment
Whites Nexus drysuit & various wetsuits
DiveRite Transpac & Scubapro Knighthawk BCs
Apexs Black Pearl & Scubaro Mark25 regulators
PST E7 100 cu.ft. high-pressure steel tanks
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