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Veteran diver; began in 1940s with goggles, first SCUBA dive 1951, Veteran Instructor, Professional Diving witness for over 50 years (most famous defense of dive flag-1963.) Spear fishing record holder. Helment Qualified.
Author 150+ articles, and four dedicated columns; Discover Diving, Southwest diving news, Arizona Diving news and Historical diving. First dedicated News paper column. First guest editor Skin diver Magazine, Cover SDM; Sea food Cheif in Scuba Pro diving and Snorkling, Co Author "Orange County diving" in "Diving West" (first west coast dive guide.)
Diving consultant to Voit, US Divers, and Sea Tec and several others long gone and forgotten.
Clubs; SoCal Skin divers, Long Beach Neptunes, Sea Sabres, Underwater Photographic Society,Historical diving society (HDS) Club Hombre de Ranas, (honor-Mexico)
"Miller's reef," Woods cove area in Laguna Beach named in my honor.
DSO & TO for DDS Beaver
Participant; Sea trials Cousteau's Denise DDS.
Game & Spear fishing; Lobster 17 Lbs, BSB 345 Lbs, WSB 49 Lbs, Halibut 38 Lbs. Yellow Tail 27 LBS, Sheepshead 26 Lbs (see painting by John Steel in SDM)
Research projects published; History and development of diving fin, History and development of Spear gun. Not published; American retailers and SCUBA industry, The Gilpatric Project.
Married-wife diver for 40+ years. 5 children all divers for 30 plus years. Son is a Pro 5000 diver and a Hyperbaric doctor at U of San Diego med center.
Just a bunch of lousy divers....
Location
CALIFORNIA: Where recreational diving began!
Interests
World dive travel; BAJA Travel for spearfishing, topside and UW photography
Occupation
Retired and tired Doctor
Gender
Male
eBay User Name
sdm2001
Certification Agencies
INSTRUCTOR; LA County~~Never completed a basic course
Dive History
Stripper pits southern Indiana 1940s ( I was born in Indiana since it was necessary to be near my mother at birth --I am a true Californian!)
Laguna beach 1950-crude homemade equipment Suggest see ~ www.portagequarry.com ~ "Legends of diving" "The Mask"
Baja travel and diving 1951 present. First in 4X4 WW11 war surplus truck, then VW now travel trailer and Toyota. (authored a number of articles on Baja travel and diving)
Central America diving 1960s, tropical diving 1970s to present; Mexico, Carribean, SE Asia, Red sea, Europe and some places best to be forgotten.
Prefer diving in Laguna beach or Catalina over any place in the world.....
Certification History
INSTRUCTOR~~LA County #11, NAUI #27, CMAS 2 Star, PADI 2241, NASDS & SCIP prior to numbering.
Instructor Honors: 1964-Outstanding contributions to UW instruction, 1969-Outstanding UW instructor of the year, 1986-NAUI Over the reef gang-1990, NAUI Diving Dinosaurs, 1993-Whos Who of SCUBA Diving, 1994-SSI Pro5000 diver son also a Pro 5000 diver, 2000 Father of World of Free diving and Spearfishing ( only 83 ID in the world), 2005-West Coast Diving legend ( Per Dive Chronicles)
Offices; President Sea Sabres, LA County; B of D 2 terms, HDS; Founding Bof D, Director of Sport diving.
Guest Lecturer: LA County, NAUI & PADI courses.
The SCUBA Show; "Orange Co Diving Locations."
Developed Instructor Rating System=Rejected by LA Co and NAUI Accepted by PADI in current use.
Contributor to the establisment of LA Co ADP and NAUI ICUE.
LA Co Dive Master ( PADI MSDT based on LA Co Dive Master but PADI watered down version)
Taugh "NAUI Industral diving course" @ Scripps IO"
Taught fi
Certification Level
INSTRUCTOR-but not a supperdupperpooper instructor
# of Logged Dives
None - Not Certified
Dive Classification
Experienced Diver
Years Certified
Not Certified
Dive Equipment
All sorts--a cherry picker; Much home made, some old some new..
Cameras; Samson 16 mm movie; Nikonos & Calypso
Bibliophile; large collection of historical books
Magaphile; collector of dive magazines and epherma, SDM, Dive Catalogs, current and out of print magazines.
Collector; 2 hose regulators, single hose regulators and associated items.
(see www vintagedoublehose.com)
Make custom teak Spear guns since 1970..Article about them in Skindiver Magazine.
Sam... 27... Man, do I suddenly feel young (my compliments by the way)...well we called at a black grouper... but people keep changing names... we also used to call a fish a "black Snapper", and I see that is now something different (mangrove I believe).
Anyway.. we only saw them in the Pacific when there was cold water.. around 55 degree water.. happens at the same time the middle of the Pacific was warm...Mine was the smallest one I could find...they were black.. and giant sized...don't know where they went when the water was warm...
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