
- Gender:
- Male
- Location:
- Oregon, USA
- Occupation:
- Scuba Instruction, Freelance Writing, Tutoring
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Master Instructor, Male, from Oregon, USA
Back to diving, baby, after a three-year SI! (back issues) Jun 20, 2019
- eponym was last seen:
- Apr 5, 2020
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About
- Gender:
- Male
- Location:
- Oregon, USA
- Occupation:
- Scuba Instruction, Freelance Writing, Tutoring
- Gender:
- Male
- Certification Agencies:
- SSI, TDI. Special thank to Eric K, Robert M, Stacey M, and Dave T.
- Dive History:
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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 sites are off Vancouver Island, from Nanaimo to God's Pocket.
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- Certification History:
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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 gained SSI pro ratings including Adapted (aka Disabled) Diving Instructor, Dive Control Specialist Instructor, and Master Instructor.
My tech certs are through TDI, and at the end of 2014 I crossed over to become an SDI and TDI Instructor. After a long SI for lumbar procedures I am back, baby!
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- Certification Level:
- Master Instructor
- # of Logged Dives:
- 1,000 - 2,499
- Dive Classification:
- Technical Diver
- Years Certified:
- Ten Or More Years
Misspent youth, Madrid & London, '50s and '60s. Theatre Designer, London & USA, '70s. Married 1980, still married. Corporate Training Developer, '80s. Unpublished Author, '90s. Scuba Instructor, '00s and '10s.
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"using a Lycra skin under your wetsuit will cause a loss in thermal protection of the suit" - scuba.comAnd the SB Politeness Award goes to . . . Doc Vikingo, for "I find this assertion not compelling."
"You should always be prepared to discover a new wreck, including the boat you came out on." -- Akimbo
The measure of a good dive plan is its impermeability. Poor dive plans tend to be water-soluble.
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