Actual youngest sidemount diver - sorry

[GAdiver]

Hi guys I am the reason for the "youngest sidemount diver?" thread. I must have mouthed off to the wrong person at my LDS. Sorry for any trouble. He stretched the truth a lot. I am not deep or cavern certified don't plan to become either in the next year or so I'm not even SM certified until the 25th. I hope that I can still give and accept advice without being questioned.
thank you
sorry for the mistake won't happen again

 

[DA Aquamaster]

Whatever happened to the popcorn icon? I need it real bad right now...

 

[ScubaSteve]

So do you take guff from older divers or not? There was so much deleted from that other thread that it is impossible to tell.

 

[Lizard Leg]

 

[JamesK]

Where in GA?

 

[EastEndDiver]

How would you know if you were the youngest sidemount diver?The world is a BIG place.

 

[GAdiver]

Where in GA?

An hour North of Atlanta, Cartersville. Great Quarry there , low vis but its 165 feet deep. East End Diver I'm the youngest OW sidemount diver PSAI has ever trained. I asked PADI if I could take the course with them on a medical waiver (football is a killer on the back if you play wide out) but, they didn't reply. I didn't even look into NAUI because you have to be 18 for all of their tech courses and sidemount is considered tech for them. I didn't ask IANTD because the age limit is 18 for them too.

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So do you take guff from older divers or not? There was so much deleted from that other thread that it is impossible to tell.

I do I dive with my dad or older divers, he got his OW from PADI in 83 at divers supply in Macon, GA. They usually tell me stuff I don't know I was on a dive charter last week on vacation and the captain of the boat told me that there is a plastic part on the back of my console that would blow before my glass blew.

 

[JamesK]

I know Cartersville, and some divers up there. I spent 16 years in the Atlanta area.

 

[GAdiver]

I used to live in Symrna. I've lived around Naples too.

 

[loquat149]

So how old are you? I believe Jay (who works at Cave Adventurers) was 15 or 16 when he became the first (or second) person certified in PSAI's Side Mount program.

Dave