Buddies

The one try thing I can say about diving is that you will meet people from all different walks of life and maybe come life long friends.

Since I became a diver I can say this is so true. Among some of the people who I met:

Dave & Kary: The live North of Lake Tahoe and have their own company. The represent companies and offer vending product to people who have vending machines all over the place. They are warm hearted and great people. We met in Cozumel in 2004 and have been getting together ever since. I talked them into joining me in my first Live a Board in Belize. They came and had a great time. I was able to get them to do their first night dive. Often at the end of the day, we would always find them (or should I say Kary) at the bar with a glass of wine. So getting them to pass a night up was a real undertaking. But we had a great time.

We also met Jeff in Cozumel in 2004, he was there with his family, but at the time he was the only diver (that he since changed as both his kids are now divers as well and I'm sure he is still working on Lori to join in). Jeff is a pilot for a major airline and former Captain in the US Air Force. Jeff like challenges in his life, since I met him, in addition to diving, he done Skydiving, long distance motorcycles road trips and who knows what else. He enjoys knowing the technical side of diving and what it has to offer, and I'm waiting for him to start his Cave & Cavern course.

Ray is a local friend who I met by way of Tiedemann's. He's a retire Federal Agent who has been diving a long time. We did a couple of trip to Bonaire, Cozumel with the shop and he joined me on my first trip to Belize. Ray is another natural; he's at more home under the water than above. Like me he loves taking photos. In fact he's the only person I know who still uses film.

Diving is truly a sport where you can meet people and have a get time together. In Cozumel, Bonaire, Bahamas, Key Largo or Dutch Springs, I can truly say that divers will help divers, wither they are part of your group or not. An example of this was something that happened in Cozumel. A diver came up with a underwater housing with a very expensive video camera set up. He said that he found it on in the sand during our dive. The boat Captain put out a call of what we found, within 5 minutes the owner was located and met us at the dock. He said that he forgot that he put it down and didn’t remember it till he was back on board his boat. I have seen this happen with $5,000 camera equipment, down to a $50.00 mask. Divers, help divers, no matter the situation. We enjoy looking at each others photos and movies and swap stories to no end. Diving is truly a friendly sport.