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About Certs Buddies Articles Photos Al - Airworks Fredericksburg VA Male Joined On: 5/23/2012 Last Login: 10/08/2023 Experience: Advanced Total Dives: 1 Looking For: Dive buddy - just friends Habits: Only drink Relationship: Married Children At Home: No Enriched Air/Nitrox (SDI) 7/01/2016 Self-Reliant/Solo Diver (PADI) 10/31/2015 Self-Reliant/Solo Diver (SDI) 10/31/2015 Advanced Open Water (SSI) 6/02/2012 Open Water Diver (NASDS) 5/06/1967 View All 10 Buddies Entanglement Training for Self-Reliant Divers 6/27/2023 Confessions of a Quarryholic 9/02/2022 Casual, Core, or Committed? 4/21/2022 Clear water or murky? 7/04/2021 Do You Have A Diving Worldview? 10/13/2020 How to Make a Debris Collection Hanger 10/11/2020 Empirical Research Has Confirmed the Therapeutic Benefits of Scuba Diving 1/23/2020 A Shocking and Embarrassing Discovery 12/30/2019 The Challenge of going Solo 7/27/2019 The Pros and Cons of Inland Diving 3/20/2016 View 18 Dive Site Photos | View 7 Profile Photos

I was NASDS OW certified at 14 years of age through the Ski and Dive Shop in Alexandria, Va. (1967), and dove consistently in quarries, lakes, and off the Virginia and Florida coasts for the next several years. The "Specialty" certs of today did not exist back then, but that didn’t stop my buddies and I from challenging ourselves and learning along the way. Thankfully, none of us were seriously injured.

My dad was a career Marine, and our family eventually moved to the island of Puerto Rico in 1972. While I pursued a degree in biology, my friends and I got wet all throughout the island, including Culebra and Vieques. Also did a considerable amount of spearfishing, night, wreck, and cave diving.

I married in 1978, returned to the mainland, and abruptly stopped diving in 1980 to focus on our expanding family. I felt compelled to minimize the risk factor for their sake.

Now that they’ve grown up and left the house to start their own life adventures, I obtained an SSI Replacement AOW card in June of 2012 and began getting wet again in September. Since then I’ve become Solo certified through SDI and PADI, and Nitrox certified through SDI.

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Airworks - 11/22/2019 3:36 AM See newly posted map. The deepest area appears to be about 50’ from the east wall.