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[Choose #2] I was on the county Search and Rescue Team when I was 18 and got introduced to scuba but never got certified. I finally did it when i turned 55.
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[Choose #2] I was young, in the Army, and looking for ways to pass time.
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[Choose #2] I can remember wanting to go into a local dive shop when I was about 10 years old.
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[Choose #5] Loyd Bridges and Jacques Cousteau and sky diving got boring.
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[Choose #5] I grew uo watching Jacques Cousteau on TV, couldn’t wait to Scuba Dive!!!
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[Choose #5] Sea Hunt and Jaques Cousteau.
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[Choose #5] I was on on vacation in DR and tried it because I seen they offers it. I spent a half hour I’m a pool and 45 minutes at -60’ and loved every second of it. Ever since then I was hooked.
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[Choose #1] My wife was working in a dive shop, so it was a requirement for her, but just a fun thing to try for me!
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[Choose #2] I love the scuba world,i had 30 dives this year
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[Choose #5] I learned to skin dive before I learned to ride a bike, so scuba was a broadening of what I was most familiar with ...
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[Choose #5] Seahunt Tv show and I don’t think that I am the only one that enjoys wearing a nice tight rubber suit?
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[Choose #5] Started in the military in the 70’s
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[Choose #5] Jacques Cousteau specials and the wild kingdom show - anyone remember that show?
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[Choose #5] A combination of 2 and 3 but mostly 2.
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[Choose #4] thought it was something my son and I could enjoy together. 2 years later we are both advanced divers and he is going for his dive master this summer
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[Choose #5] vacation in cozumel hooked me from the start
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[Choose #5] I got tires of treasure hunting on land, the water is one big time capsule, only one way to truly explore it...
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[Choose #5] Stationed on Guam at the time; it was a great opportunity, the water is warm, and I made a bunch of new friends.
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[Choose #5] My Dad was a Naval Diver
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[Choose #2] Lloyd Bridges, Mike Nelson, Sea Hunt TV Series. It got me hooked.
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[Choose #2] Jacques Cousteau and James Bond
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[Choose #2] "The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau"
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[Choose #3] Public Safety Diving for our fire department
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[Choose #5] We have a passion for reef and underwater life forms.
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[Choose #2] Went to Aus. backpacking from Sydney to Cairns and stopped on Magnetic isl. to prepare myself for Cairns with a temporary OW card. Changed my life.
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[Choose #2] I was originally inspired by the show Sea Hunt with Lloyd Bridges. I am an explorer by heart and wanted to explore underwater, especially after I saw divers below me while snorkeling in Cozumel.
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[Choose #2] originally inspired by the show Sea Hunt with Lloyd Bridges. I am an explorer by heart and wanted to explore underwater, especially after i saw divers below me while snorkeling in Cozumel.
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[Choose #2] Finally did it just before my 49th birthday.
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[Choose #2] I wanted to belike Mike Nelson. He was the coolest guy in the world to a 6 year old
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[Choose #5] Snorkeling was not enough
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[Choose #2] In 1988 i was newly divorced. so i have always loved the ocean. diving sounded great!! then i met my husband now and he always wanted to
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daz88 - 3/21/2014 10:19 PM
[Choose #5] always loved the water and always in it. stayed at a resort in Jamaica and took the discover course to try diving while I was there. Hooked before the 1st dive was finished. ended up doing 5 dives while I was there
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[Choose #5] Jaws kept me out of the water.. Scuba was my way back in. (Master Instructor #83169)
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[Choose #5] Jacques Cousteau and the movie "The Deep" created a desire to see what it was like in the ocean.
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[Choose #2] Jacques Cousteau and Aqua Man were my heros
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[Choose #5] Watching television shows like Sea Hunt and Jacque Cousteau’s Silent World intrigued me and when I had the opportunity to learn to dive in college, I jumped at the chance. That was 41 years ago!
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[Choose #2] I’ve always wanted to dive but never found the time with raising a family and working two jobs while going to trade school. but after going to mexico for my sons wedding and doing some snorkling at age 50 I knew it was time.
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[Choose #5] Looking for adventure
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[Choose #5] I have always been fascinated with marine life. any tank size I bought was never big enough. so I decided to scuba dive.
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[Choose #2] I was entering a Mid-life crisis and figured Diving was safer than chasing women!
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[Choose #5] Taking a tropical trip and wanted to dive
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[Choose #5] Always an avid swimmer and snorkeler so scuba seemed like the next obvious thing to do.
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[Choose #5] I attempted a resort course that turned out to be disaster in Jamaica back in 2002. I attempted again at a local shop and have been diving ever since and I am currently working on my DM certification.
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[Choose #2] I was 16. Now I’m 68 and I still love it. Anybody remember "Sea Hunt?"
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[Choose #5] I started to work at a dive shop as a sales girl but never dived in my life. So my boss made me do a DSD (discover scuba diving program) so that I knew what I was selling. I then decided to take the Open Water course. Now I am a diving Instructor.
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[Choose #2] I started diving in the 80s as I was thrilled by the James Bond movies and always wants to Dive. As my Dad was in the Defence, he taught be SCUBA diving.
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[Choose #5] I was working at Ripleys Aquarium and they had a deal with dive shop to get class cheap
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[Choose #5] Was snorkeling in mexico and saw all the fish...said I wanna go deeper... now I am a very poor divemaster ..lol
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[Choose #5] Was on a cruise and saw people in wet suits with gear
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[Choose #2] A little of one and two...I tried a discover SCUBA on vacation, and three years later a friend convinced me to get certified.
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[Choose #2] Since watching Sea Hunt many years ago I have wanted to dive. For my 60th BDay I gave myself a cert class and have been diving for 5 yrs.
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[Choose #5] I was stationed in Japan while in the Navy and a dive club was formed since I had been interested for some time and one of my brothers was already certified I decided to jump in and get wet.
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[Choose #2] at the moment cannot go scuba got some accident on a yacht where i was working but if there will be a chance i really would like to dive.
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[Choose #5] falled into water from windsurfing board in Maldives and found an amazing underwater world I would like to discover
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[Choose #5] It was offered free at a resort, so I tried it and haven’t stopped.
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[Choose #5] A stepping stone to learn how to hard hat dive.
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[Choose #5] A stepping stone to learn how to hard hat dive.
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[Choose #5] the television program Sea Hunt...yep gett’n old
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[Choose #2] I watched my mom dive while we were on Guam. I was a kid and couldn’t. So i told myself one day I will be able to do that! Just took 40 more years.
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[Choose #2] I always wanted to try but didnt have the money. As a gift, a friend purchased an Open Water Course - have never looked back since
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[Choose #5] Did a tourist dive in Langkawi, Malaysia, and got hooked. Later, a friend told me about a good dive shop in my home town. Went to visit, and became comfortable with their NAUI courses. Soon, I passed my Basic Open Water Certification.
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[Choose #2] I lived in a island for many year and the sea always have been my passion
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[Choose #2] SAW THE MOVIE CITY SLICKERS YEARS AGO AND SAID GEE I AM NOW IN MY 40s I HAVE TO TRY SOMETHING TOTTALY OFF THE WALL DIFFERENT SO I GOT THE BUG TO GET CERTIFI. AND HAVE NOT STOPPED SINCE ALL YEAR LONG .
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[Choose #2] I love the sea and swimming and gives me an enourmeous pleasure, diving was the next step. Now I am moving to Panama to be able to dive more often,
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[Choose #5] One day I had the idea to go scuba diving.
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[Choose #5] I realized I lived in Southern California and its a great palce to scuba dive as many people do here. Also, I finally understood, as it is said, no one will ever say they did not spend enough time time at work. Just wish the light had come on sooner.
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[Choose #2] I watched Jacques Cousteau all the time as a kid and I wanted to "DO THAT".
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[Choose #2] I was always a snorkeler, however last year I did a discovery dive and thought is was so awesome, so this year I got certified, wish I did it years ago, diving is new and exciting.
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[Choose #4] I was walking throught he mall just before Christmas and one of the shops had a display and a few people set up. They were running a dive video and I was hooked. I don’t know if it was the video, or the enthusiasm of the particular instructor.
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[Choose #1] My husband was going to learn with me or without me, so I had no choice. I had to be able to keep an eye on him, before he ended up in the South China Sea!! Now I’m more passionate about diving than he is!
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[Choose #2] When I was growing up in Iowa we would go to lake Okaboji and at the Emporium their was a dive shop with a sub so I was intriged, and it was the firts place I saw a single hose regulator Scuba Pro mark V thought it would be so cool to dive.
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[Choose #5] I went on a "discover scuba" excursion on a cruise ship and was immediately hooked.
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[Choose #2] It was my greatest wish since i was 4 years old...but it took a long time to make this wish come true...i began at the age of 40
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[Choose #5] I was in Singapore and I read a poster saying ’Try Scuba diving with sharks’, and that was the first time I scuba dived, and it was with sharks
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[Choose #5] I was gold panning and wanted to get to better dirt, which was in deep water. We got a dredge to get to deeper dirt and that meant staying underwater so we go certified to fill our tanks
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[Choose #2] I have always loved being around the ocean and wanted to discover how beautiful the underwater world was up close & personal
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[Choose #5] to add to my resume. Now it is all about the fun I have with it. Love it!!!!
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[Choose #5] I was snorkeling in St. John and saw a whole new world below me that I couldn’t get to with the outfit I was wearing.
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[Choose #5] I was surrounded by an island reef in the pacific and snorkeling just didn’t do justice to the beauty of reef.
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[Choose #2] Snorkled since a boy, kicking myself for waiting so long, don’t ask, but making up for lost time. And like so many others - Sea Hunt and Lloyd Bridges
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[Choose #5] My father described all the cool things he saw diving...wanted to see for myself!
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[Choose #2] I grew up watching jock cousteau and other adveniure shows. I was going to learn to do it as soon as I could.
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[Choose #5] Sea Hunt with Lloyd Bridges. After that I was hooked. o.k. so it ages me. :)
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[Choose #5] life guarding at a pool that was holding Naui classes, instead of paying to keep the pool open, that let me join the classes, certified for free, lol
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[Choose #2] I saw scuba in different types of TV shows and it looked like fun.
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[Choose #2] I did a DSD in Curaçao and just couldn’t stop :-)
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[Choose #1] I was certified at 13. I exaggerated my age, so they thought I was 14. 1975
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[Choose #5] I have allways love the sea and marine life. In 1979, when I was living in Nueba and working in the moshav-Neviot Holiday Village, they had a diving center. So I took a diving course and dove almost every day and did their diving seafaris.I loved it!
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[Choose #5] I had a dream I could breathe under water
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[Choose #5] My wife, knowing of my long held dream, bought me an intro package as a surprise gift in 2005. I was 59.
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[Choose #5] #1+#2! :) before certification i never had the opportunity to do it until i met this girl who was already diving.
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[Choose #5] I can totally relax and not strain to hear a thing! All visual and panoramic to me! Awesome! For someone hearing impaired like me, who has to work and live in a hearing world, scuba is the ultimate way to decompress!
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[Choose #2] You enter a new world few can experiance when you dive.
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[Choose #5] My mother got certified and I wanted to try. So I went for it at 14! That was 30 years ago!!!
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[Choose #2] the show Sea Hunt put it in my head about 50 years earlier!
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[Choose #5] I was challenging myself to overcome my greatest fear. I could barely swim.
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[Choose #5] Sea Hunt as a kid. Fetish pleasures too
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[Choose #5] SEA HUNT! I have absolutely no fear or Common Sense, and the sign at Sandals read "EVERYONE DIVES" seemed like a good idea at the time.
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pharo - 3/15/2014 9:40 AM
[Choose #3] Part of my job as a video producer needed to take action underwater so I went for it while on a film rip to Hawaii.
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[Choose #1] While in the Philippines in 2002, my wife and daughter apparently wanted to get some shopping in at the local Island shopping district. To get rid of me, my wife bought a ’Discover Dive’, I enjoyed it, and finished the OW course in four days!
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[Choose #2] I always loved the Ocean and Everything in it. As a child I read every book I could find about marine life. when I turned 14 my Dad gave me Scuba lessons as a birthday present. I am now 34 and still love it
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[Choose #2] A movie called "Frogmen" got me interested and I was better at swimming on the bottom of the pool anyhow. I’d already been diving by the time Cousteau and Sea Hunt came on.
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[Choose #5] after seeing my children born this is the most exciting ,rewarding and enjoyable thing to do
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[Choose #1] really is 1 2 and 4. My dad used to dive which got me interested. On vacation in Florida saw a add for discovery scuba. Got certified 2 months after I got home.
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[Choose #3] Started scuba and on to a commercial school in California.
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[Choose #2] With amputation below right knee, I gave up the ideal, got a water leg and tried a First Dive, got hooked
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[Choose #2] Watched Wild Kingdom and Cousteau while growing in landlocked Midwest. Went to Iraq and decided it was time to do it right. Went from OW diver to instructor in less than three years! Wife says " I got the BUG!"
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[Choose #5] mid life crisis
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[Choose #5] Tested the idea in a quarry in New Jersey in 1965, got certified with a gift certificate from my daughter 40 years later (2004). 55 dives my first year and still going.
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[Choose #5] As a kid around 13 my stepdad took me to the beach almost daily, one day he brought his gear and told me to go with him and i really enjoyed it and keep diving for a few years but stopped so after 7 i went back into it and got my licence.
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[Choose #5] As a very young child I just Loved being underwater
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[Choose #5] I thought it was a good way to be able to ignore my wife..... Boy did she learn hand signals quick
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[Choose #5] I watched Sea Hunt, Assignment Underwater and the Aquanauts as a kid.
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[Choose #5] I saw it as a way to get my husband to Fly in a plane, have adventures it worked. I just figure if i get him involved in something exciting he would forget his fear of flights and it worked out perfectly. Who know we would both become addicted
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[Choose #1] Always wanted to scuba dive . My buddy Mike B convinced me . He wanted to buy my truck to pull his boat .
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[Choose #1] 1 & 2 really. Always thought it was something people "better off" than I was could afford.
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[Choose #5] Scuba to continue enjoying L.Mich. after selling my L.Mich. sailboat.
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[Choose #5] FOUND A HOME-MADE WEIGHT BELT ON THE BEACH, that planted the seed, then every thing fell into place,
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[Choose #1] Started SCUBA diving in 1962 (East coast Australia) because a mate & i decided to give it a go - great decision. Our club - Newcastle Underwater Research Group - developed log book which was picked up by PADI - would like to discuss with anyone inter
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[Choose #2] I loved to watch sea hunt and was always interested, but had a fear of being in water over my head. After I got over that, I now feel as comfortable as a fish at any depth on scuba.
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[Choose #5] Figured I’ve tried almost everything else in the world
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[Choose #5] I Love the Water, Certified and Been Diving since the 1965
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[Choose #5] I about drowned snorkeling, so wanted AIR when in the water.
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[Choose #2] As a child, I was fascinated by the TV program Sea Hunt, which planted a seed that was to come to fruition many years later when I had an opportunity to become certified, and realize a lifelong dream.
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[Choose #5] When I was a kid, I wanted to grow up to be a fish!! So became a mermaid instead...much more fun !!
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[Choose #5] Forgot to signin before answering. I’m the anonymous that was in Grand Cayman.
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[Choose #5] as a treat to myself for quitting smoking
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[Choose #5] Did a lot of snorkeling and while in Grand Cayman I had an opportunity to do a resort exposure dive. I was hooked after that. That was in 2000, I finally got certified in 2007.
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[Choose #5] Swim coach brought scuba gear to practice one day and let whomever wanted to try give it a go... was obsessed ever since. that was 1978. Took me till 1980 to get certified.
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[Choose #5] Could not hold my breathe long enough to see where the bass was going
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[Choose #2] After watching "Sea Hunt" as a child, I was hooked.
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[Choose #2] Love the water, especially the ocean
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[Choose #5] Tried snuba while on a cruise, wanted to see more and came home and got certified. Since then two sons and one daughter and 5 grandkids are certifited divers
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[Choose #1] I always loved to snorkel but I hated the fact that I couldn’t stay down long to look at all the pretty fish. So when I started dating a guy who loved to dive I decided to get certified and it is one of the best decisions I have made-I LOVE IT!!
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[Choose #5] Discover dive while on vacation
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[Choose #5] Started at 12 in Grand Bahama Island in 1975. Wanted to go deeper from the first time I went snorkeling.
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[Choose #5] I fell in love with the Carribean waters, but wanted the learn back home first.
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[Choose #2] tried it once before.. finally got the time and money do get certified
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[Choose #4] Always loved the beach and thought, what the heck, when I moved to Anaheim. Now I wish I had done it YEARS earlier. : )
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[Choose #2] used to watch Cousteau on tv as a kid and was fascinated by what lies beneath the ocean surface.
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[Choose #1] my cousin dives and i wanted to give it a try
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[Choose #5] It’s all Jacques Cousteau fault...
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[Choose #5] Opportunity to get away from the wife while on vacation. She doesn’t dive.
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[Choose #5] For my fire department.
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[Choose #1] When I met my wife, she was already an advanced diver. It was not long before I was hooked.
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[Choose #5] Snorkeling, saw a ray, had to go up for more air, and lost it. I desired right then to learn how to dive
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[Choose #5] My husband is from Trinidad and spent a lot of time at the beach. I was not comfortable in the water unless I was holding onto him, even though I did know how to swim. I tried it, hoping that it would make me more comfortable in the water. It worked!
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[Choose #5] Wanted to dive together as a family.
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[Choose #5] Saw Divers beneath a glass bottom boat in Ocala FL.... Hooked
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[Choose #5] Mike Nelson [Sea Hunt} was my hero I bought my first set of gear through the mail. There was no certification in 1963.Back then only athletes dove.
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[Choose #1] Liked it and just kept going. Made master instructor last year.. woohoo
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Eniko - 3/14/2014 4:35 PM
[Choose #5] My friends were diving and made me curious about it.
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[Choose #5] Taught myself to dive in 1960 at the age of 13. I lived on the South Shore of Long Island, NY. During the summer months I eather snorkled or S.C.U.B.A. dived almost every day. Did so until 1964 when my family moved to California.
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[Choose #5] I asked for a dirt bike and my dad gave me dive lessons. He has always thought motorcycles were dangerous.
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[Choose #4] I was under the water before I could walk according to my mum.
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[Choose #2] I always wanted to scuba dive since I read a book about dives in my middle school
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[Choose #5] I saw a big turtle about 25’ below me while snorkeling and decided I needed to get closer.
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[Choose #5] Walked past a dive store offering ’try dives’. They had a nifty looking parrot and a longhaired handsome Divemaster at the store. The price of an open water course was onlly 2½ times the price of a try dive. I’ve always loved water, so I went for it
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[Choose #2] I snorkeled for years and wanted to stay down longer and see more fish.
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[Choose #5] I like better underwater than out of the water, quiter! calm
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[Choose #2] Grew up a Seahunt, Flipper, Cousteau fan. Never saw the Sea till I was 16. Dive certification was my 40th Birthday gift to myself, can’t get enough diving to satisfy my love to see the Sea.
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[Choose #2] i have always wanted to scuba since i was station in okinawa japan but funds and time prevented me to and now that i have a good and stable job i figured better late than never.........
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[Choose #2] I grew up near the ocean; we used to camp and snorkel in the Keys; I grew up watching Seahunt and Jaques Cousteau.
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[Choose #5] I was a plebe at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1967 (a plebe is the lowest form of USNA life); one of the first classmen was taking a SCUBA class; he told me that I was going to get up early every morning and carry his gear down and back...
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[Choose #5] interested in marine biology so it was a necessary skill for the career
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[Choose #2] my dad in the 50 and he showed me pic of the old Stuf they used it has change
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[Choose #5] I got to sit in a zodiac and watch the sea lions and sea otters all around me while my diving friends were in the water. I knew then, I wanted to get into the water and swim with the sea lions.
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[Choose #2] I was interested in scuba from the age of 5
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[Choose #5] I went snorkeling and wanted a better experience
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[Choose #5] needed 2 more credits to keep full GI Bill tuition $, so I got wet for PE.
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[Choose #5] My wife and I usually took separate vacations. She liked the beach and I liked the mountains. Now all I want to do is hit the ocean. I should have started sooner.
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[Choose #1] I didn’t know how to swim before I got certified! Lol
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[Choose #5] At 8 years old, I was in Jamaica with my parents in 1958. My father & friends started scuba diving & taught me. Taught, not trained. I dove for years off & on, but never had any real training until 1991 when I got certified. Now, I’m an instructor.
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[Choose #5] It was a childhood dream that I finally full filled.
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[Choose #5] grew on the beach in Fl. Started diving at 12 with borrowed equipment.
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[Choose #2] after shattering my leg and not walking for 6 months, it was time to do the things I had been putting off.
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[Choose #5] closet to flying without any wings, or floating in space, its magical
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Capnd - 3/14/2014 2:25 PM
[Choose #5] i never saw an ocean until i was 30 . was fascinated the minute i laid eyes on it . and still am at 50.
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[Choose #5] Wanted to try it but it was one of the hardest things i did. I wanted to quite after 5 minutes of the first lesson. The instructor would not let me and n50 dives later, I’m still diving.
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[Choose #5] !960’s,Sea Hunt. Always loved the water.
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[Choose #5] At the age of 12 I wanted to see the bottom of the ocean. At 64 I’m still looking at itand seeing something different on every dive It’s my happy place .
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[Choose #5] Fell in love with the oceans @ 6 years old snorqueling
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[Choose #5] Took it as a PE elective in Jr. College and fell in love with it!
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[Choose #5] I was a fish in a previous life.
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[Choose #1] I started diving back in 1973... At that time all my equipment was sportsway... I will be in Cozumel June 14th for a week of diving...
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[Choose #5] watched Sea Hunt
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[Choose #2] I did a DSD in Australia in 2003, and tried again 7 years later, but not the whole OW course (other priorities in my 3 months trip), and then the full OW in 2011. DM in 2012 and on my way to IDC!
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[Choose #2] I was born in Miami and as far back as I have memory I had wanted to see what mysteries the underwater held.
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[Choose #5] I was surfing in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, with nothing to do in the afternoons, the surf shop suggested I take the Open Water Dive Class, the rest is history
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[Choose #2] I have always enoyed water and wanted the joy of seeing what was underwater.
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[Choose #2] always loved the water, would.go snorkeling and want to be on the bottom checking out everything
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[Choose #5] To improve and take my photography to the next level.
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[Choose #1] I think the influence or push came from my friend.However the videos seen when I was younger of Jacques Cousteau.also pushed me forward
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[Choose #2] I read an adventure travel article in a magazine that included a dive resort on the island of Bonaire. Since I’ve always wanted to learn how to dive and I had never left the lower 48 states before, I got my basic open water cert 3 months later!
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[Choose #5] Let’s blame this one on Monsieur Jacques-Yves Cousteau
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[Choose #2] I was on swim team and the coach was an avid diver - X Navy UDT - tough trainer
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[Choose #2] Had tanks sence high school but only used in a pool..
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[Choose #3] Fire Department Dive team
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[Choose #5] I was a "water puppy" as a kid, read Jacques Cousteau, and knew I would have to dive.
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[Choose #5] available excursion on a cruise line and i wanted to try it
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[Choose #5] I grew up watching Jacques Cousteau and diving became something that I had to do. I got certified the first opportunity I had, at 16 in 1973.
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[Choose #1] An activity to bond with my daughter.
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[Choose #5] I always wanted to dive and then my friend asked me and that’s the story.
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[Choose #2] Use to watch Jacques Cousteau as a kid and said I have to do that when I get older. So I did.
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[Choose #5] I saw "World Without Sun" on the big screen in Quantico, Va. when my dad was stationed there in 1965. I was hooked. A few years later, I became certified at age 14.
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[Choose #2] Always wanted to breathe under water... always wanted to fly too. Batting .500
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[Choose #2] I always wanted to scuba dive and one day I just signed up by myself. I’ve been diving for almost 3 years now. I’ve been to Bonaire and it was like diving in HEAVEN!!!
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[Choose #5] I got tired of watching all these awesome underwater documentaries and I wanted to start taking the photos and video myself.
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[Choose #5] my sons were eager to scubadive,but they were 10 and 12 old,so I had to take care of them.
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[Choose #5] I have always been a water bug and since my boyhood, I have always wamted to stay under longer.
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[Choose #5] As a young kid, I could only hold my breath for 3m45s. Then I read The Silent World and watched Sea Hunt and wanted to dive. While on my honeymoon on St. Thomas, in 1969, I saw a dive shop, and the rest is history.
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[Choose #5] always wanted to dive since I was a kid growing up and watching Sea Hunt. Finally got certified in 1995 and been diving and instructing ever since
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[Choose #5] My then husband owned a dive shop in Atlanta GA so I had no choice if I wanted to spend time with him. But thank god I got certified and got rid of that husband (but kept the scuba gear!)
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[Choose #1] I am 67 years old and have been diving since I was 10 years old. My wife. 3 daughters, one grand daughter are all certified.
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[Choose #5] I can’t scuba dive, because of my ears. I have tube in one. But, I’m still interested in it anyway.
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[Choose #5] STARTED CUTTING IRIS MOSS ON THE COAST OF NOVA SCOTIE 1959
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[Choose #2] Been a water lover all my life. For my 50th birthday I decided to make it off my bucket list. Sure glad I did.
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[Choose #5] Tried SNUBA as an excursion off a cruise ship - 6 months later my daughter and I were in an Open Water Cert class.
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[Choose #5] I love the ocean and everything related to it since I was a child, specially sharks. Last year I had the opportunity, on my vacation, to take the course and learn how to dive and get my PADI credential.
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[Choose #5] I liked being underwater more then on the water, and Dive Shop hooked up with Community College which made sign up for classes easy!
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[Choose #5] As a kid I loved to spend all my time underwater, not only in the water. So I started to free-dive until I reached a depth that scared my parents. So they insisted that I get into scuba diving instead.
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[Choose #1] So after I got certified my friends stopped diving...just had to go out and get a bunch of new buddies!
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[Choose #5] "Sea Hunt..."
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[Choose #5] Fraternity brother and I took a course together in college, looked like a great adventure and it has been since 1979
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[Choose #5] It’s the closet thing to flying. Plus I always loved the water.
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[Choose #5] did not stop after my first dive
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[Choose #5] Went on a cruise after retiring...just had to get down there under the snorkelers where I could stay for a while...haven’t regretted any of my 400 + dives.
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[Choose #1] My older brother started diving and I played with his gear in the pool until I was old enough to get certified.
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[Choose #5] Overcome claustrophobic tendencies ... still a work in progress!
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[Choose #5] Closest thing I could get to flying or becoming an astronaut and being weightless!
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[Choose #2] it was on my BUCKET list !
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[Choose #5] I always thought it was silly, with nothing to see. One day my then 8 y/o daughter wanted to snorkel, when we saw divers below us on the reef we signed up.
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[Choose #5] Always interested, but never pursued. Decided to try a Discover Scuba on a cruise. That’s all it took. Hooked!! I even put my pilot’s license on hold back then so I could get certified.
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[Choose #2] Fell in love with the ocean as a child and always looked forward to trying it. Just wish I didn’t wait until I was in my 30’s.
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[Choose #1] that’s what I get for listening to him. Another addiction
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[Choose #5] I loved the being in the water since I was an infant, every great memory seems to be centered around the water for me.
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[Choose #2] Does "To score with chicks" qualify?
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[Choose #1] My dad talked about this and initially convinced me to try it. We both got certified at the same time.
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