My daughter Alisha just became a new Oregon Diver. Bob Bailey (Grateful Diver) Did a great job in teaching Alisha how to dive and certified her today. On her final dive she saw her first Octopus under the honey bear at cove 2, As she said Cool. I now have a new dive buddy. Yea!!!
We will see all of you at the Club Dive.
Now if I can drag out Sparky!!
Jay & Alisha
New Oregon Diver
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lostnbrownsmead
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Re: New Oregon Diver
Congrats, Alisha! 
Now, may you become addicted as the rest of us
Jay, If you are there early enough, I may see you at the Club Dive.
Keith.
Now, may you become addicted as the rest of us
Jay, If you are there early enough, I may see you at the Club Dive.
Keith.
Hi, my name is Keith, and I'm a Dive Addict! 
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Re: New Oregon Diver
I have to say this class was one of the most fun ones I've ever taught. The kid's a fish! The hardest part about her pool work was finding something to challenge her ... most things I'd just show her what I wanted her to do and she'd do it. After running through all the required skills I decided to play a little game of "monkey see, monkey do" ... I'd do something, then motion for her to do it. She challenged me! You should've seen her hovering a couple feet off the bottom ... completely inverted ... doing a mask removal and replacement.
Checkout dives this week were a bit more challenging ... but she came through like a champ. I was especially pleased when she did a textbook unconscious-diver recovery of her dad from 20 feet ... then do-si-do towed him to the beach. I don't think it ever occurred to her that it was supposed to be hard ... considering he's more than twice her size.
She got all her skills done so quickly and so well that the final dive was just for "practice" ... so we switched over from Cove 3 to Cove 2 and went sightseeing. Dropped down at the white buoy and swam over to the Honey Bear. Along the way we found some beautiful janolus fusca nudi's, a couple of decorated warbonnets, a red irish lord, and then ... with our heads stuck under the bow of the Honey Bear ... her first GPO.
Jay told me they'll be at the club dive next month. So if you see a little blonde kid walking around in the highest-topped sneakers you've ever seen, give a warm welcome to Alisha Murphy ... age 12 ... scuba diver ...
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
Checkout dives this week were a bit more challenging ... but she came through like a champ. I was especially pleased when she did a textbook unconscious-diver recovery of her dad from 20 feet ... then do-si-do towed him to the beach. I don't think it ever occurred to her that it was supposed to be hard ... considering he's more than twice her size.
She got all her skills done so quickly and so well that the final dive was just for "practice" ... so we switched over from Cove 3 to Cove 2 and went sightseeing. Dropped down at the white buoy and swam over to the Honey Bear. Along the way we found some beautiful janolus fusca nudi's, a couple of decorated warbonnets, a red irish lord, and then ... with our heads stuck under the bow of the Honey Bear ... her first GPO.
Jay told me they'll be at the club dive next month. So if you see a little blonde kid walking around in the highest-topped sneakers you've ever seen, give a warm welcome to Alisha Murphy ... age 12 ... scuba diver ...
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
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John Rawlings
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Re: New Oregon Diver
HOOOORAY for Alisha!!!! What a wonderful new world has opened up for her!!!
And welcome back, Jay! Haven't seen you around these parts for a year or so! It'll be great if you can drag Sparky with you to the club dive....I still haven't had it physically proven to me that he really exists!
- John
And welcome back, Jay! Haven't seen you around these parts for a year or so! It'll be great if you can drag Sparky with you to the club dive....I still haven't had it physically proven to me that he really exists!
- John
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Re: New Oregon Diver
Congratulations! Huge deal!
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Re: New Oregon Diver
Congratulations Alisha! I got into diving long after my dad got out of it, and I'm always envious and happy to see family dive teams.
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Re: New Oregon Diver
Sparky!!!!!!! He surface about a year ago for air and then went under again. It would be cool if he showed up for the club dive Jay.
Charles