Quote Originally Posted by acelockco View Post
Nice, I was just 14 when I got my first certification. I remember it like it was yesterday too.
I, too, got certified at 14, back in 1974. I did my pool work in a little pool at the side of the shop; the same pool I learned to swim in at age 3...
I drove my Mom nuts having her drive me to the dive shop in North Laguna to hang out. I remember the smells of the saltwater and neoprene suits; sounds of tanks filling; divers coming and going all weekend long. Tracking sand all over the shop and parking lot.
Funny, too, because I was teaching there 8 years later...