I just got back from my vacation in Key Largo. Had a great time scuba diving with my wife. It was awesome going back there after 15 years. We made several trips there in the early 90's with our other boat. I got to do a another solo dive on a great ship wreck. A 327' Coast Guard cutter USCG Duane and the USS Siegel Grove. Here's some pics and a video (not mine) to give an idea what swimming alone 130' deep with the cudas feels like. Scuba diving was something that I'd wanted to do from the time I learned to swim. When I was drinking I knew that I'd couldn't do it safely. It was a gift of sobriety, at 3 years sober that I was able to start diving and I've logged over 250 dives and 150 of those with my wife. Nothing but gratitude.
USCG Duane
USS Spiegel Grove
-- Edited by StPeteDean on Sunday 21st of November 2010 06:46:26 PM
very cool, Dean!!! I have still never learned to swim (at age 48 now), but did get to do an underwater short dive (tethered to a boat above pumping oxygen) in the South Pacific for my 40th birthday celebration. That, too, was a gift of A.A. and sobriety, and I know there's no way I could have even done that "not real diving" safely drunk. Indeed, when we took the ladder back up to the boat, I think I was climbing too fast, and was a bit light-headed when I got to the boat.
Thanks for the memories. Diving was a big part of my life being an "Island boy" and we did it all, shallow and deep, free, scuba and snorkel. In Hawaii we call that "Sea wolf" or "Cuda" a Kaku and my nick still is Kakuman cause I just love to catchem and love to eat them. I once caught a inland spet and kept it alive till I got home and left it in the kitchen sink for my then wife. With the boys and me watching she did the most dramatic "stage left" we'd ever seen. LOL Drinking was a big part of our life then and now I do neither one for my health and the other because of my eyesight. I will however hunt the big boy with a pole and hope to have one for dinner some time soon if one will cooperate. A local boy just took a 136+ pound Jack Trevalley (Ulua) from the shore a few months ago...those are magestic for us shore fishermen and are called "Pole benders".
So nice to here you enjoyed the adventure with your spouse.
Hey Dean so cool!! is that the Spiegal groove?? Its an LPH huh? I was on the dock landing ship (LSD OF ALL THINGS)(ACTUALLY during and after the service,much more after:):) USS CASA GRANDE 13... anyway...It was part of Mediteranean Fleet(6th) early 64 -70)i REMEMBER THE SPIEGAL GROOVE(VAGUELY ) tHANKS FOR SHOTS ,GOOD SEEING YA BACK..........
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Nice!!!! I started running in recovery and I'm signed up for my first half marathon in February. Running a 5K on Thanksgiving morning. This is something I couldn't do when drinking nor did I even have the thought of doing.
