Cave diving hall of fame

[Kelly Jessop]

Personally I like the idea of having a hall of fame and including divers still out there diving. I'll tell you why> first it would give new divers living, breathing examples for them to follow. I know when I first saw people like Tom Mount, Lamar Hires, Tom Morris etc, etc swimming I paid attention to their technique and just admired the way they swim. I have had the good luck of diving with most of the "greats" of cave diving and found something useful or practical I could use in my own diving. A couple of them I budded into being my mentors. That is why new divers should be able to see the members of your hall of fame, so if they see them, they can learn from them.

Cindy you make some great points. The one fortunate part of this sport is the "greats",or experienced members are reachable by all level of cave divers,and they generally are available to share. The scary thing is we are losing some of these people to age,or lack of interest,and a huge segment of the cave diving knowledge base is disappearing with them.

[Cindy]

Your right Kelly, it's a change I have noticed also. Your idea for a hall of fame could just end up a bunch of unknown/useless names on a plaque someplace. Do it now, get people involved, maybe it could get people communicating, young and old divers. Part of this is the web, it moves us apart close at hand and joins us far apart. I'll give new divers one clue on where to see great "hall of fame" divers, look around, go to clean ups, go to step building events, go on a guided dive. Not one single one of us can't learn something from each other. By the way, have we been in the water together? I hear you have a mean modified flutter...