Returning after a couple decades +
Hello all, returning to the forums and diving after a couple of decades and military service. It looks like a ton has changed.
Is Michael O'Leary still around?
Is Forrest Wilson still around?
What happened to NACD?
Is SID still on the forums?
Haven?t seen or heard from Michael in years.
I think Forest has some health issues.
NACD is now focusing their efforts on European and Canadian divers.
Oh, welcome back.
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The answer to all the people questions is No, and the NACD is in all practical purposes nonexistent.Originally Posted by Voodoo
After 3 years there are evolutionary changes, so 20 years the changes will be epic. The sad part is after having not dove for 20 years, the places you remember so well will be beat up a lot more.
"Not all change is improvement...but all improvement is change" Donald Berwick
Thank you for your service.
Jim Wyatt
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SID, gone but not forgotten.
https://www.cavediver.net/pictures/Sidassbackplate.jpg
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"Have you ever noticed
When you're feeling really good
There's always a pigeon
That'll come shiat on your hood?" John Prine 4-7-2020
"Into the blue again; in the silent water
Under the rocks, and stones; there is water underground" Talking Heads
This is the SID I was speaking of. We both have line arrow tattoos. Funny guy.
Sad. I remember attending an NACD conference where we had a guy who used to recover NASA boosters and showed us the video of how they did it.
I'm not political, so I don't know whether having NACD as yet another agency muddied the water, but my buddies I came up with and Mike O'Leary got me an intro card with them, and when I went to do life things they were cool in my book.
I too remember great things of the NACD. It is a sad long story,but with the passing of Debra Green, the agency to disintegrated from within. It was really less of a cave politics issue externally,but did play out in the public forums. Good luck in finding Mike O"Leary, he was a good guy, and always appreciated him.
"Not all change is improvement...but all improvement is change" Donald Berwick
Awe man... Debra as in Larry's wife?
Guess I've been gone a while.
Mike was great, a Ranger if I remember correctly and a solid guy. Interesting to see where Halcyon/EE are at now... not throwing dirt but it certainly is different than GI and JJ's version of DIR. Things are weird, still googling a lot.
(edited to correct GUE to Halcyon)
Thank you for your service. Glad you're back in one piece.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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