Certified in the late 1960's, Johnston Air Buoy and fee diving before that.
Antartica 2018, just because I wanted to see the end of the world, water was 28f, visibility with the mixing of fresh and saltwater was crap. You dump off the rubber duck into saltwater but as you approach an iceberg the water gets brackish and you sink like a rock, hit the inflator hard to stay neutral, touching million year old ice underwater is a trip, when you back off the iceberg, dump the BC like crazy, belly flop back on the rubber duck after you, with frozen fingers, take off your H valve 95cuf tank with a spaghetti of two regulators and 30lb of lead, oh and when you hit the water, tank loses 500 PSI just like that, much prefer the Northern Channel Islands than anywhere else in the world.
Patches, I got no stinking patches.
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