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Healthways Webby’s Fins

September 8, 2015/Fins, Uncategorized/by diveguy

Healthways “Webby’s Fins – Circa-early 50’s Webby’s are some of the most unusually designed fins there are. Harkening back to the very beginnings of skin and scuba diving, nearly all design concepts were worth testing as everything was virtually brand new within the infancy of the dive industry. By the early 50’s nearly everything fin-wise had shifted to the more standard […]

Owen Churchill Fin

September 8, 2015/Fins, Uncategorized/by diveguy

Owen Churchill Fin – 1937 to present The Churchill fin was the first commercially manufactured diving fin. Conceived and developed around 1937, the design was applied for U.S. patent in 1940 and was granted patent in 1943. In the early 50’s Voit-Swimaster began marketing the Churchill fin design via licensing agreement, both entities had their brand name embossed in relief on […]

Portland Sea Searchers Dive Club

September 8, 2015/Clubs, Uncategorized/by diveguy

Portland Sea Searchers is an active Portland, Oregon dive club to this day. The Sea Searchers of Portland were formed by diving instructor Pete George in 1963. For the first three years (63 – 65) the club met at Mr. Carol Godat’s dive shop on NE Union Avenue Portland Oregon. Godat’s shop closed in 1965 and all of the records […]

Marker Buoy Dive Club

September 8, 2015/Clubs, Uncategorized/by diveguy

Seattle, Washington: 1961 – present Marker Buoy Dive Club traces its roots to 1961 as a shop-sponsored dive club in Ballard, WA. The club was founded by John T. Miller, who together with his wife Alma, owned and operated the Marker Buoy dive shop in Ballard. The club was originally called “The Marker Boys” because in the early 60s, scuba […]

Tory van Dyke

September 8, 2015/Pioneers, Uncategorized/by diveguy

My name is Tory van Dyke. I began SCUBA diving at the early age of 17 years old. I always wanted to be a diver, from my earliest childhood recollections of watching the fictional Mike Nelson character and “Sea Hunt” on TV in the fifties and sixties. My dad, Kenny van Dyke, had a small dive shop operation that he […]

Spence Campbell

September 8, 2015/Pioneers, Uncategorized/by diveguy

One of the Pacific Northwest’s diving pioneers from the early days of Pacific Northwest Diving. A “Pioneer” is a trailblazer that has the courage to explore the unknown. Spence Campbell is certainly a diving pioneer and has blazed many trails for the rest of us to follow. Since the late 1950’s, Spence has served the diving community in a variety […]

Jim Larsen

September 8, 2015/Pioneers, Uncategorized/by diveguy

My first dive experience was as Boy Scout in the local high school pool with a two hose regulator and a steel tank with a homemade backpack. The whole experience was less than 5 minutes but left a desire to do more. I was taking flying lessons from a friend in Fairbanks Alaska when he announced that there would be […]

Brent Budden

September 8, 2015/Pioneers, Uncategorized/by diveguy

Paul Schorzman interviews diving pioneer Brent Budden, reflecting on his lifetime of diving that began just out of grammar school, when a friend asked him to help him dive for sunken logs at an old sawmill. . .

John Reseck Jr.

September 8, 2015/Pioneers, Uncategorized/by diveguy

Becky Witty interviews John Resect, Jr. with his reflections on a lifetime of diving which began in Southern California in 1945 when he was just 10 years old. He’s logged more than 5,000 hours as a commercial diver and 10,000 as a recreational scuba diver.

Becky Witty and Darlene Iskra

September 8, 2015/Pioneers, Uncategorized/by diveguy

Becky Witty and Darlene Iskra recount their experiences as two of the few women diving in the 1970’s. Becky became a dive instructor in the Caribbean, while Darlene worked for the military.

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