by David Vickery December 1989. An enormous winter storm in the southeast delayed our flight to Miami and we arrived too late to catch the connection to Grand Turk. After spending an anxious night in the Hotel Mia in the airport we finally made the 645-mile trek to JAGS McCartney International Airport. The storm had … Read more
Errol Flynn, the legendary Hollywood swordsman (pun intended) was also an early skin and scuba diver. By the time I discovered Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s first book, “The Silent World,” in the early 50s, Flynn had already been spearfishing for years, and had recently taken up scuba diving. In his autobiography, “My Wicked, Wicked Ways,” he recounted … Read more
Hi Doc, A mate and I have been meeting at the local pool each week to practice some static apnea, and my breath-hold time has steadily improved. Occasionally though, I have a week where I can’t even match the time I started with a couple of months ago. I realize there are many factors at … Read more
There are few opportunities in life that allow almost complete and unmitigated indulgence in whatever interests you, but over the years my career in professional diving has occasionally hit a home run in serendipitous situations. For example, I was actually asked by the U.S. Navy in 1971 to volunteer to smoke copious quantities of marijuana, … Read more
