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LKunze · (This post was last modified: 08-01-2009, 08:46 AM by LKunze.)

Many of you may already know but I just found out on the Minnesota School of Diving website that they purchased Underwater Sports Adventure in St. Cloud and will be having a Grand Opening on August 16th. Congratulations to MSD!

BioDiver · 08-02-2009, 11:11 AM,

Check out their fun dive schedule too for the St. Cloud store. They bus you up to the Crosby pits, feed you and drive you back to St. Cloud.

mcdiver · 08-09-2009, 06:28 PM,

It is kind of funny that I walked into the dive store one day and seen Todd sitting behind the counter (mid May), and there stood Lisa. I believe one of my first words were, "Did you"? Sure enough, the keys had just exchanged hands. I have always enjoyed stopping by the store to visit Lisa or Ed over the years, and will truely miss that connection.

I have been a long-time fan of MN School of Diving (Divemaster in 2000), this just makes it more easier to visit. My only wish now is to have Bill work his "1/2 days" in the St. Cloud store so that I can visit him more often. This is a man that I have spent many hours with just talking about scuba diving, I have often forgone an afternoon of diving in exchange for just standing around and "shootin' the breeze".

Dave Torry
PADI MSDT#170297
St. Cloud
612-799-4333

mattd · 08-09-2009, 07:30 PM,

We are planning to stop in with a newly certified friend of ours. She is dying to go diving too, so if anyone wants to hit up the grand opening and then find somewhere relatively close by for a quick dive, let us know!

mcdiver · 08-10-2009, 09:31 PM,

Matt, we could do a dive at the quarry in St. Cloud? It would not be as good as "The Pits" in Crosby/Ironton, but it would give you a greater appreciation for "The Pits". I won't be back in St. Cloud until noon (I hope), so we could dive later that afternoon. Give me a call if interested.

But back to the subject at hand, Bill gave Matt and Kristi the "grand tour" of the Brainerd facility and at the end, he made a comment that I wasn't aware of. Bill is the oldest, that is to say, the "Lowest PADI Instructor Number" in the world, #79, that is still actively teaching scuba diving.

I am honored to call the man my friend.

Dragon Eye · 08-11-2009, 01:20 PM,

We will give you a call. We have a few friends interested in attending the opening and dive in the afternoon with us. I think we plan to be at the shop for noon for the festivities and dive a little later. (anyone else want to join us?)

Bill's shop is Full Service! He gave us quite the tour of the entire place- there was more there than I expected. The commercial diving aspect was all new to me, and interesting to see all the equipment involved. So needless to say I was impressed- that is what a Midwest Dive Shop should be. Not only that, but you get a FULL tank!! No one should go through there and just drive by- you have to stop in.

Bill did get quite a kick out of how long the diver numbers are now (way longer than a phone number ;D)

mcdiver · 08-14-2009, 11:45 AM,

I am going to assume that this is Kristi, I have National Guard this weekend, but hope to be back in St. Cloud around noon. I will have my dive gear already packed in the truck.

Dragon Eye · 08-14-2009, 08:07 PM,

Yes it's Kristi ;D

Just meet us at the shop- we will probably leave around 2pm to dive.

Dragon Eye · 08-15-2009, 12:00 PM,

Ok change of plans.... looks like we are going to not have such nice weather on Sunday. So we'll bump the dive to the following Sunday- location TBD.