Who or what or how did you get into diving??

[Magelk]

This was a pretty popular topic over on scubaboard so I thought it might work here too. Plus I've been off work a few weeks and I'm bored out of my skull.

Here's my boring story,
20 years ago,1986, we're sitting around the barracks at Ft. Lewis slamming down a bunch of beer. (ME,nooo,>) Someone gets to talking about what he was going to do after he got out of the army. It's pretty common to hear soldiers talking about the huge piles of money they were going to make after they finished their time. Anyway, he had said he was going to be an underwater welder. Sounded ok to me, so 3 of us started checking out possibilities,bought a dive magazine or something, and we discovered there actually were schools for commercial diving and your school cash from the military would apply. At the bottom of the ad it said, "must have open water certification" or something to that effect. So we go down to the nearest dive shop and sign up. It was the coolest thing I ever experienced. We dove a little around puget sound and then were sent to Korea for a year. That temporarily ended the diving. Then my 2 buddies both get out and I have no dive buddies. So I fell away, did a few dives in Grand Cayman in 95, (honeymoon :-[) and then fell away again. So about one year ago, a friend loans me "The Last Dive" and I can't get diving out of my head. Took a refresher and have made about 14 dives since. Including a few in cozumel a few weeks ago.

OK so there's my exciting dive life, lets hear yours!!