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

[freedivernd]

It's a long story... I'll keep it short.  spent all my youth weekends at the lake, and was almost certified in 82.. just never picked up my cert. card.  I was broke and figured most of what there was to see I could see with just a snorkel.  I got more serious about freediving after a trip to belize about 9 or 10 years ago and I started thinking more about getting scuba certified as most of the people that were that far under the water were scuba certified.  I went back to the dive shop about 4 years ago and they still had me on record.  I did several open water dives with the instructor and was deemed o.k. to get my cert card (when we did our out-of-air emergency ascent he said his students usually go to the surface much faster  ).  I'm a strong believer that freediving can really be a plus in conjunction with scuba.  (if you have an inkling to give freediving a go, please remember the rule: free dive before scuba)
Later,
Fred