Cordova Diving
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About Me
I began diving in La Grande, Oregon, in the Summer of 1964. I saw one of Cousteau’s movies the year before and was hooked. I worked and I saved, and I bought equipment from a mail order store in New York. My training came from an instructor who offered his 
week long course through a country club in Medford, Oregon. The course was not approved by any recognized agency and I did not receive a certification card. Indeed, PADI was not formed until two years later, in 1966. Nonetheless, the local fire department filled my single tank for me during the next six years as I dove the rivers and lakes of Northeastern Oregon. During this six year period, I read everything I could find about diving. I acquired additional equipment, including a custom-made wet suit, and I made well over 300 dives, many of them solo dives. I even got rid of those puny fins and the dorky knife!
In 1970, the fire department changed its policy and refused to fill my tanks unless I was “certified.” About this same time, I moved to Corvallis, Oregon, to finish my bachelor’s degree in mathematics at Oregon State University. I dove only infrequently during the years after 1970, but in 2005, I retired from the practice of law in Seattle, Washington, and moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
I purchased a small crew hotel off SE 17th Street called the Bridge @ Cordova. We sponsored barbeques on the first Sunday of each month, and I invited a local PADI instructor, TD van
Niekerk, to offer the Discover Scuba class to guests. In late April of 2006, I enrolled in TD’s Open Water course. I worked my way through the PADI curriculum and earned my Divemaster certification in October of that same year. I took the IDC from Arilton Pavan at Dixie Divers and successfully sat for the PADI Instructors Exam in February of 2007. I have logged over 2,000 dives while in Fort Lauderdale.
Now that I have leased the hotel operation to another operator, I want to focus on teaching people to dive, introducing them to the reefs and wrecks off our local beaches and helping them to become better, more responsible divers. I formed Learn2Dive, LLC, got c
ertified to offer the Diver's Alert Network courses and the Emergency First Response CPR and 1st Aid courses. I am a Master Scuba Diver Trainer (MSDT) with PADI. I dive almost every day and I take lots of underwater photographs, which I post on the web at Dive Pictures.
Stop by the site, look at my pictures and imagine yourself in them, then call me at (954) 673-6484 and put yourself there!
week long course through a country club in Medford, Oregon. The course was not approved by any recognized agency and I did not receive a certification card. Indeed, PADI was not formed until two years later, in 1966. Nonetheless, the local fire department filled my single tank for me during the next six years as I dove the rivers and lakes of Northeastern Oregon. During this six year period, I read everything I could find about diving. I acquired additional equipment, including a custom-made wet suit, and I made well over 300 dives, many of them solo dives. I even got rid of those puny fins and the dorky knife!In 1970, the fire department changed its policy and refused to fill my tanks unless I was “certified.” About this same time, I moved to Corvallis, Oregon, to finish my bachelor’s degree in mathematics at Oregon State University. I dove only infrequently during the years after 1970, but in 2005, I retired from the practice of law in Seattle, Washington, and moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
I purchased a small crew hotel off SE 17th Street called the Bridge @ Cordova. We sponsored barbeques on the first Sunday of each month, and I invited a local PADI instructor, TD van
Niekerk, to offer the Discover Scuba class to guests. In late April of 2006, I enrolled in TD’s Open Water course. I worked my way through the PADI curriculum and earned my Divemaster certification in October of that same year. I took the IDC from Arilton Pavan at Dixie Divers and successfully sat for the PADI Instructors Exam in February of 2007. I have logged over 2,000 dives while in Fort Lauderdale. Now that I have leased the hotel operation to another operator, I want to focus on teaching people to dive, introducing them to the reefs and wrecks off our local beaches and helping them to become better, more responsible divers. I formed Learn2Dive, LLC, got c
ertified to offer the Diver's Alert Network courses and the Emergency First Response CPR and 1st Aid courses. I am a Master Scuba Diver Trainer (MSDT) with PADI. I dive almost every day and I take lots of underwater photographs, which I post on the web at Dive Pictures.Stop by the site, look at my pictures and imagine yourself in them, then call me at (954) 673-6484 and put yourself there!
Learn2Dive, LLC, d/b/a Cordova Diving
1450 N Federal Highway
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304
(954) 673-6484
info@cordovadiving.com
1450 N Federal Highway
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304
(954) 673-6484
info@cordovadiving.com
