Kevin,
Am very happy that this topic has finally made it to fruition. Oh since you asked me to be co moderator I have to point out a mistake in your original post on rules, (and and). Your shot is great, would never know you stitched it together if you had not pointed it out.

Would also like to have people tell when they learned, what agency, when, and basically where they have been diving. I sure hope I can remember all the places I dived but my brain is not working as well as it used to.

Well, I will start it off, I learned in the summer of 58, and was diving all the way up until 1979 without a C card. At that time I owned a motorcycle shop and one of my customers was a PADI Instructor, what he did not know is that I knew and had dived with John Cronin, the head of PADI. I then got him to certify me since it was becoming harder to get tanks filled when away from home. I had my own compressor. I then went on to open my own Scuba Shop became a PADI instructor, then CMAS, TDI/SDI, HSA, and a few others, enough with all the intitials. I have been diving all over the world, just not in the Antartic.

George