Fri Feb 16, 2007 1:09 pm
I know two of the California divers on the AD dive.
Bob Dill was an early California diver who received his Doctorate at Scripps a few years after the AD dive. I met him about 1960 on a Underwater Photography (UPS) boat trip. Zale was the president of UPS at that time. There is a picture of him and others taken on that trip that was converted into a cover of SDM. I saw Bob on several other ocasions but never became close. Bob passed on several years ago.
Ramsey Parks was a local diver who was well respected and certainly knowledgeable and skilled diver. I don't reacall when we met but it seems like we had known each other forever--he was that sort of a fellow.
He was Bev Morgan's best friend and diving buddy for many years. They met as LA Co Life guards, both attended the original Scripps course taught by Connie Limbaugh and Andy Rechnitzer which became the basis for the LA county course.
They also became Abalone divers and were also members of the ill fated sailing trip on the Chiquiri which was a serial story in the 1957 (?) SDMs.
Ramsey became the first director of the Santa Barbara marine science ( commerical diving School) at SB City college.
He was 45--30 years ago- when he he left the college to go home for the week end. He made dinner, ate part of it, evidently was not feeling well so laid down and expereienced a major heart attack. He was discovered on Tuesday by his grown daughter.
The diving world was shocked and certainly saddened by his death, but it was Bev who was affected the most for he lost his best friend.
Earl Murray--never met him and don't know him or anything about him, other than he dissappeared from the visable diving world some time in the later part of the 1950s or early 1960s. A diving dropp out!
So now you know the rest of the story,
Aren't you glad you belong to VDH?
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