I just ran across information on the Instructor course that would kick-start my years in the diving industry. Check out the course directors and the course price, and you'll see why my diving buddy and I just couldn't pass this up!
Gary Spinks is gone now, but he and I shared lots of memorable diving adventures over a span of many years.
Well, sorry that I couldn't find a photo of us together with our double hose regs. We were into the single hoses by 1967.
Fresh out of college and nearly broke, we managed to scrape up enough $ for the $30 fee, a copy of New Science of Skin & Scuba Diving, Al Tillman's Underwater Education, gas and lodging... and we were off, not realizing at the time all that this would eventually lead to.