Chesapeake Bay Lighthouse Project
The Blue Beast
The Blue Beast (Beast) is our 1991 Volkswagon Westfalia camper.
We're the original owners and have spent weeks at a time traveling and camping in it from
Georgia to up-state New York.
In Elk Neck State Park, March 2000
Diving |
Before purchasing our sloop, Moondance, we were very heavily into
scuba diving. Our
addiction to compressed air lead us to quit our jobs in 1990 and spend over a year
backpacking around the world - including a 9 month stint in the Cayman Islands working
as dive instructors. In addition to warm waters from Central America to the Caribbean,
Australia, and Thailand, we've dived numerous Atlantic wrecks from North Carolina
to New York as well as a kelp forest off California. Alas, passions change and we
do very little diving now.
"In most of the diving training during the 1950s and 1960s, there was
a consistent 50% failure rate in professional diving courses. This meant that some
sort of standard was being applied. In comparison, there is little or no failure
rate in many of the recreational diving courses now being held - suggesting that
few or no standards are really being applied, other than the ability to pay."
(Diving and Subaquatic Medicine: Edmonds, Lowry, and Pennefeather)