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THE news of the day is Capt. Rich. He had surgery on his leg yesterday to correct some problems with a vein. They thought the operation would take about 30 minutes but it actually took over three hours. He says the leg hurts a lot, but he is up and walking on it. Fell free to email him your get well wishes.
Today’s front moved through the Florida Sea Base between 1400 and 1430. The rain was mostly light, but picked up for about 15 minutes. The wind is much more tolerable this time, about 15 knots out of the west. The temperatures are supposed to be much cooler through Saturday, but nothing vicious.
Several of the staff spent much of today in the 67 degree swimming pool working towards their PADI Open Water Diver certification. Capt. Alex Bergstedt is teaching the course. Divemaster Meghann Michalski has enrolled in an upcoming Instructor Development Course at Florida Keys Dive Center so she is assisting Capt. Alex and brushing up on her skills. Milly McCoy is at Flakeys (Florida Keys Dive Center) again today assisting with the current Instructor Development Course there. [So Capt. Steve, why do they call the Florida Keys Dive Center "Flakeys"? Well kids, I was told that many, many years ago when the Florida Keys Dive Center originally opened for business they needed a sign. So they hired a sign painter. Apparently the painter thought the name was too long so he decided to abbreviate it. Now most of you are probably too young to remember this, but the US Postal Service used have three letter abbreviations for every state instead of the current two letter abbreviations. The abbreviation for Florida was FLA. So the sign read "FLA. KEYS DIVE CENTER". That morphed into Flakeys Dive Center and eventually into just Flakeys. So there you have a bit of Keys history.]
I received a phone call from the owner of Ocean Divers in Key Largo today. Joe said all of his scuba instructors have been certified as Scuba Diving merit badge counselors. Check out their website when you have time.
For the prospective summer scuba staff – I am right down to the last 4 decisions. I will have those finalized in the next day or two. Thank you for your patience. Believe me, NO ONE wants the hiring to be finalized more than me.