AAUS Science Diver

Michael Bear

Certified PADI Master Diver/Rescue Diver/ DAN Diving Emergency Specialist with:

1000+ Dives /800+ hrs. underwater since 2000

in San Diego, CA

AAUS Science Diving Resume:

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dcpv6j4q_34d85dbb

Writing Resume:

http://resume.linkedinlabs.com/krbx51wc3

Science Diver Editor/California Diver Magazine
http://californiadiver.com/

Member: American Elasmobranch Society

Weekly SCUBA Column at:

http://www.examiner.com/x-38501-San-Diego-Scuba-Diving-Examiner

Michael Bear

Twitter: rapturedeep

Into the Deep

“Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, and danced the depths on laughter-silvered wings;

downward I’ve dropped, and joined the tumbling mirth of sunlit kelp…and golden fish, and done a hundred things you have not dreamed of….wheeled and soared and swung….. deep in the dark blue silence.

Hov’ring there……..

I’ve chased the seaward currents along, and flung myself through footless halls of ocean green.

Down, down, down…the long, delirious burning depths, I’ve descended with easy grace……

And while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod the high untrespassed sanctity of the Deep…

…put out my hand, and…… touched the face of God.”

–with apologies [and thanks] to John McGee,

author of ‘High Flight’

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“If i should die beneath the sea

Whatever the circumstance may be

I only ask that you not cry

For such a lucky one was I

But, rather weep for those alive

Who know not what it is to dive

Into the planet’s liquid heart

And of God’s ocean be a part…..

–Anon