Well, I'm BIG WILL!!!

[BIGWILL]

Hello to all.  I am glad Mississippi has some local divers and now we are getting connected through this forum.  That's awsome.  If any of you are like me, diving, at least up her in the northern part, is limited to what I like to call puddles of chocolate milk!  Pretty limited.  I am originally from MS, but went to college @ Murray State ( first diving cert in 1995), then, after two seasons of football, followed Houston Nutt to Boise State (with the SMURF TURF) to finish my college football career.  While there for 7 yrs, I actuall dove 3-5 times a week in rivers, lakes, and resivoirs (during the summer).  My old buddy is currently serving 2 tours in AFCRAPISTAN.  

I am looking forward to meeting you and others in person and would like to express  thanks to the creators of this site.

I have around 200 or so dives in the Great Northwest (unfortunately not all of them are documented).  I have experience in evidence recovery (here in the south, when I worked with the S/O) and am a search and recovery diver.  I am currently PADI OW, AOW, NITROX, completing rescue and just started my education of Underwater Criminal Investigator and SRT diver.

I heard about this site on SB and am extremely happy i found it.  I also frequent divebuddy.com and found people close to where I live!!  Time to get wet again!

Remember, fortuna audaces iuavat (Fortune Favors the Bold and God speed in your adventures.

Take Care,
BIG WILL

P.S.  Sorry for stretching your ears!  I'm just glad this site is here!

[frankc420]

Thanks for that awesome intro!  We like the longer ones, gives us a feel for the folks on here!

It's great to have another experienced diver on the site, I'm sure you have alot of good dive stories to tell.  As far as meeting in person, for sure!  Once the site gets bigger, I'm hoping we can have a MSscuba member night once a quarter or year or something.

Sucks about your dive buddy having to go to crapistan, I'm sure he'd rather be diving =)  Tell him the MSscuba crew wishes him best of luck in the foreign territory!

About your college ball, did you not want to persue it any furthure or were you just tired of it?  Just curious.  I considered myself pretty good at baseball, but ended up stuck with a sorry high school coach that made me lose all interest.  

I feel your pain on the chocolate milk problem, all we have here is the Pearl River and the rez, which has about 1/2" viz.  I think it's more of a big sewer than anything, lol.

[BIGWILL]

As far as the college ball and persuing it further, I told my coaches my junior year to tell the scouts I wasn't interested.  Got burned out and too many injuries.  It sucks waking in pain every morning.  Interestingly enough, diving helps with some of the pain, especially deep.  I guess it's the pressure on the joints.  I played to pay for my education (B.S. Criminal Justice Administration).  Too bad they didn't tell us where the real money was!!! now I make twice as much in tool and die with no politics or headaches.  I do still volunteer for diving duties, though.

BIG WILL

[frankc420]

There's that much in tool and die?  Hmmm.