Here is a picture of our group that I will be bringing down for certification during Oct 14 - 21 I am looking forward to meeting you all at the reception
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Welcome to Bonaire Talk Dave. I wish we all could be there with you and your wonderful group.. God bless you all !!! Safe diving and Thank you Warriors!!!

I wish I could be there to meet and dive with the vets. You will all love Bonaire. Since I can't be there, SEMPR FI to my Marine brothers.

Greetings from Captain Don:

I will be seeing you guys shortly.

Have a good trip down, and look forward to having some fun.

Scuba-listically,

don/
alias: Peter Stuyvesant

Have a great time and enjoy Bonaire and its great diving and marine park. We will be on the island one week after you leave. Wish we could be there in person to thank you all! But for now....THANKS and welcome to Bonaire Talk!

Any updates on how the certification and dive's are going...
Cecil, can you give us any updates?

Meryl, we received an email from Susan Davis this morning, and the dinner went well I believe. There are only six warriors on the island (not exactly sure why the other 3 could not make it). They presented each with a BT t-shirt and bought them all and their guests dinner and drinks. I know lots of pictures have been taken. Hopefully Cecil will pop in with some pics and a good report

Hi, Meryl, the group is all certified and are enjoying themselves now! They finished certification on Monday, and yeserday went to the dive shop at Sand Dollar for a dive on a different house reef.

They are doing extremely well. The other three who had planned to come were unable to do so for medical concerns at the last moment.

Tomorrow night they have a reception at the Lt. Governors house, and Friday a BBQ at Jack Chalks--they are being kept pretty busy!

Lots of pictures are being taken, so I'm sure as soon as Dave or Cecil have a few moments, you'll be seeing them! I think Cecil is flying back today, so you probably won't hear from him today.

The guys are great, their wives and family are great, this has been a wonderful experience for all.

Thanks Susan

Thanks Cynde and Susan. Glad to here the certification went well..Now it's all fun and floating! What wonderful experience's for them and they sure deserve every minute! Looking forward to the pictures and tales.

What Susan said. We met them at the airport with some cold beer and sodas which was needed after a very long wait for their luggage. Monday night we met them at Captain Dons for the reception and dinner. Then on Tuesday we met up with them and dove at the Divi.

What a great group, very positive attitudes and a joy and honor to met. They make me very proud to have helped, if only a little.

I posted a couple of pictures over in CC.

Cecil, I can't find your pictures. I just checked community chat. Where are they?

Oops, I didn't scroll down far enough. Thanks for the pics Cecil. You are correct. That last picture effects all of us, I think. God Bless all our wounded warriors.

This is what the wounded warriors looked like at 108fsw. Too deep for new divers... Ron

You know Ron, when I first saw them at 108', like you I was shocked and dismayed at the instructor for taking them down that far. It was only their second dive after certification.

Since then I have reconsidered that position. They were surrounded on all sides but very experienced divers and think about that risk vs. the risk they all recently experienced in Iraq. If that was something they wanted to do, why not? I'm glad they got to do it.