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Article 1243 The Valiant Bud Valian Story — Mt. Hood’s Ski & SCUBA Diving Living Legend Early SCUBA Diving recollections of diving in the Pacific Northwest, Mexico & Belize Written by Tory van Dyke exclusively for the NORTHWEST DIVING HISTORY ASSOCIATION 8-22-22 I have been thinking about interviewing living Ski Legend Bud Valian of Government Camp, Oregon, for many years, […]

I recently met my longtime friend again, the diving pioneer and living legend Spence Campbell, at Tom Hemphill’s NORTHWEST DIVING HISTORY ASSOCIATION meeting on April 12, 2022, at Tom’s well-furnished, neighborhood association Clubhouse. I hadn’t seen Spence for a few years and took the opportunity to sit down next to him at the meeting in order to acquire more knowledge, […]

Underwater pipeline work is both physically and psychologically challenging and demanding. The SCUBA-equipped working diver, free from the constraints of lifeline, communication and air-hose umbilical attachments associated with surface-supplied hard hat diving, has the ability to make deep penetrations into underwater pipeline systems. However, the SCUBA diver is 100% self-contained, as he carries with him on his back-pack, his limited-time-duration […]