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You are not a diver based on that comment. Night dives are the best, when EVERYTHING comes out, most stuff is hiding during the day. Do a night dives on a wall during a full moon, an experience for sure. Ex underwater welder and burner as well as commercial air diver, when I was 10 feet tall and bullet proof.
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Isn’t the boat name “Conception” weird? I mean, guess it could refer to non-sex things but it could have held more people. And like folks are pointing out, only the crew survived.
But check this out. The boat was stolen in 2005 and parked at a top secret base:
http://diver.net/bbs/messages/51433.shtml
That’s odd.
Glen Fritzler was given some award this year.
https://cadivingnews.com/glen-fritzler-receives-california-scuba-service-award/
California native Glen Fritzler was presented the California Scuba Service Award during the Saturday evening Scuba Show celebration held in Long Beach on May 4, 2019.
Fritzler, owner of Truth Aquatics live-aboard fleet, started diving with his dad at the age of 12, and spent practically every weekend diving the coves in Laguna Beach. Occasionally the father and son buddy team would jump on a charter dive boat from San Pedro bound for the Channel Islands. One day they joined skipper Roy Hauser on his 57-foot boat Truth to dive the backside of Catalina, and that’s when Glen says his life and his calling were sealed.
After falling in love with Roy’s boat, father and son went to sign up for another trip, only to learn that the boat had crashed at San Clemente Island and was a complete loss. When they went out with Roy on a boat he was using while starting construction of a new, larger Truth, Roy invited Glen to spend a week helping him build the boat. Glen ended up spending the entire summer working for Roy, and Glen became a deckhand after the boat was launched. By 1979, at the minimum age of 19, he became a licensed captain. That’s when Roy proposed taking Glen on as a partner, allowing him to build equity in the operation.
After running the Truth for a year, Roy and Glen decided to build a newer, larger vessel, adding the Conception to their fleet in the summer of 1981. Conception was California’s crown jewel of live-aboard dive boats. It’s also where Glen met the love of his life, Dana. On the couple’s first dive together they encountered a 17-foot great white shark, truly a memorable first dive-date experience. They married in the summer of 1986 and have a son Austin, a wild land firefighter, and daughter Ashley, an equestrian.
Truth Aquatics started construction on a third boat, the Vision, in 1984. Around the same time, they secured the lease for Santa Barbara’s Sea Landing facility. Today Sea Landing accommodates the three-boat fleet and Glen subleases the rest to water sports concessions including a whale watching boat, a dive center, and a jet ski rental company. Sea Landing is the hub for ocean activities in Santa Barbara.
In the early 2000s luxury dive boats were popping up in warmer water destinations around the globe and California dive business started to slow. Roy had retired and Glen reinvigorated his business by securing a contract with the Channel Islands National Park to take non-diving passengers to visit the islands. The trips include hosting the Sierra Club and various school groups — seniors and kids alike enjoy the thrill of experiencing the Channel Islands for the first time onboard a Truth Aquatics vessel. Through these and other types of trips showcasing what the region has to offer, Glen hopes to bring California diving back as a worldwide destination.
As the Truth turns 45 this year, Glen estimates that the three boats have hosted over 450,000 divers, and 1.3 million California dives. For more information, visit truthaquatics.com
[–] 20428632? 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Apparently the way the boat is built. The sleeping quarters are down below because there is supposedly less movement from being in a boat on water and the crew's quarters are above to be close to the bridge. I hope it wasn't a boatload of missing kids.
[–] 20424509? 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
Um. Archive links,? Where? I'm not doing this Everytime,!!
[–] 20425069? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
so, don't! go be a sourpuss somewhere else, and come back when you feel you can be more helpful
[–] 20427369? 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago (edited ago)
No. This is a selfless arguement. you fags need to stop it with direct fucking links to Twitter. Your goona get ppl killed.
With your links I would copy them and archive that and then view that. With said I can't be the only one archiving shit for e everybody on my ip. It needs to be more than just a few of us dong this so 'we' that do don't get an archanside visit. You get it now?? Grow up and and archive.