they need a release.

And, you know, there's a lot of ways to do that, and scuba is one of them.

You can really recharge your batteries.

You can find your peace again by being on a dive trip. This is the adventure sports podcast.

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Get out there and have some fun.

Episode 24, Derek Prosser, scuba diving.

Hello and welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast.

This is your host, Kurt Linville, and today's topic is scuba diving with Derek Prosser. Derek became a scuba diving instructor in Texas way back in 1984. After that, he worked for a few years in Florida as a diving instructor, and now he resides in Colorado, where he is the owner-operator of underwater fantasies.

It's a full-service scuba shop in Lakewood, Colorado.

Derek, welcome to the program.

Thank you.

So, Derek, tell us a little bit more about yourself, about your love for scuba diving

and about your involvement with that.

Well, I got involved when I was going to college in Texas back in the

80s. I decided that wasn't working out for me too well. I found myself daydreaming more about the

islands than thinking about algebra. So I actually dropped out of college, became certified,

and then spent the next year working on my training

to become an instructor, which I did in 1984.

And then I immediately moved to Florida.

I was trying to decide where to go once I became an instructor, and I had heard Florida

had warm water and California had cold water, so it didn't seem like a tough choice to me at all.

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