You did good.  Only the boys are now 9 and 11 and got their first good
taste of snorkeling this spring while vacationing on the Florida Gulf
coast.  They got quite excited about chasing around some snook, sheepshead,
and hermit crabs and collecting dead sand dollars.  Both are excellent
swimmers and budding naturalists so I'm hoping it won't be long till I can
get them diving.
-Mark B.

At 12:18 PM 5/26/00 -0400, Robert F. Ling wrote:
>At 11:39 AM 5/26/00 -0400, Mark bevelhimer wrote:
>      {STUFF SNIPPED}
> >And I haven't even posted my bio yet.
> >-Mark B.
>
>It would be easy to start one for you!  :-))
>
>------------------------
>Mark Bevelhimer
>
>Sounds like all the eggheads are coming out of the woodwork again,
>so I suppose I should, too. I'm a fisheries biologist at Oak Ridge
>National Laboratory in Tennessee. I live in Knoxville, TN, with
>my wife and two boys (ages 5 and 7) that challenge and entertain
>me from morning till night. I was certified in 1979, but my
>diving has tailed off to almost nothing in recent years. Too
>many other things going on right now (indoor soccer, coaching
>basketball, and a new acoustic bass guitar).
>
>I've been following this list since near its inception and was
>witness to the first breath of NED! I follow the list so that
>when I do get back into diving I won't be so far behind and
>because I'm afraid that if I were to sign-off I'd miss that big
>NED rebate we've all been promised.
>
>I should have worked some diving into my research as a biologist,
>but haven't been able to do that much. I am curious if anyone on
>the list has ever assisted (volunteer or otherwise) any fisheries
>biologist as a diver. Such opportunities do arise occasionally
>and would probably happen more often if the biologists new there
>were eager divers just waiting for an excuse to dive.
>
>-------------------------
>
>How am I doing, so far?   :-))
>
>-- Bob.