1991 King Springs Manatee Trip

There are three parts to this video. The first was filmed early in the morning during 1989 at the house of Rob Freeman in Fox Den Subdivision. It was a yearly pilgrimage to Lake City, Florida, King Springs to dive a Thanksgiving dive and snorkle with the Manatee. I made the underwater part of this video because I was able to borrow the camera from Adventure Swim and Scuba, where I was working as part-time manager. Gail Hutchins and Rob Freeman were my diving instructors where I certified in Rescue diving in 1991. The second is probably one of the best video's of a young manatee at play, something that today would be illegal, but in 1989 it was against the law to interact with manatee with full scuba gear. Some names on this trip are Barry McFarland, Johnny Clark, Kathy Kurick and others. This was before I went to work at Lockeheed Martin in 1990.

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