The Original Authors
John H. Moore moved to San Diego in the summer of 1992 and several years later started working his way down a list of things that he wanted to experience in life. First up was skydiving, which was an incredible adrenaline rush, but which also resulted in a broken foot. It turns out that the landing is key!
Next up on the list was SCUBA diving. John was certified through the original Diving Locker in Pacific Beach in 1995, with Richard Huffman as his instructor. The first time that a fish swam past his face, John was hooked! The first eight years or so, John averaged about 80–100 dives per year. He also got his divemaster (SSI DiveCon) rating, again through the Diving Locker (instructor Bob Schaible), though he never worked as a dive master.
These days, and now with three young children, John is less of a dive bum than he’d like to be, but still dives… and often now with a housed DSLR camera in tow. It’s not clear what was next on the original list of activities, but his two passions these days are diving and photography. You can view some of John’s landscape, night, and underwater photography on johnhmoore.com.
Steve Haynes… bio to follow [editors note: it never followed]
Current Site Editor
Helge Weissig was certified to dive in 1994. He then proceeded to not go diving for roughly twenty-four years, which may be some kind of record. In the summer of 2018, something finally clicked (or perhaps broke) and he got back in the water. He has not been dry since.
Hundreds of dives later, Helge has somehow talked his way into all sorts of tech certifications, including cave and CCR, and most recently (in a development that surprises no one more than himself) became a SCUBA instructor. When not underwater or trying to explain to non-divers why he owns so many tanks, he works in tech, which is how he ended up being the person to bring Divebums back from the Internet Archive. It turns out that “I’ll just set up a quick WordPress site” is a lie he tells himself regularly.
Helge is currently looking for fellow dive bums who’d like to help maintain and grow this site. If you have local dive knowledge to share, photos to contribute, or just enjoy the particular flavor of suffering that is volunteer web maintenance, please get in touch.