SCUBA is not for the over 50s ?

In article <fopntk020dh@news3.newsguy.com>, Ken
<ken@k1at.freeserve.co.uk> writes
>
>"Mick Whittingham" <Mick@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:HIWUYQEmfvpHFw+v@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk ...
>> In article <kRBpj.1175$Jh5.232@newsfe4-win.ntli.net>, Cliff Coggin
>> <clifford.coggin@virgin.net> writes
>>>
>>>"Mick Whittingham" <Mick@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
>>>news:ebIi8jDf6tpHFw8G@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co. uk...
>>>> OK so how many out there shouldn't be diving anymore.
>>>>
>>>> Me, I first dived when I was 16 and now I'm 52 plus VAT.
>>>
>>>Don't worry about diving Mike; it's reading rubbish like the Daily Mail
>>>that
>>>will really kill you.
>>>
>>
>> But Cliff, as I retired at 50 (without VAT added) the DM adds are a great
>> source of cheap holidays to go diving on.
>
>I'll be a VAT-free 50 before the year's out. I'm often the oldest (or nearly
>the oldest) on the Red Sea day boats I've been on, and though not
>particularly fit, I have more energy and staying power than many a teenager
>also on the boat who is often too tired for a third dive that day etc etc.
>

While diving in the Red Sea December 07. The bunch of Germans, that on
several occasions I dived with, referred to me as
"Der alte graue Riff-Hai."
--
Mick Whittingham
'and I will make it a felony to drink small beer.'
William Shakespeare, Henry VI part 2.

"Mick Whittingham" <Mick@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> In article <fopntk020dh@news3.newsguy.com>, Ken <ken@k1at.freeserve.co.uk>
> writes
>>
>>"Mick Whittingham" <Mick@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
>>news:HIWUYQEmfvpHFw+v@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.u k...
>>> In article <kRBpj.1175$Jh5.232@newsfe4-win.ntli.net>, Cliff Coggin
>>> <clifford.coggin@virgin.net> writes
>>>>
>>>>"Mick Whittingham" <Mick@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
>>>>news:ebIi8jDf6tpHFw8G@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co .uk...
>>>>> OK so how many out there shouldn't be diving anymore.
>>>>>
>>>>> Me, I first dived when I was 16 and now I'm 52 plus VAT.
>>>>
>>>>Don't worry about diving Mike; it's reading rubbish like the Daily Mail
>>>>that
>>>>will really kill you.
>>>>
>>>
>>> But Cliff, as I retired at 50 (without VAT added) the DM adds are a
>>> great
>>> source of cheap holidays to go diving on.
>>
>>I'll be a VAT-free 50 before the year's out. I'm often the oldest (or
>>nearly
>>the oldest) on the Red Sea day boats I've been on, and though not
>>particularly fit, I have more energy and staying power than many a
>>teenager
>>also on the boat who is often too tired for a third dive that day etc etc.
>>
>
> While diving in the Red Sea December 07. The bunch of Germans, that on
> several occasions I dived with, referred to me as
> "Der alte graue Riff-Hai."

Older possibly, but certainly not without bite!

Ken

"Mick Whittingham" <Mick@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> In article <fopntk020dh@news3.newsguy.com>, Ken <ken@k1at.freeserve.co.uk>
> writes
>>
>>"Mick Whittingham" <Mick@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
>>news:HIWUYQEmfvpHFw+v@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.u k...
>>> In article <kRBpj.1175$Jh5.232@newsfe4-win.ntli.net>, Cliff Coggin
>>> <clifford.coggin@virgin.net> writes
>>>>
>>>>"Mick Whittingham" <Mick@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
>>>>news:ebIi8jDf6tpHFw8G@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co .uk...
>>>>> OK so how many out there shouldn't be diving anymore.
>>>>>
>>>>> Me, I first dived when I was 16 and now I'm 52 plus VAT.
>>>>
>>>>Don't worry about diving Mike; it's reading rubbish like the Daily Mail
>>>>that
>>>>will really kill you.
>>>>
>>>
>>> But Cliff, as I retired at 50 (without VAT added) the DM adds are a
>>> great
>>> source of cheap holidays to go diving on.
>>
>>I'll be a VAT-free 50 before the year's out. I'm often the oldest (or
>>nearly
>>the oldest) on the Red Sea day boats I've been on, and though not
>>particularly fit, I have more energy and staying power than many a
>>teenager
>>also on the boat who is often too tired for a third dive that day etc etc.
>>
>
> While diving in the Red Sea December 07. The bunch of Germans, that on
> several occasions I dived with, referred to me as
> "Der alte graue Riff-Hai."

Older possibly, but certainly not without bite!

Ken

"Mick Whittingham" <Mick@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:OM0HWCCTjHsHFwWK@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk. ..
> In article <fopntk020dh@news3.newsguy.com>, Ken <ken@k1at.freeserve.co.uk>
> writes
>>
>>"Mick Whittingham" <Mick@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
>>news:HIWUYQEmfvpHFw+v@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.u k...
>>> In article <kRBpj.1175$Jh5.232@newsfe4-win.ntli.net>, Cliff Coggin
>>> <clifford.coggin@virgin.net> writes
>>>>
>>>>"Mick Whittingham" <Mick@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
>>>>news:ebIi8jDf6tpHFw8G@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co .uk...
>>>>> OK so how many out there shouldn't be diving anymore.
>>>>>
>>>>> Me, I first dived when I was 16 and now I'm 52 plus VAT.
>>>>
>>>>Don't worry about diving Mike; it's reading rubbish like the Daily Mail
>>>>that
>>>>will really kill you.
>>>>
>>>
>>> But Cliff, as I retired at 50 (without VAT added) the DM adds are a
>>> great
>>> source of cheap holidays to go diving on.
>>
>>I'll be a VAT-free 50 before the year's out. I'm often the oldest (or
>>nearly
>>the oldest) on the Red Sea day boats I've been on, and though not
>>particularly fit, I have more energy and staying power than many a
>>teenager
>>also on the boat who is often too tired for a third dive that day etc etc.
>>
>
> While diving in the Red Sea December 07. The bunch of Germans, that on
> several occasions I dived with, referred to me as
> "Der alte graue Riff-Hai."

Older possibly, but certainly not without bite!

Ken

"Mick Whittingham" <Mick@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:OM0HWCCTjHsHFwWK@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk. ..
> In article <fopntk020dh@news3.newsguy.com>, Ken <ken@k1at.freeserve.co.uk>
> writes
>>
>>"Mick Whittingham" <Mick@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
>>news:HIWUYQEmfvpHFw+v@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.u k...
>>> In article <kRBpj.1175$Jh5.232@newsfe4-win.ntli.net>, Cliff Coggin
>>> <clifford.coggin@virgin.net> writes
>>>>
>>>>"Mick Whittingham" <Mick@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
>>>>news:ebIi8jDf6tpHFw8G@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co .uk...
>>>>> OK so how many out there shouldn't be diving anymore.
>>>>>
>>>>> Me, I first dived when I was 16 and now I'm 52 plus VAT.
>>>>
>>>>Don't worry about diving Mike; it's reading rubbish like the Daily Mail
>>>>that
>>>>will really kill you.
>>>>
>>>
>>> But Cliff, as I retired at 50 (without VAT added) the DM adds are a
>>> great
>>> source of cheap holidays to go diving on.
>>
>>I'll be a VAT-free 50 before the year's out. I'm often the oldest (or
>>nearly
>>the oldest) on the Red Sea day boats I've been on, and though not
>>particularly fit, I have more energy and staying power than many a
>>teenager
>>also on the boat who is often too tired for a third dive that day etc etc.
>>
>
> While diving in the Red Sea December 07. The bunch of Germans, that on
> several occasions I dived with, referred to me as
> "Der alte graue Riff-Hai."

Older possibly, but certainly not without bite!

Ken

"Mick Whittingham" <Mick@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:OM0HWCCTjHsHFwWK@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk. ..
> In article <fopntk020dh@news3.newsguy.com>, Ken <ken@k1at.freeserve.co.uk>
> writes
>>
>>"Mick Whittingham" <Mick@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
>>news:HIWUYQEmfvpHFw+v@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.u k...
>>> In article <kRBpj.1175$Jh5.232@newsfe4-win.ntli.net>, Cliff Coggin
>>> <clifford.coggin@virgin.net> writes
>>>>
>>>>"Mick Whittingham" <Mick@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
>>>>news:ebIi8jDf6tpHFw8G@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co .uk...
>>>>> OK so how many out there shouldn't be diving anymore.
>>>>>
>>>>> Me, I first dived when I was 16 and now I'm 52 plus VAT.
>>>>
>>>>Don't worry about diving Mike; it's reading rubbish like the Daily Mail
>>>>that
>>>>will really kill you.
>>>>
>>>
>>> But Cliff, as I retired at 50 (without VAT added) the DM adds are a
>>> great
>>> source of cheap holidays to go diving on.
>>
>>I'll be a VAT-free 50 before the year's out. I'm often the oldest (or
>>nearly
>>the oldest) on the Red Sea day boats I've been on, and though not
>>particularly fit, I have more energy and staying power than many a
>>teenager
>>also on the boat who is often too tired for a third dive that day etc etc.
>>
>
> While diving in the Red Sea December 07. The bunch of Germans, that on
> several occasions I dived with, referred to me as
> "Der alte graue Riff-Hai."

Older possibly, but certainly not without bite!

Ken

"Mick Whittingham" <Mick@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:OM0HWCCTjHsHFwWK@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk. ..
> In article <fopntk020dh@news3.newsguy.com>, Ken <ken@k1at.freeserve.co.uk>
> writes
>>
>>"Mick Whittingham" <Mick@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
>>news:HIWUYQEmfvpHFw+v@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.u k...
>>> In article <kRBpj.1175$Jh5.232@newsfe4-win.ntli.net>, Cliff Coggin
>>> <clifford.coggin@virgin.net> writes
>>>>
>>>>"Mick Whittingham" <Mick@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
>>>>news:ebIi8jDf6tpHFw8G@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co .uk...
>>>>> OK so how many out there shouldn't be diving anymore.
>>>>>
>>>>> Me, I first dived when I was 16 and now I'm 52 plus VAT.
>>>>
>>>>Don't worry about diving Mike; it's reading rubbish like the Daily Mail
>>>>that
>>>>will really kill you.
>>>>
>>>
>>> But Cliff, as I retired at 50 (without VAT added) the DM adds are a
>>> great
>>> source of cheap holidays to go diving on.
>>
>>I'll be a VAT-free 50 before the year's out. I'm often the oldest (or
>>nearly
>>the oldest) on the Red Sea day boats I've been on, and though not
>>particularly fit, I have more energy and staying power than many a
>>teenager
>>also on the boat who is often too tired for a third dive that day etc etc.
>>
>
> While diving in the Red Sea December 07. The bunch of Germans, that on
> several occasions I dived with, referred to me as
> "Der alte graue Riff-Hai."

Older possibly, but certainly not without bite!

Ken

"Mick Whittingham" <Mick@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:OM0HWCCTjHsHFwWK@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk. ..
> In article <fopntk020dh@news3.newsguy.com>, Ken <ken@k1at.freeserve.co.uk>
> writes
>>
>>"Mick Whittingham" <Mick@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
>>news:HIWUYQEmfvpHFw+v@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.u k...
>>> In article <kRBpj.1175$Jh5.232@newsfe4-win.ntli.net>, Cliff Coggin
>>> <clifford.coggin@virgin.net> writes
>>>>
>>>>"Mick Whittingham" <Mick@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
>>>>news:ebIi8jDf6tpHFw8G@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co .uk...
>>>>> OK so how many out there shouldn't be diving anymore.
>>>>>
>>>>> Me, I first dived when I was 16 and now I'm 52 plus VAT.
>>>>
>>>>Don't worry about diving Mike; it's reading rubbish like the Daily Mail
>>>>that
>>>>will really kill you.
>>>>
>>>
>>> But Cliff, as I retired at 50 (without VAT added) the DM adds are a
>>> great
>>> source of cheap holidays to go diving on.
>>
>>I'll be a VAT-free 50 before the year's out. I'm often the oldest (or
>>nearly
>>the oldest) on the Red Sea day boats I've been on, and though not
>>particularly fit, I have more energy and staying power than many a
>>teenager
>>also on the boat who is often too tired for a third dive that day etc etc.
>>
>
> While diving in the Red Sea December 07. The bunch of Germans, that on
> several occasions I dived with, referred to me as
> "Der alte graue Riff-Hai."

Older possibly, but certainly not without bite!

Ken

"Mick Whittingham" <Mick@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:OM0HWCCTjHsHFwWK@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk. ..
> In article <fopntk020dh@news3.newsguy.com>, Ken <ken@k1at.freeserve.co.uk>
> writes
>>
>>"Mick Whittingham" <Mick@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
>>news:HIWUYQEmfvpHFw+v@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.u k...
>>> In article <kRBpj.1175$Jh5.232@newsfe4-win.ntli.net>, Cliff Coggin
>>> <clifford.coggin@virgin.net> writes
>>>>
>>>>"Mick Whittingham" <Mick@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
>>>>news:ebIi8jDf6tpHFw8G@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co .uk...
>>>>> OK so how many out there shouldn't be diving anymore.
>>>>>
>>>>> Me, I first dived when I was 16 and now I'm 52 plus VAT.
>>>>
>>>>Don't worry about diving Mike; it's reading rubbish like the Daily Mail
>>>>that
>>>>will really kill you.
>>>>
>>>
>>> But Cliff, as I retired at 50 (without VAT added) the DM adds are a
>>> great
>>> source of cheap holidays to go diving on.
>>
>>I'll be a VAT-free 50 before the year's out. I'm often the oldest (or
>>nearly
>>the oldest) on the Red Sea day boats I've been on, and though not
>>particularly fit, I have more energy and staying power than many a
>>teenager
>>also on the boat who is often too tired for a third dive that day etc etc.
>>
>
> While diving in the Red Sea December 07. The bunch of Germans, that on
> several occasions I dived with, referred to me as
> "Der alte graue Riff-Hai."

Older possibly, but certainly not without bite!

Ken

"Mick Whittingham" <Mick@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:OM0HWCCTjHsHFwWK@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk. ..
> In article <fopntk020dh@news3.newsguy.com>, Ken <ken@k1at.freeserve.co.uk>
> writes
>>
>>"Mick Whittingham" <Mick@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
>>news:HIWUYQEmfvpHFw+v@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.u k...
>>> In article <kRBpj.1175$Jh5.232@newsfe4-win.ntli.net>, Cliff Coggin
>>> <clifford.coggin@virgin.net> writes
>>>>
>>>>"Mick Whittingham" <Mick@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
>>>>news:ebIi8jDf6tpHFw8G@whittinghamsite.fsnet.co .uk...
>>>>> OK so how many out there shouldn't be diving anymore.
>>>>>
>>>>> Me, I first dived when I was 16 and now I'm 52 plus VAT.
>>>>
>>>>Don't worry about diving Mike; it's reading rubbish like the Daily Mail
>>>>that
>>>>will really kill you.
>>>>
>>>
>>> But Cliff, as I retired at 50 (without VAT added) the DM adds are a
>>> great
>>> source of cheap holidays to go diving on.
>>
>>I'll be a VAT-free 50 before the year's out. I'm often the oldest (or
>>nearly
>>the oldest) on the Red Sea day boats I've been on, and though not
>>particularly fit, I have more energy and staying power than many a
>>teenager
>>also on the boat who is often too tired for a third dive that day etc etc.
>>
>
> While diving in the Red Sea December 07. The bunch of Germans, that on
> several occasions I dived with, referred to me as
> "Der alte graue Riff-Hai."

Older possibly, but certainly not without bite!

Ken