Tim Grobaty: Scuba Show comes to Long Beach, stirs unhappy memories
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TAKE A Nosedive: When we get around to writing our memoirs, you can bet one of the most striking parts of the book will be the part about how, when we were 12 or so, we wanted to be a scuba diver. We pored through magazines and catalogs, putting together the most just gear - tanks, regulators, fins, wet suits, spear guns - only to have our dreams trampled upon by our parents who refused to buy all that accomplishments.
Next time you think you're having troubles, pause for a moment to call to mind a consider of that little brown-eyed 12-year-old whose hopes of becoming a giant undersea adventurer were wrenched from his tiny fingers and hurled into the darkness by his fiercely cackling parents.
It still hurts, and we don't have the stomach to have it all come rushing back at us by attending this weekend's Scuba Show at the Yearn Beach Convention Center.
It's the 25th edition of the popular public show, and there's nothing you won't find here that's coordinated to the wonders of the last great frontier on the planet.
Gear, of course, and abundance of it, but also tours, instructions, demonstrations, seminars, auctions, a film celebration and even a cool after-hours gambling fest.
The show hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. On Saturday, properly after the show closes (6 p.m., as we've seen), there's a Casino de Mayo blast in the council center's Seaside Ballroom. Entry is free, but then the trouble starts as you're lured to the gaming
Source: Contra Costa Times