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Chuck Burns
Founding Member UNEXSO, NAUI Instructor
Chuck Burns started his diving career working with Jack
Slack and Dick Tindall running their ski school at the Lucayan
Beach Hotel in the early 60's When they found the Lucayan
Treasure Wreck began doing some diving on
the wreck while working during the summers. In 1965 he
and his family became founding members of UNEXSO and he started working there during
the summer of 1965 and 1966.
After college he became a full time
diver. In 1968 he was certified as a NAUI Instructor, #1372 and began teaching at
the Club. "I think NAUI calls us the Diving Dinosaurs!," he
said.
During that time the club was doing a lot of testing
of Scuba
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Chuck Burns
- Photo by his daughter, Christmas 2008 |
Pro equipment and were the first to test the Jet Fin. He also was
part of team doing experimental deep dives. One day, while on a trip to
the Treasure Wreck shallow reef with some guests, Burns found 8" 4
?" of 24 karat gold chain. That was the only gold ever found on
the Lucayan Treasure Wreck.
"I was fortunate to be included in
much of the testing and deep dives," he said. Eventually he was assigned to
running the dive shop and keeping the repetitive dive tables for
the guides on the trips.
After the club ran into financial difficulties in the late 60's
his position was eliminated as it was not a revenue producing
position. He then went to work at the Holiday Inn. That was the
start of his career in the Hospitality Industry that spanned over
35 years. This career has moved him up and down the east coast of the US and
throughout the Caribbean.
Currently he is the Director of Purchasing of the Wedding
Experience which is a company that does weddings on cruise ships
all over the world. The Wedding Experience operates in 73 ports and performs over
8,000 weddings a year. He is responsible for all the contracts for
each of the vendors in every port and also in charge of offices in Miami, St. Thomas and Southampton England. |
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