Steve Bunting

Yeah, so me and Rodney were the only ones that were like, nah, we want to do what Dave does.

Was it your brother?

Yeah.

There was still a fleeting idea that that was going to be a possibility, but also it was just a water competency.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It was the first time I'm having to do a 50 meter underwater crossover.

And it's like, that's not something you pick up overnight.

Some people are freaks like that and they can, but I wasn't.

And that was something like deep down inside.

I was like, dude, I don't know if I'm going to be able to do this.

And I felt like somewhere in there, I was going to have more time because buds is the real deal.

That's something I really am impressed about is that they'll pull someone off the street and within a year you're in buds and you have to perform at that level.

And it's like, they, they do a good job prep now, but back then it was like, that was right around the corner.

I would have taken buds contract.

I'm going to be there potentially like in a month.

Yeah.

And there's no way I'm making it.

And I just knew that I was going to need some more time.

And I felt like the recon pipeline was going to take me longer to get to dive school.