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Webster's Dictionary defines a "Corps" as,
"a body of persons acting together or associated for a common
mission". Aqua Corps is the name of our
"body of persons acting together for a common mission". Our
mission is, to work for a cleaner environment for future generations
(my children and yours!), particularly with regards to water issues
and "sustainable living" practices.
Since childhood I've always had a deep love of the
ocean. So naturally, since forming Symbiosis Dive Services the
primary corporate goal has always been to foster a more
"symbiotic" relationship between humanity and
our environment. Indeed, it's at the very root of our name. (Founder,
USCG Licensed Captain Jim Hinckley, has owned and operated
Symbiosis Dive Service since 1988.)
Some time ago, and after much
"reasoning", I decided to to sell the retail / store
portion of the business (aka: Aqua Shack) to devote more time to my
family and environmentalist causes. Since the sale of the Aqua
Shack me, Kim, our 2 children Karina and Zack, and I
have moved to Hubbardston, MA and are enjoying life immensely! Click Here to read
letter of Thanks and Appreciation from Capt. Jim and Kim. ( and check out some of the
many personal & family links on the site)
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On the way Up Mt. Greylock
With Zack
& Karina
At Disney in 2008
For more Kids &
Family shots click HERE!
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Capt.
Jim assist a student in training.
Taking
Kayaking class at Zoar Gap.
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Since the sale of the Aqua Shack store. Symbiosis
Dive Service continues to operate as a "service
only" business. Our goals remain the same; to educate people
about SCUBA diving and the need to Save our Water Planet by stressing
minimum impact and sustainable living practices.
Enjoying life since the sale of the Aqua Shack.
Kim,
Zack & Karina at Hampton and Jim climbing Mt. Monadnock (Jim's
Backpacking Adventure's).
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Since selling the Aqua Shack my life has taken many twists
and turns. Accordingly this website has and will continue to evolve into
becoming more of a personal and family journal than a business website.
I have more or less retired from active SCUBA instruction and now devote
my time to my family and additional hobbies other than SCUBA. Don't get
me wrong... I still love diving and my mission to teach others about our
water planet has not changed. These days, I try to educate my kids,
the youths of our local schools, and through Scouting (I'm also the local Asst. Scoutmaster, Hubbardston Pack 12), about the importance of our being stewarts of our planet. It's not ours to just rape... it's ours to CARE FOR while were here.
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Capt. Jim on the Keith Tibbets -
Click on pic for more of Jim's underwater
photo work. New England & Caribbean!
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Karina, Kim & Zack prepare for the
Patriots 3rd Superbowl victory.
Click
here for more baby shots.
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Kim on The Tibbets - click photo for more
Pics of our Cayman trip
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Click to check out Bill Whitney's Pics
and Steve Howard's
Pics of the Aqua Corps Little Cayman Trip.
Students preparing for their first Open Water Dives at Back
Beach in Rockport, MA. Thanks everyone for a great day! We hope
you all have as much fun diving as we do teaching it... we're confident
you will!
       
�2010 Symbiosis
Dive Service
If
Germany can evict tens of thousands of Jews, if Russia can transport
millions of people from one part of the continent to another, a few
hundred thousand evicted Albanians will not provoke a world war.
Vasa
Cubrilovic, "Expulsion of Albanians," 1937
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If
you kill one person, you are a murderer, if you kill ten people you are
a celebrity, and if you kill a quarter of a million people, you get
invited to a peace conference.
Haris
Silajdzic, referring to Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic
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I wrote this poem right after
the tragic events of 9/11/2001. It's what I thought my little girl would
say if she could talk at the time...
To
Karina Nikole: Love & Hope are the keys !
My little
girl looked me straight in the eye,
and said Daddy oh Daddy... please don't lie.
Man has been together for oh so long, will we ever really get along?
I just have to know - just have to know.
Why do some hate the color of skin, while others hate the religion I'm
in?
Haven't our leaders read the Book before? Couldn't we talk instead of
war?
I just have to know - just have to know.
After thousand of years can we get it right? Or are we destined to always
fight?
There's fighting here and fighting over there, doesn't anyone really
care?
I just have to know - just have to know.
Well child, I'll tell you, I heard a man. He talked of UNITY throughout
the land.
The man I heard, He made a stand, and He talked of LOVE as the Master
plan.
So now you know Dear - now you know.
He said, being negative is no kind of life, we can't be causing so much
strife.
Positivity is the way to be, that's the only hope for humanity.
So now you know Dear - now you know.
"Do unto others as you would have them do to you."
That Golden Rule can see us through.
If one man or two men, maybe three, then there's HOPE, and that's the
key.
So now you know Dear - now you know.
Now we know, both you and me, that LOVE & HOPE can set us free!
So reach out your hand child, to your fellow man,
for we need LOVE & HOPE to achieve His plan.
So now you know Karina ... NOW YOU KNOW !
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