Post by johnnyhands1 on Jul 19, 2019 0:31:24 GMT
I just read a morsel on the Reddit EARONS board where a poster said her husband thought the renowned diving program at SBCC might have attracted him there (and I did search for post-arrest mentions of SBCC and "Santa Barbara City College" on this board and didn't find anything diver related.)
We know JJD had diving skills, both from his naval record (damage controlman - certainly diving was involved on a large naval ship), and his Bonnie wedding announcement ("International Diving Association, N.A.U.I").
I found this paragraph on the SBCC.edu page about the diving program, which describes it pioneering uniqueness as a community college program:
www.sbcc.edu/marinediving/
"Santa Barbara City College’s Marine Diving Technologies Program is recognized worldwide for its vocational excellence. It is the only community college degree program in the nation which is accredited by the Association of Commercial Diving Educators (ACDE), the International Diving Schools Association (IDSA) Diver Certification Board of Canada (DCBC) and the **National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI)**. Santa Barbara City College pioneered formalized diver and technician education with the A.S. Degree curriculum in 1968. It was the recipient of the Exemplary Program Award in 1998 from the State of California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office."
Noting that JJD needed a new career path post-Auburn PD, and he already had diving skills, and that a California community college program is easy and cheap to enroll in, and would have started in August or September of '79, just after his firing from Auburn PD - could this have been what attracted JJD to the Santa Barbara area - we know he was there as early as 10/1/79 (or maybe sooner if there were pre-burglaries).
Even if he didn't enroll (or if he did), perhaps he thought he might make some connections with like minded diver-types or diving employers in that area. I'm sure LE already knows the answer to that if he, indeed, enrolled at SBCC.
Apologies if my search was not thorough enough, and the SBCC diver program connection has already been thoroughly discussed. It's the first I'd heard of it. I know the PG&E diver angle has been.
We know JJD had diving skills, both from his naval record (damage controlman - certainly diving was involved on a large naval ship), and his Bonnie wedding announcement ("International Diving Association, N.A.U.I").
I found this paragraph on the SBCC.edu page about the diving program, which describes it pioneering uniqueness as a community college program:
www.sbcc.edu/marinediving/
"Santa Barbara City College’s Marine Diving Technologies Program is recognized worldwide for its vocational excellence. It is the only community college degree program in the nation which is accredited by the Association of Commercial Diving Educators (ACDE), the International Diving Schools Association (IDSA) Diver Certification Board of Canada (DCBC) and the **National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI)**. Santa Barbara City College pioneered formalized diver and technician education with the A.S. Degree curriculum in 1968. It was the recipient of the Exemplary Program Award in 1998 from the State of California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office."
Noting that JJD needed a new career path post-Auburn PD, and he already had diving skills, and that a California community college program is easy and cheap to enroll in, and would have started in August or September of '79, just after his firing from Auburn PD - could this have been what attracted JJD to the Santa Barbara area - we know he was there as early as 10/1/79 (or maybe sooner if there were pre-burglaries).
Even if he didn't enroll (or if he did), perhaps he thought he might make some connections with like minded diver-types or diving employers in that area. I'm sure LE already knows the answer to that if he, indeed, enrolled at SBCC.
Apologies if my search was not thorough enough, and the SBCC diver program connection has already been thoroughly discussed. It's the first I'd heard of it. I know the PG&E diver angle has been.