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In 2012 we will be turning Navy Diver Olympics into a nonprofit organization. This has been in the works for awhile now but will be launched in short order. Our mission will be to become a financial intermediary and job training service for veterans in Eastern Iowa initially. Our objective is to teach returning vets the ins and outs of small business ownership and how to market their skills. We believe that veterans will outperform their equally trained civilian counterpart at most anything if given the proper training and leadership.

What a fantastic event we had Saturday night at SealFit Fitness Center Encinitas, CA. Owner, Mark Devine, and his team of Josh, Christine and Trevor were instrumental in pulling off the best event we have done to date. The SealFit facility itself is fantastic. Mark’s leadership and vision is supported by a dedicated and talented staff of industry professionals. NDO 3 featured the current champion and holder of every single record Tiko Crofoot and his lovely fiancé, Stefani Pito, challenging all comers to the toughest 10 minutes on their own compound.

Who: Navy Diver Olympics
What: The Toughest 10 Minutes in San Diego
When: 7pm Saturday December 3rd
Where: SEALFIT Fitness Center 849 Second St. Encinitas, CA 92024
Why: Cash and Prizes

My brother in arms was just in touch and let me know that not only do you stand no chance in hell of beating him, as he has been humping the routine for weeks in preparation, he requests that you bring your whole family out with their video camera so they can document the day you humiliated your entire family tree in 10 minutes…..Are you serious? Is this guy really saying there is no one in the world that can beat him at this routine…??? And no female can beat his girl at it either? Tiko put his own $1,000 on the female division. I have had my money behind this cat for years now.

While there is a break in the action, we would like to bring attention to something that has hit our radar screen. First a little background information:

We would like to thank all of the people that called in or emailed us about where NDO IV should be held. We considered going to the UK but we never heard back from Richard “Soapy” Watson. There is a lot of action going on all over the mid east and the fact that we don’t hear from guys for weeks is common. Cheers to you mates, our offer stands. Then there was the chance to go Annapolis and let the guys going through Navy Spec War officer program try and take on Tiko and Paul. But when you got the resume our champion does duty calls often.

There have already been several who have inquired about Curtis’s accident and the contamination on Mare Island. We must honestly say we too were even surprised by the volume of people who have contacted us personally, or anonymously, with their own personal health story related to their tenure on Mare Island. We want to provide a forum for individuals who have been exposed to extremely dangerous levels of hexavalent chrome from hazardous chemicals, lead paint contamination from sand blasted ships, exposure to radioactive dumping and the disposal of ammunition on Mare Island.

A week or so ago I was contacted by the Senator’s office regarding my plight. A young woman asked me what it is that I needed help with. I explained my ongoing saga with recovering specific medical records related to a 1991 military diving accident while stationed at EODMU9 on Mare Island, CA. A VA psychologist, psychiatrist and I have been denied access to the exact records that have to do with the exact injury the VA is paying me a disability check for. Who in the hell tells you, “Yes, you were involved in a serious accident.

Hawkeye Invitational participants and spectators, we love ya, but we have an announcement to make: The Navy Diver Olympics will be back in Southern California once again for NDO 3.

The details cannot yet be released but we will confirm that the event will be held in the Coronado/San Diego area sometime in early December. We expect a record turnout in entrants and spectators alike. Keep your eyes peeled for more information. And if you are thinking about competing, now is the time to hit the pull-up bar. It pays to be a winner.

In December of 2008, we headed out to California for our first Navy Diver Olympics at Danny’s Palm in Coronado. The first two guys to sign up were Tiko Crofoot and Dan Cnossen. Both were US Naval Academy graduates and Special Warfare Officers from SEAL Team ONE. Both guys were in great shape. They finished first and second in the inaugural event.