welcome to the scuba lady

My good friend and dive buddy Leesa (Louise) Weisner passed away August 29, 2024  due to complications of kidney and heart issues. I first met Leesa when she was candidate for a YMCA Scuba Instructor certification at the Blue Ash YMCA. That was at least 50 years ago. We reconnected on a FAM trip to somewhere in the South Pacific a few years later and had remained friends since then. For the past several years as her health became fragile I would drive to Kentucky to visit with her and take her out to dinner – and to the Walmart where she just wanted to “walk”.  Leesa (was an accomplished artist as well a veteran PADI Scuba Instructor. She had dove and led diving trips around the world. Her favorite dive site was Bonaire and her “home away from home” was Captain Don’s Habitat. As of 2022 she had led more than 128 dive trips to this island. A fact that has not gone unnoticed by the folks at Habitat. In 2011   Leesa was presented with a Certificate of Accomplishment by Habitat Founder Capt. Don Stewart.   The Accolade Award states that Leesa has brought more than 128 dive groups to the island since 1977.​​  Since that date she estimated she has added another 20 trips to that total.  She was probably the most knowledgeable trip leader to Bonaire you could choose. My sincere condolences to her companion Ken (Red) Bailey and to her sons Claude and Paul and their families. There is no burial but a Celebration of Life will take place in a few  weeks.