NAUI Leaders Remembered: Honoring Those Who Defined NAUI

JAMES “JIM” STEWART, NAUI A-88 1927-2017

James “Jim” Stewart, who served as diving officer at Scripps Institute of Oceanography (University of California San Diego) from 1960 until his retirement in 1991, died June 7 at the age of 89. Stewart was born Sept. 5, 1927, in National City, California. His diving career began before there was scuba. In 1941, in La Jolla Cove, he borrowed a friend’s mask, put his face underwater and was hooked on diving. He became an accomplished freediver and spearfisher. He later recalled that no one had fins back then: “We just swam up to the fish and stuck it.” In 1944, Stewart was drafted into the U.S. Army Air Corps and served in Nome, Alaska. Returning home after the war, he was invited in 1951 to join the San Diego Bottom…

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