Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Awesome meeting last night

If you weren't able to make it last night, you missed a great meeting. We were joined by Ross Overstreet, who is an underwater mapping kind of guy. He had some amazing GIS data at his presentation.

Ross is an avid local diver, boater, and shipwreck hunter. Ross got certified in 1991, got serious about diving in 2003, and has accumulated about 850 dives since then. He recently got his Trimix cert so he can check out of the deeper targets that’s he located. Ross admits to being odd for a wreck diver in that he’s more into the wildlife than the brass and he particularly enjoys “weird” dive spots like large concrete pipes out in the middle of nowhere and tiny little wrecks or reefs that are too small for commercial boats. Weekends when he’s not diving, Ross can typically be found somewhere around the water trying to get his 4 year old daughter as addicted to the ocean as he is. Ross has a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Auburn University and pays the bills by selling Infrared Cameras to Military Test Ranges and R&D facilities.

Here's a link to some of his stuff on Farnsworth.
http://www.rossoverstreet.org/scuba/Farnsworth/farnsworth_bank.htm