Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Happy New Year!

Wow, great turnout tonight at our monthly meeting!


It's our first club meeting of 2012, and we had several birthday announcements to make.  Although some couldn't make it to the meeting, we still had three of us with January birthdays. So, Sheree, Bob, and I blew out the candles on a big birthday cake, while everyone sang that song that we all sing at birthdays... now how does that go?  Thanks to Kari and Landen for getting the cake.


Beach Dive this Saturday! We're doing a Shaw's Cove beach dive this coming Saturday, so meet at the top of the stairs at about 9 a.m.  We'll survey the condition, and hopefully we'll find that frog fish that's been reported to be residing there (frog fish in the photo above was from Curacao).  Still hard to believe that there's a frog fish here in Southern California. Could it be global climate change?  We already have about six of us going, so come join us!

Ken Kollwitz from Channel Island Dive Adventure was present to announce that on top of their already low priced dive charters, they will give more discounts to club members if a charter is promoted by our club. Shawn and Bromley will be going over the club calendar to come up with trips to take advantage of this fantastic deal.  CIDA is now utilizing the dive boats Peace, Explorer, and the Pacific Star.  All great dive boats.

Our guest speaker Kevin Lee treated us with his trip presentation to the Arctic Ocean.  He had some very interesting story about almost being crushed by an iceberg, and lots of beautiful above and below photography.  Great thanks goes out to Kevin. 

And great thanks to Shawn for always scheduling such interesting guest speakers.

Being one of the contributing photographer to the book "Certainly More Than You Want to Know About Fishes of the Pacific Coast." Kevin donated an autographed copy to our club raffle.  I have to admit I was lucky enough to be the recipient of this generous gift.

January Raffle Prize Winners! Below you'll find the list of prizes and who won them. If you notice that Sheree, who claimed that she never wins anything, has won two prizes.  Perhaps 2012 will be a lucky year for you Sheree.

$50 Sport Chalet gift card: Wayne Lu
Easy cut tool: Barbara Potter
Slap Strap: Jovy
Hollywood Divers 10 Nitrox fill card: Cesar Palerm
Hollywood Divers 10 Nitrox fill card: Sheree Lahey
Beach Sandles: Ken Kollwitz
Slap Strap: Bob james
Wrist slate: Mark H.
Aqua Seal: Kaz Aizawa
Hollywood Divers T-Shirt: Shawn Broes
Dive Shears: Sheree Lahey
Dive Rite wet note: Laura H. Steckler
Tank Bangers and Mash: Bob James

Great thanks goes out to our club supporters!  Sport Chalet, and Hollywood Divers