Ocean Explorers
Society
May 2002
Sponsored by Ocean Enterprises
Contents
Monthly
Meeting
Thursday May 2, 2002 6:50PM-- at Ocean Enterprises. . Our guest
speaker will be be Christine Orlich from Scubapro. Christine will
be showing us the latest and greatest equipment from this quality
manufacturer, and will answer any questions related to their products.
Scubapro is generously donating a pair of twin fins to the raffle.
Meet at Appleby's for dinner at 5:30.
From
the President
Welcome divers! We had a great
turnout for last months meeting and I think everyone got a lot
out of the presentation by John Boyer of DUI. I look forward to
this months meeting as it is the beginning of the summer diving
season, and we will have Christine(a former OE employee) from
Scubapro showing the product line. We have scheduled a Channel
Islands trip which should be fantastic, I would like to get 8
or 10 people to go so we can "take over" the boat. There
are currently plenty of open spots which will quickly evaporate
through May. We will start scheduling regular shore and boat dives
starting in June or sooner if conditions permit. Get you gear
out and lets GO! -- Mark Clausen
Shore
Diving
Friday May 3, 6:00pm-After work
dive at Hospital Point, La Jolla.
If you want to go dive, let me know and I'll send out an e-mail to the rest of the club. If you don't have email acess, please let me know and I will be happy to send out an invitaion for you.
Boat
Dives
No formal club trips planned
for this month. The Lois Ann is running regular dive trips. You
can find their schedule at http://www.loisann.com/schedule.html
Flotsam
Our web server
is back online again. You'll find it at the usual address: http://www.oceanexplorers.org Unfortunately, we were never able to figure
out exactly what was happening to our old server. We're now living
on a Premier Domain server in the San Jose area. I want to thank
Marwan for all the server time he donated to the club. It got
us off the ground and saved us a lot of money. This new server
should enable us to do some interesting new stuff so stay tuned.
SCUBA Show 2002 - The SCUBA show is once again set for the Long Beach Convention Center on June 29 and 30. We'll probably organize an informal carpool this year. They'll have the introductory scuba pool there again, more exhibitors than last year, and seminars too. Admission will be $9 and we have $1 discount coupons available. If you haven't been to this show, you should join us. We also stop at the Macaroni Grill for dinner on the way back.
Coastal Cleanup Day 2002 has been set for September 21st. The statewide cleanup will be held from 9am-noon. In an effort to make this year's event even bigger and better for San Diego County, I Love a Clean San Diego has joined forces with San Diego BayKeeper. They will be coordinating cleanup sites at both inland and coastal locations throughout the county. Inland sites have been added all over the state for this important cleanup to emphasize the fact that even a piece of trash dumped into our inland waterways can make its way to the ocean. Please contact Sarah Adams at volunteers@ilacsd.org for more information.
Cool Site - There is a new site with high resolution scans of old marine life illustrations. They are well worth the look. You will find them at http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/haeckel/kunstformen/natur.html The site is in German. If you click on "Index aller 100 Tafeln", you'll get to an index of all the illustrations. I'd dearly love a few posters of these.
The San Diego 3 R's are back - The first session of Rocks, Rips & Reefs, for 2002 will be on Saturday, May 18 at 8:00 a.m. at South Casa Cove. The complete schedule for the year should be out by the beginning of May. 3R's is jointly sponsored by the San Diego City Lifeguard Service and the San Diego Council of Divers.
If you would like to be added to the 3R's e-mail list, send a blank e-mail to: rocks-rips-reefs-subscribe@yahoogroups.com They use the e-mail list to send out reminders and site information 2 or 3 days before each session and to let people know of weather-related cancellations.
Los Angeles 3R's -- The Greater Los Angeles Council of Divers (GLACD) and the Los Angeles County Underwater Instructor's Association (LACUIA) have joined forces to produce an entire series of courses designed to safely introduce divers to popular, local dive sites.
Participants are required to wear a full wetsuit, mask, snorkel, and fins. A weight belt with no more than half of the normal diving weight is optional. Tanks and regulators are not allowed during the program, but may be brought along if you plan to make a dive after the class is over. After completing the in-water practice, we finish the session with a noon time Bar-B-Que, so bring along a picnic lunch and plan on socializing afterwards.
SCUBA certification is not required in order to participate in the 3R's courses!
They teach the 3R's at six different challenging dives sites each year:
| May 11th | Leo Carillo |
| June 8th | Cabrillo Beach |
| July 13th | Reef Point |
| August 10th | Point Dume |
| September 14th | Marineland |
| October 12th | White Point |
Saturday classes begin at 8:00 a.m.
Arrive and check in at 7:45 a.m.
Courses are free!
When registering for class, we request a donation of $5.
No donation requested if you have GLACD membership.
Pre-Registration will help us determine proper staffing for the event.
You can Pre-register by calling:
Greater LA Council of Divers
(310) 379-5681 (please call in the evening, calls will not be returned during the day)
Or by writing to (please pay at the event, prepayment is not necessary):
Greater LA Council of Divers
P.O. Box 6255
Torrance, CA 90504
Underwater Film Festival -- The Diving Locker is very pleased to announce the 3rd Annual San Diego UnderSea Film Exhibition scheduled for Friday and Saturday evening, October 18 & 19, 2002 at the new state-of-the-art, large-format theater at the San Diego Natural History Museum in Balboa Park! Last year's Film Exhibition at the San Diego Natural History Museum, was an overwhelming success and we hope this year's will be even better!
Each evening's program will consist of fourteen to fifteen short films of the undersea world, submitted by both accomplished professional and aspiring amateur underwater filmmakers and videographers.
We hope that you will put together a film of five minutes or less of your best underwater footage, and submit it to us so that it is RECEIVED no later than August 1, 2001 for possible selection for the San Diego UnderSea Film Exhibition. Submissions are limited to three films/videos per filmmaker.
Films should have a soundtrack that compliments the visual footage and may include narration; although often narration can detract from the quality of the film and so should be well written and spoken if used at all. Filmmakers are also encouraged to consider narrating their works in person at the showing if your work is selected. No film should be longer than five minutes in length; and at least 50% of the footage must be underwater. Please insure that no part of your film infringes upon any rights, whether music, visual footage, personal, copyright, or any other legal right.
We are accepting mini-DV, VHS and Hi 8 tapes for consideration.
Please submit a master copy if you are submitting a VHS tape;
or contact us if you have questions regarding the submission of
VHS masters, or other formats not mentioned above. To have tapes
returned after the Film Exhibition, please include a proper sized
self-addressed, stamped envelope with proper postage. The San
Diego UnderSea Film Exhibition and the Diving Locker are not responsible
for lost or damaged tapes.
Selection decisions will be made by the 1st of September by judges
who are renowned in the fields of visual arts and media. No entrant
will be allowed to participate in the actual judging of the films/videos
submitted for consideration.
Please send your entries to:
UnderSea Film Exhibition
c/o Chuck Nicklin, The Diving Locker
1020 Grand Ave.
San Diego, CA 92109
(858) 272-1120
Please include your name, address, phone #, e-mail address, film
name and length, and a brief bio.
San Diego
Council of Divers
The next SDCD meeting is Tuesday,
May 14, at 6:00 pm at Rock Bottom Brewery. Don't have a speaker,
but you can check their web site, or subscribe to the SDCD mailing
list.
Curacao- We set the dates; May 9-16. Cost should be around $1500.00 which includes 1 week lodging (dbl occupancy) at Captain Don's Habitat, 6 days of 2 tank diving, airport transfers, taxes and service charges, daily buffet breakfast, unlimited shore diving, tanks, weights and a free buoyancy workshop. See mark if you want to go on this trip. There may be a few openings left.
La Bufadora - The Dive Animals Scuba Club organizes several Camp & Dive trips south of the border. The weekend of Cinco de Mayo (Friday night May 3 - Sunday May 5) is the first trip of the year. They have the reserved the dormitory-style bunkhouse at Dale's Dive Center on the cliffs overlooking the boat launch. Adjacent camping is available for those that prefer a bit more privacy or just like to camp!
This trip is open to all divers (and non-divers) that want to go. For those of you with non-diving spouses/friends/kids/whatever, this is a weekend trip that they'll equally enjoy. There's plenty to do here (hiking, horseback riding, snorkeling, shopping at the nearby village, partying in Ensenada, napping), or nothing at all. (some compadres just bring a beach chair and a book!) Last year we had 30-40 people on each trip. It was a blast!
Cost of admission is $30 (covers 2 nights of lodging, parking, breakfast, necessities like toilet paper, firewood, etc.). Diving is $30 per day for 2-tank dives. Add on tank rentals, air fills, gas, meals, sodas, cervesa and margaritas, and you'll have a dive adventure to another country for about $120 for the entire weekend (depending on how much cervesa you buy!)
And the diving is incredible...! Check out the website http://www.diveanimals.com "Where we dive" - La Bufadora and also "Club Photos 2001" for detailed info and photos of our last few trips.
Sign up now with diveanimal@pacific-ocean.com. The 15 bunkhouse spots go early. $30pp deposit required to hold your spot.
Dates of future trips:
June 21-23
Aug 2-4
Sept 13-15
Channel Islands - Dive trip aboard the"Vision"-July 14-16 Cost is $495.00 Trip includes all meals and non alcoholic beverages and air fills. 25% deposit required to hold spot. Call (805)962-1127 to book.
Other trips - We're also in the planning stage for Grand Cayman, and Palau. Cayman Madness runs from August to October. Palau is in the works for 2003.
Dacor Extreme Plus regulator with octopus; excellent condition, but needs its annual rebuild. No console, but I can supply an SPG. $200 takes it. Call Dave Ambrose at 858-679-7817 or email me at stargazer1@cox.net
Membership
Renewal rates are $20 single;
$30 for a family. Send your renewal to Mark Clausen; 1862 Willow
Way; Vista, CA 92083.
OES
Info
OES members can receive $30 off
the regular OE price for specialty classes.
Subscriptions to Rodale's Scuba Diving Magazine are available through the club for only $10. See Mark Clausen for details.
For more information: