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Let the Fun Begin!
Memorial Day May 24-27 -
Cozumel
Jun 22-23 Flower Gardens
Jul 11-12 Flower Gardens
Jul Vortex & Mighty O
Aug 17-18
October Fun Fest 5-11
Thanksgiving in Bonaire
Howdy!
We want to start this newsletter off by
welcoming Kelly Currington to the
retail staff. She comes to us from an
Optical clinic in Rockwall via Turks
and Caicos. You’ll have to ask her the
details. We are happy to have her. She
is currently a PADI Dive Master who
will do her instructor course in June.
We had loads of fun Mother’s Day
with over 30 students. Some mom’s
and others mom-in-support. We had
perfect weather and great water at
Athens Scuba Park.
Summer is now upon us. Come on in
Let’s Go Diving!
International Scuba
May 29, 2013
Volume 13, Issue 5
Milestones & Certs 2
What’s Happening 3
Fish Friends 4
Inside this issue:
Where are we diving
May 11-12 Athens
May 25-26 Clear Springs?
Jun 8-9 Clear Springs
Jun 22-23 Clear Springs
Jul 6-7 Clear Springs
Jul 20-21 Clear Springs
Aug 3-4 Clear Springs
Aug 17-18 Clear Springs
Aug 31– 1 Clear Springs
to get your gear serviced sooner
rather than later. Want to make sure
we have the parts and time to care
for your equipment before your next
trip.
We have lots of spots on Flower
Gardens and it is coming up on
Whale Shark season - who wants to
join us.
We listened to recommendations for
the newsletter so watch for changes
next month.
Have a great and safe weekend
Your IS Family
GIFT CARD
Spotlight Specialty - Digital Photography Do you own a camera or wish you did? If you own one and have had pictures that you look at going - yuck, that didn’t turn out at all how I wanted. No amount of Photoshop could fix it. I know I have.
Here is your chance to improve current technique or get started on the right foot.
June is PADI Digital Photography month. The student manual that accom-panies the course is fantastic as it tells you a lot about photography in general outside of our underwater world.
We will have a pool session where we fine tune your buoyancy, add the housing in and work some more on buoyancy then take a series of photos making ad-justments and such. We will jump out of the pool and take a look at them on a laptop, make some changes and then jump back in to see if we made the right changes. Once happy there, we head to open water for a minimum of 2 dives. We will do a dive - jump out and look and then make corrections and jump back in until you are happy with your progress.
Of course, we expect to see pictures from the trip after you come home to see how you improved or just how much fun you had.
Master Scuba Diver
Dive Master
Rebecca Billings
Lauri Schisel
Assistant Instructor
Evan O’Connell
.
Volume 13, Issue 5
DSD
Charles Kremer
William Moyle
Rebecca Hayslett
Open Water
Zachary Cole
Rebecca Fripp
Scott McLain
Ty Alexander
Alexandra Jacobs
Michael Fripp
Jacob Fripp
Rafael Garcia
Gabriel Garcia
Kate Gatlin
Sarah Green
Deborah Green
Jason Hastings
Matt Rayford
Ziye Ren
April Young
Aakash Padakandla
Jay Delmar
Rita Delmar
Abhisheck Chinchalker
Amanda Gringas
Austin Jacobs
Ricky Lawson
Saurabh Maheshwari
Nicholas Riccione
Josh Robertson
Max Wolszon
Karina Harrison
EANx
Allan Siu
Michael Fripp
Jacob Fripp
Kate Gatlin
Craig Alexander
Intania Hasibuan
Chris Hillin
Aime Keener
Max Wolszon
James Pierce
Glen Worsham
Nathan Fripp
Alexander Fripp
National Geographic
Open Water
Allan Siu
Miguel Olivarez
Peak Performance
Buoyancy
Kate Gatlin
Allan Siu
Jerry Anderson
David Charles
Nicholas Riccione
Rescue Diver
Mary Wallace
Wreck
Vicki Ellington
Lee Ellington
Diving Milestones and New Divers
Happiness depends more
on the inward disposition
of mind than on the
outward circumstances.
- Ben Franklin
Page 2 Let the Fun Begin!
Let the Fun Begin! Volume 13, Issue 5 Page 3
What’s Happening!
Texas. After each of your dives around Texas, stop by any Inter-national Scuba location and have us verify your dive in your personal logbook with the official ‘Dive Around Texas’ stamp. Continue to dive in Texas as often as you like, the more times you dive the more ‘stickers’ you receive for a chance to win Priz-es at the Awards Recognition Day on September 26th. YOU MUST COMPLETE 12 dives in 4 different locations to receive a meal ticket and be eligible for the prize draw-ing.
For a complete list of Rules, participating Dive Retailers, Calen-dar of Events, that divers can participate in, and an up-to-date prize listing and Sponsor list, refer to www.divearoundtexas.com Also, Watch for details in Dive Training Magazine at: www.dtmag.com
YOU MUST BE PRESENT TO WIN PRIZES on SEPTEM-BER 26th or have your verified Logbook submitted at the Recog-nition Event by your participating Retailer or dive buddy. RSVP for Recognition Day Lunch by Sept. 15th. Additional guests of participants may pay at the door for the BBQ meal, but also need to RSVP by Sept 15th.
International Scuba & “DiveAroundTexas” challenge Texas divers to get out and explore some of the great diving that Texas has to offer. Texas is blessed with over 30 different, incredible dive spots including rivers, springs, quarries, lakes, and the Gulf of Mexico. Texas even has a flooded missile silo. Plus the Na-tion’s only quarry built especially for divers. DiveAroundTex-as.com is about divers going diving in Texas and receiving the chance to win prizes and awards based on the number of verified dives you have in your Logbook. The more times you dive in Texas, the better your chance to win valuable prizes and trips.
The program launched Tuesday, October 6th, 2012 and concludes October 6th 2013.
It’s simple just stop by any International Scuba location or online at www.internationalscuba.com , and you can sign up. For a $25.00 registration fee, you will receive an event T shirt and complete details. Upon completion of the minimum of 12 dives in 4 locations, you will receive your ticket to the lunch at the Awards Recognition Day in San Marcos on Saturday, October 6th, 2013. Plus for every dive you do, you get a ticket that enters you in a drawing for a chance to win fantastic prizes.
The rules are simple. Get with your dive buddies and dive a minimum of 12 times in at least 4 different dive locations in
Dive Around Texas
Diving for Texas Treasure Challenge: NEW!
In tandem with Dive Around Texas, DEMA has announced a local diving promotion using Dive Caching (underwater geocaching) to keep divers active and having fun. The “Diving for Texas Treasure Challenge” is a Texas-based in-water game for divers and is designed to help support fun and easy local diving while providing retail businesses with a fun and competitive diving pro-motion using Dive Caching.
“The Diving for Texas Treasure Challenge is a new program we will test in the Texas market,” commented Tom Ingram, DEMA Executive Direc-tor. “It is designed to promote local diving by using a fun treasure hunt which requires diving, the use of technology and a few basic diving skills such as navigation. Any retail dive center in Texas can promote the program by displaying the free coun-ter card they’ll receive from DEMA and sharing the short promotional video. To encourage local divers to participate in the Challenge, retailers located in Texas will receive a rack/counter card and holder from DEMA and are encouraged to promote the game to their customers both in the store and through their own marketing efforts.”
The fun of the Challenge is for divers to find a se-
ries of five DiveCaches hidden underwater in five different locations throughout Texas. Divers participate by registering for the Challenge with their local retailer or using the online form found on DiveCaching.org. Divers can use the descriptions and clues posted on OpenCach-ing.com, the free Open-Caching app (or a GPS) and an underwater com-pass to find the DiveCach-es and be eligible to win $1,000!
DEMA is encouraging all local divers and retailers to be involved in the 2013 “Dive Around Texas” game, and to use the Div-ing for Texas Treasure Challenge as part of Dive Around Texas. Any Texas retailer can par-ticipate and all will be receiving a kit from DEMA to help promote the Challenge to their current customers and can learn more by visiting www.DiveCaching.org and www.DiveAroundTexas.com.
We have been in your neighborhood for over 15 years serving your diving, education,
travel, sales, and service needs. Who better to take care of you but a neighbor.
International Scuba is a 5 Star Instructor Development Center and one of only 2
National Geographic Dive Centers in North Texas. The stores boast a Platinum
Course Director (instructor trainer) and over 70 years of experience amongst the
group.
Looking for a change of lifestyle—come see us we can help!
2540 Marsh Lane
Suite 128
Carrollton Texas, 75006
Magnificent Cuttlefish
Phone: 972-416-8400
Fax: 972-416-8507
E-mail: [email protected]
International Scuba
Getting You There...Starts Here!
Cuttlefish are amazing unique and beautiful animals.
Hopefully learning more about them will inspire you
to admire and appreciate them!
The cuttlefish belongs to the same family as octopus
and squids (cephalopods). They are considered to
have the highest intelligence of any invertebrate, as
well as the ability to see backwards, use jet propulsion
and keep buoyancy in the same way that submarines
do. This is accomplished by the chambers of the
“cuddle-bone” (the thing you often see hanging in
bird cages) filling or releasing gas.
Cuttlefish have three separate hearts, one for each gill
and one for the rest of the body. One reason is their
blood flows more rapidly because hemocyanin con-
tains much less oxygen than hemoglobin. The hemo-
cyanin also contains copper which lends to their
blood being green.
Cuttlefish have unique shape pupils; which plays a
part in the most highly developed eyes of any animal.
They allow the cuttlefish to perceive light polariza-
tion and completely reshape their eyes to focus. They
also really do have the proverbial eyes in the back of
the head, with a second spot on the fovea which
allows them to see backwards.
Cuttlefish change color using a series of special skin
cells, chromatophores, iridophores and leucophores,
which reflect light in all sorts of colors. Not only do
they reflect colors, they are able to merge almost
completely with the seafloor. But don’t be fooled by
the beauty of their flesh as it is poisonous.
Cuttlefish can shoot ink like their family members the
octopus and squid, which is used as a defense to
confuse predators and allow the cuttlefish time to
escape. Their ink was the original sepia; which was
once used by artists. Nowadays most have been
replaced mostly with synthetic sepia.
They have a fin all the way around their body instead
of tail fins, like squid, and they use this fin to control
movement.
Kevin getting ready