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THE AQUA TOOTER

Since 1958... a publication from the Aqua Tutus Diving Club, a non-profit organization established to promote Water Safety

and to further the sport of SCUBA Diving.

April 2016

Aqua Tutus Diving Club's

next regular meeting:

Thursday, May 5th 7:30 p.m.

Location: Round Table Pizza

20920 Redwood Rd. Castro Valley

Aqua Tooter � Pleasanton, California

What’s Inside Entertainment Report Page 2-3 April Gen Meeting Minutes Page 4-5 April BOD Meeting Minutes Page 6-7 ATTENTION AQUATUTORS Page 7 WORDS TO DIVE BY Page 8-9 Monterey Bay Orca Attack Page 9-10

On the web at http://www.aquatutus.com

UPCOMING CLUB ACTIVITY (LOCAL)

May 14: Equipment Swap at Dennis and Pat-ti’s house in Newark, CA

May 21-22 Salt Point Diving/Camping

BOD MEETING SCHEDULE 3rd Thursday Every month except December,

Thurs, May 19th, Round Table Pizza

http://www.meetup.com/Aqua-Tutus-Dive-Club/ or

http://www.my.calendars.net/atdc_events

For the Latest on Club Activities

May Meeting Entertainment

At the May 5 General meeting, we will be treated to a special presentation by professional photographer Ja-son Bradley. Jason is a self-taught nature and under-water photogra-pher from Monterey. His passion is tell-ing stories of the aquatic eco-systems. Sea-scapes, wild-life, science, adventure sports and conservation issues photography are also a part of his portfolio.

Bradley Photographic http://

www.bradleyphotographic.com/

offers workshops providing classroom and field semi-nars. In his seminars, Jason instructs on digital photo techniques as well as retouching and post pro-cessing. Jason specializes in Lightroom and Pho-toshop. Jason has partnered with Wetpixal.com to lead many of their worldwide underwater photo expe-ditions.

Jason also offers archival pigment ink prints and re-touching through Bradley Photographic Print Ser-vices. He wants to encourage photographers to see the value of a fine print in this digital era. Jason is finish-ing his new book titled Creative Workflow in Light-room which will be available this spring.

Please join us and bring your friends for a special

evening filled with incredible images by Jason Brad-

ley.

TOOTER PUBLISHING SCHEDULE

Tooter INPUT by 20th of month

Tooter will be published usually by end of month

April 2016

ATTENTION AQUATUTORS

Your help to design a club

tee-shirt is needed

Talk to or email Jono or Nick with

your ideas

Email: [email protected]

Email: [email protected]

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Aqua Tutus Entertainment Report

April, 2016 Reported by Alan Throop

At the April 7 Gen-eral Meeting, we were treated to a very special program by Craig Davis and Su-san Bloomfield. Craig may be one of the best macro-videographers that I’m aware of. He shoots free-hand - without a tripod - and shoots super-macro - where a quarter-inch critter will overfill the screen.

This is done by shooting his Sony HD CX550 in a Bluefin housing (by Light and Motion) in macro mode and then adding an external “wet” Macromate lens (from Backscatter), giving the ex-treme magnification. But with this high-magnification comes an extremely short depth-of-field (focal depth), so that the image is in focus over a distance of just a 1-2mm (~1/32”) from the lens.

Craig has an extremely steady hand, so he is not only able to amazingly keep the image in focus, but to do so without a tripod so that he’s able to track and follow the action over seemingly great distances (probably actually only a couple of inches!). This al-lows him to uniquely capture behaviors that most still- and video-photographers are unable to film. He also has a great partner is Susan, who spots the well-camouflaged critters for him and is an expert on the marine life and behaviors of the regions they dive.

Craig was certified in 1997 and was immediately drawn to videography. With only 35 dives under his belt, Craig bought a high-end housed camera and then headed to the Galapagos … not known for its easy diving. But they and the camera survived with some great footage, and they were hooked. Since then they have dove sites around the world that include Cocos Island, Thailand, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Raja Ampat, Komodo, Sipadan, Sulawesi, and Palau. Craig produces his videos for children’s educational purposes.

Most of the video segments that Craig showed were from their favorite divesites - Lambeh Strait in northeast Sulawesi. The strait mainly has an uninteresting volcan-ic-sand bottom with only scattered relief, so diving here is often referred to as “muck diving”. But being stable over 100’s of millions of years, the marine life has de-veloped complex shapes, camouflages, and behaviors to survive in an area where they are exposed to predators and have no structures to hide inside. Many are very small and many of them were discovered only over the last 15-20 years and there are undoubtedly more to be discovered.

Some of the interesting shots that he showed included: mating blue-ring octopus that Craig was able to capture by tracking over several minutes - you could see the male inserting the sperm pack into the female – very cool!;

the “Wunderpus” octopus - a small uniquely-colored and shaped species that Craig showed performing its interest-ing behaviors;


A nudibranch………..

and and interesting eel.

Craig and Susan showed some large-animal videos as well, including whale sharks, sea lions, and other large animals.

Too bad for any of you who may have missed this pro-gram, but anytime you get the opportunity to see the work of Craig and Susan, do so – you won’t be disap-pointed.

Many thanks to Craig and Susan for sharing their won-derful work with us!

Entertainment Report continued

the tiny “flamboyant cuttlefish” – which fishes in iri-descent colors and is able to capture prey with an ex-tremely-fast tentacle motion that Craig was able to show us by slowing down the film rate;

a mantis shrimp holding and defending its eggs.

Another interesting small critter………


General Meeting Minutes

Date: April 7, 2016

Reported by Kari Klaboe

Meeting called to order by President Mike Barrett at Round Table Pizza in Castro Valley, CA at 7:30 pm.

Speakers: Craig Davis and Susan Bloomfield Guests: Mike and Laurie (who started her class with Jim Steele and finished with Arnie in Hawaii)

Entertainment (Kat Smith) May: Jason Bradley Jun: Dennis – What do I do when… Jul: 2015 Monterey Shootout results Aug: Member’s Night Sep: TBD Oct: Dave McGuire – Shark Stewards Nov: Larry Muth – Turks & Caicos Dec: [no general meeting]

Please contact Kat if you have any requests or sugges-tions for future entertainment. Email questions for “What do I do when…” to Dennis before the meeting.

Treasurer’s Report (Helga Mahlmann)

Account Balance: $3,989.72

Membership (Bernhard Sterling)

Membership: 61

Training (Dennis Hocker)

• Medic, First Aid, CPR: Class date is June 11 and if you are interested email Dennis. Anyone who is plan-ning to do the Rescue course will need to take this course.

• Enriched Air: If you are interested, please email Dennis.

• Fall Classes (tentative): Advanced Open Water and Rescue Diver (late fall or next spring). Rescue re-quires Advanced Open Water certification and current CPR training.

• No questions will be taken from the floor for Den-nis’ June presentation.

• For more information on training contact Dennis Hocker (510) 792-5606 [email protected] or Neil Benjamin (510) 673-0073 [email protected] Newsletter (Don Kelsey)

Newsletter for March came out. Input due by the 20th. Web Goddess (Patti Shannon)

• AquaTutus.org is still in progress.

• Currently looking for a club member to take over website responsibilities.

Social Media (Jim Driggers)

• Meetup: 70 members

• Facebook: 52 members (open to the public

• Debbie posted an article on Facebook describing 15 emergency scenarios for divers.

Old Business: Club T-shirt: We are still looking for help with the

club t-shirt design, send ideas to any board mem-bers.

Equipment Swap: The club is hosting an equipment swap where members can trade and/or sell dive equipment.

Meeting Update: Equipment swap date is May 14 at Dennis’ house in Newark, CA from 10AM to 4PM. Please bring your own beverages and food. A grill will be available the day of for members to use. Please see the club Meetup for additional information on the location.

Dive Tags: Dive tags are identification tags that con-tain emergency health and contact information. These tags can be worn while diving and have been suggested by club members as a good dive safety practice. Motion by Jim Driggers: Motion to approve: the

club to buy one dive tag for each current and future club member. Each club member will only receive one tag paid for by the club for the life of their membership.

Second by Kat Smith Vote: Motion passed by club members present. Action: Board to develop a procedure for order-

ing dive tags.

New Business:

• Web Master: Currently looking for a club mem-ber to take over website responsibilities.

• Reef Check: Dave Chervin announced that Reef Check volunteer orientation classes are in May and June. Reef Check is an organization that coordinates volunteer scuba divers for scientific research diving (http://www.reefcheck.org). If you are interested, you can sign up online. The orientation consists of one weekend of classroom/pool work and one weekend of boat diving in Monterey. You can contact Dave if you have any questions [email protected].

• Scientific Research for Students: Susan an-nounced that in June 2017 she will be taking a group of students to Honduras for a research trip. The trip


Thank You to all contributors

who made this Aquatooter possi-

ble this month, Kari Klabo, Alan

Throop, Kat Smith, Linda Muth,

Jim Driggers, Billy Ray Chin-

nock, Susan Bloomfield, Craig

Davis

Membership meeting minutes continued

will consist of one week of scientific study in the jun-gle and a second week of scientific study in the water at/near Utila, Honduras. Students will be scuba certi-fied during the course. If anyone is interested in pre-senting to the students on scuba diving – please con-tact Susan. At [email protected].

Special Committee: No new information Past Dives:

• Rik Cederstrom: Rik revisited Guam this winter, which is where he went to grade school. Free diving around the reefs in Guam is what got him into scuba diving. While there, Rik rented equipment from the Micronesian Dive Society. Several locations where he went diving:

ο Fish Eye: Across the street from the Microne-sian Dive Society. This location is at the end of a tourist pier, where a structure was sunk that di-vers can explore. You have to have reef walkers at this location.

ο Gun Beach: There is a reef at this beach with a slot through it that is just wide enough for one scuba diver. You have to pay attention to the surf and tide though. At the end of the reef there is a drop down to around 130 feet. Rik’s photos from this dive are on the club Facebook page.

• Jim Driggers reported on the Muth-Driggers family trip.

ο Komodo Island, Indonesia: Visibility 25 feet up to 40 feet and 72 degree water.

ο Wakatobi Resort, Bali: Water temperature was 86 degrees every day, with visibility over 100 feet. Completed lots of wall diving. Everyone agreed it was really good diving and a great re-sort. Diving included the house reef and three boat dives a day. Debbie saw her first pygmy sea horses. Jim had a sea snake wrap itself around him. As he was chasing a lionfish he became dis-tracted, only to realize that a sea snake had de-cided to become his new dive buddy. Sea snakes are venomous, but Jim was calm and decided to take a selfie with his new friend and that photo is on Facebook.

• March Club Dive: Club members completed dives at San Carlos Beach and McAbee Beach, where visibility was around 8 to 10 feet.

• Dave Chervin: Dave went diving at Anacapa Is-land which is part of the Channel Islands group in southern California. He saw lots of sargassum, south-ern sea palms, and several sheepshead (males, fe-

males, and juveniles). There was no giant kelp.

Bone nominations: Rik for getting pulled out to sea and getting banged up on the reef, after locals warned him of the conditions at the dive site. Lesson to be learned: Pay attention to what locals say.

Bone Award: Rik Cederstrom

Upcoming Activity and Dives

2016

Apr 9: Dive Carmel Bay – Oliver is POC (posted on Meetup)

Apr 21: Board Meeting Apr 23: Coral Street in Pacific Grove – Mike is POC May 14: Equipment Swap at Dennis and Patti’s house

in Newark, CA May 21-22: Salt Point in Sonoma weekend trip – Linda

is POC (Woodside Campsite) – Book a spot, potluck on Saturday evening.

Jun 11: Medic and First Aid class with Dennis Jul 10-24: Chuuk - Dennis is going one more time! If

you have any interest/desire to do wreck div-ing. No better place to do wreck diving. About 50 Japanese vessels are there. It doesn't get bet-ter. Space available.

Dec. 19-Jan. 2: End of year trip to Cozumel

2017

Jun 24-Jul 8: Caribbean Explorer II, St. Maarteen, Saba, St. Kitts - POC Dennis

Meetings

Next Membership meeting:

May 5, 2016

Next BOD meeting:

April 21, 2016

Meeting adjourned at 9:11 PM



Aqua Tutus Diving Club

Board Meeting Minutes

Date: April 21, 2016


Present: Kari, Bernhard, Myron, Dennis, Patti, Fritz, Jono, Jim, Larry, Mike, Helga, Don

Meeting called to order at 7:00 pm by Vice President Jono.

Treasurer’s Report (Helga Mahlmann)

• Account Balance: $4,193.72 (actual account bal-ance is $3,989.72 as we have pre-paid for some ex-penses)

• Entertainment Expenses: Kat should update Helga on entertainment expenses at the next board meet-ing.

• Taxes: Club tax returns filed for 2015. Up-Coming Entertainment (Kat Smith – not pre-

sent)

2016

May: Jason Bradley Jun: Dennis – What do I do when… Jul: 2015 Monterey Shootout results Aug: Member’s Night Sep: TBD Oct: Dave McGuire – Shark Stewards Nov: Turks & Caicos - Larry Muth Membership (Bernhard Sterling)

Membership: 63 (10 life, 46 regular, 7 associates) Director of Training (Dennis Hocker)

• CPR/First Aid/Medic: Class date is June 11, 2016.

• Informal Club Social: Dennis suggested trying to schedule an informal club get-together for less-experienced divers. Kari will investigate venue op-tions.

Webgoddess (Patti Shannon)

• Currently looking for a club member to take over website responsibilities.

• Club Emails: Helga suggested we look into setting up club emails, instead using our personal emails. This item is in progress. Social Media (Jim Driggers – not present)

• Meetup: 71 members

• Facebook: 55 members and 187 photos posted

Newsletter (Don)

Alan completed entertainment report for April, which will come out in the next newsletter.

Special Committee

• Holiday Party: date tentatively set as December 10, 2016.

� Meeting Update: Jono suggested we contact vendors for additional raffle prizes.

� Action: Patti to check on venue.

CenCal [no update]

Old Business

[no update] Guest Flier: Alan is working on creat-ing a guest flier to be handed out to new mem-bers at club meetings.

[no update] Club T-shirt: - Nick, Jono, and Patty Baugh are all interest in helping to create a club shirt. Alan contacted Connie and she still has the pat-

tern for the club logo used previously. She could embroider the club logo on shirts or other items for club members, at a small cost.

CaféPress, a website that allows you to create customized goods, was another option men-tioned (http://www.cafepress.com/).

Equipment Swap: May 14 at Dennis and Patti’s house in Newark, CA. Time to be 10 AM -4 PM.

Action: Dennis to post equipment swamp on Meetup. Dive Tags: At the March 17 board meeting, the

Board decided that the club would vote on buy-ing one dive tag for each member.

Meeting Update: At the April 7 general meeting, members voted to approve the club to buy one dive tag for each current and future club member. Each club member will only receive one tag paid for by the club for the life of their membership.

Decision: The board agreed that the club would al-low members to purchase additional dive tags through the club, but those dive tags would need to be paid for in advance. All dive tags will be ordered and picked up at the general club meet-ing.

Action: Helga to collect forms and money from individuals.

New Business

Meetup Posting General Meetings: Jim noted the last general meeting wasn’t posted to Meetup.

Decision: The Entertainment Chair will be respon-


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sible for posting the general meetings to Meetup. Meetings should be posted at least two weeks in advance, but ideally as soon as possible, so that members can plan ahead. A summary about the meeting entertainment should be included on Meetup.

Action: Jim to coordinate with Kat on posting gen-eral meetings to Meetup.

Entertainment Announcement: Jim noted the en-tertainment announcements need to come out prior to the meeting. This announcement is sent out to the Aqua Tutus email list. This should ideally be completed two weeks in advance of the meeting.

Action: Jim to coordinate with Kat on developing entertainment announcements.

Constitution and Bylaws: Jim noted that certain club positions are not described in the club constitution or bylaws (for example Web Master, Social Media Director, Entertain-ment Chair). We need to review our current constitution and bylaws to identify what oth-er gaps might exist.

Action: Helga, Mike, Jim, and Don to form a group to review and update the club bylaws. They will also find the current club constitution. The group will develop a system for storing club documents and making them accessible to club members.

Holiday Party: Announce at next club meeting that we are looking for help with planning the party.

Upcoming Events

2016

Apr. 23: Club Dive at Coral Street: POC - Mike May 14: Equipment Swamp at Dennis and Patti’s

house in Newark, CA May 21-22: Salt Point in Sonoma weekend trip – Lin-

da is POC (Woodside Campsite) – Book a spot, potluck on Saturday evening.

Jun 11: Medic and First Aid class with Dennis Jul. 10-24: Chuuk - Dennis is going one more time! If

you have any interest/desire to do wreck div-ing. No better place to do wreck diving. About 50 Japanese vessels are there. It doesn't get better.

2017

Jun. 24-Jul. 8: Caribbean Explorer II, St. Maarteen, Saba, St. Kitts - POC Dennis Dec. 19-Jan. 2: End of year trip to Cozumel

ATTENTION AQUATUTORS

At the April 7 general meeting the club voted and approved a new bylaw. "Club Dive Tags: The club will buy one dive tag for each current and future club member. Each club member will only receive one tag paid for by the club for the life of their membership." The general meeting minutes and BOD minutes for April record the addition of this bylaw. Please let me know if you have any questions. Kari

Meetings

Next Membership meeting:

May 5, 2016

Next BOD meeting:

May 19, 2016 Meeting adjourned at 8:19 pm.

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WORDS TO DIVE BY

Skill of the Month: Better Weight Checks

for Better Diving

by Jim Driggers

I recently came back from a wonderful dive vacation at Indonesia’s Wakatobi dive resort. While there I met a woman who did two or three dive trips a year. I thought she was a fairly experienced diver, so I was surprised to see her spend almost an entire dive up-right in the water column and kicking continuously to maintain her depth. I wasn’t surprised to learn her dive only lasted 45 minutes, even though she proba-bly spent most of the dive at 25-30 feet.

The dive master suggested she take a pound or two off her weight belt, but she replied she’d just add air to her BCD. While adding air would solve several of her problems, it would make controlling her buoyan-cy at different depths more challenging. Buoyancy control is far easier when you’re carrying “just enough” weight to keep you at safety stop level at the end of your dive.

New divers are often loaded with too much weight by their instructors. That way instructors know their students will be able to descend and that they’ll find their students on the bottom. Unfortunately, many instructors don’t talk about the advantages of shed-ding unnecessary weight.

In a previous article, I wrote about checking buoyan-cy and trim during a dive. In this article, I focus on weight checks at the surface and during a safety stop to help divers find their “just enough” weight. Before doing either of these weight checks, be sure to let your dive buddy know what you’re planning to do.

Pre-Dive Weight Checks

There are a couple advantages to doing a weight check at the surface before you begin your dive. You can determine whether you have enough weight to descend, and you can see whether you’re grossly overweighted. Doing a weight check at the surface before a dive is a good idea when you’ve made sig-nificant changes to your equipment, like exchanging a 7-mil, full-body wet suit or dry suit for a 3-mil shorty, or when you’re diving in fresh water and you’re weighted for salt water.

One disadvantage for doing pre-dive weight check is that you’re likely carrying a full tank of gas. The size and material (aluminum or steel) of a scuba tank also affect a scuba tank’s buoyancy and complicate deter-mining the ideal amount of weight to carry. For exam-ple, an aluminum, 80 cu. ft. tank will lose 4.8 pounds going from 3000 psi to 500 psi. To improve accuracy, take off any weight you’ve already added to compensate for your tank’s near empty buoyancy. This means you’ll almost certainly have to go back to the beach to adjust your weight, but when you do so, you’ll be much closer to having “just enough” weight in later dives. If this ex-tra trip(s) is too daunting, do the second weight check method.

Here are the steps for doing a pre-dive weight check at the surface.

Do the weight check in water deeper than your height.

Put your regulator in your mouth.

Deflate your BCD completely.

While holding a comfortable amount of air in your lungs, check to see where the surface is in rela-tion to your eyes.

Eyes are level with the water: Add just enough weight to compensate for the buoyancy of your tank when it’s empty. For an aluminum 80 cu. ft. tank, this is about 6.6 pounds.

Eyes are below the water: Take off one pound for every inch your eyes are below the sur-face.

Eyes are above the water: Add one pound for every inch your eyes are above the surface plus enough weight to compensate for the buoyancy of your tank when it’s empty.

Weight Checks During Safety Stop

There are several advantages to doing a weight check during your safety stop. By this point wet suits have compressed, trapped air has worked its way out, your tank’s buoyancy is unaffected by extra weight, and you’re at the depth for which you want as little weight as possible to achieve neutral buoyancy. Here are the steps for doing a weight check during a safety stop.

Verify your depth is 15 feet and you have at least


500 psi left in your tank.

Completely empty your BCD of air. If you start to sink—especially quickly, abort the weight check. Take a pound or two off and do anoth-er weight check on your next dive.

If you have over 500 psi left in your tank, use your secondary regulator’s purge valve to vent gas until you reach 500 psi. Don’t worry about losing gas; you can breathe several

minutes at 15 feet with 500 psi in the tank and you don’t need reserve air at this point in the dive. (This is a great time to practice sip-ping air from a free-flowing regulator!)

After reaching 500 psi, and while breathing com-fortably, check your buoyancy and overall rate of ascent/descent.

If neutrally buoyant: Congratulations, you’re ideally weighted.

If descending: Remove a pound or two and recheck on next dive.

If ascending: Add a pound or two and re-check on next dive.

If you’re not already weighted just right for the kind of diving you do, hopefully these instructions will enable you to reach that point. If you’ve gotten used to being overweighted, after following these instruc-tions you’ll likely discover you don’t need to adjust your buoyancy as often and your bottom time will increase.

Jim Driggers is not a dive master or dive instructor.

He does have rescue and advanced nitrox diver cer-

tification and has logged over 100 dives in Califor-

nia waters and 300 dives in tropical locations. The

advice in this column is based on his experience and

diving education.

WORDS TO DIVE BY continued Orcas Seen Attacking Gray Whale Calf From

McAbee Beach

Reported by Linda Muth

For those of us who showed up for the April 23 club di-ve, we were treated to an amazing pre-dive wildlife spec-tacle. While the divers were talking as we first arrived at McAbee, Baerbel noticed some whale activity off shore.

As we watched through our binoculars, we could see a pod of orcas attacking a gray whale calf. There was a lot of splashing and excitement among the whales as they appeared to be feeding on a gray whale calf. Dorsal fins, flukes and pictorial fins moving in every direction. We could also at times see the gray whale rolling at the sur-face and it appeared to try to lunge out of the water. I watched for over an hour as they continued their assault.

Later, at the aquarium, Kat was talking to her cousin who is a volunteer about what we saw. Apparently, their morning meeting was stopped and moved to the outside deck to watch the orcas. They felt that most likely what was happening, was that the adults were teaching their calves how to hunt and kill the gray whale calf. It was truly an amazing ex-perience.

I had my DSLR and started shooting pictures even though they were a good distance off shore. I managed to capture one of the orca calves breaching. The pictures are a bit grainy since I

had to crop them but at least you can see some of the whales.

There is a YouTube video I found taken from one of the

boats that was out with the orcas. Here is the link and be sure to read the story below the video.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aWxhLVYp2ZY

Kat’s commentary

For those that weren’t in Monterey over the weekend, we


Killer Whale Attack continued

were treated to wonderful experience of nature.

There were 2 killer whales inside Monterey Bay teaching their young to hunt. Linda was able to get a few shots of the activity, including a shot of an Orca breeching. The hunt and kill lasted a loooooong time and was further out than we would have been as di-vers (how cool, scary, gross, terrifying that would have been to be in water around that).

Luckily Linda had binoculars and shared them with us all. With the naked eye you could clearly see the activity and the dorsal fins of the Orcas. I happened to have the binoculars when the Gray Whale calf was struggling for air so I was able to clearly see it. I am torn between awe, reverance, and a tinge of sad-ness.

I have always said I am a land bound mermaid who was born with legs and lungs instead of fins and gills. The best days of my life all have to do with water related events, and this experience was no ex-ception.

In the end, I decided not to dive on Saturday but I had a wonderful continued brithday celebration with the Muth/Driggers family where I was able to get to know everyone a little bit more. I am so happy to have found my community of people and to be wel-comed in to the wonderful dive family of Aqua Tu-tus. Thank you all so much for welcoming me in to this wonderful family of divers.


Calendar of Events

See the latest meeting minutes,

or

http://www.meetup.com/Aqua-Tutus-Dive-Club/

Or

http://www.aquatutus.com/

for the current schedule of ATDC Events

ATDC Dive Training

Advanced Open Water Class Calendar Class diving completed on Sept 19th

• Dates are tentative, depend on participation, check the webpage

• Classroom sessions held at Dennis’ house, 38962 Larkspur Street, Newark, CA

• For more information contact

• Neil Benjamin: (510) 673-0073 [email protected]

• Dennis Hocker: (510) 792-5606 dennis@ rxscuba.com

2016 OFFICERS/BOD/Volunteers

President Mike Barrett [email protected]

Vice President

Jono Dove [email protected]

Secretary

Kari Klaboe [email protected]

Treasurer

Helga Mahlmann [email protected]

Membership Chair Bernhard Sterling [email protected]

Training Director Dennis Hocker [email protected]

Entertainment Chair

Kat Smith [email protected]

Newsletter Publisher

Don Kelsey [email protected]

Board Members @ Large: Kat Smith [email protected]

Jim Driggers [email protected]

Nik Kerson [email protected]

Past President

Oliver Edwards [email protected]

Web “Goddess”

Patti Shannon-Hocker [email protected]

ATDC Web page: www.aquatutus.com

http://reefcheck.org/rcca/rcca_home.php

What is a “POC”

The “POC” is a Point of Contact for a club dive. Any member is welcome to plan a dive and put in on our web site calendar. You don’t have to be a dive master, or the director of training, or a board member to do this. Any club dive is done with the expectation that there will be people there to help.

FIND Oliver’s Tutorial BEGINNING PHOTOSHOP FOR

UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHERS at

http://www.aquatutus.com/articles.html

Then click on “Beginning Photoshop For Underwater Pho-tography -- by Oliver Edwards” for the download

ATTENTION , ASPIRING PHOTOGRA-

PHERS AND WRITERS

WANTED—DIVE PICS AND STORIES

FOR THE TOOTER.

Send your input to Don at

[email protected]


Aqua Tutus Diving Club P.O. Box 11952 Pleasanton, CA 94588

North Coast Diving since 1958

For quick access to Chuck Tribolet’s

Internet Resources

for the Bay Area Diver

http://www.garlic.com/~triblet/swell/

News from the Monterey Bay

National Marine Sanctuary

http://www.mbnms.nos.noaa.gov

https://www.facebook.com/MBNMS

News from the Monterey Bay

Aquarium Research Institute

http://www.mbari.org/

https://www.facebook.com/MBARInews?

fref=ts

News from the California Marine

Sanctuary Foundation

http://californiamsf.org/index.html

News from the Pacific Grove

Hyperbaric Chamber

https://www.facebook.com/

PGHyperbaricChamber

http://californiamsf.org/pages/donate-

pgh.html

Keep up with California Diving,

read

California Diving News

http://www.cadivingnews.com/

Big Island, Hawaii

Kona Condo for Rent June 15- June 29, 2016

$450 per week,+$14 tax One-time $50 registry fee covers one or all weeks.

Weeks run Weds to Weds Contact Don Kelsey

925-820-8362

[email protected]

Resort details at www.thekonabillfisher.com

Don’s timeshare is now available for

2016. Book now while it is still

Available at a great low price.

Protecting the unique habitats and cultures of islands worldwide

http://www.seacology.org/

Documents

THE AQUA TOOTER · club t-shirt design, send ideas to any board mem-bers. Equipment Swap: The club is hosting an equipment swap where members can trade and/or sell dive equipment