Volume 53, Number 12

December 2011

President’s Message - December 2011

Thanksgiving has gone by and Christmas is just around the corner. Gather your photos and bring them to this Tuesday's dive meeting. Bill Werner will be collecting them for the Paul Sauvageau Memorial Photo Contest. We will also be voting for club officers, and Diver and Member of the Year. At our last meeting we viewed several episodes of Sea Hunt. Classic TV at its best! Watch carefully and see Mike Nelson with a single tank, diving with triples in the next scene.

Vinny is busy selling tickets for our President’s Banquet on

12/10/2011 at PCYC. There will be great raffle prizes, a 50/50 raffle, and DJ entertainment. We are selling a limited number of tickets, so don't miss out. Bobby Boyle will be helping me to make our raffle very exciting this year. Winter dives will be upon us soon, and Tony Vieira will be handy in organizing these for us.

We will be having a New Year’s Day dive at White Beach in Manchester; stay tuned to Tony for the details. Last year the turnout was great with 32 divers. Other dive clubs will be joining us again this year. Can we surpass last year's great numbers? On another note Mary Howard has worked on putting together our Air Bubbles for many years. Is there a club member out there who would like to take over this task? If yes please feel free to contact Mary asap.

Dodie Carvalho will be hosting club members at her home after the New Year’s Day dive. This is a great place to relax and hang with club members young, and old. I think it’s great that this year’s officer slate features all newer members. In a few more years I'll be joining the ranks of Life Members. I have the distinction of being the first father and son combo to have served as President. My father was club president in the early 1970's.

For Diver of the Month I choose Vinny Egizi for all of the work he does with the club's finances. For member of the Month I select Dodie Carvalho for hosting the New Year’s Day, and

Easter Egg Dive parties at her home. Hope to see you at a meeting soon!

John P. Sears

Coming Club Events

Dec 1: Elections for 2012 Club Officers. Listing below.

Dec 1: Photo Contest submissions due to Bill Werner.

Dec 8: Photo Contest display and voting

Dec 15: Jonathan Bird Presentation

The Current list of nominations
for 2012 NSF Club Officers is:
President:	Meg Tennissen
Vice President: Lauren Byrne
Treasurer:	Vinny Egizi
Secretary:	Ellen Garvey

In this Issue:

President’s Message	pg. 1
Meeting Summaries	pg. 2-3
Upcoming Events	pg. 3-5
Boston Scuba show	pg. 6
Undersea Divers	pg. 6

The North Shore Frogmen’s Club

PO Box 3604

Peabody, MA 01961

2011 OFFICERS

President: John Sears Tel: 978-750-4745

Email: john.sears@bostik-us.com

Vice President: Lauren Byrne Email: laurenb5635@hotmail.com

Treasurer: Vinny Egizi Tel: (858) 342-3365

Email: vinnymass@yahoo.com

Secretary: Meg Tennissen Tel: (781) 724-0071

Email: macduff18@yahoo.com

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Membership: Dan Hering membership@northshorefrogmen.com

Newsletter: Mary Howard

Tel: (781) 944-1292

Email: m.m.howard@comcast.net

Webmaster: Markus Diersbock

*Deadline for submissions* for the January 2012 issue

of Air Bubbles is

Tuesday, November 22

Meeting Summaries

03-Nov -2011

Meeting called to order: 8:10PM Attendance: 4 Officers, 17 Members

Guests: Andy Martinez, Bill Buckley and one other

Abbreviated meeting for Bill Buckley presentation on GETTING THE SHOT – MORE TIME SHOOTING LESS TIME EDITING

Treasurer: banquet tickets for sale; will take cash, checks, credit cards; guests are invited.

Committees:

-Air Bubbles: Air Bubbles went out last night.

Dive Talk: Tony was in an outdoor pool

Raffles: Dollars Box: Amy Maurer Mystery Prize: Mary Howard Bug Bag: Andy Martinez

10-Nov -2011

Meeting called to order: 8:05PM Attendance: 3 Officers, 14 Members

Secretary: Minutes

Treasurer: Banquet tickets for sale by cash, checks, credit cards. Guests are invited. Vinny got the menu from Caterer; they will provide table cloths. Idea to purchase a plaque for PCYC as a thank you.

Committees:

-Program: next week open video, a Sea Hunt or two. Working on Jonathan Bird maybe doing a presentation in December.

Old Business:

-New Year’s Day Dive: SUDS is in; will contact Bob Boyle to see if Dive Society wants to come; talked with East Coast Divers who are coming; trying to get in touch with South Shore divers. Tony will contact MetroWest; Finatics are in.

-Some people want to bring grills for the New Year’s Day dive. It is simple to get a permit the day of the event if FD is around.

-Dodie has offered her house for New

Year’s Day party. Thank you Dodie! (This party not open to non Froggies.)

New Business: Susan has a friend who would like to do a presentation, Dec is pretty open

Dive Talk:

-Sunday Vinny went with Jim Durso; they got in the water at 1pm, looked for a dive spot – calm in the morning, but rougher in the afternoon. Only place out of the wind was the north side of Baker’s Island near buoy #9; 20+’ vis, 50F, 44’ deep, got 20-25 scallops. Jim got some bugs; well over an hour dive. Both dove wet and were very comfortable.

-Meg and Lauren tried to attend Club dive, at 8am but no one at BK. Went to Ft Sewall. About an hour dive 52F. Went right, got some bottles, shards of plates. Vis around 20ish feet.

General Discussion:

-Mike’s Moments:

-ABC news over the weekend will be using a filler about Canada’s Loch Ness monster, someone got video taken in a Lake in British Colombia that has a 40-50’ sea serpent. The video is on Yahoo now.

-Koi – decorative Japanese fish; oldest one died was estimated to be 266 years old. Growth cycles leave marks on the scales, like the rings in tree trunks and they keep the scales throughout their lives.

-NASA Aquarius undersea laboratory is a practice operation to test tools for a manned mission to an asteroid, it’s about a size of a school bus and is 62’ deep.

-3 eyed fish found in Argentina, a wolfish, found near a nuclear power plant – like Blikny the 3 eyed fish in The Simpsons. It was saved, little afraid to eat it, locals concerned about drinking water.

-Researchers think they found two of the ships of Sir Francis Drake off Panama. They’re looking for his lead coffin now.

Raffles: Dollars Box: Tony Vieira Mystery Prize: John Sears

17-Nov -2011

Meeting called to order: 8:10PM

Diver

of the Month for December 2011

Vinny Egizi

for all of the work he does with the club's finances.

Member

of the Month for December 2011

Dodie Carvalho

for hosting the New Year’s

Day, and Easter Egg Dive parties at her home.

Tony with Sea Raven

NEWS RELEASE

The Underwater Club of Boston and The Dive Patrol, Inc. announce the 61st edition of the Boston Scuba Show scheduled for 10 A.M. to 4 P.M., February 25, 2012 at the Holiday Inn and Resort in Marlboro, Massachusetts. The 2012 show will feature the films by Jonathan Bird (in-person 3-time EMMY Award Winner), and Fred Calhoun, with witty sayings, soft shoe routines, and more SCUBA than there’s time to tell. With Kerry and Linda Hurd, and directed by Alan Budreau, Jerry Shine will be receiving the Paul Revere Spike Award from the Underwater Club of Boston, presented by Arnie Pettiglio. The show will also offer a new film EGG ROCK, by Fred and Chris. Mr. Calhoun is an awards winning underwater motion picture producer and director, having won the Knights of Malta, Island of Malta, Film Festival (for LARGO), and the Conference for International Non-theatrical Events (CINE) award (for THE WALL).

Parking is always free at The Holiday Inn and Resort. We are at the intersection of routes 20 and 495 in Marlboro, Massachusetts.

Simultaneously, in another part of the Holiday Inn, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., The Dive Patrol will be offering the PSI scuba cylinder inspector certification course. PSI is the only recognized cylinder inspector training and certification program by DOT (the Department of Transportation, the real folks in charge of scuba cylinders). Expand your resume, become a certified cylinder inspector. Conducted by Dallas Edmiston, the in-advance course tuition is $275, checks payable to The Dive Patrol, Inc.

Tickets for the scuba show are only $20 each (use the savings for gas) and will be available at the door on the day of the program. In-advance show ticket sales and PSI tank program tuition, by writing to: Cecile Christensen, 2 Ocean Ave (1-H), Magnolia, MA 01930. Checks payable to: The Dive Patrol, Inc. Program phone (with an answering machine) is 978- 525-3432 – speak slowly and distinctly.

Thank you,

Fred Calhoun captaincalhoun@msn.com

42 Water St.

Beverly MA

978-927-9551

DIVE@underseadivers.com

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