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Friday, August 29, 2003

Posted 9:00 AM by Rob Falk

We don't teach you this for the fun of it... Be careful out there!

A diver lost off the Watch Hill area of Rhode Island last year has been discovered, dead, near the wreck of the Metis: "...the body they discovered Wednesday was fully equipped for diving with SCUBA tanks and other gear. ...the diver had apparently removed his weight belt, and the weight belt was caught on the man's goodie bag, a mesh bag divers use to tote the artifacts they find"

If you need to release your weight belt, grab the webbing just left of the buckle with your left hand, reach down with your right and undo the buckle. Fully extend your left hand, look below you, and make sure that the weight belt will drop safely - not onto you and your gear, and not onto your buddy or another diver! Easy to say - easy to teach in every PADI open water class (both in the pool and in the ocean!) - fairly easy to practice (so do it!). In a panic, try to remember to focus and remember the basics.

From Freddie: Let me take this opportunity, before the Labor Day Weekend rush to the ocean, to remind all my friends that despite the fact that SCUBA is a safe and fun recreation, we are land based mammals who do not fare well under water without up to date training & experience, and fairly up to date and well maintained equipment. Every time we enter the water, we could die, and we should take this responsibility to ourselves, our family, our buddies, and our friends, seriously.

Have a safe, fun, wet Labor Day Weekend!

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Monday, August 04, 2003

Posted 8:28 AM by Freddie

UPDATED->Video Presentation: Peter Gimbel & the Andrea Doria 8:30 PM Thursday,August 7th

We have obtained a rare DVD of a video recording of a television broadcast from the early 1980s – complete with period ads!

Dive to the bottom of the Atlantic ocean to unlock the mysteries of the Italian luxury liner once touted as unsinkable. On July 26, 1956, more than forty years after the sinking of the Titanic, the world was stunned as the impossible repeated itself. The Andrea Doria sank.

One day after the Andrea Doria's sinking, Peter Gimbel and Joseph Fox, became the first two divers to visit her. Gimbel located the wreck by finding the yellow buoy left by the coast guard.  In 1973, He began his work to salvage one of the Doria's bank safes.

Revisit Peter's final trip to the site in 1981 as he explored submerged passageways and attempted to salvage the liner's safes. See how his 25-year obsession unlocked the riddles surrounding its sinking and solve once and for all the mystery surrounding this tragedy

The adventure begins
after the regular club business meeting
at 8:30 PM Thursday,August 7th!
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