Volume 54, Number 2

February 2012

Presidents’ Messages - February 2012

Fifty-two divers in the water on New Year’s Day, what a way to start the year! Fantastic weather and strangely warm water helped. And when you consider 45 degree water to be “warm”, I guess that’s a sign you truly are a New England diver. There’s also been plenty of diving throughout the month, but I don’t think it was ever quite as warm as it was on New Year’s. There will be planned dives every weekend for those who wish to brave the cold; keep your eye open for emails and messages. Or just come on by one of the meetings to find out where the next winter dive will be.

We have some good ideas for events and presentations coming up. On Feb 9th, Victor Mastone, Director of the Massachusetts Board of Underwater Archaeological Resources, will talk to us about the Battle of Chelsea Creek from the Revolutionary War.

It should be a good one. Feb 25th is also the Boston Scuba Show out in Marlboro, organized by Fred Calhoun. And before you know it, it’ll be time for the Boston Sea Rovers Clinic, in March.

This month, I’d like to name Dodie Carvalho as Member of the Month, for once again graciously hosting the New Year’s Day party. For Diver of the Month, I’d like to name Ellen Garvey, for stepping into the role of Secretary, and doing a fine job of it.

Meg Tennissen

In this Issue:
President’s Message	pg. 1
Meeting Summaries	pg. 2-4
Presentation Feb 9	pg. 4
Coming Events & Calendar	pg. 6-7

Club Events

February 9: Presentation by Victor Mastone, Director of the Massachusetts Board of Underwater Archaeological Resources (See pg. ?)

April 21: Float Cleaning at PCYC

Welcome

New Member

Steve Morse

Of North Reading

Voted in as newest member on January 5, 2012

Welcome

New Member

Gary Michaud

Of Ipswich

Voted in as newest member on January 12, 2012

The North Shore Frogmen’s Club

PO Box 3604

Peabody, MA 01961

2011 OFFICERS

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

Email: macduff18@yahoo.com

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

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

Email: vinnymass@yahoo.com

Secretary: Ellen Garvey Tel: 781-595-4978

Email: elleng@alumni.duke.edu

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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 March 2012 issue

of Air Bubbles is

Tuesday, February 21

Air Bubbles – February 2012

Meeting Summaries

29-Dec-2011

Pizza Party, no business

Attendance: 3 Officers, 16 Members

Pizza purchased: 13 large, 5 small. About 7 large pizzas were sent to

Dodie’s for the New Year’s Day Party.

Raffles:

Dollars Box: John Marren

Bug Bag: John Marren x2

5-Jan-2012

Meeting called to order: 8:12PM

Attendance: 4 Officers, 13 Members Guests: 2

Secretary: Minutes read and accepted

Treasurer

-2011 finances will be reported on next week; probably won’t be as good as previous due to low attendance (perhaps due to fewer speakers due to lack of a meeting room)

-Please pay dues

Committees

-Program:

-We’ll be having a planning meeting; let an officer know if you’d like to participate

-Fred Calhoun will come talk; John Sears will arrange it – perhaps end of Jan.

-Vic Mastone was going to come last year to talk, but was cancelled; Mary will arrange for him to come perhaps Fed

-Membership: Steve Morse applied for membership and was voted in. (Steve supplied hot chocolate and coffee at New Year’s dive. Steve is from North Reading, PADI certified in 2008

-Air Bubbles:

-Went out Tues/Wed – on time!

-If anybody would like to take it over from Mary please come forward

New Business

-We need more speakers this year; all members should recruit

-If anyone has activities they’d like to consider for this year, please pass them to officers or Program Cmte

-Sea Rovers March 10-11

-signup sheet needed for setup, teardown, manning booth

-Raffle prize: John will talk to Bobby; Tony will talk w/ his shop

-Space will be the same as last year?

-Display: flat screen TV or 2 - one for club slideshow, one for Sea Hunt; Meg will supply one laptop

-Pamphlet: Vinny will see what it costs to get some made up

-Application forms: Ellen will print 20 to be handed out for serious applicants

-Cards: Vinny will get them printed

-Meg has the NSF banner

-Artifacts and photos (esp contest winners) requested – framed pictures preferred

-Boston Scuba Show Feb 25 in Marlboro: we’ll have a table (free except individuals need to buy admission). We’ll have cards there.

-Float cleaning: John Sears is organizing; will make it as late as possible in April.

-Membership: suggest we have 1-2 more people helping with member- ship. Would like more access to Facebook (officers and those 1-2 people): there are 2 sites – Northshore Frogmen and Cape Ann Divers; Northshore Frogmen should be more open (Tony will help! Yeah!)

-Need to send out a list of the committees that need help and get people to sign up

Dive Talk

-51 people attended the New Years; dive (and there were a few people that didn’t make it because parking was full). Big round of applause for Tony!

-Tony is organizing winter dives

-Graham is proposing Gloucester breakwater 10:30 Sunday; meet at Burger King on 128 at 9:30, far side of

parking lot where the truckers pull in

General Discussion

-Yeah Dodie – great party New Years

-Mike’s moments:

- Baby seal found sleeping on couch

in New Zealand – ½ mile from beach.

-Orca vs shark frenzy – sharks landed on beach and were attacked by dogs.

-Australian black tip only lives in tropical water; other black tips are not tropical. They’re interbreeding

-At the Dubai aquarium there’s a virgin shark that’s giving birth to a series of female sharks

-Ad from the 50s to become a frogman

Raffles

Dollars Box: John Ferrier

Bug Bag: John Sears

Mystery Prize: John Sears

12-Jan-2012

Meeting called to order: 8:12PM

Attendance: 4 Officers, 16 Members Guests: 1

Secretary: Minutes read and accepted

Committees

-Program:

-We’ll be having a planning meeting Saturday afternoon at Ellen and Mike’s house – let an officer know if you’d like to participate and we’ll give you the particulars

-Fred Calhoun will come talk Jan 26 (contact is John Sears).

-Membership: Gary Michaude of Ipswich applied for membership and was voted in. He was certified July 2011.

-Air Bubbles: Submissions due Jan 20

Old Business

Content in italics is from last week (repeated here for reference/planning)

Activities planning meeting will be Saturday

o Suggestions for activities that we

have done in the past:

hay ride

rescue and CPR class

Sea Rovers March 10-11

o signup sheet needed for setup,

teardown, manning booth. Suggest we have a printed list of lectures available so people can see when they what to do what.

o Raffle prize: John will talk to Bobby; Tony will talk w/ his shop

Air Bubbles – February 2012

o Space will probably be the same as last year

o Display: flat screen TV or 2 - one for club slideshow, one for Seahunt; Meg will supply one laptop

o Pamphlet: Vinny will see what it costs to get some made up

o Application forms: Ellen will print 20 to be handed out for serious applicants

o Cards: Vinny will get them printed

 Suggest we get a QR Code for the cards and Sea Rovers booth.

o Meg has the NSF banner

o Artifacts and photos (esp contast winners) requested – framed pictures preferred

Boston Scuba Show in Marlboro Feb 25: we’ll have a table (free except individuals need to buy admission).

We’ll have cards there.

Float cleaning: John Sears is organizing; will make it as late as possible in April

Need to send out a list of the committees that need help and get people to sign up

New Business

-Dive Sunday Fort Sewell 9:30 – meet there

-Tony will try to arrange a talk by Ilir Capuni who discovered a sunken ship in Italy

-Beneath the Sea is 3rd week in March. [Like Sea Rovers but New Jersey]. If anyone wants to go, consider carpooling

-Remember to renew your lobster license. Easy to do online.

-Potential Club ski trip – if interested contact Markus

Dive Talk

-12 people went to Old Garden Sat AM. Anemones, tunicates, nudi, scallops. 43 deg; vis 25-30. 59’, 79 min. Fun dive but chilly.

-Graham, Lauren, Gary (new member) went to Gloucester breakwater

Sunday. 40 deg, 20’ vis. Pleasant.

General Discussion

-Dues can be paid online

-Mike’s moments:

-South Africa. 12 guys swam 2 miles and poached Perlmonen (abalone). A great white shark picked off the

last person; others kept going. Some experts say sharks are coming into shallows more because people are feeding them as a tourist attraction.

-Graham: There’s a story on BBC radio about invasive crabs in the Baltic Sea. Apparently Stalin had tried to get crabs growing as a food source and was unsuccessful. In the late 90s it was tried again – successfully. Now they’re taking over because there are no predators.

-Al Morris: Dominica is sponsoring a contest – the award will be a trip there; details will be forthcoming

-Check out youtube for Charles Maxwell for cool baitball photos

-Netflix has several episodes of “Deep Sea detectives” (good show done with the guys of Shadow Divers fame)

-Look online CSS Hunley – 1st sub to sink a ship in WWII – truss that brought it up several years ago has been removed so one can now get a

good look at it

Raffles:

Dollars Box: John Marren Bug Bag: continued

Mystery Prize: Lauren Byrne

19-Jan-2012

Minutes not currently available for this meeting.

26-Jan-2012

Meeting called to order: 8:05PM

Attendance: 2 Officers, 22 Members

Abbreviated meeting as Fred Calhoun is here to present

Treasurer

-PCYC Meeting room reserved for Holiday Party

-500 courtesy cards and flyers ordered

-Dues are due

Committees

-Program:

-Victor Mastone will present Feb 9

-Boston Scuba Show Feb 25

-Please sign up to man the booth

-If interested in signing up for tank inspection course, let Klaus know; he’ll try to arrange group rate

-Sea Rovers Mar 11&12

-Float cleaning Apr 21

-Dodie won’t be around for Easter Egg

Hunt party, sorry.

New Business

-Dive this weekend/Sunday: meet at Burger King at 9

General Discussion

-Susan: Dive Locker – great organization – please visit

Raffles

Dollars Box: Mike Garvey

Bug Bag: Bill Werner

Mystery Prize: Roslyn Smith

Diver

of the Month for February 2012

Ellen Garvey

for stepping into the role of Secretary, and doing a fine job of it.

Member

of the Month for February 2012

Dodie Carlvalho

for once again graciously hosting the New Year’s Day party.

Air Bubbles – February 2012

Presentation:

The Battle of Chelsea Creek

Victor Mastone is the Director of the Massachusetts Board of Underwater Archeological Resources, part of Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone

Management. “Established in 1973, the Massachusetts Board of

Underwater Archaeological Resources (BUAR) is the sole trustee of the Commonwealth's underwater heritage, promoting and protecting the public's interests in these resources for recreational, economic, environmental, and historical purposes.” (Section in quotes is from the website: http://www.mass.gov/czm/buar/)

Victor has worked on a number of projects related to Underwater Archeology in Massachusetts. He writes: “The 1775 Battle of Chelsea

Creek has been the focus of my research over past 2 years. It is a relatively unknown early Revolutionary War battle which resulted in the loss of HMS Diana. We undertook extensive historic landscape reconstruction and military terrain analysis in an urban setting to relocate possible battlefield features. It allowed us to tie very vague historic descriptions to potential site locations. Work was funded by a NPS grant. Fieldwork was basically walkover and there has been no diving or underwater remote sensing as yet. We have significantly narrowed down the possible location of HMS Diana, our next phase of research.”

Vic will discuss this research with us, and will also show a few slides of some of his other projects, including reported anchor recoveries off both

Gloucester and Plymouth, and the Minot’s Ledge Plaque project. He states: “As always I can stay as long as people want for Q&A.”

Northeastern University

Marine Science Center Lecture Series

All lectures take place in the Murphy Bunker at the Marine Science Center. Light refreshments will be served half an hour before the start of the program, and most lectures last for 1-1.5 hours. The MSC is ADA-accessible, and no reservations are required.

Tuesday, February 7, 2011 at 7 pm

GEOLOGIC HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF BOSTON HARBOR

Dr. Peter Rosen, Association Professor

Department of Earth and Environmental Science, NEU

Tuesday, March 13, 2011 at 7 pm

THREE SEAS PROGRAM: THE NEXT GENERATION OF MARINE BIOLOGISTS

Dr. Sal Genovese, Program Director,

Marine Science Center, Northeastern University

ANNUAL RISER LECTURE

Friday, April 27, 2012 at 4:00pm

Dr. Nancy Knowlton, Sant Chair for Marine Biology Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Carole McCauley, Outreach Program Coordinator, NEU MSC

430 Nahant Road, Nahant, MA; (781) 581-7370, x321

http://www.northeastern.edu/marinescience

WHITE MOUNTAIN EXPRESS

Ride with us to your favorite ski/ride area. $80 includes round trip bus ride (Haverhill exit 49), coffee and doughnuts (up), movie (both ways), après ski party and a good time by all! Jan & Feb schedule:

Feb 1	Sunday River
Feb 8	Stratton Mountain
Feb 15	Sunday River
Feb 22	Jay Peak
Feb 29	Sunday River	Fischer *
Mar 3-10	Lake Tahoe trip
Mar 14	Mount Snow
Mar 21	Sunday River	Rossignol/Blizzard *
Mar 28	Killington
Apr 4	Sunday River-cookout		Atomic/Volkl/Nordica/
	Salomon/Fischer/Rossignol/Blizzard *

* Ski brand name indicates free demo days sponsored by Buchika’s

Ski shop

Reservations are required and are secured with a deposit; call 978-346-8667.

John Ferrier regularly goes on these trips; contact him with your questions.

THE DIVE PATROL presents

The 61st Edition of

THE BOSTON SCUBA SHOW

Directed by Alan Budreau with EMMY AWARD winners Kerry and Linda Hurd

Feb 25, 2012 (10 am to 3 pm) Marlboro Holiday Inn (jct rtes 20 and 495)

FEATURING

EMMY Award Winner

JONATHAN BIRD

(new in-water film - what more can we say?)

Fred Calhoun

with a new film, Q & A, and lively commentary

Alex Shure

Saturday Night Ledge

Selected short subjects

plus

Jerry Shine

2012 PAUL REVERE SPIKE AWARD

Dive New England

This is not the order of presentations

ALWAYS FREE PARKING

Tickets at $20 available at the door, or in advance by writing to

Cecile Christensen, 2 Ocean Ave (1-H), Gloucester, MA 01930

Checks payable to The Dive Patrol

Bay State Council of Divers

The next meeting of the Bay State Council of Divers is scheduled for Wednesday February 8, 2012 at the South

Shore Neptunes’ Clubhouse in Quincy at 7:30PM.

All are invited to attend these meetings

See http://www.baystatecouncil.org for more information on the Bay State Council.

The Bay State Council of Divers

Supporting and promoting the recreational diving community in Massachusetts.

The Bay State Council of Divers (BSC) is a diver’s advocacy group. The BSC monitors local, state and federal regulations that may affect the recreational diving community in Massachusetts. When required, the BSC represents the interests of the diving community in these matters.

The BSC serves as a liaison between dive clubs and dive stores to promote recreational diving activity in Massachusetts. All divers are encouraged to support the BSC with an annual contribution of $5. Your contribution will allow the BSC to continue to be a strong advocate for the recreational diving community in Massachusetts.

For more information see the new BSC website at

http://www.baystatecouncil.org

42 Water St.

Beverly MA

978-927-9551

DIVE@underseadivers.com

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