Presidents’ Messages - August 2012

Been a busy summer so far. Another set of beach meetings have come and gone, and for a change this year, the rain actually held off! Thanks to all that came out. Thanks also to all those that came out on the kayak/canoe trip down the Ipswich River. The weather was great and it was just a great day.

And the fun's not stopping either...the Vermont dive week at Pat and Annette's is next week. If you haven't already let Vinny know if you're planning on going, please do so as soon as possible. As always, it's promising to be a good time.

Finally, a big thanks to Diver of the Month Bill Werner for organizing the kayak/canoe trip and Member of the Month Susan Copelas for picking up the permits for the beach meeting-and for offering to do a presentation for us soon.

Happy diving!

Meg!

Beach Meeting on July 26

Those in attendance at the July beach meeting include (back row) Peter, Lauren and John, and (front row) John, Meg, Mike and Dawn.

Events in August

August 5-12: Camping / Diving week w/ Annette and Pat in VT

August 16: Susan Copelas will give us a presentation on her trip to Alaska

August 23: Paul Erikson; Gone

with the Fins. (For more, see page 5)

Please Welcome

New Member

Josh Gardner

voted in as newest member on June 21, 2012.

In this Issue:

President’s Message	pg. 1
Meeting Summaries	pg. 2-4
Coming Events & Calendar	pg. 5-7
GAFC Photos	pg. 4-5

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 September 2012 issue

of Air Bubbles is

Friday, August 25

Air Bubbles – August 2012

Meeting Summaries

05-Jul-2012

Meeting called to order: 8:05 PM

Attendance: 4 Officers, 15 Members, 1 guest (Jesse)

Treasurer:

-We have money.

-Mailbox renewed

-Vinny got a spare bulb for the projector

Committees:

-Membership:

-Ralph Arabian is rejoining the Club

-We now have 102 members

-Program: see website for details

-Pat & Annette’s week in Vermont is Aug 5-12. Annette has picked out a quarry to dive in. We have 10-13 people scheduled to be there each day.

-Movie night next week: bring a movie you’d like to watch and we’ll pick one on the spot.

-Kayaking/canoeing Sunday July 22 at Foote Brothers – see email from Bill Werner

-Beach meeting 26-Jul. Sue volunteered to get the permit the day of the event (fire dept) and contact the police ahead of time so people can arrive early to dive.

Air Bubbles: President’s message sent today; Air Bubbles will go out this week.

New Business:

-Scuba Pro will be giving us a regulator to raffle off at the banquet

General Discussion:

-Dive group that went to NC last year with Paul S bought a memorial brick at the Beaufort maritime museum.

They saw it when they went again this year.

-Vinny will be giving a talk at the Beverly rotary about scuba diving in

New England. He’ll also hand out flyers from Bob and promote his shop.

-You need a special license to get sea urchins

-Adam posted a video on the froggies fb page

Dive Talk

-Vinny, John, John, Bill and Adam went to Lanes. Adam found a pulley for a lobsterman. Bill has seen a large torpedo ray multiple times at that site.

-Vinny did his 100th dive. Great dive. 5 lobsters, several other things which he dumped out into his car.

-John S went to Pebble yesterday. Only one lobster.

-Vinny went diving yesterday - took his son 6-10’

-John S went with Jim using the camera looking for scallops. John got 90 scallops, Jim got 180 scallops

-Susan did discover scuba with a camp this AM at Fort Devens pond. Saw a trunk on the bottom. Hmmm. She went to White’s beach – saw big striper in the shallow area. Went to Old Garden Saturday – 58F, 4 lobsters.

-Susan went to Alaska last 2 weeks; water temps 44-46F – will do presentation.

-Jes and Adam went to Folly Cove – saw the torpedo ray.

-Jes went diving in Florida last week. Had a string of fish - 8’ bull shark showed up.

Diving this weekend? 7:45AM BK Sunday

Raffles

Dollars Box: Mike Garvey

Bug Bag: – Mary Howard

Mystery Prize: – Ray Porter

12-Jul-2012

Meeting called to order: 8:11 PM

Attendance: 4 Officers, 13 Members, 1 guest

Movie Night! Finding Nemo. An oldie but a goodie!

Treasurer: We have money. We’re about where we were last year when we broke even.

Committees

-Program: see website for details

-HMS Bounty will be in Newburyport this weekend.

-7/22, Sunday: Kayaking/canoeing at Foote Brothers – see email from Bill Werner

-7/26: Beach meeting

Correspondence: Mike Miller asked if there was anybody in the club that can help certify lifeguards for a camp in western mass.

New Business: We discussed options for the membership committee. Tony said he’d be glad to participate

General Discussion:

-Be aware there’s been a recall on

Miflex high pressure hoses.

-Stay away from XS Scuba steel tanks – the quality of the steel they use is bad.

Dive Talk

-Several Froggies - John, Ralph, Gary, and others - went to Lanes Cove Sunday. 68F on surface, 58F at depth

-Gary went Tues, and again today with Ralph. It was warm.

-Jack and Arnie went to the NH Saturday 68F, again Tues 63F, and is planning to go tomorrow

-Lewis went to the Pug and to Chester Poling.

-Tony had a 12 student class this weekend. He’s also doing a program for inner city kids from Boston to learn how to dive.

Dive this weekend

-John Sears is going Saturday. Contact him if you’re interested

-7:45AM BK Sunday

Raffles:

Dollars Box: Tony Vieira

Bug Bag: on hold til next week

Mystery Prize: John Sears

19-Jul-2012

Meeting called to order: 8:06 PM

Attendance: 4 Officers, 18 Members, 1 guest

Secretary: Business portion of minutes read and accepted.

Committees:

-Membership: 202 members

-Program: – see website for details

-Kayaking/canoeing Sunday July 22 at Foote Brothers

-Beach meeting next week 26-Jul. 4PM for diving

-7/24 - Movie Tuesday night –

Smithsonian “Ocean Frontiers”

-Great Annual Fish count 7/28 – Froggies will go to Old Garden Beach

Air Bubbles – August 2012

Old Business: Follow up w/ Markus

about membership email.

General Discussion:

-Activities calendar is now in Google Calendar, including Sunday dives and Thursday meeting – if you’d like an invite to be able to post, let Ellen know.

-Salem Sound CoastWatch is sponsoring a photo contest – see http://salemsound.org/photoContest

.html

-A guy was caught with lots of illegal lobsters - $8K fine and confiscated dive gear. He’s been written up before.

Dive Talk:

-Several Froggies - John, Gary, Adam, Claus, and others - went to Lanes Sunday. Vinny saw the torpedo ray

-John M went to wreck of FB North- star in Stelwagon – there’s a mooring.

-Laura went Friday nite with Finatics – Roslyn and Laura were only divers. Old Garden. Saw some squid at the end. Went again on Sunday at Folly Cove.

-John and Jeff went to Lanes Saturday in the water at 7:30AM. As they were coming out there were about 20 people gearing up. Hard to find an unoccupied place to get out after dive.

-Tony went to Back Beach Saturday – 1st time in wetsuit in 5 years. It was awful. Vis 25ft. Drysuit is now repaired.

-Al went to a wreck where there were lots of gray seals, they bumped him every time he got a lobster. No sharks

General Dicscussion:

-Mike’s moments

-Chinese manned submersible went to 7020 meters.

-British shipwreck which had been torpedoed by German U-boat off the coast of Ireland is being salvaged. The salvage company has brought up 48 tons silver which is believed to be 20% of the cargo. 15420’ deep.

The company will keep 80% minus expenses.

Dive this weekend: 7:45AM BK Sunday. Some people will be

kayaking; Gary will be there so if you’re not kayaking you should join him!

Raffles:

Dollars Box: Mike Denneler Bug Bag: Lauren Byrne Mystery Prize: Meg Tennissen

26-Jul-2012

Beach “Meeting” held at White Beach in Manchester (See pic on page 4)

02-Aug-2012

Meeting called to order: 8:06 PM

Attendance: 3 Officers, 16 Members, 2 guests

Secretary: Business portion of the minutes from 2 weeks ago were read and accepted

Committees:

-Membership: 102 members

-Program: – see website for more

-Camping/kayaking/diving week in VT next week. Annette was doing some soundings in a quarry.

-8/16-Susan Copelas on Alaska

-8/23-Paul Erikson: “Gone with the Fins”

Correspondence: South Shore Neptunes newletter received.

Dive Talk

-Markus was in Catalina for a couple of weeks. 7’ giant sea bass – impressive. Also dove in La Jolla – lemon sharks, guitar fish, cormorant under water, hundreds of huge lobsters (but it wasn’t the season).

Great vis. 53F.

-Gary & Ralph went to Old Garden

-John F & Mary participated in the fish count. John got several bugs.

-John S and Jim D went off House Island – filled a bag w/ scallops and still had ½ tank

-Several people did the kayaking trip on Ipswich River a couple weeks ago

–took 6 hours and a good time was had by all.

-Guest, Jim, got certified last weekend

–4 dives including Calf Island, Outer Brewster

-Graham, John F, Dan Hering w/

Geoff on the “Damn Boat” to Misery (not great) and Salt Rock (off Singing

Beach).

-Jack went to the NH 2 weeks ago – got a knife switch and trunnel pins. Had to go in a 3rd time to free the anchor.

Then had to dive in a pool to fix it.

General Discussion:

-Mike’s moments

-Ice the size of Manhatten fell off Greenland – not attributed to global warming

-German U550 70 miles south of Nantucket – it had torpedoed a tanker then hit under it but was destroyed.

-Pacific Northwest is finding elevated levels of caffiene in the ocean. Looks like it’s coming from septic systems; the water coming from septic systems is suspected.

-21# lobster is now in the aquarium

Dive this weekend: 7:45AM BK Sunday.

Raffles:

Dollars Box: Ellen Garvey

Bug Bag: Ray Porter

Mystery Prize: John Sears

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Great Annual Fish Count, July 28

Roslyn gave the fish ID mini course at Old Garden Beach before the GAFC, with Blue World videographer Jim getting it all for the show.

Amy greeted participants and collected completed survey forms

at Stage Fort Park.

John checked in with Amy

Upcoming Club Events

August 5-12:

Vermont Diving/Camping

Plan for a fun time!

August 16: Presentation-Susan Copelas on diving in Alaska.

August 23: Presentation-Paul Erickson's "Gone with the Fins: The Craziest Sea

Creatures I’ve Ever Met"

Meet strange undersea marvels from New England to Fiji and beyond in this colorful, musical presentation.

Biography: After an accomplished career at the New England Aquarium, Paul Erickson now develops exhibits for aquariums, zoos and nature centers and shares his fun, musical, image-rich presentations with audiences of all ages.

In addition, Paul has worked as a nature correspondent for ABC's Good Morning America, WBZ-TV News and Superkids with Tom Bergeron. He co-authored Dive to the Coral Reefs, a PBS Reading Rainbow selection. http://www.paulericksonstudios.com/presentations.html

September 13: Richard Tharin on the sinking of the Yukon

Come and hear more about how the San Diego dive community came together to purchase, prepare and sink one of the most interesting warships for an artificial reef. Learn more about the HMCS Yukon, how to dive it and how the wreck is growing as an artificial reef. You'll hear the history and updates from one of the first people to prepare and dive the wreck. Learn more about the Yukon and her sister ships in San Diego's Wreck Alley. Find out what it takes to make and sink a wreck and how to dive the Yukon from one of the guys who prepared her for sinking.

September 23: Annual NSF Club Picnic

held in conjunction with MetroWest Dive Club and other Dive Clubs.

This is also the day of the Bay State Council Treasure Hunt diving event. The Council will

try some new methods this year to make the event more fun and promote more diver participation.

September 27: Adam Hartnett will give a presentation on his recent trip to Lembeh Strait in Indonesia.

More GAFC

President Meg had a fun time!

Bob Michelson prepared to cut the special cake

Other Dive-Related Events

Undersea Divers

2012 Boat Dive Schedule

You’re invited! Come dive with us!

Come discover Folly Cove without the hassle of parking and lugging your gear! Don’t wait, these spots will fill quickly. Start planning your summer fun today!

To register: Call the store (978-927-9551) and choose your date. Payment ($80) is required to hold your spot. Dive 3: August 25. AM trip, depart at 8AM, 2 tank.

Finatics Invitation

The Finatics Dive Club has invited the Froggies to attend their scheduled events. Below is a listing for July and August.

Aug 18, Dive: Seal Dive at the Salvages, afternoon Aug 24, Dive: 6:30P for Pizza; 9P Squid dive w/Jerry

Shine @Back Beach

Bay State Council of Divers Meeting

The next meeting of the Bay State Council of Divers (BSC) is scheduled for Wednesday, September 12 at 7:30PM. This organization is for the benefit of all divers in Massachusetts.

BSC meetings are held at 7:30PM at the South Shore

Neptunes’ clubhouse in Quincy, MA, at the corner of

Quarry Street and Joyce Road.

All are welcome to attend this meeting!!

The 2012 Tropical Fish Rescue

Sunday October 7, 2012 9:30am to 4:30PM

Fort Wetherill, Jamestown, RI

Tropical Fish in New England?

This is a great family event, especially for the kids!

We will be seining; which is pulling a fish net through shallow water, up onto the beach, to discover all sorts of marine life, letting the children help gather the fish and marine life collected in the net. There will be a large touch tank set up, for all to enjoy, with lobsters, crabs, starfish, baby tropical fish, etc. As we gather our catch, let our experts teach you about the tropical fish you can observe in our on-site holding aquariums. There will be organized regular scuba diving as well as designated tropical collecting areas.

There will also be volleyball, music, silent auction, and of course diving and a great variety of food.

Never caught tropical fish before? Let our experts show you how. Extra collecting nets will be available.

All are welcome. Join us for a fun filled day!

ALL PROCEEDS WILL BENEFIT THE COTTING SCHOOL

If you plan to attend, or for directions or additional information, contact Al Bozza at

so we can get a headcount.

Member of the Month

for August 2012

Susan Copelas

for picking up the permits for the beach meeting- and for offering to do

a presentation for us soon.

Diver of the Month

for August 2012

Bill Werner

for organizing

the kayak/canoe trip on the Ipswich River

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

Your NSF Club Dues are now

OVERDUE!!

Consider yourself notified.

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