Presidents’ Message - April 2013

Hello Froggies!

I want to thank everyone for their help with Sea Rovers. I am naming Vinny Egizi diver of the month for getting the free booth display for the club. I am naming Ellen Garvey as member of the month for all her hard work on the booth display panels. She spent hours painting every individual panel and then used a sponge technique to make it really fancy! Our booth display looked incredible! Thanks for everything you guys did to make that happen!

We had a great Club presence at Sea Rovers. We handed out lots of flyers to interested divers. Our booth generated a brand new membership and encouraged some previous members to attend the last meeting. I hope they will rejoin us for 2013 since we have a lot of exciting things planned this year.

So much for the Ground hog's predictions for an early spring! Hopefully the storms will be winding down and spring will be approaching us ....eventually. So now I would like to focus on what's happening for the month of April. We need divers to participate in the annual Palmer Cove Float Cleaning on Sunday April 7th @ 10:00am. We need volunteers to donate about an hour of their time to scrape the growth off of the floats at the Yacht Club. Participation is a notion of good will on our part, since they allow us to hold meetings there for free. After the float cleaning, we can do a fun bottle dive in the same area. The Yacht Club will provide those that participate with free lunch and beer!!!! How can anyone turn that down? We need at least 10 divers. If you are interested in volunteering please contact John Sears or Laura Gallagher ASAP!

The Easter Egg Hunt Dive and Party will be happening on Sunday April 14th!! We will have an Easter Egg Hunt dive at Stage Fort Park in Gloucester at 10am. Prizes will be awarded and the Easter Bunny will be there in his dive gear to hand out candy to all that attend! After the dive, we will have a spring cook out at Dodie Carvalho's house.

We have some great presentations coming up. Both Fred Calhoun and Taye Evans will be guest speakers in April. We will also be planning our second Nudibranch Safari dive with the Finatics on April 21st. East Coast Divers is having their Diving Social Event at the White Horse Tavern in Allston on Fri April 19th. So with the storms winding down and spring around the corner, I ask this pressing question: Is it time to go diving? Why, yes it is!!! : )

-Laura Gallagher

Coming Up

April 4: Fred Calhoun will present the film

“DESCENT”

April 7: Annual PCYC

Float Cleaning

!! April 14: Updated date for Easter Egg Dive and Party

April 18: Presentation:

Tay Evans-the Importance

of Eel Grass in Salem

Sound

May 2: Presentation: Faith

Ortins of DUI

In this Issue:

President’s Message	pg. 1
Meeting Summary	pg. 2
Coming Events & Calendar	pg. 3-4
Sea Rovers Pics	pg. 5
Bay State Council	pg. 6

The North Shore Frogmen’s Club

PO Box 3604

Peabody, MA 01961

2013 OFFICERS

President: Laura Gallagher Tel: 508 843-2395

Email: searaven00@yahoo.com

Vice President: Adam Hartnett Email: greatnewsadam@gmail.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: membership@northshorefrogmen.com

Newsletter: Mary Howard

Tel: (781) 944-1292

Email: m.m.howard@comcast.net

Webmaster: Markus Diersbock mdiersbock@gmail.com

*Deadline for submissions* for the May 2013 issue

of Air Bubbles is

Thursday, April 25

Air Bubbles – April 2013

Meeting Summaries

3-Mar-2013

Meeting called to order: 8:08PM

Attendance: 4 Officers, 7 total Members, 2 renewing members

Secretary: Minutes from last business meeting read & accepted.

Treasurer: Faith and Al M paid dues

Announcements

Correspondence Committees:

-Program: See website for details

-Social meeting will be listed on the website as starging at 7PM

-3/9-10: Sea Rovers

-3/16: St. Patrick’s Day party will start at 5PM. There may be a dive earlier in the day; Laura will coordinate.

-4/7: Float Cleaning at PCYC

-4/14: Easter Egg Dive at Stage Fort Park; 10AM start time.

-4/14: Easter Egg Party at Dodie

Carvalho’s; noon start time.

-5/2: Faith will give presentation.

-5/4-5: DUI Demo Days at Stage Fort Park. They would like the Club to have a table. There will be a dinner on Saturday night, celebrating 50 years!

-Comedy/pizza night has been moved to June 13.

-Membership: John F is meeting a potential member at Sea Rovers on

Sunday.

Old Business:

-Ellen & Mike refurbished the booth which Vinny obtained from his company. We got 2 and could sell one, though we may want it for parts.

-Ellen located 2 original copies of the life magazine with the NSF 1959 picture and had it blown up to use in the booth. One copy of the magazine will be for the Club; the other will be raffled at some point.

New Business: We voted in favor of combining our Holiday Banquet with the Finatics this year, perhaps at the ICC. The idea would be that would get

a nicer place and more people, and it would be closer to Rt 128. Cost to the Club is about the same. We recognize that it would change the dynamic of the event and we might want to move the awards and such to a different venue.

Dive Talk:

-Jim & Gary went to Winter Island. 39˚F, 20 ft, 34 min. Both diving wet. Auful vis, saw rocks and a crab.

-Laura had a nice dive on the Gauntlet. See pictures of brass fire extinguisher on FB; she didn’t find it, but liked the find.

-Faith has been doing test dives 2-3 times/wk with the new electrically heated insulation. Very pleasurable.

Saw a stargazer fish she’s never seen in 11 years of diving in San Diego. went to a pool to check out new equipment (overhauled regs)

-Dive this weekend cancelled due to Sea Rovers and weather.

Raffles: Dollars Box: Mike Garvey Mystery Prize: Jim Barbara

Bug Bag: going off next meeting. After the business meeting, we had a

great presentation from Susan Copelas on her diving in the Philippines!

Diver of the Month

for April 2013

Vinny Egizi

Member of the Month

for April 2013

Ellen Garvey

Upcoming Events…..

Thursday April 4

Fred Calhoun will present the film, “Descent”. Filmed by the crew of The Wall, it shows an accidental drop To 310 feet. The "Descent" occurred in 1970 and was filmed all the way down- and-up by Andrew Jackson Chapell.

Thursday April 18

Tay Evans - The Importance of Eelgrass Meadows in Salem Sound

Tay Evans is an Environmental Specialist with the Division of Marine Fisheries who resides in Beverly. She is the Program Leader of a $700,000 Five Year Eelgrass Restoration Grant and has been Chair of the MA Interagency Seagrass Group since Fall 2009. She will be speaking to us about the importance of the eelgrass meadows in Salem Sound.

Thursday May 2

Faith Ortins of DUI and the North Shore Frogmen will give a presentation to the Club. More to come!

Presentations begin after the business portion of the meeting of North Shore Frogmen.

Sunday April 7

Please come help clean the dock floats at PCYC as a show of support for your Club and PCYC who has welcomed us to have our meetings at their Club.

SUNDAY APRIL 14

Easter Egg Dive with the Easter Bunny at Stage Fort Park, Gloucester at 10AM.

After Dive Easter Egg Party at Dodie Carvalho’s house in Rockport. Note that Dodie plans to go to Stage Fort Park for the activities this year, party will not begin until noon. Bring something to share and your favorite beverage. The jacuzzi will be available to anyone wanting to take a spa.

Salem Sound Coastwatch Launches New

Lecture Series

"Underwater in Salem Sound"

The series, cosponsored by Marblehead's Abbot Public Library, will be held at 7 pm at the library on the last Wednesday of each month, January through April. Save these dates:

Wednesday, April 24 - "Making a Living On and In the Water" -Conversations with lobsterman Jay Michaud & Ray Bates, historian and diver

All sessions are free and open to the public. This series is funded in part by the Massachusetts Environment Trust through the sale of "Preserve the Trust" environmental license plates.

For more information, contact Salem Sound Coastwatch at 978-741-7900, email

info@salemsound.org or visit salemsound.org

Northeastern University

Marine Science Center

430 Nahant Road, Nahant, Mass. 01908

For more info, see www.northeastern.edu/marinescience/

2012-2013 Lecture Series

Friday, April 26, 2013 at 7 pm

ANNUAL RISER LECTURE

We are pleased to announce this year's Riser Lecture, which is held in honor of the MSC's founding Director, Dr. Nathan "Doc" Riser. Doc was Director of the MSC from 1967 until his retirement in 1985, although continued to conduct his research at the MSC until his passing in 2006.

BOTTOMS BENEATH THE ICE: REFLECTIONS OF 100 YEARS OF BENTHIC ECOLOGY AT McMURDO SOUND, ANTARCTICA

Dr. Paul Dayton, Professor Emeritus Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego

Bay State Council Meeting

The next Bay State Council of Divers meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 17, 7:30PM at the SSN’s clubhouse located at the corner of Quarry Street and Joyce Road in Quincy.

All are welcome to attend these meetings!

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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Tue-Fri 10-6, Sat 9-5, Sun 9-3

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