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 November 2013 issue

of Air Bubbles is

Thursday, October 24

Air Bubbles – October 2013

Meeting Summaries

5-Sep-2013

Meeting called to order: 7:40PM Attendance: 4 Officers, 16 Members Secretary: Minutes from last meeting read and accepted.

Treasurer:

-We have money, a bit behind last year, but on track.

-96 members to date, on target for 95-

100m but fewer paying members.

-Please pay for VT trip.

-Vinny will produce a Treasurer’s report covering last year and this year.

Committees:

-Membership: We need to verify that John Ferrier is receiving emails and FB requests about membership.

Ellen will send test messages.

-Program: See website for details

-Picnic (9/22)- We have the permit. Budget set for food and raffles. Ellen will collect $5 from non- NSF/MetroWest members.

-Banquet (12/7): Adam will coordinate banquet planning.

-10/3-Ryan King will give presentation on cave diving in Ginnie Springs. (**NOTE that after

this meeting this date was questioned as that’s the night of the

Salem Halloween Parade – Date changed to the next week 10/10/13.)

-10/17-Presentation by Jen Entwistle on mammal rescue or Laura’s

Eastport pictures.

-10/18-Diver social at White Horse Tavern in Alston, 7P.

Old Business:

-Ray will plan to have a by-laws cmte update in 2 weeks.

-Mike was to contact Art Channell about the location of the 1959 Life Magazine Photo. Has not reached him yet.

New Business:

-Next week we’ll have a proposal to return to weekly meetings.

-Mary volunteered to put the photo contest together.

Dive Talk:

-Jim B did several dives; some here, some in quarries in NC. Interesting

things including helicopter, PT boat, bus, telephone booth. Video on Jim’s

FB pagae.

-Adam dove Dry Salvages (near

Thatcher’s Island) w/ Cape Ann

Divers; was chased by a bull seal; video on FB. Dive is similar to Isle of

Shoals. Interesting rock formations; 60’, 30-35 ft vis.

-Adam did 9 dives in West Palm Beach. 58˚F at depth. Also did Blue Heron Bridge; great dive. Missed all the big stuff except Goliath Groupers (~20).

-Bruce dove at Pebble Beach, working through gear issues in NE waters; skate, lobsters.

-Vinny, Jeff, John S & Graham went

to OGB. Vinny & Graham had equipment problems and couldn’t

dive, but encountered 2 divers w/ rental gear who’d taken 30 shorts w/ no license. Called it in, and the 2 were

arrested& equipment confiscated.

There’s an article in several newspapers; nice email from harbormasters.

-John F did several dives, including one w/ Bill Werner & his brother. Went out with somebody w/ a huge boat w/ underwater speaker; lots of scallops.

-Jen went urchin diving at Kettle Is. Got a bucket full of urchins for friends; tried uni. Also got several huge lobsters and a flounder.

General Discussion:

-Jim D;s b-day party was well attended and a good time.

-Jim B got a drysuit!

Raffles: Dollars Box: Jennifer Entwistle

Mystery Prize: Jim Barbara

Bug Bag: Light to be drawn next week

19-Sep-2013

Meeting called to order: 7:40PM Attendance: 4 Officers, 13 Members, 6

guests.

Secretary: Minutes from last meeting read and accepted.

Treasurer: Renewed our registration with MA

Dues are due – currently have 87 members.

Correspondence:

-Newsletter from South Shore Neptunes

-Nice FB comment from Anthony Pettiglio.

Committees:

-Program: See website for details

-9/22-Picnice

-9/22-Bay State Council Treasure Hunt

-10/10- Ryan King presentation on Ginnie Springs

-10/12-Underwater pumpkin carving contest at Stage Fort Park. Details coming.

-10/17-Jen Entwistle presentation on mammal rescue

-10/19-Divers’ social at White Horse

Tavern in Alston, 8PM

-10/24- “Wing night” at Angela’s in

Saugus

-10/31- no meeting-Halloween in Salem.

Old Business: Mike did contact Art Channell about the location for the

1959 Life Magazine photo. Site has been identified; it’s Plum Cove, not

Pigeon Cove. See September Air Bubbles for the story. If we go this year, it will have to be soon, perhaps Oct 5/6. Marcus will contact papers. New Business: Weekly meetings: We decided that we would meet weekly for the rest of the year. The 1st and 3rd weeks will include business topics, i.e. agenda as we have it. Officers expected to attend if possible; meeting minutes will be taken. On other weeks the agenda would be just dive talk, dive this week, review events

scheduled for the next 2 weeks, and general discussion; no “business”

items. Officers are encouraged to attend but not expected. No minutes will be taken. If an officer is present, $$ box and raffle tickets will be sold.

-As a guideline, presentations will be on 1st & 3rd weeks, starting at 8:15. Plan for 1 or 2 presentations per mo,

Air Bubbles – October 2013

fewer in summer when there’s lots of dive talk.

-Every 2-3 months we’ll have a “wing night” outing to a restaurant. These should be planned and publicized well in advance.

-Officers should meet quarterly to address business issues; this needs to be made part of the calendar, scheduled in advance to ensure meetings. Does not need to be part of the Thursday meetings.

Dive Talk:

-Markus, Laura, Geoff & Todd on

Geoff’s boat with Rotarians that had won a boat trip in a raffle. They caught lobsters and grilled them for the raffle winners.

-Jeff, John, Vinny & Graham went to Lanes Cove; too rough. Ended up at Loblolly. Met at 7:30, in water at 10:40.

-John & Gary on Gary’s boat. Got stuck in the Ipswich River because tides are an hour different. Went to Whale Cove; all bugs were oversized eggers.

-Laura w/ Dive Society last night; pipefish, crabs, lobsters.

General Discussion:

-Photo contest rules are in the latest edition of Air Bubbles.

-Arnie Pettiglio:

-Donations are being accepted for a memorial bench for Front Beach, by 9/27. Bob Boyle (Undersea Divers), Burlington Scuba, & NSF are sharing the cost.

-Laura described a keychain Arnie made for her.

-Jack described a dive they did together a few weeks ago when Jack accidentally hit the firing pin on a bullet, causing explosion.

-Vinny related that he’s a member of the NSF because Arnie recommended the Club right after Vinny was certified.

-Bobby related that he’s known Arnie for 40 years; Arnie followed him from shop to shop in the early days.

-Arnie’s widow Gail described how much diving and the Club meant to Arnie.

Raffles: Dollars Box: Mike Garvey

Mystery Prize: Mary Howard

Bug Bag: Peter Chapman

Diver of the Month

for September 2013

Jim Barbara

Member of the Month

for September 2013

Mike Garvey

Coming Events:

October 10:

Presentation at North Shore Frogmen:

Ryan King will give a presentation at the meeting about Cave Diving at Ginnie Springs, Florida.

Nominations for 2014 NSF Club Officers

Beginning at the first Business Meeting in November (11/7/13), the 2013 officers will entertain nominations for officers for next year, to take over “commencing

with the New Business portion of the last scheduled Club meeting in December and ending with the conclusion of the Old Business portion of the last scheduled Club

meeting in December of the following year.”

Consider that it may be it’s your time to run for office.

North Shore Frogmen’s Club

Picnic Raffle Winners:

-Mike Garvey - mask

-Jerry Sutherland - Spiced Rum

-Stacy Hayes - bug bag & red wine (She won 3 times! I hope she went directly to the store and bought some lottery tickets!)

-Mike Denneler - white zin

-Mary Howard - dry bag

-Adam Hartnett - Aquarium tickets

-Karen (?) - white wine

-Mark Criasia - white wine & aquarium tickets (He won twice - wasn't present)

Submit your photos to the

2013 PHOTO CONTEST

There will be a photography contest this year.

Get those photos printed and make submissions for the contest to me by November 21 at the latest!

Photo Contest Rules:

Submissions are to be made by members of the

North Shore Frogmen’s Club only.

Submitted photos must have been taken since September 2012.

Photos are to be submitted as prints, maximum size no more than 8 1/2” x 11”.

Submitted photos may not be matted or framed.

 Please label photos as to orientation (i.e. UP ), as there is no guarantee that I will be able to tell what you think the orientation is.

Note the category on the back of each photo (see 7 categories below).

Provide any photo titles you may wish to have displayed with your pictures. (I will not make up any titles, and titles really add a certain something to voters!)

Maximum of 4 submissions per photographer per category.

Photo Categories:

1)Cold Water

2)Species Interaction in cold water

3)Warm Water

4)Species Interaction in warm water

5)Above Water / Dive Related (must have some sign(s) of diving activity in the picture)

6)New – Movie category – We will need to decide how your movie(s) will be displayed for the voting and for the banquet. If you have more than one movie clip, you may want to bring more than one lap-top; or maybe we can show them with our AV equipment?

I’m looking forward to seeing some fantastic photos from Club members!!

Mary Howard