Graphics by Joe Kalohi and Allen Parker
Redondo Beach, CA USA
The Sea Divers are a independent (501c) nonprofit advanced recreational SCUBA diving club based in in Southern California. We schedule 12+ boat dives a year on some of the best Southern California dive boats; the Peace, the Magician, the Horizon, and the Sea Bass which include food and air fills. We reserve bunks/staterooms for our members on all overnight and multi-day trips. We dive advanced and intermediate locations for the experienced diver that offer the best hunting and photographic opportunities found in Southern California and possibly the world. See our trip schedule below for more details.
The
next General Meeting will be Tuesday, January 6 at 7 p.m. at
Round
Table Pizza, 4330 Redondo Beach Blvd.
(one block east of Hawthorne Blvd. in the Northpoint/CVS Shopping Center)
Torrance, CA (310) 371-8009
where all our general meetings are held. Click
here for a map.
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January
6. Dale
Sheckler will talk about the California diving scene
or some other very relevant topic relating to local diving.
Since 1984, Dale has been Editor of the California Diving
News http://www.cadivingnews.com,
the only publication dedicated to California Scuba Divers.
Many of his beautiful underwater pictures grace the pages of
this publication. He has also created and organizes the
annual Scuba Show with the last event on June 21-22 at the
Long Beach Convention Center http://www.scubashow.com/
and http://www.saintbrendan.com/.
Dale has written many books on local diving as shown in http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/Sheckler,%20Dale.
February
3.
Kurt Leiber, the founder and President of Ocean Defenders
Alliance (ODA) http://www.oceandefenders.org
will present a
DVD about the dangers of abandoned fishing gear to
the marine environment and what ODA is doing about it. ODA
is an all volunteer organization that has been removing
abandoned fishing gear from Southern
California since 2004. An
almost endless series of marine organism deaths are caused
by this gear. Our former TSD President Erik almost got
tangled in an abandoned net. [The
program originally scheduled for February 3 is now to be
given on June 2.]
March
3. Karl Huggins, Program
Manager of the Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber and
originator of the Hugi diving tables http://wrigley.usc.edu/hyperbaric/hugitabl.htm
will give a presentation about diving safety. Karl was also
co-developer of the Edge Dive Computer. If you want a direct
link to the Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber, just click on a
picture of John Delaney at the top of this web page!
April
7. A colleague of Harvey Schmiedeke
from California
Ships To Reefs will present a visual update on his
program to make artificial California reefs from unwanted
ships. In
this presentation you will learn about the program
world-wide as well as specific local programs including
plans for an Underwater Park, the status of site and ship
investigations, the status of existing artificial reefs and
much more. You can learn more about the program at http://www.cs2r.org
and http://www.sunkentreasures.org
May
5.
Brian
Mieux will talk about the Marine Life Protection Act
(MLPA) program process as described in http://www.dfg.ca.gov/mlpa/
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Life_Protection_Act.
Brian is involved
with Reef Check (see http://www.reefcheck.org/rcca/rcca_home.php)
and the Santa Monica Baykeeper (see http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=41261341).
June
2.
Susan Pantle of Uncommon Adventures http://www.uncommonadventures.com
will present a
video she made about diving in Malpelo/Cocos/Galapagos,
Papua New Guinea and Indonesia/Raja Ampat. Susan is an
expert in dive travel to the remote corners of the
world.
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