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THE AQUA TOOTER

Since 1958... a publication from the Aqua Tutus Diving Club, a non-profit organization established to promote Water Safety

and to further the sport of SCUBA Diving.

March 2016

Aqua Tutus Diving Club's

next regular meeting:

Thursday, April 7th 7:30 p.m.

Location: Round Table Pizza

20920 Redwood Rd. Castro Valley

Aqua Tooter � Pleasanton, California

What’s Inside News from Helga Page 2 ATTENTION AQUATUTORS Page 2 March Gen Meeting Minutes Page 3-4 March BOD Meeting Minutes Page 5-6 Aloha Joe Reports Page 6

On the web at http://www.aquatutus.com

UPCOMING CLUB ACTIVITY (LOCAL)

Sat, Apr 9: Butterfly House – Oliver is POC Sat, Apr 23: TBD (Possibly Coral Street in Pacific Grove?) – Mike is POC May 21-22 Salt Point Diving/Camping

BOD MEETING SCHEDULE 3rd Thursday Every month except December,

Thurs, April 21st, Round Table Pizza

http://www.meetup.com/Aqua-Tutus-Dive-Club/ or

http://www.my.calendars.net/atdc_events

April Meeting Entertainment

At the April 7 General meeting, I am pleased to an-nounce that Craig Davis and Susan Bloomfield will be joining us again to share another fantastic video presentation . Craig and Susan have been diving to-gether since 1997, diving extensively in the Indo-Pacific including such des-tinations as The Maldives, Borneo, Thailand, the Solo-mon Island, Gala-pagos, Cocos, Truk, Papua New Guinea, and Palau.

Most of their div-ing now is concen-trated on Indone-sia. They recently returned from their 3rd and 4th trips to Raja Amapt where the oceanic man-tas were the highlight of the trips.

Craig and Susan’s video works have been compared to

“National Geographic” by those who have seen their

presentations. Susan is an excellent critter spotter for

Craig’s amazing talent for capturing and portraying

marine life. In the past they amazed us with their high

definition videos of Sulawesi, Eastern Indonesia, Gala-

pagos and the Philippines.

Craig has been shooting underwater video almost from

the moment he hit the water. He is currently shooting a

Sony HD CX550 in a Bluefin housing with external

Macromate. He likes shooting the big stuff but he loves

shooting the tiniest critters. He is most interested in

capturing the interesting behaviors and interaction of

the marine life.

Please join us as we welcome back Craig and Susan as

they share another wonderful presentation with the

club.

March 2016

ATTENTION AQUATUTORS

Your help to design a club

tee-shirt is needed

Talk to or email Jono or Nick with

your ideas

Email: [email protected]


WORDS TO DIVE BY and ENTERTAINMENT

REPORT will be returning Soon.

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THANK YOU PRESENTERS AND NEWS-LETTER CONTRIBUTORS for making this month’s AQUATOOTER possible: Dave McMurdie, Linda Muth, Helga Mahlmann, Kat Smith, Kari Klaboe

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ATTENTION AQUATUTORS

Regarding Dennis’s “What do I do

when?” presentation at the June Mem-

bership meeting. Dennis will not be tak-

ing questions at the meeting; only before-

hand via email. So please make sure to

send your questions to Dennis before

the presentation. Email Dennis at

[email protected]

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killed_us_5701146fe4b083f5c607edbe


Aqua Tutus Diving Club

General Meeting Minutes

Date: March 3, 2016

Reported by Kari Klaboe Meeting called to order by President Mike Barrett at Round Table Pizza in Castro Valley, CA at 7:31 pm.

Speaker: Dave McMurdie Guests: Asher (OW with Jim Steele), Junyu (OW with Jim Steele), Mike McDonald (1970 Aqua Tutus Mem-ber), John and Johnnie Entertainment (Kat Smith)

Apr: Craig and Susan Davis May: Jason Bradley (UPDATED 3/17)

Jun: Dennis – What do I do when… (UPDATED

3/17)

Jul: 2015 Monterey Shootout results Aug: Member’s Night Sep: TBD Oct: Dave McGuire – Shark Stewards Nov: Larry Muth - Turks & Caicos Dec: [no general meeting] Please contact Kat if you have any requests or sugges-tions for future entertainment. Email questions for “What do I do when…” to Dennis before the meeting.

Treasurer’s Report (Helga Mahlmann)

$4,065.17 Membership (Bernhard Sterling)

51 total (2016 membership so far). Membership dues for 2016 are due and you can pay in person with cash, check, or Square. Online payments through Square are also possible. Training (Patti Shannon)

• Medic, First Aid, CPR Class: Send Dennis an email, so he can order the right number of manuals. Anyone who is planning on the Rescue course will need to take this course. Dennis will keep us updated (date TBD).

• Enriched Air – Class scheduled for March 8 from 7PM to 10PM.

• Fall classes planned: Advanced Open Water and Rescue Diver (late fall or next spring). Rescue requires Advanced Open Water certification and current CPR training

• No questions will be taken from the floor for Den-

nis’ May presentation.

• For more information on training contact Dennis Hocker (510) 792-5606 [email protected] or Neil Benjamin (510) 673-0073 [email protected] Newsletter (Don Kelsey)

Newsletter for February came out. Input due by the 20th. Web Goddess (Patti Shannon)

• Activities and Upcoming Events and Newsletter are up. .ORG site is still in progress.

• Still looking for pictures, so please send them to Patti with an email saying she can use them. The pic-tures will have your name on it. Social Media (Jim Driggers)

• 67 people on Meetup: 133 past meetups and 13 upcoming meetings

• If you are hosting an event, please put it on Meetup.

• 46 people on Facebook (open to the public)

Old Business:

• We are still looking for help with the club t-shirt design, send ideas to any board members.

• Members should forward dive photos to Patti for use on our club website. Please provide an email communicating that she can use the image on our website.

• If you are looking for equipment, ask around at club meetings. The club is working on organizing an equipment swap, possibly this spring, where members can trade and/or sell dive equipment.

• Dive safety – Jono brought up that it is a good idea to have emergency information available when diving.

Decision: Most club members are interested and we will investigate further.

Update: There are a number of options available for dive tags: DAN provides one, Di-verTag.net, Roadrunner, Army Surplus (Nick), Myron made a tag for himself, alumi-num etched luggage tags etc.

Bernhard – Suggested the club buy tags for members (to be discussed at next BOD meet-ing)

New Business: Dennis will be purchasing AquaSketches, which are underwater slates (http://aquasketch.com/). If you are


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interested in purchasing one, please email him at: [email protected].

Special Committee: No new information

Past Dives:

• February Club Dive: San Carlos Beach, Monte-rey: Originally planned for McAbee Beach, but the beach was closed due to contamination (see February club newsletter). Eight members were at the club di-ve, and members saw some bat stars, lots of sea hares, and some sea urchin. The first dive was the pipeline with visibility of 10-15 feet. The second di-ve was Middle Reef with a visibility of 20 feet.

• Philippines, Oliver: Several club members were on the trip: Oliver, Dennis, Neil, Meredith, Jeff. The group started at Puerto Galera, where they stayed at a resort and then they moved to the Azores liveaboard.

a. Puerto Galera, Philippines – 71 deg - which is cold if you are expecting tropical weather. Dives included several reefs and diving off of Verde Island (big walls). Decent visibility – 30-40 feet. Oliver wouldn’t go here again, as he enjoyed Dumaguete, Philippines more. He will not go to the Philippines in winter again.

b. Azores Liveaboard, Wrecks of Coron Islands – 7 or 8 merchant marine Japanese ship wrecks. 78 deg (still kind of cold) and visibility was fair to good. Best wreck was an oil tanker (450 feet long or so), where the visibility was barely across it – so it was an exploration. Guide brought Oliver and Neil to oil tanks.

c. Azores Liveaboard, Apo Reef – National Marine Sanctuary in the middle of the ocean with tem-peratures of 80-81 deg. Fantastic diving, with a once in a lifetime experience – saw cuttlefish mating. One of the cuttlefish came up close to Oliver. At 80 feet there was a thermocline that dropped 10 deg, so they tended to stay above the thermocline.

Thanks to Paul Viktus for sharing photos on Face-book and not making them private.

Bone nominations:

• Jeff Tindall (still in Philippines) – Did the entire liveaboard trip with socks because he forgot his boots in Puerto Galera.

• Logan Bell - Disconnected his hose for the power inflator and was trying to manually inflate his BCD.

ATTENTION AQUATUTOR

UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHERS

Your images are needed

at AQUATUTUS.COM

Email your dive photos to Patti for

use on our club website.

Please provide an email communi-

cating that Patti can use your image

on our website.


He later found out he was pushing the wrong button.

Bone Award: Jeff Tindall

Upcoming Activity and Dives

2016

Mar 17: Board Meeting at Round Table Mar 19: Lover’s Point (Lover’s Cove 2) - Nick Ker-son is POC Apr 7: General Meeting Apr 21: Board Meeting Apr 23: TBD (Possibly Coral Street in Pacific Grove?) – Mike is POC May 21-22: Salt Point weekend trip – Linda is POC

(Woodside Campsite) – Book a spot, potluck on Saturday evening.

Jul 10-24: Chuuk - Dennis is going one more time! If you have any interest/desire to do wreck diving. No better place to do wreck diving. About 50 Japanese vessels are there. It doesn't get better. Space availa-ble.

Dec. 19-Jan. 2: End of year trip to Cozumel 2017

Jun 24-Jul8: Caribbean Explorer II, St. Maarteen, Saba, St. Kitts - POC Dennis

Meetings

Next Membership meeting:

April 7, 2016 Next BOD meeting:

March 17, 2016 Meeting adjourned at 9:07 PM


Aqua Tutus Diving Club

Board Meeting Minutes

Date: March 17, 2016

Reported by Kari Klaboe

Present: Kari, Bernhard, Dennis, Patti, Kat, Fritz, My-ron, Helga, Jono, Nick

Meeting called to order at 7:01 pm by Vice President Jono.

Treasurer’s Report (Helga Mahlmann)

• Club will pay the remainder of our CenCal dues, a portion of which were being held until the club re-ceived more membership dues.

• $125 - 2016 membership dues received last month.

• $955 - 2016 membership dues received to date.

• Paid Pacific Grove hyperbaric chamber donation and overpaid by $50 for next year. Overpayment is noted in club balance sheet under the “Prepaid Ex-pense” field.

• Current balance is $3824.67

Up-Coming Entertainment (Kat Smith)

2016

Apr: Craig and Susan Davis May: Jason Bradley (Update 3/17)

Jun: Dennis – What do I do when… (Update 3/17)

Jul: 2015 Monterey Shootout results Aug: Member’s Night Sep: TBD Oct: Dave McGuire – Shark Stewards Nov: Turks & Caicos - Larry Muth

Possible speakers for September or next year:

• Mike Boom - Kat to call about Micronesia presenta-tion

• Clay Wiseman (underwater photographer located in Santa Cruz)

• Tom (Academy of Science) – in Nick’s swim club

• Carol Rose – contact of Helga’s

• Jay Ireland – contact of Helga’s

Membership (Bernhard Sterling)

10 life members, 44 regular members 7 associates, 61 Total

Director of Training (Patti Shannon - Dennis not

present)

• CPR/First Aid/Medic: Need to choose a date when Dennis returns from his trip.

• Rescue Diver: Two people have shown interest, but Dennis would ideally like eight people before sched-uling a class.

• Dennis: Suggested trying to schedule informal club get-togethers for less-experienced divers.

Action: Kari to investigate options for promoting an informal dive social for less-experienced divers and propose options to the club (location, how to promote on Meetup/Facebook, etc.)

• If anyone has interest in other courses please email Dennis at [email protected]

Webgoddess (Patti Shannon)

Looking for members who may be interested in taking over the website.

Action: Announce at next meeting we are looking for a member to take over the website.

Pending: Helga suggested we look into setting up club emails, instead using our personal emails. Patti will follow up with everyone.

Social Media (Jim Driggers – not present)

Newsletter (Don – not present)

Special Committee

Pending: Holiday Party date set as December 10, 2016. Patti to check on venue. Helga ordered a men’s dive watch for the raffle, as a donation from the club.

CenCal [no update]

Old Business

• Alan presented his write up for the guest flier. Much debate followed and it was suggested that we don’t need a full page flier but instead of maybe a busi-ness card.

Old Action: Alan to finish a tri-fold flier for guests at the club meeting. [3/17 update: action item still in progress]

• Club shirt - Nick, Jono, and Patty Baugh have all communicated interest in helping to create a club shirt. An announcement at the January general meeting was made requesting designs and Don also included a request in the last Tooter. At the last BOD meeting Jono communicated that Oaklandish would be willing to do a custom screen printing, we would just need to provide a design to get a quote.

Old Update: To date, no suggestions have come in for shirt designs, so we have decided that we will try to use the club logo from previous club shirts.

Several shirts options were presented and will be dis-cussed again at the next BOD meeting:

Alan contacted Connie and she still has the pat-


TOOTER PUBLISHING SCHEDULE

Tooter INPUT by 20th of month

Tooter will be published usually by end of month

BOD meeting minutes continued

tern for the club logo used previously. She could embroider the club logo on shirts or other items for club members, at a small cost. Connie communicated that t-shirts don’t work well with her embroidery machine.

CaféPress, a website that allows you to create customized goods, was another option men-tioned (http://www.cafepress.com/). We can upload our club design to the website and then club members would be able to order a range of garments with that design. Price varies depend-ing on item purchased.

[3/17 update: action item still in progress] Equipment Swap

New Update: May 14 is tentatively set as the date and Dennis and Patti will host the event at their

house. Time to be 10 AM -4 PM.

New Business

Dive Tags: Bernhard suggested the club buy dive tags for members. Jono and Nick presented example tags that Nick could print for us and the tags would cost ~$4/tag.

Action: Board decided that at the next general meeting the club should vote on buying dive tags for members (cost ~$4/tag). The board proposes that each member get one tag (no re-placement tags will be purchased) and the total spending this year is not to exceed $300.

Upcoming Events

2016

Mar. 19: Club Dive - Nick (Lover’s Point – Lover’s Cove 2, Pacific Grove) Apr. 23: Club Dive - Mike (TBD) May 21-22 : Club Dive - Linda (Salt Point Camping Trip) Jul. 10-24: Chuuk - Dennis is going one more time! If you have any interest/desire to do wreck diving. No better place to do wreck diving. About 50 Japanese vessels are there. It doesn't get better.

2017

Jun. 24-JUL 8: Caribbean Explorer II, St. Maarteen, Saba, St. Kitts - POC Dennis Dec. 19-JAN 2: End of year trip to Cozumel

Meetings

Next Membership meeting: April 7, 2016

Next BOD meeting: April 21, 2016 Meeting adjourned at 8:08 pm.

Aloha Joe Reports from Hawaii

The pictures are at our informal meeting in Ha-waii, of the AquaTutus Dive Club West, or more appropriately, the Hawaiian branch.

Aquatutus Life Members Mark, Arnie, and Joe meet informally at the Fish Hopper in Kailua-Kona, again trying to understand why we all gain weight at these meetings. Date was 3/29/16. Gale was taking the picture. The second picture shows Mark, Arnie, and Gale,

with Joe taking the picture. Arnie and Gale are on the island of Hawaii for a

few days to attend the Merry Monarch Festi-val. Their normal abode is on Oahu.

Mark was taking a break from his busy schedule in Construction and home remodeling on the Big Island.


Calendar of Events

See the latest meeting minutes,

or

http://www.meetup.com/Aqua-Tutus-Dive-Club/

Or

http://www.aquatutus.com/

for the current schedule of ATDC Events

ATDC Dive Training

Advanced Open Water Class Calendar Class diving completed on Sept 19th

• Dates are tentative, depend on participation, check the webpage

• Classroom sessions held at Dennis’ house, 38962 Larkspur Street, Newark, CA

• For more information contact

• Neil Benjamin: (510) 673-0073 [email protected]

• Dennis Hocker: (510) 792-5606 dennis@ rxscuba.com

2016 OFFICERS/BOD/Volunteers

President Mike Barrett [email protected]

Vice President

Jono Dove [email protected]

Secretary

Kari Klaboe [email protected]

Treasurer

Helga Mahlmann [email protected]

Membership Chair Bernhard Sterling [email protected]

Training Director Dennis Hocker [email protected]

Entertainment Chair

Kat Smith [email protected]

Newsletter Publisher

Don Kelsey [email protected]

Board Members @ Large: Kat Smith [email protected]

Jim Driggers [email protected]

Nik Kerson [email protected]

Past President

Oliver Edwards [email protected]

Web “Goddess”

Patti Shannon-Hocker [email protected]

ATDC Web page: www.aquatutus.com

http://reefcheck.org/rcca/rcca_home.php

What is a “POC”

The “POC” is a Point of Contact for a club dive. Any member is welcome to plan a dive and put in on our web site calendar. You don’t have to be a dive master, or the director of training, or a board member to do this. Any club dive is done with the expectation that there will be people there to help.

FIND Oliver’s Tutorial BEGINNING PHOTOSHOP FOR

UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHERS at

http://www.aquatutus.com/articles.html

Then click on “Beginning Photoshop For Underwater Pho-tography -- by Oliver Edwards” for the download

ATTENTION , ASPIRING PHOTOGRA-

PHERS AND WRITERS

WANTED—DIVE PICS AND STORIES

FOR THE TOOTER.

Send your input to Don at

[email protected]


Aqua Tutus Diving Club P.O. Box 11952 Pleasanton, CA 94588

North Coast Diving since 1958

For quick access to Chuck Tribolet’s

Internet Resources

for the Bay Area Diver

http://www.garlic.com/~triblet/swell/

News from the Monterey Bay

National Marine Sanctuary

http://www.mbnms.nos.noaa.gov

https://www.facebook.com/MBNMS

News from the Monterey Bay

Aquarium Research Institute

http://www.mbari.org/

https://www.facebook.com/MBARInews?

fref=ts

News from the California Marine

Sanctuary Foundation

http://californiamsf.org/index.html

News from the Pacific Grove

Hyperbaric Chamber

https://www.facebook.com/

PGHyperbaricChamber

http://californiamsf.org/pages/donate-

pgh.html

Keep up with California Diving,

read

California Diving News

http://www.cadivingnews.com/

Big Island, Hawaii

Kona Condo for Rent June 15- June 29, 2016

$450 per week,+$14 tax One-time $50 registry fee covers one or all weeks.

Weeks run Weds to Weds Contact Don Kelsey

925-820-8362

[email protected]

Resort details at www.thekonabillfisher.com

Don’s timeshare is now available for

2016. Book now while it is still

Available at a great low price.

Protecting the unique habitats and cultures of islands worldwide

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