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 Welcome
from the Jacksonville Scubanauts Dive Club!
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July
Meeting
Our
July meeting will be Wednesday, July 14th. (Our
regular meetings
are
always
the
second
Wednesday of each month). Socializing
starts at 6:00 pm and the meeting starts at 6:30 pm.
The
meeting will be at our regular location at Athen's
Café Greek
Restaurant at 6271
St. Augustine Road. They have a private room reserved
for us that has accommodated us nicely.
Our
program for this coming meeting will be a presentation
on weather from Richard Nunn, the meterologist for WJXT
Channel 4's Morning Show. If you ve seen the show, you
know that Richard is always informative and entertaining.
He and his wife Cyndi are also certified scuba divers.
The topic of his presentation will be revealed at the meeting,
and he will be open to questions afterwards.
Please
come and enjoy the program, and bring a guest! Help us
turn
out a good crowd for Richard's presentation!
We
just completed our Labor Day club dive trip to Pompano,
FL. We should get plenty of trip at the meeting.
There
are still some Scubanauts logo shirts and caps left from
our last order. So if you didn't get want you wanted, check
with Lynda to see what stock remains.
We're
still looking for more material for our club Photo
Gallery. Check
out the entries so far! Members, send in
some for your own page. We're adding more pages
for
Photo
contests
and club
trips soon.
Some
of our members have just gotten offshore Jacksonville on
a dive boat which has only recently become available. At
the meeting, we'll gauge interest in chartering the boat
for an offshore Jax club dive. The boat can handle 12 divers
with ease. It's fast (capable of 30 knots), comfortable,
and routinely goes much farther out than our previously
available boat of that
capacity.
If you have a trip destination
in mind, speak up at the next meeting. Or, better yet,
run and lead a trip yourself!
Please contact an officer for info regarding how to run
trips or with your info regarding a trip you are running. Trip leaders usually
travel at a substantial discount, so there are rewards for taking the responsibility.
Some club members dove offshore Jax yesterday.
They were 23 miles out at the wreck of the tug Powerful. Visibility was excellent
at 50 feet plus. Water temp was 77 degrees at the bottom.
There were no sightings of the large cannonball jellies that
have plagued the area earlier.
The NOAA’s
National Data Buoy Center Station
41012 sea
buoy found 40 miles ENE of St. Augustine is reporting
wave heights of 1-1/2 to 2-1/2 feet with
surface water temps around 82 degrees.
Newcomers, come check our membership
pages to find out more about joining the Scubanauts!
If you have any ideas for speakers, please
let your officers know. We always need new ideas!
Missed the last meeting? See the minutes of
last month's meeting.
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