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May Meeting

Our May meeting will be tonight Wednesday, May 9th. (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. Socializing begins at 6:00pm with the meeting starting at 6:30).

Our program for this meeting will be continued nominations for Officer positions on the Scubanauts Board immediately folllowed by the elections themselves. (There was some confusion leading to an incorrect web update last Monday that the elections would not be held until June's meeting. This was the result of two nominees declining their nominations and the Board deciding to allow continued nominations tonight).

That means that there are still a few positions for which we need new blood. We strongly urge all members to consider holding one of these positions for a year. You'll learn a lot and will be able to help guide us towards meeting our members' needs.

As the weather gets warmer, our club activities are ramping up again for the spring and summer. We just compoleted running a club kayaking trip to Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve on May 5th. 13 members made the trip with 17 members meeting for the lunch after the trip. We look forward to hearing details of how that trip went.

Our next club dive trip is a shark-tooth hunting trip to Venice, Florida on May 25th through May 28th. There are still a few slots left for this trip. Get the full details for this trip also on our Activities page.

Tony will be running another of his popular dive trips to Pompano, Florida. Dive dates are July 6-8 with diving on Saturday and Sunday. We'll have more info on this trip at Wednesday's meeting.

We also would like to schedule some offshore Jax dive trips in June and July. Please let us know at this month's meeting if you're interested.

Our Photo Gallery has portfolios from members as well as photos from our contests and parties. We're still looking for more material for the Photo Gallery. Check out the entries so far! Members, send in some for your own page.

The weather is warning up rapidly. Here's a reminder to get your dive gear its annual service if you have not already done so. Sometimes gear needs an unexpected part that takes longer than you'd like to obtain. So do it now and prevent getting caught short when everyone else is diving!

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.

Current dive reports from a few days ago on dives made 25 miles offshore put bottom temps around 72 degrees with 'vis about 15 to 20 feet. Another report from yesterday for 25 miles offshore saw slightly better 'vis at 20-25 feet.