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 Welcome
from the Jacksonville Scubanauts Dive Club!
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the most recent newsletter in Adobe PDF format. (If you cannot
yet read Adobe's PDF format, get the reader here).
February
Meeting
Our
February meeting will be Wednesday, February 10th. (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.
The
Executive Board had been working on bringing our club Bylaws
up to date. This included things
like removing
the obsolete references to the Reef Research Team left over
from when the RRT was launched by, and still joined with,
our dive club. These revised bylaws were voted on and accepted
during the January meeting. The bylaws are now posted here on
this website.
They can normally be reached as a link off of the "Membership Info" page.
The
deadline for submitting entries for this year's annual
Photo Contest was the end of December. The Scubanauts Board
met and reviewed the 40+ entries and select the best 10
in each category (above water and below water) to be voted
on at February's
meeting. Congratulations to those submitting this years
entries! There were some excellent entries which made
some for some tough decision as to the top ten that made
this meeting's vote. As usual, all submitted entries will
be shown immediately after the vote so you'll see just
how hard it was for the board to agree on which entries
made the cut.
Don't
forget our Scubanauts Super Bowl party at Bob's on February
7th. Contact any officer for a map and directions if you
need them. This year the party is BYOB and "bring a side
dish". The club will provide mixers and the main dish.
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.
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.
WIth the seasonal higher seas
off-shore seas, We haven't been able to find a lot of relevant,
recent dive
reports involving 'vis from offshore Jax.
The only recent dive report we found characterized the water offshore only
as "60's degrees temps and dirty".
The NOAA’s
National Data Buoy Center Station 41012 sea
buoy found 40 miles ENE of St. Augustine is reporting
wave heights of 5 to 7-1/2 feet with
surface water temps around 67 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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