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1 | The Aqua Tooter November, 2018 Aquatutus.org Since 1955; now in our 63rd year of diving safety & fun !! November 2018 Since 1958... a publicaon from the Aqua Tutus Diving Club, a non-profit organizaon established to promote Water Safety and to further the sport of SCUBA Diving. MEETING SCHEDULE General Club Meeting: First Thursday of Every Month at 7:30 p.m. (except December, no meeting) Board of Directors Meeting: Third Thursday of Every Month at 7:00 p.m. (except December, no meeting) Location: Ricky’s Sports Theatre & Grill 15028 Hesperian Blvd. San Leandro, CA 94578 UPCOMING CLUB HIGHLIGHTS Dec 8: Club holiday party ** No meetings in December ** Late-Dec to-early Jan: holiday diving in Cozumel. Come when you want! Jan 10: General Club Meeting Jan 17: BOD Meeting Jan 19:: Club night dive, Breakwater See dives & MANY more activities in “Upcoming Activities” in club minutes below and on Meetup !! For a complete listing of club activities visit Meetup or ATDC Event Calendar. IN THIS ISSUE Entertainment Report ......................... 2 Upcoming Events............………….. 3-4 General Meeting Minutes …………..…. 5 BOD Meeting Minutes ………………… 6 Special articles …………….……….... 7-9 Club contacts & useful links ...….....…10 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Thank you presenters and newsletter con- tributors for making this Aqua Tooter possible: Lola Johnston, Alan Throop, Helga Mahlmann, Gayle Hudson, Jono Dove. Thanks to Steele’s Discount Scuba for sending member candidates to Aqua Tutus Diving Club. Steele’s is located at: 5987 Telegraph Avenue Oakland, CA 94609 (510) 655-4344 JANUARY MEETING ENTERTAINMENT A reminder that there are no club meetings in December … EXCEPT FOR THE HOLIDAY PARTY, so please come to that !! Our January meeting has been pushed back a week to January 10 due to holiday conflicts. Our program for the January meeting will be presented by our own Den- nis Hocker, who has been diving in our NorCal waters with Aqua Tutus since 1960. He’s still an active diver and instructor, and knows the usual … and some less-known … dive sites better than most. This program should be particularly good for newer divers … as well as those who have been diving Monterey for years. There’s always more to learn from Dennis! Please come to the meeting and enjoy and learn from Dennis’s program. Monterey Dive Sites GET TICKETS FOR THE HOLIDAY PARTY !!! Saturday, December 8. La Cabana Mexican Restaurant 7163 Rich Ave, Newark See the flyer later in this newsletter!! Order tickets at www.aquatutus.org (middle of home page) Social 6:30 Dinner 7:30 Santa & party to 11:00 Save $$, RSVP before Dec 1 Save $$, RSVP before De c 1 Reminder … Our January General Meeting will be Thursday, January 10 !! … instead of January 3, due to the holidays and Cozumel trip *** No meetings in December …. Come to the Holiday Party !!!

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1 | The Aqua Tooter November, 2018

Aquatutus.org Since 1955; now in our 63rd year of diving safety & fun !! November 2018

Since 1958... a publica�on from the Aqua

Tutus Diving Club, a non-profit organiza�on

established to promote Water Safety and to

further the sport of SCUBA Diving.

MEETING SCHEDULE General Club Meeting: First Thursday of Every Month at 7:30 p.m. (except December, no meeting) Board of Directors Meeting: Third Thursday of Every Month at 7:00 p.m. (except December, no meeting) Location: Ricky’s Sports Theatre & Grill 15028 Hesperian Blvd. San Leandro, CA 94578

UPCOMING CLUB HIGHLIGHTS Dec 8: Club holiday party ** No meetings in December ** Late-Dec to-early Jan: holiday diving in Cozumel. Come when you want! Jan 10: General Club Meeting Jan 17: BOD Meeting Jan 19:: Club night dive, Breakwater See dives & MANY more activities in “Upcoming Activities” in club minutes below and on Meetup !!

For a complete listing of club activities visit Meetup or ATDC Event Calendar.

IN THIS ISSUE

Entertainment Report ......................... 2 Upcoming Events............………….. 3-4 General Meeting Minutes …………..…. 5 BOD Meeting Minutes ………………… 6 Special articles …………….……….... 7-9 Club contacts & useful links ...….....…10

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thank you presenters and newsletter con-

tributors for making this Aqua Tooter

possible: Lola Johnston, Alan Throop,

Helga Mahlmann, Gayle Hudson, Jono Dove.

Thanks to Steele’s Discount Scuba for

sending member candidates to Aqua Tutus

Diving Club. Steele’s is located at:

5987 Telegraph Avenue Oakland, CA 94609 (510) 655-4344

JANUARY MEETING ENTERTAINMENT A reminder that there are no club meetings in December … EXCEPT FOR THE HOLIDAY PARTY, so please come to that !! Our January meeting has been pushed back a week to January 10 due to holiday conflicts. Our program for the January meeting will be presented by our own Den-nis Hocker, who has been diving in our NorCal waters with Aqua Tutus since 1960. He’s still an active diver and instructor, and knows the usual … and some less-known … dive sites better than most. This program should be particularly good for newer divers … as well as those who have been diving Monterey for years. There’s always more to learn from Dennis! Please come to the meeting and enjoy and learn from Dennis’s program.

Monterey

Dive

Sites

GET TICKETS FOR THE

HOLIDAY PARTY !!!

Saturday, December 8. La Cabana Mexican Restaurant

7163 Rich Ave, Newark

See the flyer later in this newsletter!!

Order tickets at www.aquatutus.org (middle of home page)

Social 6:30 Dinner 7:30

Santa & party to 11:00 Save $$, RSVP

before Dec 1

Save $$, RSVP

before Dec 1

Reminder … Our January General Meeting will be

Thursday, January 10 !! … instead of January 3, due to the holidays and Cozumel trip

*** No meetings in December …. Come to the Holiday Party !!!

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ENTERTAINMENT REPORT (photo credits: from presentations, except where noted),

By Gayle Hudson

Members Night - Land and Sea

Our second Members Night of 2018 featured presenta-tions by Fritz Welss, Jono Dove, and Patti Baugh.

The presentations began with a video of Palau we incor-rectly credited to Larry Muth; we’ll have to see Wakatobi

at a future date. However, we enjoyed beautiful scenes of Palau, but just don’t know who should receive cred-it. Oops. After the warm, clear waters of Palau, Fritz Welss took us to Monterey with videos of the marine life we love to see on our local dives.

Jono Dove showed a slide show from a trip he, Dennis, and Patti made to Papua New Guinea. He explained that, while the people were known to the Western world for centuries, the two million+ people who lived in the highlands were not known and this was the region they toured. The highland people went undetected until they were ‘discovered’ by Australians looking for gold in the 1930s, and 852 known spoken languages have been identified among the the people of this region.

They stayed at Ambua Lodge in the Tari area and visit-ed with several different tribes. They visited a small tribe where the men performed a spirit dance, normally performed at night, to call positive spirits to the village and ward off evil spirits. Ceremonial costumes include extensive use of bird feathers, wings, beaks, bones, and quills. This region, the Mount Hagen area, is the bread basket of Papua New Guinea - similar in productivity to the California Central Valley.

Traditionally, men and women live separately in Papua New Guinea. Women raise children, pigs, and tend to the farm while men protect the village and hunt. Polyga-my is alive and well in this culture and dowries are still used today, with a bride price set by a council of elders (the bride price got out of hand during the mid-20th cen-tury and no one could afford to get married).

In the mid 1900s, evangelical missionaries came to the

highlands; hence the landscape is dotted with church-

es. Locals are certain to share their historical and ancient culture, all the while reassuring guests that they are now Christians.

Papua New Guinea's cash crop is palm oil. Vast swaths of the rain forest in the lowlands have been clear-cut in order to make more room for this product. Palm fruit is harvested every two weeks, with each tree producing sev-eral tons of fruit that may be pressed for oil. The material left over from pressing is used in biomass energy genera-tion. Jono’s photos showed a culture still rich in tradition but coming to terms with modern influences, like cell phones.

Patti Baugh finished the presentations with a show-stopping selection of slides featuring clownfish and crusta-ceans. The main subjects would project out of the field, often with a black background, making the subject appear almost three dimensional. The transition from slide to slide was about as magical, yet did not distract from the subject. Patti uses Pro Show Gold to perfection!

Members Night once again showcased the talent in our club and gave many of us inspiration as we think about our photography efforts, both below and above the water.

Did you know your purchases can make a difference to our club?

AmazonSmile donates 0.5% of the price of your eligi-

ble purchases to Aqua Tutus Diving Club when you

do your holiday shopping at

smile.amazon.com/ch/94-2921725

Help out Aqua Tutus when you do your Holiday Shopping … at no cost to you !!

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We need donations for the silent raffle at the party. If you would like to donate a tax-

deductible item or two that is new or in excellent condition, please let Debbie know

at [email protected] and bring it to the party.

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Near-Term Upcoming Club Events !!

… See Meetup or call POC for CURRENT information ... December 8: Club Holiday Party. 6:30-11:00pm. La Cabana

Restaurant, 7163 Rich Ave, Newark. (No club meetings in Dec).

Sign-up on our website!

December 20, 2018 to January 5, 2019: Annual Club Pilgrim-

age to Cozumel – come for all, part, or even more of the trip.

POC: Patti Shannon.

January 19, 2019: Club dive, night dive at Breakdwater. (San

Carlos Beach), POC: DL Poppelwell.

August 24, 2019: Club dive weekend at Salt Point

Campgrounds (reserve your spots!). POC: ?

Training & Growth Opportunities !!

• If interested in training classes (First Aid, DPR, DAN O2 Provider, Enriched Air, Deep Air, other specialty), please Contact Director of Training, Dennis Hocker at [email protected]

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

Upcoming Diver Training

First Aid, CPR, DAN O2 Provider

First Aid / CPR / DAN O2-Provider class will be held on November 24, 8:00am at Dennis’s house. Emergency First Responder will take place on De-cember 1, 8:00am at Dennis’s house. Please contact Dennis at [email protected] . Rescue Diver class

Class will be held this Winter. Prerequisites are First

Aid, CPR, O2-Provider. For interest, contact Dennis

Hocker at (510)792-5606 [email protected] .

DIVE INDONESIA in 2020 !!

May 8-18, 2020

Maumere-Komodo-Bima … and visit the Dragons of Komodo …

On board the Explorer Ventures Blue Manta...see https://www.explorerventures.com/indonesia-liveaboard-

diving/blue-manta-explorer-komodo-itinerary/

Package price $4,700 (based on payment by check)

• 10 nights twin share accommodations • 9 ½ days of diving • meals & snacks, Park Fees, • Port & Hotel taxes and transfers. Airfare to Maumere (MOP) or from Bima (BMU) is extra. Space is limited to 12. Booking deposit $1,000. As always will be filled on an as-deposit-received basis. There will be an option to add some pre trip / post trip extra days of Land Based Diving. For more information contact Dennis via email [email protected] or 510-RxSCUBA (797-2822 ).

DIVE CHUUK LAGOON in 2019 !! June 21—July 6, 2019

Aboard the Odyssey, on Rodales’s “the best live-aboard in the World”.

2018 is the 75th anniversary of Operation Hail-storm that sunk the famous WWII fleet.

This trip has been sold out, but Dennis has a waiting list.

For more information contact Dennis via email [email protected] or 510-RxSCUBA (797-2822 ).

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DATE: November 8, 2018 35 members and guests present. Meeting called to order by President Kari Klaboe at Rickys Sports Bar and Grill in San Leandro, CA at 7:30 pm Speaker: Member’s Night #2, 2018 Guests: Lily Sullivan, Sheila Doney’s sister. Entertainment (Gayle Hudson) 2018 • December—No Meeting … Club Holiday Party, Dec 8. Pur-

chase dinner and raffle tickets online at www.aquatutus.org 2019 • January 10: Dennis Hocker; Monterey Dive Sites • February 7: David McGuire; Shark Stewards • March: Mike Boon, UW videographer; Philippines • April: Marc Shargel, UW photographer, NorCal • May: NOT YET SCHEDULED • June: Member’s Night #1, 2019 Please check Meetup and the Aqua Tooter for entertainment updates. If you have any requests or suggestions for future en-tertainment, let us know at [email protected]! Treasurer’s Report (Helga Mahlmann) Club Assets: $5,622.56 $2,178.21 for classes $3,444.35 for general account Membership (Elizabeth Gilroy) NO REPORT Training (Dennis Hocker) • November 24, 8am. Dennis’s house, Newark. First Aid / CPR /

DAN O2-Provider class. Please contact Dennis at: [email protected] . • December 1, 8 am. Dennis’s house, Newark. Emergency First

Responder. Please contact Dennis at: [email protected] . • Rescue Diver class this Spring 2019 (CPR and O2 provider

required) • For more information on training, contact Dennis Hocker at

(510)792-5606 [email protected] or Neil Benjamin at (510)673-0073 [email protected] .

Newsletter (Alan Throop) Contact Alan Throop at [email protected] if you are not receiving the newsletter. Input due by the 20th of the month. Web Goddess (Lola Johnston) Content can be sent to [email protected]. Social Media (Gayle Hudson) • Facebook: No new report (Aug: 128 Members). Participation

is open to the public. • Meetup: 78 Members. Participation is limited to club mem-

bers. Meetup instructions are available on our website. Cencal: no report

GENERAL MEETING MINUTES, November, 2018

Reported by Jono Dove Special Committees: • Liability Insurance: the club will be purchasing non-water-

based liability insurances at $150/yr. • Holiday Party: Debbie Driggers is coordinating raffle items

and needs donated items in new or excellent condition. Old Business NONE New Business

• A slate of officers was brought forward and the membership elected the following individuals to represent the club as of-ficers for 2019:

• President: Patti Shannon-Hocker • Vice-President: Devin Martinez • Secretary: Gayle Hudson / Debbie Muth Driggers

• Treasurer: Helga Mahlmann Past Dives

• Club dive met at Lover’s Cove, October 27. Flat, calm, great weather, and good conditions. Linda Muth, Jim & Debbie Driggers, Mike Barrett went diving, among others. The group then toured Monterey County Hyperbaric Chamber following the dive.

• Oliver met Bill Briscoe and Kari Klaboe for a dive at Monte-rey.

Bone & Good Buddy awards

• Kari nominated Oliver Edwards to being a good buddy and taking the group out.

Upcoming Activity and Dives 2018 • November 10/11: Casper Beach, Urchin Removal Project.

POC: DL Poppelwell. • November 10-12: Club dive weekend. Nov 10, Night Dive,

meet at 4:30 pm at Breakwater; Nov 11, meet at 9am at Cor-al Street; Nov 12, 9am at Point Lobos (team reservation re-quired). POC: Kat Smith.

• December 8: Club Holiday Party at 6:30 social, 7:00 dinner. La Cabana Restaurant, 7163 Rich Ave, Newark, CA 94560. Bring presents for your guests and an appetite for some games, the Hokey Pokey, Chicken Dance, and other classic dances.

• Annual Pilgrimage to Cozumel: Before Christmas, 2018 to Friday after New Years 2019 Years2019. Contact Patti at [email protected] if you’re interested and want to know more.

2019 • January 19: Club night dive at Breakwater. POC: DL Pop-

plewell. • Chuuk Lagoon 2019 - Sold out! The waiting list is open. • August 24: Club dive weekend at Salt Point Campgrounds

(reserve your spots!). POC: ? 2020 • May 8-18: Maumere, Komodo, & Bima, Indonesia - Aboard

the Explorer Adventure Blue Manta. POC: Dennis Hocker. Meetings

• Next BOD meeting: November 15, 2018 • Next General Membership meeting: January 10, 2019 Meeting Adjourned: 9:?? pm

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Date: November 15, 2018

Meeting called to order by Vice President Patti Shannon-Hocker at Rickys Sports Bar and Grill in San Leandro, CA at 7:00 pm

Present: 11 members present.

Treasurer’s Report (Helga Mahlmann) No report (Helga absent) Club Assets: $5,688.25 Classes: $1,278.21 General Fund: $3,510.04 Membership (Elizabeth Gilroy) No report (Elizabeth absent) (Sept report: 82 regular, 6 associate, 8 lifetime members)

Entertainment (Gayle Hudson) 2018 • December: No meeting. Holiday Party at La Cabana 2019 • January 10: Dennis Hocker; Monterey Dive Sites • February 7: David McGuire; Shark Stewards • March: Mike Boon, UW videographer; Philippines

• April: Marc Shargel, UW photographer, NorCal • August: Neil Benjamin, Cavern diving? Committed, but month TBD: • Member’s Night #1 & #2, 2019

• Meg Donat, Monterey hyperbaric chamber Training (Dennis Hocker) • November 24, 8am. Dennis’s house, Newark. First Aid /

CPR / DAN O2-Provider class. Please contact Dennis at: [email protected] . • December 1, 8 am. Dennis’s house, Newark. Emergency

First Responder. Please contact Dennis at: [email protected] . • Rescue Diver class this Spring 2019 (CPR and O2 provider

required) If any interest in training agenda: First Aid, CPR, DAN O2 provider- please contact Dennis at: [email protected] . For more information on training contact Dennis Hocker at (510) 792-5606 [email protected] or Neil Benjamin at (510) 673-0073 [email protected].

Newsletter (Alan Throop, Lola Johnston) • We’re looking for content; see below ... Contact Alan & Lola at [email protected] if you are not receiving the newsletter or to provide reports, photos, etc. Input is due by the 20th of the month.

Web Goddess (Lola Johnston) • We’re looking for content; see below ... Content can be sent to mailto:[email protected]

Social Media (Gayle Hudson)

BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING MINUTES, November, 2018

Reported by Jono Dove

• Facebook: ~165 Members. Participation is open to the pub-lic.

• Meetup: 78 Members. Participation is limited to club mem-bers. Meetup instructions are available on our website.

Cencal no report

Special Committees

• Holiday Party: (Alan) Volunteers have filled all task-leader positions. We are seek-ing new or excellent-condition equipment for the raffle; please contact Debbie Driggers at [email protected] if you would like to donate. Old Business

• Helga continues to work with CenCal on acquiring insur-ance.

New Business • Matt Warren has offered to train individuals on how to run

the audio systems at general meetings. Upcoming Activities

2018 • December 8: Holiday Party. See box on page 4. Flyer & info

at the next meeting. • No club dive or General or Board Meeting in December.

December 20, 2018 to January 5, 2019: Annual Club Pil-grimage to Cozumel – come for all, part, or even more of the trip. Contact Patti at [email protected] .

2019 • January 19: Club Dive. Night dive at Breakwater (San Car-

los Beach) Monterey. POC: DL Poppelwell • June 22 – July 6: Chuuk Lagoon 2019: All spots are sold

out. The waiting list is open. Contact Dennis at [email protected] . • August 24: Club dive weekend at Salt Point Campgrounds

(reserve your spots!). POC: ? 2019 May 8-18: Indonesia live-aboard dive trip aboard the Explorer Adventures Blue Manta. Maumere, Komodo, & Bima, Indone-sia. Spaces are still available. Contact Dennis at: [email protected] .

Next Meetings

Next General Membership meeting: January 10, 2019 (NOTE SPECIAL DATE) Next Board Meeting: January 17, 2017

Meeting adjourned: 7:48 pm

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In Memoriam

Rick Carlsen

Editors note: Rick & Maartje Carlsen were active mem-bers of Aqua Tutus from about 1992, when they took the Open Water certification class, until about 1998 when Rick retired and they spent their summers on the Co-lumbia River where Rick grew up. They were excellent divers, enjoying the challenging but beautiful and prolific waters that Northern California offers, and good friends. They continued to dive with the club on several warm-water trips through about 2003 when they purchased a summer home in that area and their first grandchild was born. Maartje particularly remembers a club trip to Bon-aire and Curacao and her first experience with a tarpon named Charlie at Captain Don’s Habitat! She now lives in their home in Sunnyvale. She welcomes calls and vis-its from club members. Her reflections follow: On September 21, 2018, just 6 days short of his gold-en wedding anniversary, Rick passed away at the age of 82. Older club members may remember Rick, who joined the club in 1992 and enjoyed diving until 2003. Rick was raised on a floathouse along the Columbia River in a community of Norwegian immigrants, mostly fishermen. As a teenager he spent a year in Norway, where he perfected his knowledge of the Norwegian lan-guage. During his 3 1/2 years of military service in Germany he became fluent in German, which he later taught at a high school in Bend, Oregon. In 1966 he moved to the Netherlands to work for IBM, where he met Maartje, who also worked for IBM. In 1968 they married and the next year they moved to Cali-fornia, where Rick worked for 30 years as a technical writer for various computer companies. Rick was an avid collector and restorer of electric model trains. The cremation has taken place in private. Rick is sur-vived by his wife, son John, daughter Sonja and two grandchildren. An informal memorial get-together will take place at some time in the future.

Club meeting dates for 2019

General Meetings Board of Directors Meeting

(typically 1st Thursday) (Typically 3rd Thursday) (*not 1stThursday

December … no meeting December … no meeting

*January 10, 2019 January 17, 2019

February 7 February 21

March 7 March 21

April 4 April 18

May 2 May 16

June 6 June 20

*July 11 July 18

August 1 August 15

September 5 September 19

October 3 October 17

November 7 November 21

December … no meeting December … no meeting

Blasts from the Past !!

“ Jim Lowe donning dry suit, 1957 “

“ Leo Nelson and Son in drysuits, 1957 “

From the club scrapbook. It looks like they were diving dry-suits before they became popular again in the 2000s!

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2019 Board of Directors (BOD)

We welcome and thank the following people who were elected at the November General Meeting to lead the club for 2019: (** = continued from last year; *= elected in June)

President: Patti Shannon-Hocker

Vice-President: Devin Martinez

Secretary: Debbie Driggers & Gayle Hudson

Treasurer: Helga Mahlmann**

Membership Chair: Kat Smith

Director of Training: Dennis Hocker**

Entertainment Chair: Jennifer Pechacek

Web “Goddess”: Kari Klaboe

Social Media Coordinator: Gayle Hudson**

Newsletter Editor: Alan Throop**

Board Members-at-Large (2018-19)*: Myran Gist, Kat Smith, & “DL” Debra Popplewell

We also want to thank the outgoing officers, Board Members, and chairpersons who led the club this past year:

President: Kari Klaboe

Vice-President: Patti Shannon-Hocker

Secretary: Jono Dove

Treasurer: Helga Mahlmann

Membership Chair: Elizabeth Gilroy

Director of Training: Dennis Hocker

Entertainment Chair: Gayle Hudson

Web “Goddess”: Lola Johnston

Social Media Coordinator: Gayle Hudson

Newsletter Editor: Lola Johnston & Alan Throop

Board Members-at-Large (2017-18)*: Myran Gist, Shelia Doney, Gayle Hudson, & Kat Smith

These officers and volunteers may lead the club, but it

takes each of us members to help make it THRIVE and

GROW … by participating in club activities - especially

diving, of course - but also to step in to help each other

and get involved in the many other activities that we

have.

Zeagle BCD recall (Thanks to Helga; from current issue of Undercurrent )

Zeagle Recalls Five Types of BCs https://www.zeagle.com/sport-bcd-inflator-recall

Zeagle is recalling five models of its Sport BCs because buttons on the direct-feed inflator and/or the oral inflation valve can break or fracture while in use, leading to either loss of air or uncontrolled inflation of the BC, which could cause a diver to drown . The Consumer Product Safety Commission states 23 reports of buttons breaking, but no injuries so far. This recall is for the models Sport Base, Sport Resort, Sport Base Plus, Sport Resort Plus and Sport Focus. Around 2,600 of the Sport BCs for recall are in the U .S, and another 800 in Canada . (None were sold in Europe because they didn’t meet the required safety standards.) If you own one of these BCs, stop using it and either call

Zeagle at 888-270-8595, or visit a reg- istered dealer for instructions on how to receive a free replacement (www.zeagle.com/sport-bcd- inflator-recall)

From the website: Zeagle Recalls Sport BCD Inflators Due to Automatic Inflation Hazard

Zeagle is issuing an important recall regarding inflators on Zeagle Sport BCDs. There exists a possibility that buttons on inflators of Zeagle Sport BCDs purchased between August 1, 2015 and Au-gust 31, 2018, may break or fracture leading to a rapid loss of air or auto inflation of the BCD. It is of the utmost importance that if you have a Sport BCD with an inflator that is affected by this recall, that the inflat-or be replaced as soon as possible. While no incidents have occurred related to this product recall, the possibility of an incident does exist. We strongly recommend that dealers and end users take all necessary precautions when dealing with life support equipment.

NEXT STEPS: WHAT TO DO IF YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE A PRODUCT AFFECTED BY THIS RECALL

Do not use the affected product(s). Determine if you have an affected product by going to the website below and following the provided instructions. Al-ternatively, you can bring your product into your nearest authorized Zeagle Dealer.

https://www.zeagle.com/sport-bcd-inflator-recall Please let any of your fellow divers who may be using an affected product know about this recall. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your cooperation in supporting Zeagle regarding this matter. Sincerely, Zeagle

Thanks also to the outgoing Thanks also to the outgoing Thanks also to the outgoing Thanks also to the outgoing Board of Directors !!Board of Directors !!Board of Directors !!Board of Directors !!

Welcome to the new Board Welcome to the new Board Welcome to the new Board Welcome to the new Board of Directors for 2019 !!of Directors for 2019 !!of Directors for 2019 !!of Directors for 2019 !!

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BIG ISLAND, HAWAII

KONA CONDO FOR RENT

Book now at this low price!

June 15 - July 13, 2019

$475 per week + $14 tax One-time $50 registry fee covers one or all weeks. Weeks run Friday to Friday.

Contact Don Keley 925-820-8362

[email protected]

» Resort info can be found on The Kona Billfisher website.

Internet Resources for the Bay Area Diver http://www.garlic.com/~triblet/swell/

Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary https://montereybay.noaa.gov/ https://www.facebook.com/MBNMS

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute http://www.mbari.org/ https://www.facebook.com/MBARInews?fref=ts

California Marine Sanctuary Foundation http://californiamsf.org/index.html

Pacific Grove Hyperbaric Chamber https://www.facebook.com/PGHyperbaricChamber http://californiamsf.org/pages/donate-pgh.html

2018 OFFICERS / BOD / CHAIRPERSONS

President

Kari Klaboe…………… ……………[email protected]

Vice-President

Patti-Shannon-Hocker…………[email protected]

Secretary

Jono Dove……… …………………[email protected]

Treasurer

Helga Mahlmann……………………[email protected]

Membership Coordinator

Elizabeth Gilroy……… ……… .. [email protected]

Director of Training

Dennis Hocker……………… …...…[email protected]

Entertainment Coordinator

Gayle Hudson…………………[email protected]

Newsletter Editor

Alan Throop ……………….…. .…[email protected]

Social Media Coordinator

Gayle Hudson……………… .…[email protected]

Board Members at Large (BML)

Myran Gist…………………… ……..…[email protected]

Kat Smith………………… ……… ……[email protected]

“DL” Debra Popplewell … …………...…[email protected]

Web “Goddess”

Lola Johnston………….……...…[email protected]

Past President

Jono Dove……………… ...…[email protected]

SUBMISSIONS TO NEWSLETTER &

WEBSITE NEEDED

Dive pictures, videos, reports, article, stories, environ-

mental, and all things diving- and marine-related are

needed for the website, the Tooter newsletter, YouTube,

and social media sites. Visit our photo submissions

page, send to the club contacts listed above, OR send

to [email protected] .

‘TOOTER’ PUBLICATION SCHEDULE

Submissions for the “Tooter”, both web- and

emailed/pdf-newsletters, are due by the 20th of each

month. The Tooter is published by the end of the month.

No publications in December.