DA ANCHORLINE

NEWSLETTER December, 14 2003, Issue 35

Members are encouraged to submit articles, dive plans and dive reports.

Visit club web site at https://www.angelfire.com/nj4/divers/

Photographs can be viewed at the above noted website.

Editor: Tom Gormley

Contents

Next Meeting Notice

Peggy’s News

DA Dive Log

DA Dive Plan

November DA Meeting Minutes, Unapproved

DA Calendar

Next Meeting Notice

Monday, December 15, 2003

Angela O’Reilly will discuss her participation in the

California B-36 deep wreck project

At

730PM Mario’s Restaurant

710 Van Houten Avenue, Clifton, NJ

Club business will include: Discussion of donation from the club for the USS Murphy Memorial and planning for the 2004 DA Calendar of events as well as old and new business.

Members who plan to attend our Annual Holiday Party on

Saturday January 10, 2004 should bring in payment,

$25 per member and $35 per guest

Additionally Tom Gormley and Ben Gualano

will have copies of their new book “Shore Diving in New Jersey”

available for purchase and signing

New Guests and members are welcome to attend this meeting

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Peggy’s News

From: Peggy Bowen, Director, NJ Council of Diving Clubs

Sylvia Earle will speak in NYC

Sustainable Seas - On December 18, join Sylvia Earle as she discusses her
early career in marine biology at a time when few women went on scientific
expeditions. Learn how her unstoppable advocacy for deep ocean exploration
and conservation grew out of her childhood fascination with the creatures of
the sea.

Marine biologist Sylvia Earle has led more than 50 deep-sea expeditions, and
has spent more than 6,000 hours underwater. She will discuss her legendary
career as Explorer-in-Residence with the National Geographic Society and her
pioneering research on marine ecosystems.

Thursday, December 18 7:00 p.m.
American Museum of Natural History, NY NY
Lefrak Theater, first floor
Code: EL121803
$15 ($13.50 Members, students, senior citizens)

American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th Street
New York, NY 10024-5192 USA
212-769-5000

Peggy passed this on from Larissa

E-mail: mailto:pegdiver@monmouth.com

http://www.scubanj.org/

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DA Dive Log

Tom and Rich dove in the Manasquan River on November 30, 2003. The dive was eventful in that they couldn’t see much of the bottom. The vis was really really krappy due to recent storms, but the water temperature was high forties. Most of the mobile marine life is beginning to leave, die, or hide in the mud. It is interesting to see the change in the season occur.

DA Dive Plan

Tom and Rich plan to dive in Sandy Hook’s Horseshoe Cove on next Saturday afternoon, December 20, 2003. Anyone who wants to join them should plan to meet them at the Ranger Station at around 230PM. Please email Tom or Rich to let them know you plan to join them.

This dive is weather permitting. Conditions look reasonable in the long-range forecast, but winter conditions may change quickly. Sometimes decisions need to be made on site and defer to a warm restaurant.

Contact Tom or Rich if you are interested in diving any Sunday or Thursday at various sites throughout the area depending on water and weather conditions.

Boat Dives: Tom and Ben plan to personally charter the Spring Tide out of Brielle for dives in 2004. These dates are open to club members as well as Tom’s students so contact Tom or Ben for information about these dives. The sign up date will be our February 2004 meeting. Bring $60 for each dive trip you wish to make.

Other club members have indicated that they will be arranging charters. As dates are set, they will be added to the calendar.

Boat Diving Requirements

Everyone please be advised that the following are required by Tom and Ben to dive on any of their charters:

1) Standard NAUI Waiver and Release signed before boarding naming Tom Gormley and Ben Gualano as Instructors and Divemasters.

2) Logbook indicating northeast boat diving experience or arrangements to do guided dive with Tom or Ben.

3) Pony bottle and regulator with pressure gauge or other suitable redundant gear.

4) Compass, wreck reel, safety sausage, safety whistle and power surface audible signaling device, cutting device as well as other mandatory scuba gear.

5) DAN or equivalent insurance.

Members wishing to sell gear can post it here!

(Any sales of gear are subject to terms agreed upon by sellers and buyers.)

E-mail: Rick Farmer stainless steel backplate and OMS back inflation BCD, Sunto Cobra dive computer

E-mail: Tom Gormley 50 cuft low pressure steel tank, Nitrox ready, new condition

Monthly Meeting Minutes

Divers Anonymous Scuba Dive Club

Mario’s Restaurant / 710 Van Houten Avenue, Clifton, NJ

November 24, 2003

Members Present:

Richard Bertoldi

Jamie Cacciatore

Greg Carlucci

Maurizia Corrao

Rick & Edith Farmer

Ian Fryer

Tom & Norva Gormley

Mike Lacatena

Fredrick Marcus

Leo and Connie Mazur

Richard Mullen

Al Nesterok

Angela O’Reiley

Charlie and Lara Padula

Kiiri Tietjens

Don Van Dyk

Paul Ward

The meeting began at 7:30 p.m. – 21 of 39 active members were present.

Executive Committee Reports

Treasurer Report / Lara Padula

These funds are used to pay for expenses occurred running our club and to help offset expenses for various club offered activities.

Secretary Report / Richard Mullen

Last months minutes accepted unread as they appeared in October’s Newsletter.

Vice President’s Report / Al Nesterok

Annual Christmas Party will be held at San Carlos in Lyndhurst on Saturday January 10, 2005. Party will include buffet dinner, soft drinks, desert with cash open bar. Prizes and awards will be presented. Cost to attend is $25 for club members and $35 for guests. Payment is requested by no later than next club meeting.

President’s Report / Thomas Gormley

· Dec 15^th - DA club meeting guest speaker will be club member Angela O’Reiley who will talk about her ongoing dive activities out in California.

· Dec 28^th - club members are invited join our last scheduled shore dive of the season to be held on December 28^th. Even if you do not want to get into the water, come on out for shore support and join us afterwards for a warm lunch.

Web Site

Visit club web site at https://www.angelfire.com/nj4/divers/. If members want to post club or scuba related activities they are encouraged to use email group mailing. If you have any club related photographs you wish to have posted on the web, send Tom electronic copy.

Old Business

There was nothing new to report.

New Business

There was nothing new to report.

Guest Speaker

Our members and over 10 guests were treated to presentation given by veteran tech divers, film producers and writers Dan Crowell and Kevin McMurray. Both guest speakers talked about their ongoing adventures including the discovery and preparing a documentary about the lost WWII destroyer USS Murphy. Dan and Kevin donated a related video DVD and signed book for our club’s waffle. Members and guests present purchased $46 worth of tickets which will be added to the club’s treasury.

Minutes submitted by Secretary, Richard Mullen

2003 ~ 2004

Divers Anonymous Calendar

Updated 12-14-03 thru September 2004

Jan 2004 · 01/05: DA Planning meeting 6:30 p.m. at 6 Bros Diner Rt. 46 · 01/10: DA Holiday Party 7:30 p.m. San Carlos Rest 620 Stuyvesant Ave, Lyndhurst · 01/26: DA Club Meeting 7:30 p.m. “White Shark Research Presentation” by Dean Fessler	Feb 2004 · 02/01: Bottle Show, South River · 02/14: 4^th Annual DA Ski Day · 02/22: Toms River Flea Market · 02/23: DA Club Meeting 7:30 p.m. Tom and Ben’s Boat Charters, Payment and Sign-Up	Mar 2003 St Thomas with Mr Ben 03/22: South Jersey Shore Dive (?) 03/26~28: Beneath-The-Sea 03/29: DA Club Meeting 7:30 p.m. Discussion of Beneath the Sea 03/??: Winter Field Trip - TBA
Apr 2004 · 04/04: Manasquan RR Bridge Dive, 8AM · 04/07: Pool Dive for gear check and warm-up 9:15 p.m. Clifton YMYWHA · Sunday shore dives · 04/26: DA Club Meeting 7:30 p.m. Annual Dues and Officer Elections	May 2004 05/02: Tom – Spring Tide Boat Dive Sunday shore dives 05/15: Pre-Memorial Day Picnic 05/17: DA Club Meeting 7:30 p.m. Local Shore Dives TBA	June 2004 06/14 8pm Shark River Inlet, Avon, NJ 06/05: Tom – Spring Tide Boat Dive 06/28: DA Club Meeting 7:30 p.m. - Diving Safety Issues” by DA Members
Jul 2004 · Local Shore Dives TBA · 7/17 & 18 DA Weekend at Dutch Springs · 07/26: DA Club Meeting, Topic, “Favorite Dives”	Aug 2004 8/1 715am Dual Wrecks Dive, Long Branch 8/7 “Crab Dive” Belmar Shark River 08/15: Tom – Spring Tide Boat Dive 08/30: DA Club Meeting 7:30 p.m.	Sep 2004 · 09/05: Labor Day Delaware Picnic · 9/12 Sun Shore Wreck Dive · 9/16 Thursday Night Dive, 9pm, Shark River Inlet, Avon · 09/27: DA Club Meeting 7:30 p.m.
Oct 2003 Local Shore Dives TBA 10/26 8am Halloween dive at MRRRBr, Pt Pleasant 10/27: DA Club Meeting 7:30 p.m. 2003 Artifact & Story Contest	Nov 2003 · Local Shore Dives TBA · Annual gear maintenance workshop TBA · 11/24: DA Club Meeting 7:30 p.m. Kevin Mc Murray & Dan Crowell on USS Murphy	Dec 2003 · 12/15: DA Club Meeting 7:30 p.m. Angela O’Reilly “California B-36” · 12/28: Winter Shore Dive

Pink highlighted events are subsidized by DA dues

Divers Anonymous first “read the newsletter” scuba quiz. Originally posted many months ago.

1) Name 6 middle ear equalizing techniques.

2) Name the national park that was recently studied by marine biologists within a year after the federal government declared its waters closed to fishing.

3) This man teamed with J Cousteau to invent the first scuba regulator.

4) Name this local pioneer who tested one of the first submarines.

5) What year did Europeans first visit New Jersey?

6) What was the name of their ship?

7) Who was the original captain of the dive boat Seeker?

8) When did Divers Anonymous hold its first official meeting?

9) These organisms are primarily responsible for the deterioration of the Titanic.

10) A perfectly round balloon has a volume of air equal to 1 cubic feet on the surface. A diver takes it underwater in the Atlantic to a depth of 33 feet. At that depth what is the diameter of the balloon measured in feet?

DA’s second “read the newsletter” scuba quiz. Posted 10-18-2003

1) Name the founder of PADI

2) How many months has the scuba quiz appeared in the newsletter?

3) Name the Sea Hunt episode shown by Mile De Charles

4) Name the dive boat Tom and Ben chartered in 2001

5) What is the recreational MOD for air using a PO2 of 1.4

6) Name the wreck dove on DA’s first dive picnic

7) How much does the salt weigh in 1 cubic foot of salt water

8) What is the number 1 rule of scuba diving

9) What is DA’s motto?

10) Who is the honorary member of DA?

Rules are: No member answered the first quiz, so no prize will be rewarded for that quiz. You may give it a try for fun though.

First member to email, telephone, mail, or communicate to Tom Gormley correct answers to the second “read the newsletter” quiz at a passing level grade, by NAUI standards, will be awarded a scuba prize to be determined by the judges, Tom and Rich. Their decision is final.