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Emerald Sea Dive Club Membership shows we care

Do you know of anyone that just completed their open-water dive course? Notice how excited they are about diving…. Their enthusiasm makes me remember my own excitement when I first learned to dive, and the thrills I still get when I take the plunge! What would be a better way to start them off on their diving experience than with the assurance of having access to dive buddies! We can reward their new found commitment to our sport by providing them with something that would keep them involved.

I want to say a few words about the membership of our club. We offer some things of great value that demonstrates our commitment to dive safety. Knowing of our great benefits, you can also be certain that we will be there for your friends, and family when they have questions dealing with some uncertainty as to where go diving, how to predict slack currents, etc. So when you see them the next time, go ahead and invite them to join our club!

Is there a dive site that you have always wanted to check out? Are you nervous about hosting a dive? If so Contact Skip Stacy at (425) 775-2410 or Wendy Drucker at (206) 632-3874. Our Big Buddy Program coordinators will be more than happy to mentor you.

Remember you’ll have an opportunity to win $50.00 as a thank you for sponsoring club dives through our "Raffle" program. The next drawing is in June! –Dive Deep…

Open to all members of the ESDC.

Each member may submit up to four photographs per month during 2005.

Bring them to the club meetings where they will be displayed for all to see.

Phil will put a link in for the photo contest so the photos will also be on the club web site

Considering top three for yet to be announced but undoubtedly spectacular prizes to be awarded at the Christmas Party.

Also considering creating a calendar for 2006 using the top twelve photographs.

In order to open the competition to more members, photographs may be of above water (diving related) subjects as well as underwater subjects.

Voting to be done by all members of ESDC casting one vote each for their top twelve choices.

Deadline for submissions is October 5, 2005.

If you have questions, comments or suggestions contact David Ripley at the club meeting

or at esdcnewsletter@mindspring.com

Congratulations to Mary Lou Hernandez on her recent graduation from ESDC’s school for Big Buddies. Mary Lou completed her training at the Camp Casey weekend under the tutelage of Skip Stacy who found her to be a safe and conscientious diver. Prior to that weekend Mary Lou helped with the preparation of the SeaLab at Camp Casey where she worked on the lines and filter box. In addition, Mary Lou has just recently come in from the cold via her acquisition of a drysuit. Again, congratulations and thank you for your dedication and help to the Emerald Sea Dive Club.

On behalf of the Emerald Sea Dive Club I want to take this opportunity to welcome

Bob Bailey to the club.

As was the case last year I am asking that all contributors submit their articles, columns, etc. by the following dates:

April 25—for the May newsletter

May 23—for the June newsletter

June 27—for the July newsletter

July 25—for the August newsletter

August 29—for the September newsletter

September 26—for the October newsletter

October 24—for the November newsletter

November 28—for the December newsletter

Cheng-Hui Wong

Bob picked me up after his advanced open water class dives, it was almost 4 p.m. The Mukilteo ferry line was longer than we thought and we missed the 4 o’clock ferry by two vehicles ahead of us. A nice drive passed to the Keystone dive site. No one was in the parking lot. Winding up at Camp Casey……the entrance at the sign had one road blocked on it, so we turned into the one before it, but it went up to the fort…….wrong way……we U turned right there and when we faced the road again, a state trooper pulled in next to us and asked, "You’re going to the Ferry?" "No, Camp Casey." "Oh, the next entrance." "But it’s blocked." "No, you can drive through." "Thank You."

Into the camp, we made the big circle passed the dive site to the barracks where I stayed once last year. We checked out the parking lot and there weren’t any vehicles that I could recognize……maybe they were over at the "chow house"…we drove over but there were no vehicles I recognized. The sun was going down. A couple of buildings were lit. We parked and were walking up to one of them to ask which building ESDC was to occupy when we heard Skip yelling from the aquarium side of the road. He suggested that Bob and I were to stay at the "INN" where everyone would come for meals.

Dan and Rob were at the Inn. I plugged in the rice cooker, Dan and Rob offered wine, cheese and other goodies. Skip came back with Rodney, who had a whole cooler full of roasted chicken ready to eat. I stir fried some broccoli with mushroom to serve with rice along with Dan’s baked beans. And thanks to whomever brought that yummy key lime pie, tea and coffee!

Now the conversation was in the full bloom…..from dive sites world wide to dive equipments’ over and under use, repairing and returns…etc. and etc. Dan is a very experienced person on everything, even outside of diving. He made every topic, good or bad, interesting and laughable with his comments. On the top of it Rodney’s, Rob’s and Bob’s remarks were also interesting and not any bit less funny. If we didn’t have to be up for Dan’s breakfast at 6:30 a.m. we may been up the whole night. Skip was quiet most of time. He may have been too deep in the planning of tomorrow’s working dive. After all, we were there to bring the water intake cage to the right place for the Seattle-Pacific University’s aquarium. In this tax season, I truly appreciated all the laughter that night.

The breakfast of sausages, egg and pancakes could have fed a whole army. Good that Skip brought along two younger guys to help with it. At the dive site, Dan assigned everyone a job and reminded us repeatedly that the current could be strong and to stay close to or hang on to the yellow rope that would guide the cage to the spot. I was the "safety diver". My duty was: if any working diver’s leg got entangled "I" was to free them, by untangling them or cutting away anything other than diver’s legs! YES, SIR! To equip me more properly, in addition to my dive knife, Bob clipped onto my BCD another pair of scissors.

Marylou came for shore support and dove with Skip and Rodney afterward at Keystone. Keith pulled the cage on a slide, and all the guys: Dan, Rob, Rodney, Skip and Bob, half- dressed in their dry suits, were pulling and pushing with all their power to drag the cage over the grassy hump, across the beach, into the water. Where were those two younger guys? Oh, fully dressed in the water and watching...

Everyone came back to get ready to dive. Bob tied one air tank at the opening of the cage and with help from Rodney put a lift bag inside and filled it with air. When the cage was totally in the water, the lift bag had tiny leaks everywhere and it made a pretty scene in the water. But it did the job and lifted the cage so the slide could be pulled out. Someone yelled, "We are into the current now, release some air…" The water was just up to our shoulders, everyone laughed and said, "The bag is releasing air itself," so down we went.

OH, MY GOD…didn’t Dan’s briefing say that the current was ¾ knot? It must have been 3-4 knots! I KICKED THE HARDEST EVER SINCE I BEGAN DIVING AND I WAS GETTING FARTHER APART FROM THE YELLOW ROPE! I tapped on Skip’s shoulder and he extended his hand and pulled me close and down. Bob came to release air from my BCD and dry suit. With a big exhale I reached the top of the cage but there wasn’t anything to hold on to and the yellow rope was half way down on its other side.

My hand found a goody-bag on the top, back-side of the cage that was secured by a tie wrap. I held on knowing that if I broke the tie I would have made the work more complicated. KICK AND KICK AND KICK AND THE CURRENT WAS EVEN STRONGER. BY THEN IT TURNED, SWEEPING OUT FROM BEACH, SO THAT IT BLEW THE LIFT BAG OUT OF THE CAGE UNDER ME AND TANGLED AT MY LEGS. I had to let go of the goody-bag before I broke it. The current swept me against the lift bag. I couldn’t tell who untangled me and who squeezed the lift bag back in the cage. I do know that one dry-gloved hand held mine and dragged me all the way down to where the cage was and put my hand on to the red rope that was attached to the end of the yellow rope. He signaled to me that the cleared spot was where the cage was to sit. I stayed on the west side of it. COOL, the current was bearable there. I think that it must have been Dan, but I couldn’t recognize him in the water. Off he went to help bring down the cage that was outside of my visibility – about 10’?

After the cage was in sight, set down and adjusted into position, Skip, with another stream of air bubbles went out to secure the end of the chain at the anchor while other divers took the opposite end of the chain onto the cage. Skip had me hold the cage door to release the tension so he could untie the rope that kept it open. Dan came with a knife and cut it off. Rodney tried to untie the air tank on the side of the cage, but only Bob knew how to untie it. He closed the cage door and secured it while Dan rechecked all the corners, and re-secured the end of yellow and red ropes with tie wraps.

Dan signaled most of us to stay while he went back to bring down the hose that goes to the aquarium. I stayed at the north side of the cage between kelp, still holding on to either the rope or the chain…not moving much in the water. Time seemed too long and I was beginning to feel coooold. Maybe for the same reason, one by one the other divers followed the yellow rope up to see what they could do…then one by one came back with the 4" hose. I think the air in the pipe must have made it more difficult to bring down. Once there, it was snapped in place as planned. Dan re-secured the rings on the clamp of the pipe line to the cage with tie wraps and handed me the goody bag to bring back. I was so happy to get a REAL JOB this time. Following the yellow line with one hand, I slowly kick my way up….whoooooh…..the yellow line ahead was curving to the south…. Bob was free kicking next to me at the south side so I handed him the goody bag for I need my both hands to walk the line forward. The current was sweeping me tightly against the yellow line….if I would have been on the other side of the yellow line and missed one grasp I would have been gone with the current for sure.

I was so exhausted and with the waves breaking on the beach I had a hard time walking. Bob extended his hand to steady me. I saw Linda helping pull back the rope that guided the pipe down. She asked, "How was it?" I was too tired to tell the whole story. I just said, "I am so coooold from not moving much for so long in the water." It was actually a 61 minute dive—even it was only at 12 feet!

Dan praised everyone for being there and helping. I shied away at that, but Dan still addressed me, thanking me for helping, making me feel like a 4-year-old being praised by grandpa for helping split wood for the whole winter! But Dan is only a few years older than I am.

When I told Bob my thoughts on this he reassured me that Dan meant what he said. Bob said just to stay down in that kind of condition for that long even if only to accompany the others still deserves to be recognized, not to mention that I did pickup cut off ropes, ties, a pair of pliers and bring back the goody bag. How sweet these guys are!

No matter what, I should say thank you to Skip and Dan for including Bob and I in this event. What a memorable weekend it was!

Vaughn Fierke

Boeing Creek Reef was formerly named The Trees for some forgotten reason by the state in the mid-80s. Boeing Creek flows through the original Boeing family estate next to the Shoreline Community College campus and flows into the sound close to the reef.

The reef consists of large boulders and concrete work ranging from 40' to 120' deep. Some kelp grows on the high fringe but appears to be too deep for our alga, like bull kelp, to grow thick. There are some large Laminaria fronds in the summer months.

But this is a true study in zones because the upper fringe is only a fraction of what is deeper. The middle area is home to the white Plumose (Metritium senile); the orange ones are the Sunflower anemonies. Around these several variety of nudibranch can be found. Fish vary from the quillback bass, maybe a black rockfish, dozens of small sculpin, cabezon and lingcod. Take a small light to see how many lingcod lairs you can find, which are usually noted by the large cluster of white eggs...but could they be octopus masses? There have been a few sighted!

The reef covers a large area so you may want to try for two dives here. Deep water timing is a must, though. I suggest each group bring their own diver-down flag and at least 75-100ft of line. Have a good alert device for pick-up when you surface.

The first set of divers will depart from the Richmond Beach bathhouse area at 10:30. I'll keep ferrying a set of 2 divers regularly until the last group is out. Relays will be about 15 minutes apart depending on weather.

Please consider a second dive at Richmond Beach if you haven't been here before. You could find some old remnants of barges or the Flyer, a cargo ship sunk in the 30s.

See y'all there.

Date: April 10 Sunday

Time: 0930

Place: Richmond Beach State Park.

Elena DiPardo

Here is your opportunity to enjoy a weekend of diving at its best in
beautiful Campbell River, BC.  If you have not yet had the experience of
diving in Canadian waters, then join Jack Titterness and myself for a great
weekend of diving, eating and relaxing at the beautiful Abyssal Lodge on
Quadra Island.

The adventure begins on Thursday, April 14th.  We will travel by ferry to
Vancouver Island and will probably stop at Madrona Point, outside of
Parksville, for one of my favorite shore dives.  There's a beautiful wall
there with generally calm water. I have spotted wolf-eels
and octopuses there just about every time I have dived it.

We will arrive at Abyssal Lodge after dinner on Thursday and settle in for
the weekend.  The weekend includes lodging, meals on Friday, and Saturday
and breakfast on Sunday, and 6 dives.  Additional dives can be arranged for a small additional fee of about $35.00/dive.
Nitrox is also available.  There is a large screen TV to enjoy DVDs or videos as well as a hot tub.

The cost for the weekend is $405.00.  Payment in full must be made at Bubbles Below this week.  It will be a very fun weekend, so please consider joining us. Hope to see you there.

Hornby Island
Phil Morgan-Ellis

So...fellow divers of the Emerald Sea Dive Club anyone else interested in this great trip over the Memorial Day weekend?  There is more information in the February newsletter.
I have 8 diver spots filled right now with only 6 left.  For additional
information please email me at pcellis@gmail.com  Hope you can join me.

On June 17-18-19, Loogpla and I hope ESDC divers can join us for three days in Nanaimo, BC on beautiful Vancouver Island.  We will catch the early ferry out of Twassen Friday morning and head from Dukes Point into Ian's dive shop to begin our two dives for Friday.  One of those dives will be Dodd Narrows to ride the current one way, a slight slack, then ride the current back to the boat. (The smaller one as the large one will be in a little precarious position).   It is really colorful and relaxing.  The second dive could be anywhere around Nanaimo.  The Snake Island Wall, Clark Rock, Orlebar Point (another beautiful wall) or perhaps the Saskatchewan or Cape Breten.  The Cape Breten is dear to the ESDC hearts as many members made the trip to Vancouver to help clean her out prior to sinking and the volunteers have a plaque mounted on the vessel with their names.  Clark Rock is kind of special in my mind as I remember Guy (a past member who moved back to Hawaii) feeding the wolf-eels that came out of their dens just to intermingle with us humans.  They must love to be scratched and rubbed (although slowly).

Ian has informed me that their third vessel, the Riv Tow Lion, a 157 foot North Sea rescue tug, has been added to the list of sunken vessels in the Nanaimo area.  It was sunk on the NW end of Newcastle Island in the more protected area near the inner harbor and somewhat shallower. It will be used for wreck diving classes as well as a back-up site when other sites are too rough to dive.  

We have asked everyone to make their own arrangements through Ian (1-800-233-4145).  One call will do it all as he also makes the arrangements for us at the Buccaneer Inn—our little diver friendly home away from home with a dry room to hang up drysuits and store gear and a washer and drier for leaky drysuits.  It’s just a short hop away from the dive shop.   Two nights and five dives for approximately $310.00 American (it could go up or down a little due to the exchange rate). We do our own meals but everyone usually does their own thing in the mornings but does lunch and dinner together at some really nice restaurants.  If there are enough divers Ian will do a Dodd Narrows trip again on Saturday or if someone wants to do it a second time.  Nanaimo it self is a beautiful little city and I remember a couple of real beautiful sunsets on the way in.  One year we took a little passenger ferry out to the floating Pub and had dinner. It was a quaint little treat. The sushi places are among the best in this corner of the world. Usually to top off this fantastic weekend, we take the Horse Shoe Bay ferry back to the mainland and spend some leisure time in Horse Shoe Bay Village.  The village is right in the bend of the Sea-to-Sky Hi-way (to Squamish and Whistler). The snowcapped mountains, the marina, the ferry, the shops and restaurants on the piers compose a complete picture of Northwest life in one little area.  As soon as I get the name of one particular restaurant I remember, I'll post it so whoever wants to join us can sample the food. The seafood platter was so large that only four platters fit on the table and we had to get extra seating—makes me hungry so I better close and start dinner.   Please join us and you'll go back every year.    

Contact Skip at  425-775-2410 for more information.

Bruce Bury

Just wanted all to know I had a lot of fun collecting critters and
sightseeing on six dives done on Friday and Saturday, which included one night dive at
Langley Tire Reef, three Camp Casey dives, one Coupville Tire Reef (AKA Admirality
Cove Tire  Reef as corrected by Oak Harbor Dive Shop), and one dive at Keystone
Jetty. Also seeing our dive friends from Eugene Dive Club again and a majority of ESDC members made it the largest and most successful in the three years that I have attended.  I enjoyed our company and I really enjoyed checking the Sealab each day to see the critters we collected. Picking Keith's and our own Fran's brains as to the names of some critters I have never seen before was also interesting. Of course there were the eight deer on the parade fields, six eagles, one rabbit, and, sadly, the harbor seal pup that we saw
on the beach Friday morning that passed away that night at Camp Casey. I'm still  pumped up about how much fun it was to be there and see so many divers in the water at one time. 

Thank you all.

Shawn Miller

Myself and Jeremy decided to go to the T-dock on the Saturday before Easter.  He called me about 1/2 hour before we were supposed to meet just to see if I was on my way.  Late as usual of course.  I got down there and there was no parking on the street.  There must have been 30 people trying to dive.  Yes, Underwater Sports was having a class.  I found some parking and we got suited up and buddy checked.  We had decided 65 feet max depth, 1000 psi and come up.  Away we went.  We got to the end of the dock and we went down.  Smooth as ice.  We got down about 60 feet and started looking for critters.  Jeremy was on one side of a downed piling I was on the other.  He chased out (what was found out later) a Northern Kelp Crab.  It came from Jeremy's side to me.  I shinned my flash light at it, and the little thing charged me and grabbed my light.  So I gave him a slow motion punch, because he wouldn't let go.  He let go and flew back in slow motion, landed and charged again.  This time I pushed him away.  Then he tried to get my left hand, no such luck (you little turd).  Once again in slow motion I hit it with my flash light, he flew back again, landed and charge again so I flew up vertically to give it my Matrix fin kick.  If you've seen the Matrix you know what I'm talking about.  Well I missed.  How embarrassing can you be when you are being laughed at by your friend and THE CRAB.  Moral of the story if your dive buddy ticks off a crab SWIM AWAY FAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Disclaimer: No animals were hurt during the dive,   just my ego

Saturday, 04/30/2005 - 9:00 a.m.

Location
Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, WA

Hundreds of divers from all over the Pacific Northwest will gather at Point Defiance Park in Tacoma on April 30th for the Third Annual NW Underwater Treasure Hunt & Dive Show. This year, more than 700 divers and 2,000 visitors from the entire Pacific Northwest, including Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and nearby British Columbia will attend the annual event.

TIME LINE
APRIL 30th 2005
8:00 am TREASURE HUNT DIVER REGISTRATION
9:00 am SNORKELING SEMINAR
11:00 am SNORKELING TREASURE HUNT
1:00 pm SCUBA DIVNG EVENT

ANYONE CAN DO THIS! (If they can swim)

Snorkeling and Freediving (breath hold diving) SEMINAR
World Record Holder Mandy-Rae Cruickshank, a 29 year-old four time world record holder from Vancouver, Canada, will give a 30-minute seminar on free diving techniques and tips. Certified dive instructors will be on site to provide safety, guidance, and training advise. This a great time for beginners to experience this part of our fascinating sport.

Guinness World Record Attempt
This is the largest gathering of divers in the world! 700+ divers will line the beach shoulder to shoulder for almost a ¼ mile! We are expecting over 700 divers to participate in our event April 30th event and set a new Guinness Book World Record for the most divers diving at one time. The current listed world record was set in South Africa in 2001 and stands at 592 divers.

The sight of hundreds of divers dashing into the water will be tremendous. There will divers taking underwater footage of the event to be provided to newscast personnel on site. With prior arrangement, newscasters can broadcast from the site, EVEN UNDERWATER!

Great Opportunity for Radio Remote
There will be thousands of people attending this event from a wide demographic. Sharing a love for diving, these are Boeing engineers, mechanics, lawyers, construction workers and family and friends. Young and old divers. The sport is fascinating to the general public.

Exciting Contests and Prizes
The event sponsored by Northwest Dive News Magazine and many other dive businesses offers divers a chance at winning over $50,000 in trips and prizes. There will be more than $50,000 in fantastic prizes given away, including general drawings and hourly giveaways!

PREMIER PRIZES
The premier prizes are four 7 to 10-day trips to Fiji (including airfare from Los Angeles International), sponsored by the Fiji Tourism Board and several Fijian businesses. Divers can win drysuits, wetsuits, regulators, BCDs, dive charters and tons of cool gear. You've got to see it to believe it!

Northwest Dive News Magazine has invited dive industry professionals from around the world to showcase their products at this extraordinary event. Prospective divers can meet equipment manufacturers, dive travel agents, dive resorts, charter operators and local dive retailers to learn more about their products and services.

It’s Not to Late to Promote the Event
For a $30 entry fee, divers can enter two exhilarating treasure hunt contests. Event registration has moved up one hour and now begins at 8:00 a.m. We had to make more time for registration because of strong pre-registration at our website. At this point we have over 200 divers pre-registered, assuring them a spot at the Treasure Hunt. Pre-registration is easy and it saves you $5 per diver. After the Snorkeling Seminar At 11:00 a.m. we will have a Snorkeling Treasure Hunt. Divers will use their snorkeling gear and breath-holding skills while searching for tokens on the sea floor. You do not need to be an expert to participate in this event, but all participants must use the buddy system. No tokens will be accepted without both buddies present. For divers without a buddy – event staff will help find a buddy for you.

The Scuba Diving Treasure Hunt will begin at 1 p.m. All divers must attend the pre-dive briefing and dive with a buddy. Participants will scuba dive for tokens that represent prizes. Some tokens will be instant winners and divers will simply walk out of the water and claim their prize. No tokens will be accepted without both buddies present.

Divers can save $5 each by pre-registering online by April 25. To participate or learn more about the biggest scuba diving event in the world, contact Northwest Dive News at (360) 240-1874 or email nwdiver@nwdivenews.com.

The Sea Horse Dive Club Swap Meet will be held on Saturday,

April 9th, from 9:00 a.m. to noon in Kent, WA. Proceeds from this

year’s swap meet will be donated to the Edmonds Underwater Park. The

underwater park’s budget is based solely on donations. This event is for any and all parties to buy or sell scuba gear. Several area shops look forward to this annual event to sell their rental gear, new and used gear. Admittance is free for buyers. Dive clubs are invited to promote their membership. The entire event is indoors so rain doesn’t affect it. A nominal table/space fee is charged for all sellers. The fee structure is as follows: $10.00 for a ½ table (about 2’x3.5'), $15.00 for a full table (2’x 7’).Vendors can begin setting up at 8:00 a.m., the doors open to the public at 9:00 a.m..

This is a great time to pick up or sell some gear. Greg Becvar will be there to represent Emerald Sea Dive Club. If you would like to help at the Emerald Sea table contact Greg tridoxia@yahoo.com or 425 280 5617.

Cheng Wong

Easter Sunday, Bob and I met Loogpla and Skip at the Edmonds to Kingston ferry for 28 miles of biking.  It was raining on and off.  We stopped three miles from the ferry and stuffed ourselves with Mexican buffet. From Point No Point lighthouse there were more up hills than down hills and we were only one-third of the way. At one stop I hit loose gavel, my bike fell hitting me on my right shin bone.  Later, at one very long hill I was so dead tired I pushed my bike up instead of riding. When I went to get back on, my right leg did not swing up high enough and brushed the bike bag on the way down, in it there were water bottles, cell phone, etc. on top of the rain suit. Still all of us made the trip back to the ferry "safe and sound" if not a bit "colorful". Mud covered us from shoes to helmets, front and back and of course our faces and eye glasses too. Our muscles were aching, but still we were bragging about the 28 miles of biking. Skip was bragging how good he felt about the completion of this bike trip and Bob said, "Until I’ve showered and am in dry clothes, I can’t said that I feel great just now."

It wasn’t until we got home that I saw my wounds: peeled off a strip of skin the size of a match, above that a half-dollar size black and blue mark on my shin bone 4" above my ankle, and a quarter and dime sized black and blue marks all lined up below my knee. Bob saw my wounds before he showered and went home.....AWEEEE.... They really hurt while I was taking a shower. Afterwards, I remembered a household trick, and applied an alcohol preparation and honey on the broken skin and put two bandages on it. This morning when I changed them, not only didn’t the bandage stick on the wound, but the half-dollar size bruise was gone. Now only the quarter and dime size bruises are still there. How incredible it was.  

Anyway, it was really a great biking trip, thanks to Skip and Loogpla’s positive attitude. It truly was a scenic road and couldn’t have been a more enjoyable day. I plan to drive it in order to have a better view of the sights.

Our next outing will be April 10^th.  We will do the tulip field. It should be an easy and beautiful ride, one where we will take a few pictures.  Hope to see you all at our next bike trip.  Hope you are all swimming and running along the way to our triathlon or Jason and Charlie’s Long Distance Biking event.  

The Shoreline City Council wishes to honor its volunteers by hosting a Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast on Friday, April 22, 2005, 7:30 a.m. in the Shoreline Room of the Shoreline Conference Center, 18560 First Ave. N.E.

Please honor us with your attendance as we celebrate your contributions as volunteers and begin the celebration of our city's 10th anniversary.

RSVP by leaving your name on the voice mail at (206) 546-0614 or email volunteer@ci.shorline.wa.us by April 18, 2005.

Last year I attended the breakfast and there was a magician there to entertain us.  I shared a table with city council members.  It was very rewarding.  Please check your calendar and plan to join me at this event. 

Loogpla

Did you know that when you show your ESDC membership card at Starfish Dive Shop you receive a 10% discount? Did you know that if you show your ESDC membership card at Northwest Sport Dive you get a free air fill? Be sure you have your ESDC membership card with you when you go shopping at dive shops—you just never know.

If other shops give you a discount please let us know and we will publish their name.

You could win a $50.00 ESDC check by hosting club dives. Every time you sponsor a club dive your name "goes into a hat" and twice a year a raffle will be held and one person from each drawing will receive $50.00 from ESDC as a Thank You for sponsoring dives, friendships, and fun! Remember, a club dive is a dive approved by Greg Becvar, Activities Coordinator, and placed on the clip-board and on the ESDC web site. This is a great way to meet club members and have lots of fun. Book your dives today! Remember: the more dives you book the more chances you have of winning.

When you take a class that furthers your diving experience, such as Advanced Open Water, Rescue, Dive Master, etc., show The Board your certification card and you will receive a congratulatory $15.00. This offer is only good one time per calendar year.

E-mail Jason Miller, our mailing list moderator, jason.t.miller@comcast.net

to be put on the ESCD yahoo group mailing list

(www.groups.yahoo.com/group/ESDClist) where you can communicate with other members regarding various dive topics, find dive buddies, or let everyone know about a

planned dive that did not make it to the newsletter or clipboard in time. Join the list so YOU won’t be left out!

4820 196^th SW

Lynnwood WA

425-775-5459

Board meeting, 6:00 p.m.; everyone is welcome to join. General meeting, 7:00 p.m.

Heading north on I-5: take exit 181B (196^th St SW/Alderwood Mall Pkwy). At the top of the exit there is a stop light, turn left. At the next stop light turn left onto 196^th St SW proceeding to 48^th. Alfy’s is on the south side of the road. (Alfy’s is 4 blocks down from The Rock.)

Heading south on I-5: take exit number 181 (Lynnwood). At the top of the exit there is a stop light, turn right onto 196^th St SW, proceed to 48^th. Alfy’s is on the south side of the road. (Alfy’s is 4 blocks down from The Rock.)

President Loogpla Cowden loogplacowden@att.net

Vice-President Steve Berthinier resoyrua@verison.net

Secretary/historian Rose Lyn Tadlock tadloro2002@yahoo.com

Treasurer Cheng-Hui Wong chengwong@comcast.net

Activities Coordinator Greg Becvar tridoxia@yahoo.com

Newsletter Editor David Ripley esdcnewsletter@mindspring.com

Big Buddy Coordinators Skip Stacy skipstacy@aol.com

Wendy Drucker astromoi@earthlink.net

Greeter Jared Averill jared_averill@hotmail.com

Web Master Phil Morgan-Ellis pmorg@olympus.net

Visit our web site: www.emeraldseadiveclub.org

Write us: Emerald Sea Dive Club

PO Box 73

Edmonds WA 98020

Contact any of the board members via telephone or e-mail www.groups.yahoo.com/group/ESDClist

₪ Greg Becvar

360-659-2853

tridoxia@yahoo.com

₪ Bruce Bury –PADI rescue

425-788-8063

bury1of6@aol.com

₪ Jason Miller –Rescue

425-778-7548

Jason.t.miller@comcast.net

₪ Skip Stacy – rainy days

425-775-2410

₪ John Laggart –weekday dives

jmnlaggart@msn.com

If you are interested in being included on this list please contact the editor.

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