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THE AQUA TOOTER

Since 1958... a publication from the Aqua Tutus Diving Club, a non-profit organization established to promote Water Safety

and to further the sport of SCUBA Diving.

September 2016

Aqua Tutus Diving Club's

next regular meeting:

Thursday, October 6th 7:30 p.m.

Location: Round Table Pizza

20920 Redwood Rd. Castro Valley

Aqua Tooter � Pleasanton, California

What’s Inside Holiday Party Volunteers needed Page 2 Entertainment Report Page 3-4 IN THE NEWS Page 4-5 Sept Gen Meeting Minutes Page 6-7 Sept BOD Minutes Page 7-9

On the web at http://www.aquatutus.com

UPCOMING CLUB ACTIVITY (LOCAL)

Oct: 22-23 Breakwater, Monterey – POC Kat Nov: 19 Otter Cove, Pacific Grove – POC Kari

BOD MEETING SCHEDULE

3rd Thursday Every month except December, Thurs, October 20th, Round Table Pizza

http://www.meetup.com/Aqua-Tutus-Dive-Club/ or

http://www.my.calendars.net/atdc_events

For the Latest on Club Activities

October Meeting Entertainment

David McGuire with Shark Stewards http://

sharkstewards.org/ will be presenting at the Octo-ber general meeting.

David is a marine biologist and founder of Shark Stewards, a non-profit organization that advocates for sharks and promotes shark research and ecosystem protection. Please join us and bring your friends!

TOOTER PUBLISHING SCHEDULE

Tooter INPUT by 20th of month

Tooter will be published usually by end of month

THANK YOU PRESENTERS AND NEWSLET-TER CONTRIBUTORS FOR MAKING THIS AQUATOOTER POSSIBLE

Gayle Hudson, Jono Dove, Fritz Welss, Lar-ry Muth, Linda Muth, Ruth Chofre, Patti Baugh, Bill Chinook, Helga Mahlmann, Bar-bara Dwyer, Kat Smith, Kari Klaboe, Alan Throop, Joe Timmons, Dennis Hocker, Patti Shannon-Hocker, Jim Driggers, Bernhard Sterling

September 2016

MARK YOUR CALENDAR

The Aquatutus Diving Club Holiday Party

will be on Saturday, December 10th

Aqua Tooter � Pleasanton, California September 2016

MARK THE DATE

Volunteer opportunities at

AquaTutus Holiday Party

Our Holiday Party will be held on Saturday, December 10 at La Cabana Mexican Restaurant -

as has been our recent tradition . We hope all members – present & past- will bring family

and friends for this delightful holiday gathering. Great food, renewing acquaintanceships,

photo ops with Santa, fun opportunities to give small gifts to family and friends, group danc-

ing – any much more await your presence!

Volunteers are needed – particularly new members – who want to help this year. A flyer and

more information will appear in the next two Tooters, but for now we’re seeking people to

help. The Holiday Party committee will likely not physically meet – most work is done by

email – so it’s not a big time-consumer. If we all share a small load the whole event is easy

and fun for everyone. Also, while there is one lead person per main task, more than one per-

son can help in that task to lighten the burden. You will be reimbursed for any expenses.

The main tasks this year are listed below - some tasks may or may not happen; some will ex-

pand to more detailed tasks. Some are already shown as filled, but please sign up to help

on any task you are interested in.

• Reservations & menu selection; liaison with restaurant. [Patti Shannon]

• Set up ticket sales (preferably advance, on-line)

• Help decide if we will have , and if so, lead children’s games.

• Create flyer and advertise in (Tooter, website, emails, etc). We have a draft flyer from

past years.

• Help decide if we will have , and if so, lead the raffle.

• Seek items from dive shops or other locations for the raffle .

• Bring dessert (typically cake & ice cream).

• Collect entry fee and give nametags at party.

• Bring and setup audio system (Club’s system). [Alan]

• Prepare program, MC at party, play music.

• Be Santa (suit is provided).

• Bring scrapbooks & newsletters from ages past (get from Helga).

Please sign up to help on any task you are interested in. New ideas or comments for the

party are also very welcome. Contact Alan Throop ([email protected] ) or Patti Shan-

non-Hocker ([email protected]) – or any Board Member.


Aqua Tutus Diving Club

Entertainment Report September 1, 2016

Reported by Kari Klaboe

September’s General Meeting was the second part of a two-part entertainment series focused on Aqua Tu-tus club members. At the meeting, Gayle Hudson, Jono Dove, Fritz Welss, Larry Muth, Linda Muth, Ruth Chofre, Patti Baugh, and Bill Chinook treated us to photos and video taken from dive locations all over the world. Included below are summaries of the presentations provided by Gayle and Linda.

Gayle Hudson - Collection of Photos from Diving

in California, Mexico, and Honduras

A renewed underwater photographer, Gayle began diving in the Caribbean during a Windjammer Bare-foot Cruise in 1981. She received her open water cer-tification in 1982 and has been diving ever since. Gayle is currently the Social Media director for the club, so when she’s not diving with the club, you can find her on our Facebook page!

At the September general meeting, Gayle shared a collection of photos from dives in California, Mexi-co, and Honduras.

FIGURE 01 Baby fish in kelp, Gayle Hudson

FIGURE 04 Hatchet fish on Prince Albert wreck Roatan, Gayle Hudson

Gayle currently shoots with an Olympus Tough TG-3, which has helped her take beautiful photos during dive trips to the Channel Islands in Southern California, Akumal in Mexico, Roatan in Honduras, and even local dive trips to Monterey.

Linda Muth - [FIGURE 5 to FIGURE 8]

A certified scuba diver since 1993 and a member of Aqua Tutus since 2005, Linda has always been interested in photography and started underwater photography shortly after becoming certified. Linda started shooting with a disposable film camera in an Aquashot housing. She now shoots with an Olympus EP1 mirrorless camera and a single Sea & Sea strobe with a Light & Motion GoBe 700 as a focusing light.

Linda’s presentation included stunning photos from her recent Wakatobi dive trip. When asked about her favorite dive or dive spot, she answered, “I enjoy diving around

FIGURE 02 California sheephead at Anacapa Island, Gayle Hudson

FIGURE 03 Sea Turtle and Lionfish in Akumal, Gayle Hudson


Entertainment report continued

the world with my family, but there is nothing like diving in California.”

Many thanks to our members for the amazing presen-tation!

Linda Muth

Linda Muth

Linda Muth

Linda Muth

IN THE NEWS

From Helga

Something New for Diver Safe-ty See http://www.nautiluslifeline.com/

This is now being required by a number of dive boats and resorts overseas ac-cording to NCUPS sponsor travel agen-cies. This is why Backscatter is carrying them. May be required by our local Monterey boats in the near future.


IN THE NEWS In Memoriam, John Petrash

John Petrash, an early and lifetime member of Aqua Tutus Diving Club, passed away early Sunday, Sep-tember 18, 2016. He was 94 years old.

Joe Timmons has kept in touch with John over the years and last year visited John and his daughter in Berkeley.

John was active in Aqua Tutus from about 1962, was Head Instructor in the mid-60’s and Director of Training in the late-60’s/early 70’s, training and mentoring current members such as Joe Timmons, and Alan Throop. He was a no-nonsense instructor who loved SCUBA diving and the outdoors, and could teach with a style of both authority and respect for students and those around him.

John, a long-time resident of Berkeley, will be buried next to his wife, Helen, in St. Joseph cemetery. No plans for a service have been announced, but we will try to get an email or other notice out to club mem-bers when information is available. Cards may be sent to 1915 Berryman St, Apt A, Berkeley, CA 94709. Donations in his memory may be made to your local Hospice organization.

Dennis, Eric Minowski, John

Diving History – Jim Steele

from Steele's Discount Scuba

Jim recently contributed to the oral history of div-ing for the Northeast Diving History Association. You can see Jim’s interview via the Aquatutus Facebook page link at

https://www.facebook.com/groups/138317976230766/permalink/1214593258603227/

Thanks to Patti and Jim for the posting

Info from Helga

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ba_diving/conversations/

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Battery explosion disturbs the Peace

Barbara J Dwyer

The San Francisco Reef Divers' annual Peace trip to the Channel Islands gotoff with a bang Sunday. Dur-ing the crossing, I twisted on my Light MonkeyRat Jr (to light my bunk area) and the battery exploded

with a loud POP. Someone said it sounded like a gunshot with a silencer.

The battery was a blue Ultrafire Li-ion CR123A 16340, 1000m Ah 3.7v. Photo is from my other back-up light, which I immediately unloaded.

The battery embedded itself at least an inch and a half into the mattress-luckily I did not turn the light on till I was facing my bunk with the lightpointed down. The explosion totally destroyed my light. . Twenty sleepy divers went topside while the crew (aided by Matt Cohn, Carol's son) tore my bunk apart looking for the battery. If that battery had traveled and hit anyone, it would have done serious damage. It took about a half hour to clear the toxic fumes so that people could go back to sleep.

The light was cold and dry when I twisted it on. The battery was not charging or recently charged. Com-ments? Any idea where I'd report this other than the manufacturer?

Barbara


General Meeting Minutes

Date: September 1, 2016


Meeting called to order by President Mike Barrett at Round Table Pizza in Castro Valley, CA at 7:00 pm.

Speakers: Member’s Night (Gayle Hudson, Jono Dove, Fritz Welss, Larry Muth, Linda Muth, Ruth Chofre, Patti Baugh, Bill Chinook)

Guests: Edna (new diver), Chris, Cameron

Entertainment (Kat Smith – not present) Oct.: Dave McGuire – Shark Stewards Nov.: Larry Muth – Turks & Caicos Dec.: [no general meeting] Please contact Kat if you have any requests or sugges-tions for future entertainment.

Treasurer’s Report (Helga Mahlmann)

Account Balance: $3,752.39

Membership (Bernhard Sterling)

Membership: 71 members Training (Dennis Hocker)

Advanced Open Water: PADI is working on re-vising their AOW course and the next class may use the new materials. Dennis is tenta-tively looking at an October/November timeframe for the next course. Anyone inter-ested should email Dennis. Materials possibly available at November general meeting, de-pending on PADI’s release of the new materi-al. See club website for training schedule.

For more information on training contact Den-nis Hocker (510) 792-5606 [email protected] or Neil Benjamin (510) 673-0073 [email protected]

Newsletter (Don Kelsey – not present)

Newsletter came out. Input due by the 20th.

Web Goddess (Patti Shannon)

Currently looking for a club member to take over website responsibilities.

Social Media (Gayle Hudson)

• Meetup: 74 members, 14 upcoming Meetups,162 past Meetups

Facebook: 62 members (open to the public)

Old Business:

Dive Tags: Every club member will get one free dive tag, but each member must fill out a Dive Tag Request Form with the information they want on their tag. Additional dive tags can be purchased at a cost of $4/tag. Email Kari Klaboe ([email protected]) for a Dive Tag Request Form. Forms should be submit-ted to Kari electronically or at a general meet-ing.

New Business: No new business

Special Committee:

Chair: Alan and Patti – if you would like to volun-teer, please contact Alan. He will post in the next newsletter.

Past Dives:

• Lover’s Point, Pacific Grove (August Club Di-

ve): Larry Muth and Linda snorkeled around second Lover’s. Mike, Jim Driggers, Edna, and Kari dove outer lovers and the inner reef.

• Breakwater, Monterey (Eric Shi): Dove Middle Reef and caught a baby octopus in his hand.

• Silver Prince Boat Trip, Monterey (Fritz

Welss): Two dives at Eric’s Pinnacle. First dive was 54 degrees. For the second dive, they went 100 feet west and the water was 57 degrees.

• Pacifica (Susan): No diving; however, saw a number of whales at the surf line, which have been feeding in that area for the last few days.

• Boynton Beach, Florida (Eric Shi): Saw Goliath Groupers and shot his first hog fish and lionfish with a spear.

• Monastery, Carmel (Jono, Dennis, Bo, Kat,

Lee): North monastery - conditions were fairly good, visibility was okay, went down to 100 feet. Kat com-pleted her Advanced Open Water certification and Bo continued his Advanced Enriched Air class with Den-nis.

• Weekend with Reefcheck (Dave Chervin): Sur-veyed Breakwater. Showed up and saw whales in the cove and lots of kelp in Middle Reef. On Saturday, the next day, they surveyed Butterfly House. The out-er edges are showing lots of urchin coming in. There is an article in CA Diving about the urchins taking over different areas along the California coast (Sonoma Coast, parts of Carmel, etc). They saw very few sea stars. Channel Islands, Southern California (Ben): On Conception – Dove the south end of Santa Cruz Is-land --- 68 degree water temp, but didn’t really see


Membership meeting minutes continued Aqua Tutus Diving Club

Board Meeting Minutes

Date: September 15, 2016


Present: Myron Gist, Patti Shannon, Dennis Hocker, Mike Barrett, Larry Muth, Lee, Kat Smith, Kari Klaboe, Helga Mahlmann, Gayle Hudson, Don Kelsey, Alan Throop, Jono Dove, Nic Kerson, Fritz Welss, Bernhard Sterling, Maria, Larry Dimitri, Joe Timmons

Meeting called to order at 7:03 pm by Vice President - Jono Dove.

Treasurer’s Report (Helga Mahlmann)

Account Balance: $1,498 in the classes account and $2,223 in the general account

Bills: $170 in Cencal dues coming up. Up-Coming Entertainment (Kat Smith)

2016

Oct: Dave McGuire – Shark Stewards Nov: Turks & Caicos - Larry Muth Dec: No General Meeting Kat is working on lining up the entertainment for 2017 and has been in contact with the CA Deep Divers for the California Academy of Science. Membership (Bernhard Sterling)

Membership: 73 members (10 life, 6 associate, 57 regular)

Director of Training (Dennis Hocker)

Advanced Open Water: Materials available on or before the November meeting. See club website for training schedule. November club dive on November 19 will also coincide with one of the AOW certification dives.

Webgoddess (Patti Shannon)

Training has been added to the website. Social Media (Gayle Hudson)

Jim is working on turning over the Meetup “organizer” status to Gayle. To do this, they need to create an Evergreen account.

Newsletter (Don Kelsey)

Don needs content!!

much. Kelp looked sickly.

Good Buddy Award: Gayle nominated Jim Driggers and Kari Klaboe for diving with a new club member and the August club dive.

Bone nominations:

Ben Tetzner for leav-ing his hood and gloves on the boat when he was diving the Channel Islands.

Bone Award: Ben Tetzner

Upcoming Activity and Dives

2016

Sep. 17: Wharf 2, Monterey (scuba cleanup dive for beach cleanup day) – POC Gayle Hudson

Sep. 10-13: Northern Channel Islands with VDM – POC Alan Throop

Oct. 22-23: Whaler’s Cove (TBD) – POC Kat and Ghosts of Monterey Tour ($35 per person for Ghosts of Monterey Tour, limit 10 people) and possible morning dive on 10/23 at San Carlos.

Nov. 12 or 19: Monterey – POC Kari Klaboe

Dec. 10 : Club Holiday Party

Dec. 19-Jan. 2: End of year trip to Cozumel – contact Dennis or Patti if you are interested.

2017

June 24-July 8: Caribbean Explorer II, St. Maarteen, Saba, St. Kitts - POC Dennis

Meetings

Next Membership meeting: October 6, 2016

Next BOD meeting: September 15, 2016

Meeting adjourned at 9:21 PM


Special Committee [updates are in bold text]

Holiday Party: Date set - December 10, 2016. [no action needed] Jim and Debbie to set

up a cart on square to pre-pay for raffle tickets.

[no action needed] Jono recommended that we try to write to companies to get donated raffle items for our holiday party. Helga to write to the chamber to see if they’ll donate a t-shirt.

No new business.

Constitution and Bylaws: Don developed a two-page document of

duty descriptions. There are three clas-ses of BOD members: voting mem-bers, non-voting volunteers, and spe-cial committees (e.g. holiday party co-ordinator).

Jim Driggers still working on Google Docs folder for our Constitution and Bylaws.

Don created a Director of Training

write up for Dennis to review and

requested for Helga to provide a

write up for the Information Table

tasks.

As Lifetime Members are added to the

club, this information should be rec-

orded in the Bylaws. The club also

needs to update the Bylaws to de-

scribe the process for adding new

Lifetime Members.

Don: concentrated on the Officer Duties

Dennis: There used to be a group of Aqua Tutus head instructors and they decid-ed who would be the Director of Training for the next year. Now we only have one head instructor, so that process is outdated. Members dis-cussed whether to have the appoint-ment of the Director of Training to be a general club meeting vote or a BOD vote.

Jono: If the Director of Training is a voting member, then the Di-rector should be a generally elected position. [The Director of Training is a voting mem-ber.]

BOD meeting minutes continued Don: Is in favor of having the Board elect the Director

Joe: A voting member of the Board should not be elected by the Board.

Helga: Just vote at next meeting since we will be voting for Board mem-bers.

Don: Is going to revise the Constitu-tion and Bylaws based on feed-back and have Dennis review.

CenCal [no update]

Old Business [updates are in bold text]

[no update] Guest Flier: Alan is working on creating a guest flier to be handed out to new members at club meetings.

[no update] Club T-shirt: - Nick, Jono, and Patty Baugh are all interest in helping to create a club shirt. – Going to let this go. Helga to talk to Patti Baugh again.

Dive Tags: Six more dive tags will be purchased,

making 17 total dive tags purchased for club

members. Bank Signatories: We will update signatures after the next club elec-

tion. The President, Vice President, Secretary,

and Membership will be signatories for the club

bank account. Debit Card: Greg will need to stay on our club account until after

we update the signature cards. [no action required] Round Table: Need to reserve

banquet room for 2017 meetings. Entertainment Laptop: Helga to register for Tech-

Soup and club to purchase Office Suite for lap-top.

Helga is waiting on club email account to sign up for Tech Soup.

New Business

Patti: Maria has volunteered to be the new web master for the club website. Maria prepared a handout for Board members with some of her website ide-as: using WordPress to revamp website, expand calendar features, include more club photos, and create a blog with Newsletter content.

Jono proposed a motion to spend up to $59 on Word-Press theme for revamping club website. Gayle seconded motion. Motion passed.


Maria to verify costs and hosting charges for web-site.

Gayle: Proposed starting an Aqua Tutus Youtube channel for club members to post videos. Any club member can provide scuba-related video for our channel and would have the right to remove their video at any time. Lee to provide first club video of Monastery diving.

Patti: Club Board Officer Nominations should be made in October so we can vote in November. Provided below are some initial candidates for nomination in the Oct General meeting.

President: Jono Dove Vice President: Kat Smith Treasurer: Helga M. Entertainment: Gayle Hudson Secretary: Kari Klaboe Membership: Jeff Doney Dennis: Entertainment for the August general

meeting ran excessively long and the Enter-tainment Chair/President needs to better coor-dinate the presentation to limit time and pre-senters.

Upcoming Events

2016

Sep. 17: Breakwater, Monterey (scuba cleanup dive for beach cleanup day) – POC Gayle Hud-son

Oct: 22-23 Breakwater, Monterey – POC Kat Nov: 19 Otter Cove, Pacific Grove – POC Kari Dec. 10 Club Holiday Party Dec. 19-Jan. 2: End of year trip to Cozumel –

contact Dennis or Patti if you are interested. 2017

June 24-Jul. 8: Caribbean Explorer II, St. Maarteen, Saba, St. Kitts - POC Dennis

Meetings

Next Membership meeting: October 6, 2016

Next BOD meeting: October 20, 2016

Meeting adjourned at 8:48 pm.

BOD meeting minutes continued


Calendar of Events

See the latest meeting minutes,

or

http://www.meetup.com/Aqua-Tutus-Dive-Club/

Or

http://www.aquatutus.com/

for the current schedule of ATDC Events

ATDC Dive Training

Advanced Open Water Class Calendar Class diving completed on Sept 19th

• Dates are tentative, depend on participation, check the webpage

• Classroom sessions held at Dennis’ house, 38962 Larkspur Street, Newark, CA

• For more information contact

• Neil Benjamin: (510) 673-0073 [email protected]

• Dennis Hocker: (510) 792-5606 dennis@ rxscuba.com

2016 OFFICERS/BOD/Volunteers

President

Mike Barrett [email protected]

Vice President

Jono Dove [email protected]

Secretary

Kari Klaboe [email protected]

Treasurer

Helga Mahlmann [email protected]

Membership Chair

Bernhard Sterling [email protected]

Training Director

Dennis Hocker [email protected]

Entertainment Chair

Kat Smith [email protected]

Newsletter Publisher

Don Kelsey [email protected] Social Media

Gayle Hudson [email protected]

Board Members @ Large:

Shelia Doney [email protected]

Myran Gist [email protected]

Gayle Hudson [email protected]

Past President

Oliver Edwards [email protected]

Web “Goddess”

Patti Shannon-Hocker [email protected]

http://reefcheck.org/rcca/rcca_home.php

What is a “POC”

The “POC” is a Point of Contact for a club dive. Any member is welcome to plan a dive and put in on our web site calendar. You don’t have to be a dive master, or the director of training, or a board member to do this. Any club dive is done with the expectation that there will be people there to help.

FIND Oliver’s Tutorial BEGINNING PHOTOSHOP FOR

UNDERWATER PHOTOGRAPHERS at

http://www.aquatutus.com/articles.html

Then click on “Beginning Photoshop For Underwater Pho-tography -- by Oliver Edwards” for the download

ATTENTION , ASPIRING PHOTOGRA-

PHERS AND WRITERS

WANTED—DIVE PICS AND STORIES

FOR THE TOOTER.

Send your input to Don at

[email protected]


Aqua Tutus Diving Club P.O. Box 11952 Pleasanton, CA 94588

North Coast Diving since 1958

For quick access to Chuck Tribolet’s

Internet Resources

for the Bay Area Diver

http://www.garlic.com/~triblet/swell/

News from the Monterey Bay

National Marine Sanctuary

http://www.mbnms.nos.noaa.gov

https://www.facebook.com/MBNMS

News from the Monterey Bay

Aquarium Research Institute

http://www.mbari.org/

https://www.facebook.com/MBARInews?

fref=ts

News from the California Marine

Sanctuary Foundation

http://californiamsf.org/index.html

News from the Pacific Grove

Hyperbaric Chamber

https://www.facebook.com/

PGHyperbaricChamber

http://californiamsf.org/pages/donate-

pgh.html

Keep up with California Diving,

read

California Diving News

http://www.cadivingnews.com/

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