Air Bubbles The Newsletter of the North Shore Frogmen’s Club Volume 52, Number 10 October 2010

President’s Message, October 2010

First, a very big thanks to all who made the picnic a big success. Ray, Rich and Bill for manning the grills, John Ferrier for the ice, Coming Club Events John Sears for the raffle, Jes for the food, Vinny for throwing the October 21: Jerry Shine will give a tickets on the ground and everyone else who helped and attended. presentation to our Club at the The rain held off for most of the day, and despite the cool breeze meeting on October 21 on from the ocean, a great day was had by all. This year the club paid for six of the Dive Kulture kids to enter the BSC Treasure Hunt. I Nudibranchs of the Northeast. don’t know how they did, if anybody does please let the club know. The club also fed the DK kids and parents gratis. I felt free was the October 28: Begin nominations for best price, despite the kind offer from Laura to pay. As we joined 2011 Club Officers. with other dive clubs and the BSC, the turnout was probably the largest I have seen for many years. Those who dove apart from the December 11: Annual NSF Banquet BSC event reported poor but warm conditions.

As September draws to an end, fall is showing in the trees and most importantly, the banquet tickets are on sale. December 11th should be marked in your calendars as the highlight of the season. This year the venue is the same as last, the Beverly Golf and Tennis Club. I think it’s safe to say a better time can not be had for only $35. This year we have restricted ticket sales to 120. Last year tickets sold out pretty quickly, so buy early to guarantee your place and save $10 on the post-November 1st price of $45. Graham Smith

Our Veep at the picnic

Contents: President’s Message – pg. 1 Meeting Summaries – pg. 2-4 Coming Events – pg. 5 & 7 Activities Calendar and Listing – pg. 6 Eastport Dive #5 – pg. 8

Visit our website at www.northshorefrogmen.com 1 Air Bubbles – October 2010 - Markus and Peter E. this morning at Meeting Summaries Ft Sewall – vis not good, tons of bugs, lots of eggers, 2’ striper 02-Sep-2010 following them. Meeting called to order: 8:04 PM - Ray in Eastport with Amy, Mary, Attendance: 3 Officers, 18 Members John, Michael D. and Dave. Vis was Secretary: Minutes read and accepted 8-12 feet. Amy did 6 dives, Mary did as amended. 5, Ray 4. Ray dove dry in theory, wet Treasurer: report read and accepted. in practice. Wolf fish Gene (Eugene)

Committees: has a partner. There’s also a new The North Shore Frogmen’s Club - Air Bubbles: Mary Howard-Sept wolf fish, but don’t know its gender, PO Box 3604 issue in the works, not quite ready. so it’s named Pat. Wolfish males Peabody, MA 01961 Correspondence: Paul was in touch guard the eggs so you can determine

with Steve Calawa who went to 2 sex at that stage. On 2010 OFFICERS John found a 30 pound lobster but he President: Graham Smith funerals this past weekend. He’ll Tel: (603) 247 1678 bring a card. didn’t have his camera with him. Big Email: [email protected] Old Business: jellyfish on the last day. - The website is done, is working well; - Jes at Niles Beach, just messing Vice President: Jesse Leslie Markus will transfer stuff tonight. around got a dozen surf clams made Tel: (978) 335-1811 baked stuffed clams Email: [email protected] Markus has pics from Paul. Would like to get feedback from members. - Last night, there was a ton of squid at Treasurer: Vinny Egizi Markus is wondering if there is an Back Beach. They were sitting on Tel: (858) 342-3365 electronic version of the by-laws to people’s hands. Went in around 7:45 Email: [email protected] put on the site. and had a 60-70minute dive. Great Secretary: Meg Tennissen - Picnic – have permits, need prizes. dive. Another group that was there Tel: (781) 724-0071 Should figure how many are will got confused, thought they were part Email: [email protected] attend, expect people to buy about of them. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * $10 each in raffle tickets, divide by 2 - Meg went out on the Easy Diver, and that’s the budget for prizes. In went to Kettle Island and Diver’s Membership: Dan Hering the past we had several types of [email protected] Leap. Water was in the 60s at 30-40 raffles, separate TV, booze and dive feet. Vis was OK. Saw lot of bugs, Newsletter: Mary Howard related raffles. The more we have the but no keepers. Tel: (781) 944-1292 more complicated, but the more - Adam and Tony did Front Beach; it Email: [email protected] revenue. was Tony’s first dive in 2 months, - The Club supplies hot dogs, burgers, found a big bug. buns, condiments; members bring General Discussion: other food items to share. John will Dodie – when she did check out dive bring coolers w/ice. Ray will bring a years ago, rope kelp there, tough to grill. MetroWest usually brings a see, but went through all the skills. grill. When they came out the instructor - Ray will forward previous years’ said “I don’t know who you are but budgets to officers. you passed!” - Salem State has its own dive club, Jes *Deadline for submissions* Raffles: Dollars Box: John Sears invited them to come. Mystery Prize: Pete Chapman to the November 2010 issue - There will be a BSC meeting on 9/8 Bug Bag: John Marren of Air Bubbles is to finalize plans for the Treasure 09-Sep-2010 Hunt which is scheduled for the Thursday, October 21 Meeting called to order: 8:06 PM same day and location. Attendance: 2 Officers, ? Members Please have all articles and New Business: Guests: Mark C – diving 40 yrs, friend information to the Air Paul has CDs from Pat & Annette of of Mike Lodisi’s; Dave R 15 yrs pictures from the VT weekend. They Bubbles editor by that date. diving sent a letter – they’re looking forward Secretary: Minutes read and accepted to next summer’s planned Club visit. as amended. Dive Talk: Visit our website at www.northshorefrogmen.com 2 Air Bubbles – October 2010 Treasurer: report read and accepted. pick deserving high school or college Secretary: Minutes read and accepted Committees: student interested in marine sciences. as amended. - Air Bubbles: went out electronically Helps to be certified diver before, but Treasurer: report read and accepted. last Thursday night it’s not necessary. It’s a whole Committees: - Website: Markus, the summer program. - Program: website host is not fully compatible - There’s a scheduled event at the - 9/23 - Jonathan Bird on Tiger Sharks with what he’s done; he wants to Gilbert Bean Museum in Braintree on - 9/26 – Picnic and BSC Treasure Hunt move the NSF website to GoDaddy, UBoats, including the U853, on Oct - 10/21- Jerry Shine on Nudibranchs of at cost of $5/month. Current web 2nd. the Northeast host should expire soon anyway, so a - Sep 18th Thompson Island cleanup, - Vinny will be doing a presentation good time to do it. Motion made leaving from Black Falcon terminal on diving sometime seconded and passed to let Markus Dive Talk: Old Business: move it to new server. - Mark C.– today wrecks off Salisbury - Website: Markus will be switching - Program: Beach some the beams exposed, over this weekend. A number of

-9/26 – Picnic they’re 17th century wrecks in people sent profile photos. Someone - 10/21 – Jerry Shine presentation. “Lobster City” fairly decent diving suggested that someone besides Old Business: there. Need boat to get there. Markus should have access as - Picnic – Current was strong, vis was 25’ webmaster, for emergencies, like the

-Not certain if MetroWest is bringing General Discussion: Club president. a grill. Mary can email Rich. Bill - Paul – Dougie Russell – Was in his - Markus sent a new Camo shirt to can bring a grill. yard, small bee flew up nose and Afghanistan for Mike M. He also has - Prizes - look to spend $200-300; stung him. He’s very allergic, a XXXL shirt for all of us to sign for John S will pick some up. anaphylactic shock, 4 days in Mike M. and he wants to do another - Presentations - intensive care. He’s better and doing one for Ken F. Did a tag for the T- - Amy emailed that Jerry Shine’s well. He wishes everyone well. shirts telling about the Frogs – presentation on Nudibranchs of the - Mike has hats, pins, etc. tonight business card size. Northeast (21st Oct), as seen at - Mike’s Moments: - Name shirts? Any decision? Design Beneath the Sea - 40’ fishing boat sunk off of maybe 2 rows of names, next to - She is also working on getting Gloucester at 160-170’ deep. No name will be date joined and any Jonathan Bird to give a talk on plans to bring it up, 3 mi off coast of office held. Current officers on top, sharks Gloucester and we can do it every year. For New Business: Markus had idea for - OSHA release on Sea World death legal reasons we’d need a sheet that shirts with members’ names on it for with the killer whale – Sea World everyone signs saying they are OK the year. There has been a positive fined $75,000. They recognized with putting the name on there. It response. May cost about the same as inherent risk of working with would include paid and Life the other NSF shirts. dangerous animals, but employer Members. Can have history of has to ensure work environment is Information from the BSC meeting Froggies on the inside for the person safe. held last night. that has the shirt. Life is Good shirts - 70 bottles of 2 century old - Vic Mastone of the Massachusetts have their history on the inside. champagne, that was very well Board of Underwater Archaeological Send emails, put in Air Bubbles for preserved, found in the Bering Sea Resources (BUAR) will be speaking everyone, if don’t respond by cutoff, - List of 10 most interesting dives at MetroWest next Tues about raising then they’re not on it. including Bimini Road in Bahamas, dugout canoes in Lake - Banquet - Ocean dead zones more expansive Quinsigamond. - Some members tried to see the DJ at than they were in 1960. There’s a - the AOH, but it was a slow night MetroWest Wrecks & Recreation large one in Gulf of Mexico and an th and they were closed. Vinny will show will be Nov 6 area off Wash/Ore coast contact her to book her for our - Sea Rovers will start up their annual - Article with big koi goldfish, can’t party. clinic again, will be 1st weekend of tell if it’s real. Supposedly 30 lbs. - Banquet ticket sales will be similar March at Danvers Ferncroft. We Raffles: Dollars Box: John Marren to last year. Tickets will be printed may want to consider having a booth Mystery Prize: Jeff Lynch as in previous years. soon, $35 before a certain date and - Applications for Frank Scalli Annual 16-Sep-2010 $45 afterwards. Summer Internship are being Meeting called to order: 8:04 PM - There is a contract written with accepted. Every year the Sea Rovers Attendance: 3 Officers, 10Members BG&TC and there are no hidden Visit our website at www.northshorefrogmen.com 3 Air Bubbles – October 2010 fees. Menus say that all prices are shore. The other person wasn’t inclusive of taxes, fees, room rental, found. etc. Vinny will give our menu - Lake Windermere in Northern choices to them soon. We’re England, a 20’ long creature called Please welcome scheduled for 7-11. Is it possible to Bough Nessie, who some think may New Club Member have cocktail hour at 6:30? may be a relative of Loch Ness - Picnic on 26th monster - Jes getting food. Raffles: not recorded in minutes Collin White - Dive Kulture kids are coming, can 23-Sep-2010 Who was voted in as we cover up to $60 for their treasure hunt fee? We have the discretionary Abbreviated Meeting for newest member at the fund, we can do it. Jonathan Bird Presentation meeting on September 23 - Mary spoke with Angelo at BSC Meeting called to order: 8:00 PM about having them set up near Attendance: 4 Officers, 28Members

where the picnic will be. Guests: 10 total – 3 friends of Mary & New Business: Motion to go forward Ray, Collin White, some PCYC An American tourist asks a with name shirt, with cutoff of end of members sailor: Oct. Motion made seconded and Committees: passed. Price for shirts? Markus can - Membership: Dan Hering –.Collin "Why do Scuba divers always pay upfront. White – newly certified. Motion fall backwards off their made, seconded and passed to make Dive Talk: boats?" - Markus at Chandler Hovey with him our newest Club member. Peter and his nephew. Old Business: To which the sailor replies: - Vinny – Mexico, 1 shallow dive (50’), - Picnic this weekend and BSC starts at 1.5 hrs south of Cancun. Fish all over 9 bring food "If they fell forwards they'd the place, saw one barracuda. Corals - Bob Boyle has sale this weekend. still be in the effin’ boat." almost dead. Saw cool big angel fish. - Signing a shirt for Mike Miller Submitted by Vinny Egizi Deep dive 110’ saw a ray. Did cenote Dive Talk: diving, underwater cave in Mexico. - Patty and Linda went on Easy Diver Seen at the NSF PICNIC He has a video tape and still photos next to Folly, saw torpedo ray; 2nd and will put together a presentation. dive off Halibut Point. Good trip, it The are also good for was fun. swimming, not just diving. - Jes – open water class at Back Beach, - Meg, Laura, Shon, Erika, Dan H, saw horseshoe crab and a tropical Todd did a night dive at Back Beach butterfly fish. – saw lots of squid. Mainly stayed Raffles: Dollars Box: Bill Werner shallow, around 10-15’ deep.. Mystery Prize: Linda Piehl General Discussion: Bug Bag: Collin White - Mike’s Moments: - Today show had presentation on Jonathan Bird gave a very people attacked by sharks. All were interesting presentation on Tiger held in the air and shook by the Sharks after the short business Above: the Dick Parnells sharks. meeting. Coincidentally he also Below: the Smiling Pfeils - There’s a section of the Mississippi spoke about Lemon Sharks and River with lots of dead fish, where gave some great photography tips. fertilizer gets mixed into the water and creates a dead zone. - There were some guys fishing, caught some fish and also pulled up the bottom part of a person’s leg. The person was ID’ed person’s by fingerprints. Apparently, a boat had broken down and this person and one other jumped in to push boat to Visit our website at www.northshorefrogmen.com 4 Air Bubbles – October 2010

Coming Events Other Events of interest to SCUBA divers NSF Club Events / Activities Battle of the Atlantic – October 2 Jerry Shine – October 21 U-Boat Warfare on the New England Coast and Jerry Shine, author of A Shore Diving Guide to the Destruction of the German Submarine U-853 New England, will be our guest speaker on October off Block Island, Rhode Island st 21 . He will be speaking to us about the topic of his At the Braintree Historical Society, Gilbert Bean Museum soon-to-be-published book to be titled Nudibranchs & Research Center, 31 Tenney Road, Braintree of the Northeast. Saturday 10/2/10 at 10AM, Admission $5 Nudibranchs are among New England’s most The story of submarine warfare off the New England beautiful sea creatures. Luminous colors, wild shapes, coast will feature guest speaker Paul M. Lawton, incredible variety – in other words, they pack an awful attorney and naval and maritime historian, followed lot into an inch. Join Jerry Shine for a photographic by a narrated video showing the U-853. Local WWII look at more than 25 different species, with an veterans will be available to speak about their wartime emphasis on when, where and how to find them in adventures. New England waters. Jerry’s writing and have appeared in more than 100 publications worldwide. UDCM Annual Banquet 10/8/10 United Divers of Central Mass is holding their annual banquet on Friday, October 8. Richie Kohler, NSF NAME Shirts technical and wreck diver, maritime historian, and There is a plan underway to make up shirts with the host of the show Deep Sea Detectives, will be the Club name on the front, and with the names of all guest speaker at this event. current members listed on the back. Next to the When: October 8, 2010 starting at 6PM names will be the date they joined the club, and will note any Club offices the members have held. Please Where: Devens Common Center, 31 Andrews let a Club Officer know if you do NOT want your Parkway, Devens, MA name on the shirt, by November 1. Tickets: $35 includes presentation and dinner How: Contact M. Bowers for tickets and information at [email protected] Officer Nominations Begin – 10-28-10 Nominations for 2011 officers will begin during the MWDC Wrecks & Recreation Dive Show last Club meeting in October. Consider supporting your Club by running for office. MetroWest Dive Club will be holding their Wrecks & Recreation Dive Show on Saturday, November 6 in Framingham. NSF Banquet – December 11 “It's not just for wreck divers!" North Shore Frogmen’s Club Annual Banquet When: November 6, 2010 The Annual Club President’s Banquet will take place on December 11 at the Beverly Golf and Tennis Club. Where: Keefe Technical School, Framingham Beginning at 6:30PM with a cocktail hour, then dinner Tickets: Available on the website (before 10/16 with a great menu, and ending about 11PM with for $15) or at the door ($20) dancing to DJ. This will be our big social event of the More: For more information see website at year. Tickets are on sale now at $35 per person. www.MWDC.org The price will go up to $45 after November 1st, and the number is limited, so get your tickets ASAP. The MWDC website includes a list of speakers Contact Club Treasurer Vinny Egizi for tickets, or scheduled so far and will be updated regularly. come to a meeting soon. (More events listed on page 7) Visit our website at www.northshorefrogmen.com 5 Air Bubbles – October 2010

1 2 Battle of the October 2010 Atlantic 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Sunday Dive UDCM 8:00 PM Meeting Banquet

10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Sunday Dive 8:00 PM Meeting

17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Sunday Dive 8:00 PM Meeting PRESENTATION 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Sunday Dive 8:00 PM Meeting

31 1 2 3 4 5 6 Sunday Dive Wrecks 8:00 PM Meeting

7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Sunday Dive 8:00 PM Meeting BSC Mtg 7:30 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Sunday Dive 8:00 PM Meeting

21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Sunday Dive Thanksgiving NO Meeting

28 29 30 Sunday Dive November 2010

Activities List

- Oct 2, Sat Battle of the Atlantic – Presentation in Braintree (pg. 5) - Oct 8, Fri United Divers of Central Mass banquet w/ Richie Kohler (pg. 5) - Oct 19, Tue NEU MSC Lecture (pg. 7) - Oct 21, Thur PRESENTATION: Jerry Shine, Nudibranchs of the Northeast - Oct 28, Thur Begin nominations for 2011 officers

- Nov 6, Sat MetroWest Dive Club’s Wrecks & Recreation (pg.5) - Nov 10, Wed Bay State Council meeting 7:30PM in Quincy – all welcome - Dec 11, Sat Annual President’s Banquet at Beverly Golf & Tennis Club

Visit our website at www.northshorefrogmen.com 6 Air Bubbles – October 2010 More Other Events of interest to SCUBA divers sent to field stations in the Gulf after the Deep Horizon oil spill. Join Dr. Innis as he recounts his experiences being a NEU MSC Fall Lecture Series part of a large scale sea turtle triage team. The Northeastern University Marine Science Center is hosting a selection of Lecture Series this fall and we would love for Tuesday, October 19 you to attend! The first lecture of the season is: Horseshoe Crab Behavior Environmental Benefits and Impacts of Speaker-Wan-Jean Lee, University of New Hampshire Aquaculture, Horseshoe crabs have been around and Relevance to the North Shore since the dinosaurs, but much remains to be learned about their Lecturer: Dr. Joe Buttner behavior and ecological roles. Dr. Joe Buttner is an Associate Professor of Biology at Although many of their behaviors Salem State University. He is an AFS Certified Fisheries appear simple, they may have Scientist with an aquaculture specialization. His research complex ecological consequences. Wan-Jean Lee is and extension efforts target freshwater and marine focusing her doctoral research on understanding horseshoe organisms. From fin-fish to shellfish as well as open, semi- crab behavior and how it affects the Great Bay Ecosystem. closed and closed systems, Dr. Buttner has delivered in excess of 100 presentations before professional, technical Monday, October 25 and lay audiences. Running Dry Event Details Speaker-Jonathan Waterman, • Scheduled for Tuesday, October 19th at 7PM photographer and author • Free and open to the public - no need to RSVP • Light refreshments will be served, start at 6:30PM Jonathan Waterman started shooting • Lecture will be held at the Marine Science Center photographs on his expeditions three located at: 430 Nahant Road, Nahant, MA. decades ago, but also found his calling as a writer and author. He has Please feel free to invite anyone that may be interested in starred in and written films for attending. We hope to see you there! television, including The Logan Challenge (PBS 1991), Surviving Denali (ESPN 1994), and Oddyssey Among the New England Aquarium Lecture Series Inuit (OLN 2000). He has a new book, Running Dry, about the Colorado River. The Colorado now reaches the sea The Aquarium has been providing free lectures and films only in the wettest of years, and the Delta, once one of the by scientists, environmental writers, photographers and greatest desert estuaries in the world, has been reduced to a others since 1972. The Aquarium Lecture Series is veritable wasteland. presented free to the public through the generosity of the Lowell Institute which has been providing funding for free public lectures at universities and museums since 1836. Monday, November 1 Lectures are free and open to the public. Registration is Smithsonian Ocean: Our Water, Our World requested. All programs start at 7 p.m. in the Aquarium’s Deborah Cramer, author Harborside Learning Lab. Programs last approximately one Science writer Deborah Cramer will hour followed by a reception. present some of the world’s finest October Lectures marine photography from her book Smithsonian Ocean: Our Water, Our Monday, October 4 World. She will also discuss how all Medical Management of Sea Turtles Affected life, including ours, depends on the sea, by the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and how we, a single terrestrial species, Speaker - Charles Innis, VMD, are changing the nature of the ocean itself. Director of Animal Health, Cramer writes about science, nature, and the environment. New England Aquarium Currently a visiting scholar at MIT’s Earth System Senior rescue and veterinary Initiative, she is the author of Great Waters: An Atlantic staff from the NE Aquarium Passage and Smithsonian Ocean. She lives in Gloucester, were among the first experts Massachusetts. Visit our website at www.northshorefrogmen.com 7 Air Bubbles – October 2010 Eastport Weekend - Dive Number 5 to take the treats from John’s hand. They were crowding the space so I moved along. Start time: 8:01AM on 8/30/2010 Shortly after that Ray Max depth: 40 feet found me and I showed Avg depth: 30 feet him where Pat was. Temp at depth: 54 F Amy and John were Length of Dive: 55 minutes gone, so we gave the In-the-water time was 8AM, later than yesterday morning, fish some whelks that but still early. Because of my cold, that meant getting up we had picked up about 6:30 to take Sudafed in plenty of time before the earlier in our dive. We dive. This would be the last dive of the weekend for us as puttered around for a we had to leave about noon, so there was no way I was while and then Ray took off, he was wet enough already, going to sleep in and miss this dive. and I took my time going back to the wall. It was our third beautiful in a row, already warm, clear and I stopped to visit briefly with Gene, who, I’m told, has a calm. We started suiting up in the back yard of “Dawson girlfriend whom I didn’t see, and so is not as outgoing as House” about 7:30, and after donning undergarments, he has been in the past. It’s hard to get him to come out of drysuits, boots, and tanks we walked across the his cave for snacks. I saw a big lobster and few redfish road and down the path to the beach. The water was flat hiding in the crevices near calm and the sun was bright over Campobello Island (New the wolf fish caves, and got Brunswick, Canada) across Passamaquoddy Bay. The some pictures of a winged was low, so that meant crossing a lot of seaweed covered sea star. Back at the wall, I cobble before reaching the water’s edge, but it also meant saw some of the biggest the dive would be 20 feet shallower than the afternoon dive bushy back nudibranchs that and therefore we could stay in longer and it might not be so I have ever seen. I poked dark. Feet in the water just before 8, we put on our masks around at the wall for a and fins and headed out. while, taking pictures of bushy backs, anemones and I descended directly from the beach to make it easy for my sea stars. After a while I ears to clear, headed towards the edge of the wall and headed back up towards the slowed down at about 10 feet to poke around and take shore. When I got to the pictures of some small northern red anemones. Everyone chain at the top of the wall at else headed off and down much faster than I wanted to about five feet, I saw a baby attempt, and I had a peaceful solo start to my dive. lumpfish sitting on a rock, Over the edge of the wall, the bigger hermit crabs almost like he was posing for me. WOW! I had never challenged my right to invade their domain, and I started seen one of those before and it was just so cool! I had picking up whelks to feed to the wolf fish. Along the way I turned off my camera at this point, figuring I was pretty got some pictures of a rock gunnel much done with my dive, so I turned it back on and eased and a couple of small grubby up a little closer to the lump fish. He turned towards me a sculpins as well as some anemones little and improved the pose for me. I was just about to and sun stars. Going slowly, I was take a picture when he disappeared; just disappeared! I not bothered much by my ears and looked around for him for a while, but I couldn’t find that was surprised when I reached the little lump fish anywhere. But at least I had seen him! point where the bottom started to I came out of the water and walked back up the beach and level off at about 40 feet, territory up the path, and across the that is a little unfamiliar since it’s road to a warm freshwater deeper than we find Gene, the wolf fish we’ve been outdoor shower. What a feeding for the past several summers. After traveling south great diving day! a short way and realizing I wasn’t going to find the wolf fish at that depth, I turned right, and there were two pairs of Mary Howard fins working the area in front of Pat’s cave. We had named this new, smaller wolf fish Pat as we had no way to ps- Amy got some shots of identify his/her gender. John was breaking open whelks that little lump fish by the chain in five feet of water when and Amy was taking pictures of Pat coming out of the cave she came up shortly after I did. He is really cute! Visit our website at www.northshorefrogmen.com 8 Air Bubbles – October 2010

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Bay State Council Treasure Hunt 9/26/10

Above: The crowd it waiting for the BSC Treasure Hunt raffles to be drawn.

At left: Laura and her Dive Kulture kids hoping their tickets will be pulled.

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Upcoming Club Events!

October 21: PRESENTATION: Jerry Shine October 28: Begin nominations 2011 officers December 26: Annual NSF Banquet

Sunday morning Club dives: Meet at Burger King on Rte 128 in Beverly. For “Summer” dives, be ready to leave for the chosen dive site at 8AM.

The North Shore Frogmen’s Club meets at 8PM at the Palmer’s Cove Yacht Club in Salem at 74 Leavitt Street Salem, MA 01970 Parking is available in the Harbor Sweets lot across the street. Parking will be more available in the PCYC lot after the boats are in the water.

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