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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] 2010 PSUBS Convention
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- Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] 2010 PSUBS Convention
- From: Ray Keefer <psubs2001@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:14:13 -0700 (PDT)
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Hi Folks,
The tentative convention schedule is:
2010 Florida with Vance Bradley hosting
2011 California
2012 is open for a suggestion for a reliable PSUBber to arrange. Also keep in mind that folks can meet on their own outside of a PSUBS Convention.
Regards,
Ray
--- On Thu, 8/13/09, ShellyDalg@aol.com <ShellyDalg@aol.com> wrote:
> From: ShellyDalg@aol.com <ShellyDalg@aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] 2010 PSUBS Convention
> To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
> Date: Thursday, August 13, 2009, 9:38 AM
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> Hi Guys.
> First off, I've wanted to visit New Zealand for
> many years. I have friends
> who have been there and by all accounts it's one of the
> most beautiful countries
> on earth. That coupled with the friendly people in New
> Zealand and it sounds
> like a trip well worth making.
> On Florida, there are quite a few reasons to choose
> that area. We have a
> few members there to help co-ordinate an outing there, the
> local infrastructure
> is well developed for tourism so rooms are fairly
> inexpensive, and air travel is
> affordable.
> The places to dive are extremely varied ranging from
> the gulf side with
> nice warm water, the ocean side with good visibility, to
> some of the freshwater
> lakes fed by natural springs where the visibility is more
> or less unlimited.
> There are sub manufacturing facilities to tour, a vibrant
> undersea industry with
> many types of involvement in the things related to our
> sport, and several
> university programs that could mesh well with a visit by
> us.
> As for California, here too is a large number of
> facilities to consider
> contacting, be it southern OR northern California.
> The dive sites range from the many ocean harbors with
> lots of sea life to
> be seen, to lakes both shallow and deep.
> Accomodations are about average in price, and again
> there are several
> organizations and institutions that would make a sub
> convention here very
> interesting.
> Michigan is a good place as well. One of the best
> things about Michigan is
> the sheer number of members available locally so we would
> be assured of good
> attendance by members who have subs available. There are a
> few new ones that
> should be ready by then including Les, Jim, and
> Dean along with the
> existing subs located there. The room rates are inexpensive
> and Michigan's
> central location makes it easy for out-of-state members to
> get there.
> Michigan has some new government programs that are
> promoting new industries
> rather aggressively and with a little research it may be
> possible to garner some
> help from them.
> If Northern California was to be considered, I would
> be happy to
> co-ordinate the affair, line up speakers, arrange for
> visits to some of the
> great research organizations located close by, and research
> accomodations,
> transportation etc.
> I live in Santa Cruz, a nice beach town very close to
> Monterey where the
> dive industry is second to none, and with access to
> Monterey Bay Aquarium and
> Research Institute.
> Moss Landing is the home of MBARI and the local
> University has another
> great facility on the ocean where cutting edge research and
> education is being
> conducted.
> The three ocean harbors near by, Santa Cruz, Moss
> Landing, and Monterey
> Harbor are all available for use, and there are several
> nice lakes we could use
> too.
> I know a guy who owns a crane company and he might
> give us a deal for a
> crane for the day, or all three harbors have cranes
> available if we wanted to do
> saltwater dives.
> Frank D.
>
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