Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] 2010 PSUBS Convention

[Ray Keefer <psubs2001@yahoo.com>]

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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