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July 2010 Club Meeting

Published on July 9, 2010 in Announcements, Berryessa, Classes, Club Activities, Dive Adventures, Education, Events and News. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , .

To All Napa Valley Divers:

The next meeting will be Monday, July 12, 2010

Filippi’s Pizza Grotto
645 1st Street, Napa (east of Soscol)
Phone: (707) 254-9700

* Dinner (Dutch treat) will begin at 6:30pm
* The meeting will begin at 7:00pm

     AGENDA: 

  • Welcome – Jackie Danielsson 
    • Introduction of guests
  • Secretary – Pamela Reuter
    • Reading of June 14 General Meeting minutes
  • President – Jackie Danielsson
    • Old Business
      • Chef’s Market Update
    • New Business
      • Raffle tonight at end of meeting
  • Committee Reports
    • Treasurer – Stacey Flukey
      • Have you paid your 2010 – 2011 Club dues yet?
    • Events – Joan Lord
      • SCUBA Review – Jackie
      • Club BBQ – Jayma
      • Honduras-Roatan – Joan
      • Abalone Camping Trip – Keith
      • Monterey Picnic – Joan
      • Berryessa Clean Up – Jackie
      • Shark Dive (date change) – Jackie
      • San Diego dive trip – discussion
      • Lake Tahoe dive and camping – discussion
    • Secretary Updates – Pamela Reuter
      • Board Meeting notes
    • Communications – Keith Reuter
      • Napa Valley Divers now on Facebook 
      • Napa Valley Divers Website refresh update
      • Upcoming events now on website
      • Board and General meeting minutes now on web site
  • Open Floor – Members
  • Raffle
    • BRING YOUR DOLLAR BILLS FOR THE RAFFLE!

Please: If you have not yet paid your dues for renewal or initial membership,
please click here to fill out the online form, print and mail — or you may bring
it with you to this next meeting.

We look forward to seeing you all!

September 25, 2010 Lake Berryessa Clean Up

Published on June 25, 2010 in Announcements, Berryessa, Club Activities, Dive Adventures, Dive Experiences, Education, Events and News. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

September 25, 2010     LakeBerryessa Clean Up

This year, in unison with the California Coastal Clean Up Day, the annual Lake Berryessa Clean Up is being coordinated by The Adaptive Scuba Network (Jackie Danielsson and Roger Haseltine), Sports Cove in Vacaville, Berryessa Trails and The Bureau of Reclamation.  Come join fellow divers by helping to clean up the environment and our local neighborhood, Lake Berryessa.  Divers and land support are both needed.  There will be a BBQ following the cleanup with prize drawings!

The exact location, time and costs will be detemined in the very near future (test dives presently in process to look for the best site).  Check back for more updated information as it becomes available.

For additional information, contact: Jackie@NapaValleyDivers.com

July 25, 2010 Pool Refresher Class

Published on June 25, 2010 in Announcements, Classes, Club Activities, Education and Events. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

July 25, 2010    Pool Refresher Class and Certification 

Come join us at the Napa Valley College swimming pool for a refresher/tune up class and certification.  Roger Haseltine will be the instructor and fees will be paid directly to him.  Liability release forms will also be required.  Practice those rusty skills or take the time to do all those little tasks that you don’t do in the ocean, like trim out your weights for perfect buoyancy.

 Cost:  $35.00 per person, which includes tanks, equipment, and weights if you need them and the cost to use the Napa Valley College swimming pool.

 Commitment needed:  We need a minimum of 4 commitments from club members and guests by July 15th to secure this event.

 Contact:  Jackie@NapaValleyDivers.com

 Following this pool event, come on over to the Napa Valley Divers BBQ.  Contact: Jayma@NapaValleyDivers.com for BBQ times and location.

The Great White Shark: Meet the Man in the Gray Suit

Published on April 8, 2010 in Education and Video. 1 Comment


QUEST on KQED Public Media.

Amazing Encounter with a Leopard Seal

Published on January 15, 2010 in Education and Video. 0 Comments Tags: .

Thanks to PADI Examiner Gary Cruea for passing on this video of a National Geographic photographer’s amazing encounter with a Leopard Seal in Antarctica.

November 2009 Dive Club Meeting

Published on November 5, 2009 in Announcements, Club Activities, Education and Events. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

To All Napa Valley Divers:

Our next meeting will be Monday, November 9, 2009

Filippi’s Pizza Grotto
645 1st Street, Napa (east of Soscol)
Phone: (707) 254-9700

  • Dinner (Dutch treat) will begin at 6:00pm (order off the regular menu)
  • The meeting will begin at 7:00pm

Here’s what’s happening…

stockJennifer will be giving a presentation on the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary located just 6 miles west of the Point Reyes Lighthouse. The Sanctuary’s main feature is Cordell Bank, an underwater granitic mountain sitting on top of the seafloor. The Bank itself is an oasis for hundreds of species of invertebrates and fishes. The productive waters that surround and move around Cordell Bank are foraging waters for highly migratory species like albatrosses, shearwaters, humpback, and blue whales. Learn about this hidden mysterious environment and take a peek at what scientists see through the porthole of a submersible.
 
Jennifer is currently the Education and Outreach Coordinator for NOAA’s Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary. Jennifer has worked in the field of environmental education for over 13 years. She worked as an interpretive park ranger with the Assateague Island National Seashore and Fire Island National Seashore. During her environmental education years, she worked at Guided Discoveries: Catalina Island Marine Institute and locally at the Headlands Institute. Jennifer loves showing people what they can’t see with their bare eyes and delights in bringing the mysterious underwater world to learners of all ages. Jennifer has a bachelors degree in biology from the University of Delaware and is currently working on a Masters degree in Education at Dominican University in 2008/2009.

  • Open Floor – Members

Make a special Note: Our next meeting will be our Christmas Party which will be held at Wineries of Napa Valley located in the Napa Town Center on Monday December 14th at 6:30pm.  Special thanks to club members David and Colleen Topper for offering us the use of their wonderful facility again this year.

We look forward to seeing you all at Filippi’s Pizza Grotto!

Fish Identification

Published on March 10, 2009 in Education. 1 Comment

At last evenings dive club meeting, Nancy asked for more information relating to fish identification. To get started, here are a few sites that I found. Does anyone know of other sites? Please add to “comments” below this post.

The Fierce Humboldt Squid

Published on March 8, 2009 in Education. 0 Comments

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Meet Oceanographer Scott Cassell

Published on February 20, 2009 in Announcements and Education. 4 Comments

Oceanographer to speak at Napa Valley College

Oceanographer Scott Cassell will share his plans to a deep ocean transect around the world in a presentation at Napa Valley College. The talk, “27,000 Miles Beneath the Sea,” will start at 7 p.m. Feb. 27 in Rm. 838. Sponsored by the Science, Mathematics and Engineering Division and GIS Department, it is free and open to the public.

Cassell has done documentaries on the Discovery Channel, History Channel and others. He is a noted authority on the giant Humboldt squid.

In his Underwater Journal article (underwaterjournal.com) Cassell notes that we are a water planet. “And the truth is, the oceans of our earth are not well, which means that we are also not well,” he says.

He will describe his Undersea Voyager Project, a five-year mission to use human-occupied submersibles to complete a 27,000 miles underwater exploration to search for new life and assess the current conditions of the sea.

The effort’s other goal, he says, it to provide the next generation with real-life heroes and role models and to interest youth in science and exploration. Cassell’s own fascination with the sea, he says, started when he was 6-years-old and saw the Jules Verne classic film “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.”

The Undersea Voyager Project made its debut in December at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach and will start in-water this spring.

For more information, contact:
Dr. Richard Della Valle or
Peri Best

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Jean-Michel Cousteau: It’s a shark-eat-shark world!

Published on February 20, 2009 in Education. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures