July 25, 2010   (3:00 – 5:00)   Pool SCUBA Refresher Class and Certification          Napa Valley College swimming pool with Roger Haseltine as your instructor.  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.  For additional information, contact:  jackie@napavalleydivers.com   Commitment needed:  We need a minimum of 4 commitments from club members and guests by July 15th to secure this event.

July 25, 2010   (5:00 – 9:00)   Napa Valley Divers Club BBQ          Come join us at Steve and Jayma’s home.  Please bring your drink and a side dish to share.  Napa Valley Divers will provide the meat.  For additional information, location and to RSVP, contact: Jayma@napavalleydivers.com or any club Board member.  Cost:  Free for members, $3.00 per person for non-club members.

August 7, 2010   (9:00 – 1:00)   Emergency First Response Course – Refresher & Training          Instructor Roger Haseltine.  Cost:  $50.00 for Refresher (previously certified) plus $15.00 for certification card, $100.00 for the entire course – plus $15.00 for certification card.    For additional information, contact:  jackie@napavalleydivers.com

August 9, 2010   Monthly Napa Valley Divers Club Meeting (second Monday of each month)          Filippi’s Pizza Grotto, 645 1st Street, Napa (east of Soscol), Phone: (707) 254-9700.  Dinner (Dutch treat) will begin at 6:00pm.  The meeting will begin at 7:00pm

August 13-15, 2010   Abalone and Camping Trip          Salt Point State Park in the Woodside Campground.  Come camping or come up for the day on Saturday to hang out in the campground.  Reservations at www.ReserveAmerica.com.  For additional information, contact: keith@napavalleydivers.com and please be sure to let him know you are coming.

August 28, 2010   (11:00 – 3:00)   Napa Valley Divers Club Monterey Picnic          San Carlos Beach (the Breakwater) in Monterey for the Napa Valley Divers annual picnic.  The club will provide food, sodas and waters!  Come for the day, enjoy the picnic, and enjoy the fellowship!  Arrange your own diving, dive buddies and overnight accommodations – if you so wish.  Cost:  $10.00 for members, $13.00 for non-members.  For additional information and to RSVP, contact: Joan – jlordnapa@aol.com    Commitment needed:  We need a minimum of 10 commitments from club members and guests by August 15th to secure this event.

September 13, 2010   Monthly Napa Valley Divers Club Meeting (second Monday of each month)          Filippi’s Pizza Grotto, 645 1st Street, Napa (east of Soscol), Phone: (707) 254-9700.  Dinner (Dutch treat) will begin at 6:00pm.  The meeting will begin at 7:00pm

September 25, 2010   Lake Berryessa Clean Up          Divers and land support needed to help clean up the environment.  There will be a BBQ following the cleanup and prize drawings!  For additional information, contact: Jackie@napavalleydivers.com  Time, Location and Cost:  TBD

October 11, 2010   Monthly Napa Valley Divers Club Meeting (second Monday of each month)          Filippi’s Pizza Grotto, 645 1st Street, Napa (east of Soscol), Phone: (707) 254-9700.  Dinner (Dutch treat) will begin at 6:00pm.  The meeting will begin at 7:00pm

October 14, 2010   Dive with Great White Sharks           Great White Shark Adventures   http://www.greatwhiteadventures.com  Napa Valley Divers price:  First eight divers receive $200.00 off the regular price of $775.00, when you say the magic words (found at the more detailed event listing).  Non-divers can participate for $375.00.  For additional information, contact: Jackie@napavalleydivers.com

More complete details for all events  are available on the Napa Valley Divers “events page”

Fellow Divers and Club Members Keith and Pam Reuter (and Ty, Pam’s 100 pound, very friendly Yellow Lab) will be camping and abalone diving at Salt Point State Park from Thursday, April 25 to Sunday April 18 and would like to extend an invitation to anyone interested to com and join them.  Salt Point State Park is situated above Jenner and below Sea Ranch, and these dates have some very nice low tides, but as always, weather and ocean conditions may not cooperate.  Keith has been diving at Salt Point for ten years an “typically” comes out (if conditions allow) with his daily limit of 7″- 8″ abalone. (pristine conditions provide access to the 8″- 9″ abalone)

Salt Point Gerstle Cove is a protected “Marine Reserve” for SCUBA diving and South Gerstle Cove offers good abalone diving.  There are various other abalone dive sites along the coast nearby, including several “safer, protected” areas.  Ocean Cove Campground, just south of Salt Point, has a campground and “fee” boat launch site.

Keith and Pam are staying in the Salt Point “Woodside” loop.  Reservations are non-specific, which means you get was is left when you arrive.  They will be staying in the upper loop if available, and will resort to the lower loop if needed.  Salt Point limits RV or Trailers to 31 feet, but when specifically asked at the check in station, the rangers have stated (in the past) that length is not important as long as you don’t extend out off your site onto the street.

Keith and Pam will assist club members in organization of abalone diving, pot luck dinners (hopefully with abalone) and fellowship.

• To SCUBA:  Bring full cold water gear, weights and tanks.  Air fills may be as far away as Jenner.
• To abalone dive:  Bring a CA ocean fishing license with abalone card (there are very, very specific requirements for tagging your abalone), full cold water gear (less BC – abalone diving is free diving without tanks), weight belt with weights, abalone iron and gauge, and a float (highly recommended). 

It is reccomended that you obtain your reservation as soon as possible at ReserveAmarica.  Camping (No Hookups) is $35.00 per night with an $8.00 convenience fee per reservation.  If you book reservations for the camping trip, please let Keith know you are going.

Keith and Pam “might” be putting together a second trip in August, probably also to Salt Point.   

Simply put… warm weather flat seas, almost ZERO swell. GO FOR IT this weekend. The Fall season of diving which is always the best is with us this weekend.

Spaces remain on Saturday morning and Sunday morning. NOTHING in the forecast tell us to stay local.

Saturday
NE winds 5kt becoming W in the afternoon.
Wind waves 1ft or less. Mixed swell NW 3 to 5ft at 11 seconds and SW 2 to 3ft at 13 seconds.

Sunday
W winds 5 to 10kt Wind waves 2ft or less.
NW swell 3 to 5ft and SW 2ft

Tim