Sole Searchers Newsletters

It was great seeing many Sole Searchers at Chamber night.  Chamber Night is becoming a Southern California dive community social event, but the main purpose is to raise funds for the Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber, and boy did we ever.  Below is from Karl Huggins.

The first accounting last night at Chamber Evening indicated that Chamber Day 2009 raised $115,000 to support the USC Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber! This is a very impressive figure, especially in the current economic environment.

One reason Chamber Day works is because of the wide participation of the Divers, Dive Boats, Dive Shops, Dive Clubs, Equipment Manufacturers, Publishers, and other Diving (and Non-Diving) Related Organizations. The other reason it works is because of the time and effort our Chamber Day Steering Committee puts in planning and organizing over the five months leading up to the event. Members of the Chamber Day Steering Committee this year included: Rusty Berry, Paul Dimeo, Clara Galvan, Linda Gorman, Roy Houston, Debbie Karimoto, Laurie Kasper, Ken Kurtis (chair), Steve Ladd, Jerry Lewis, Alberto Mantovani, Jerry Nickelsberg, Annette Rocha, Mark Tulin, and Tom Wetzel.

And we are not done yet. Since some of the Chamber Day fleet of dive boats did not run yesterday because of weather concerns, we will be working with them to set up an alternate date for the dives and tour of the Chamber. If you were scheduled on one of these boats, we will be in contact with you to let you know what the plans are (we kept back 1/3 of the raffle prizes for you).

Once again, thank you all for your support!!!

Karl Huggins – Director, USC Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber

Here are this month’s winners. It’s a long one.  Great thanks goes out to Hollywood Divers! Again this month they have donated almost$300 dollars worth of raffle prizes to our club.

nitrox card- Sheree Lahey
velcro mask strap -Ricardo
aid to haz marine-Gary Faland
aquatic emergencies- Ricardo
silicone spray-John Marin
silicone spray- Ceci Dennedrt
T shirt, ladies-Ricardo
T shirt, mens-Shawn B
T shirt, mens- Eric Marten
mesh dive bag- Bromley
primary reel- Ricardo A. Kalfayan
velcro mask strap- Barbara Potter
defender 75 reel- Dave Gaines
LED light stick- Kaz Aizawa
trauma shears- Ricardo K
beanie- Rosa
beanie- Karen

take care Jack

I want to thank Mark Kampe for providing our club with a scuba refresher course on Saturday.  Mark offered this free session, giving priority to those who are going on the Curacao trip with the club.  He thought it would be a good idea to go over some basics before we hit that 80 degrees water, in order to concentrate on just having fun.  I also would like to thank Wade Blackmon for letting us use his pool.  Wade is also a diver, so he will have to come join us on a dive this summer.

Those who participated: Maggie, Barbara, Cecillia, Rosa, Dave, Kaz (me), and of course Mark.