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A BIG THANK YOU to everybody who came to the WSA meeting on Saturday. Your support is very much appreciated. Stay tuned to this site for more dive community updates!
Washington Scuba Alliance Annual Meeting
Saturday, March 10th 2007
10:00AM to 2:00PM
The Annual Scuba Alliance Meeting will be held on Saturday, March 10th at Tugboat Annies in Olympia, WA. Come and hear the latest updates on the WSA projects and provide your input or feedback. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to Karlista Rickerson for lunch count. Here is the current agenda:
-Voice of the Dive Community
Hood Canal Dissolved Oxygen Program
Monthly Diver Observations
Specially trained teams of divers from the Washington Scuba Alliance (WSA) and the Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF) go out monthly either by boat or shore to dive year round, observing and counting fish and invertebrate life in 8 various sites on Hood Canal, north to south. Go to the Monthly Diver Observations page for more details.
Divers make Dry Splash at Governor's
Press Conference
The dive community was well represented by Washington Scuba Alliance members at a press conference for Governor Gregoire and the Puget Sound Partnership on December 13th, 2006. Divers wearing drysuits and were interviewed and photographed by many members of the press. Governor Gregoire specifically set aside time to speak with divers, asking questions and listening to their observations about what conditions are like underwater in Puget Sound.
WSA President Mike Racine and WSA Board member Karlista Rickerson were scheduled speakers for the news conference and spoke about the current conditions of Puget Sound and divers’ roles in observing the changes.
After the conference, divers had an opportunity to again speak with state officials and press members.
The divers were originally slated to go for an actual dive off the beach the morning before the conference, and the press would greet them on the beach for a photo op as they exited the water, however, gale force winds and rough surf made the situation unsafe and the dive was aborted, so Plan B was to just attend the conference and meet the press dressed in their drysuits. Although a bit hot, after several hours inside a heated conference facility, they all did marvelously!
Gloria Youngblood, Fritz Merkel, Anna Hopkins, Rhoda Green, Larry Cleeton, John Williams, Peo Orvendal, Cory Newman, Darrel Davis, Janna Nichols, and Jim Trask participated. (I know there were a few more too, but not sure on names) Divers from Fifth Dimension Dive shop in Issaquah and Silent World Diving in Bellevue all participated.
Links to media coverage of the event here:
http://www.komoradio.com/news/local/4907766.html
A BIG THANK YOU to everybody who came to the WSA meeting on Saturday. Your support is very much appreciated. Stay tuned to this site for more dive community updates!
Saturday, March 10th 2007
10:00AM to 2:00PM
The Annual Scuba Alliance Meeting will be held on Saturday, March 10th at Tugboat Annies in Olympia, WA. Come and hear the latest updates on the WSA projects and provide your input or feedback. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to Karlista Rickerson for lunch count. Here is the current agenda:
-Voice of the Dive Community
- President's message
- 2007 legislative priorities
- Feedback from the Dive Community
- Tunicates and low-dissolved O2
- Tire Reef Replacement Project
- Volunteer Diving in General
- Ships 2 Reefs Status
- Mooring Buoys Project
- DNR's Piling Removal Program
- Keystone Ferry Terminal Redevelopment
- Edmonds Ferry Terminal Redevelopment
Monthly Diver Observations
Specially trained teams of divers from the Washington Scuba Alliance (WSA) and the Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF) go out monthly either by boat or shore to dive year round, observing and counting fish and invertebrate life in 8 various sites on Hood Canal, north to south. Go to the Monthly Diver Observations page for more details.
Divers make Dry Splash at Governor'sPress Conference
The dive community was well represented by Washington Scuba Alliance members at a press conference for Governor Gregoire and the Puget Sound Partnership on December 13th, 2006. Divers wearing drysuits and were interviewed and photographed by many members of the press. Governor Gregoire specifically set aside time to speak with divers, asking questions and listening to their observations about what conditions are like underwater in Puget Sound.
WSA President Mike Racine and WSA Board member Karlista Rickerson were scheduled speakers for the news conference and spoke about the current conditions of Puget Sound and divers’ roles in observing the changes.
After the conference, divers had an opportunity to again speak with state officials and press members.
The divers were originally slated to go for an actual dive off the beach the morning before the conference, and the press would greet them on the beach for a photo op as they exited the water, however, gale force winds and rough surf made the situation unsafe and the dive was aborted, so Plan B was to just attend the conference and meet the press dressed in their drysuits. Although a bit hot, after several hours inside a heated conference facility, they all did marvelously!
Gloria Youngblood, Fritz Merkel, Anna Hopkins, Rhoda Green, Larry Cleeton, John Williams, Peo Orvendal, Cory Newman, Darrel Davis, Janna Nichols, and Jim Trask participated. (I know there were a few more too, but not sure on names) Divers from Fifth Dimension Dive shop in Issaquah and Silent World Diving in Bellevue all participated.
Links to media coverage of the event here:
- http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/295882_sound14.html
- http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003476786_puget13m.html
- http://www.kitsapsun.com/bsun/local/...213172,00.html
- http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/l...-5479682c.html
http://www.komoradio.com/news/local/4907766.html