The next General Meeting will be Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 7 p.m. at Round Table Pizza, 4330 Redondo Beach Blvd. (just east of Hawthorne Blvd. in the Northpoint/CVS Shopping Center) in Torrance, where all our general meetings are held. Click on http://www.seadivers.org/meetings.htm for a map.

May 7. Jonathan Blake will present a program about diving in the Lembeh Straight in Indonesia. This area represents the pinnacle in muck diving with many unusual animals living in rich proximity. Click on http://seeunderthesea.com/ for more information about Jonathan's international diving background.

June 4. Bob Meistrell will present a program about the history of Dive 'N Surf http://divensurf.com/ , Body Glove http://www.bodyglove.com/heritage/ and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_Glove and diving in the South Bay area. Bob is the co-founder of Dive 'N Surf and Body Glove, so he is in a unique position to tell us the inside stories about his life adventures. This will be a fantastic presentation by a diving pioneer.

July 2. There is a general meeting but no special presentation. Have a happy Fourth of July holiday.

August 6. Pat Smith will present a program about the local wreck diving. Patrick Smith is a NAUI Instructor, a USCG Licensed captain for vessels to 200 tons, author and consultant to numerous private and government agencies. He has more than 6,000 dives in commercial, academic, scientific, and recreational fields. He works closely with NOAA and the National Park Service on submerged cultural resource projects locally and nationally. He is the author of numerous popular and academic articles and is coauthor of the popular Shipwrecks of Southern California http://amazon.com/Shipwrecks-Southern-California-Bonnie-Cardone/dp/0897320956.

September 3. There is a general meeting but no special presentation. Have a happy Labor Day holiday.

October 1. Don Mueller will present a program about ocean life and wrecks in New Zealand. He will talk about the Arapawa survivorhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arapawa_Islandand the Rainbow Warrior story http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior .

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