The next General Meeting will be Tuesday, May 6, 2014 at 7 p.m. at Round Table Pizza, 4330 Redondo Beach Blvd. (just east of Hawthorne Blvd. in the Northpoint/CVS Shopping Center) Torrance, CA where all our general meetings are held. Go to http://seadivers.org/meetings.htm for a map. Meetings are free and visitors are especially welcome to attend.

May 6. John and Fletcher Forbes will give a program about Truk Lagoon Revisited http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuuk_Lagoon plus their visit Yap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yap with beautiful images and video to illustrate their underwater adventure.

June 3. The Catalina Marine Society http://catalinamarinesociety.org/ will present a program about their organization and activities. The Catalina Marine Society musters volunteer resources to study and understand the marine environment of Santa Catalina Island and the entire Southern California Bight in which she lies. The goals of the Society are to promote, facilitate and distribute studies and insights into the physical and biological dynamics that both comprise the marine environment or that otherwise affect the underwater regions.

July 1. There will be a meeting, but no special program presentation. Enjoy your July 4th holiday.

August 5. Program to be announced.

September 2. There will be a meeting, but no special program presentation. Enjoy your Labor Day holiday.

October 7. Ron and Lise Wike will present a program about diving in the Lembeh Straits in Indonesia. They went to the KBR Resort http://divekbr.com/ for 10 days, went on 28 dives and were underwater about 35 hours. Bizarre creatures hide in the muck, including five different types of octopus. Ron will show the best of the more than 2000 photos he took on this diving trip. In addition, they recently revisited Bonaire and will show some beautiful underwater images he captured there.

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