USA Dive Club members and their guests are invited to attend either an in person meeting or a virtual meeting using Zoom.
The IN PERSON MEETING will be held at our regular location:
Marriott Courtyard
2440 W Cypress Creek Rd
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309
Out of caution,we ask participants of the live meeting to be vaccinated and to wear a mask out of consideration of our other members.
To Attend the ZOOM MEETING:
You must register in advance for this meeting. Click on the link below to register. Members bringing a guest should send the guest's name and email address to president@usadiveclub.org so the guest's registration will be approved. Members and guests must register using this link.
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIkdeypqzIjEtFA-b8O3qiFDyv3kOvnArQl
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing the link to click when it is time to join the meeting. You must register before 5:00 PM on the day of the meeting.
Please join the meeting a little early to allow time to admit people from the waiting room before the meeting starts.
We will start the meeting with 10 minutes of social time so we can catch up with our friends. Then we will turn the meeting over to our speaker.
Program:
Shark Behavior and Identification
Sharks have survived on Planet Earth for 400 million years. What makes them such successful survivors? Dr. Gary Rose will discuss the basic facts about sharks in our waters. He will teach you a simple technique to easily distinguish the different species of sharks from each other – in clear or murky water. As a shark diver and photographer, he will also give you an entertaining overview, with plenty of personal anecdotes, about what makes sharks such great survivors and how their multiple senses are so different than our own.
Bio
Gary Rose MD has been a certified diver for over 45 years and is a PADI Open Water Instructor. As a Plastic Surgeon and former Associate Professor of Microbiology and Surgery at the College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University, he has fulfilled his life passion as a marine
biologist with his research on marine microorganisms, as well as large ocean apex predators. Dr. Rose lectures all over the world on “Shark Identification and Behavior” and gives seminars on “Updates On Diving Medicine”. An avid underwater photographer, his articles appear in Alert Diver and X-RAY magazine. Dr. Rose is a member of the Divers Alert Network and The Undersea And Hyperbaric Medical Society. You can find him on weekends diving our local waters and photographing our plentiful and diverse sharks. You can reach him at garyrosephotos@gmail.com
