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Greetings From The Hospitality Hut,

At the January general meeting of the USA Dive Club, one first time guest attended.

Mike Bothwell was certified in 2001 in Madison WI.  He has logged 150 dives and is an Advanced Open Water diver.

Be sure to greet and welcome our guests when you see that familiar "Hello My Name Is" tag.

I encourage you to visit our home page www.usadiveclub.org.  Please click on the calendar and keep up to date on all the diving and non-diving scheduled activities. You may also take a look at the photo gallery and take a peek at past events.

Happy New Year From The Hospitality Hut,

I'm looking forward to 2024 and seeing what the New Year has in store for us.

Stay safe and healthy.

I encourage you to visit our home page www.usadiveclub.org.  Please click on the calendar and keep up to date on all the diving and non-diving scheduled activities. You may also take a look at the photo gallery and take a peek at past events.

  

Greetings From The Hospitality Hut,

Once again, "It's That Time Of Year!"  Holiday decorations are going up in our communities and Christmas trees are on sale everywhere.  I would like to wish you all a very Happy and Healthy Holiday season and a very Happy New Year.  2024, here we come.

I am pleased to report several guests attended the November meeting. Former member, Karen Hausheer returned for a visit.  It is a treat when we see old friends and have a chance to catch up.

Our speaker brought 3 guests along to enjoy his presentation.  Kiki D, Kristina Graham and Brad Crouse were in attendance.  They are all divers and work together treasure hunting.

I encourage you to visit our home page www.usadiveclub.org.  Please click on the calendar and keep up to date on all the diving and non-diving scheduled activities. You may also take a look at the photo gallery and take a peek at past events.

I wish you all Happy Diving.

Greetings From The Hospitality Hut,

Hope you are all staying happy and healthy.  Remember it is time for our annual flu shots, stay protected!

No guests attended the October general meeting.  Hopefully that will change at upcoming meetings.

I wish you and your families a Happy Thanksgiving...(love Julie's joke)

I encourage you to visit our home page www.usadiveclub.org.  Please click on the calendar and keep up to date on all the diving and non-diving scheduled activities. You may also take a look at the photo gallery and take a peek at past events.

I wish you all Happy Diving.

Clare Anthon

Hospitality Coordinator

                               

Greetings From The Hospitality Hut,

Happy Fall y'all!  Hopefully the very hot days are behind us and we can start to enjoy some cooler weather.

At the September general meeting, I am pleased to report one first-time guest was in attendance.

Chris Burden has been a firefighter for 20 years and a registered nurse for over 30 years.  He has three daughters and enjoys a host of sporting activities.  In addition Chris became a certified scuba diver in 1998 and holds a Divemaster certification.

I am very happy to say that Chris has applied for membership in our club and is ready to go diving with like-minded people.

I encourage you to visit our home page www.usadiveclub.org.  Please click on the calendar and keep up to date on all the diving and non-diving scheduled activities. You may also take a look at the photo gallery and take a peek at past events.

I wish you all Happy Diving.

Clare Anthon

Hospitality Coordinator

Greetings From The Hospitality Hut,

I am pleased to report at the August general meeting two first-time guests were in attendance.

Thank you to Russ Manhold for introducing Brent Harder, and his lovely wife, Juliana Palou to the club.

Brent was certified in 1973 and is a Dive Instructor.  He was first certified in West Virginia and has way too many dives to count.  Brent enjoys all aspects of diving such as spearfishing, photography, diving walls and wrecks and of course a relaxing drift dive to sightsee all the underwater bounty. 

Brent's wife, Juliana, is a Master Diver, certified in  2015 and has logged 180 dives.  She enjoys looking into the deep blue for the large pelagic underwater wonders. Juliana would like to dive in the Maldives with her favorite dive buddy, Brent.

I encourage you to visit our home page www.usadiveclub.org.  Please click on the calendar and keep up to date on all the diving and non-diving scheduled activities. You may also take a look at the photo gallery and take a peek at past events.

I wish you all Happy Diving.

Clare Anthon

Hospitality Coordinator

 

Greetings From The Hospitality Hut,

It certainly has been a long time since we have met.  Hopefully, we will have a large member turnout at the August general meeting.

I do not have any guests to report but I am looking forward to greeting guests at upcoming meetings. Remember, you don't have to pre approve a guest.  All are welcome to walk in.

Club trips are completed for 2023.  I have been enjoying the images Julie has been working diligently on and adding them to the USA Photo Gallery.  

I encourage you to visit our home page www.usadiveclub.org.  Please click on the calendar and keep up to date on all the diving and non-diving scheduled activities. You may also take a look at the photo gallery and take a peek at past events.

I wish you all Happy Diving.

Clare Anthon

Hospitality Coordinator

Greetings and Salutations From The Hospitality Hut,

Rainy Season has arrived on schedule.  Lots of thunder storms that manage to upset our beautiful ocean making visibility very poor. Having said that however, members continue to enjoy a very active Local Dive schedule. 

At the June ZOOM general meeting we had 3 guests.  Harley, Alex and Robert from Ocearch, who are associates of our speaker Tim Barker, signed in to join the conversation on catching, tagging and gathering blood samples from these large fish.

Thanks to our VP of Programs Rick D. we continue to have great presentations  Please be sure to give Rick a thank you for his talent in obtaining interesting speakers for our club meetings.  I know it is not an easy task.

The club is heading to Bonaire very soon so I am attaching a picture taken in 2018 when I was trip leader.  That's me standing inside my dive locker down on the dock.  Have a great trip!

I encourage you to visit our home page www.usadiveclub.org.  Please click on the calendar and keep up to date on all the diving and non-diving scheduled activities. You may also take a look at the photo gallery and take a peek at past events.

I wish you all Happy Diving.

Clare Anthon

Hospitality Coordinator

Greetings From The Hospitality Hut,

It was such a pleasure to see 32 members and guests attend the May general meeting.

Our VP of Programs, Rick, treated us to a delightful speaker and we all learned a great deal about the octopus.

I am happy to report 2 first-time guests attended the May general meeting.

First Tom Di Vincent, guest of Barbara G. was introduced. Tom stated he has been diving since 1974 but has been out of the water for the last 10 years. He likes to hunt for lobster, sightsee and drift dive on walls.  Thank you Tom for your interest in our club.

Gino Redfield joined us during the presentation and I was unable to introduce him to the group.  Gino, friend of Lureen F. was certified in 1990 and has had 1 dive.  I think we can change that!  Hope to see Gino at future meetings.

I encourage you to visit our home page usadiveclub.org.  Please click on the calendar and keep up to date on all the diving and non-diving scheduled activities. You may also take a look at the photo gallery and take a peek at past events.

I wish you all Happy Diving

Greetings From The Hospitality Hut,

A huge thank you to Julie M for filling in for me at the April general meeting.

It's graduation time and my calendar is filled with exciting events involving my twin granddaughters.

Julie introduced one first-time guest.  Matthew Williams was brought to us by member Ellen Reinhart. Matthew was certified in 2004 and has logged an amazing 3000 dives.  Certified in Syracuse NY,  Matt is a Dive Master and enjoys drift diving, sightseeing and diving wrecks.  Be sure to say hello and introduce yourself to guests.

I encourage you to visit our home page www.usadiveclub.org.  Please click on the calendar and keep up to date on all the diving and non-diving scheduled activities. You may also take a look at the photo gallery and take a peek at past events.

I wish you all Happy Diving.
Clare Anthon
Hospitality Coordinator