C. Texas Down Under Dive Club Underwater Can Harvest

[Grajan]

But - to be fair - it is listed as a donor on the DAN site.

https://www.diversalertnetwork.org/development/clubs/directory.asp?action=detail&ID=595

 

[colt]

I was stationed at Ft. Hood and never heard of anyone
diving Belton.

 

[BillP]

Grajan once bubbled...
But - to be fair - it is listed as a donor on the DAN site.

https://www.diversalertnetwork.org/development/clubs/directory.asp?action=detail&ID=595

The DUDC is indeed listed as a "bronze friend" on DAN's site. To be a bronze level donor you must give $100-249. The cost of the event that they advertised in their spam message is $20-25 per entrant depending on when you register. Do the math and you see that they could be that bronze donor with the proceeds of the 1st 4-5 entry fees. And pocket the rest maybe? Depending on the level of participation, their event could be quite a bit more profitable for the DUDC than for DAN.

 

[cyklon_300]

and just come dive with me...for the price of a fill, you can haul all the aluminum you want out of Travis.

In two dives this weekend I retrieved at least 4 dozen cans from WP and Mansfield (special thanks to the group that left a large pile of their empties at the base of the stairs at the dam...chumps).

 

[TexasMike]

I agree that you can pull out all the trash you desire out of many lakes.

And Travis always amazes me. I can usually find plenty of bottles and cans just outside of the booms that protect the diving area. And one time, I did a deep swing dive (tie off reel on rock, play it out, and do a big arc until you hit the wall 180-degrees from start) at the bottom of the wall at the dam site and found a bicylcle and 2 propane bottles (1 still had it's regulator). Wasn't carrying lift bags with me then so they are still out there, I guess.

Here's an interesting idea for a thread... name the most unusual thing you've recovered on a dive.

 

[cyklon_300]

have produced a bunch of stuff...

Car batteries, jewelry, tires, kitchen table, typewriter, a floor freezer, etc etc...proving that the 'out of sight, out of mind' mentality is hard at work.

Someone found a working wrist-mount dive computer during one of the cleanups...

A friend and I found a stolen Toyota Tercel at Lago Vista a few years ago...

 

[TGCC]

The Down Under Dive Club is and has been a member of the Texas Gulf Coast Council of Dive Clubs (along with 16 other clubs representing ~ 1500 divers in the Texas area) for a number of years. Their Annual Can Harvest is a benefit to raise funds for the clubs operation and in conjunction with PADI Project Aware to help clean up our waters. DUDC is a member of DAN and contributes annually. The funds they raise in their benefit helps fund their support of DAN.

Larry - TGCC President
www.tgccdiveclubs.org

PS TrashFest ( the TGCC fund raiser) is Oct. 4 in New Braunfels, TX
www.trashfest.org

 

[PurduEE]

TexasMike once bubbled...
I agree that you can pull out all the trash you desire out of many lakes.

And Travis always amazes me. I can usually find plenty of bottles and cans just outside of the booms that protect the diving area. And one time, I did a deep swing dive (tie off reel on rock, play it out, and do a big arc until you hit the wall 180-degrees from start) at the bottom of the wall at the dam site and found a bicylcle and 2 propane bottles (1 still had it's regulator). Wasn't carrying lift bags with me then so they are still out there, I guess.

Here's an interesting idea for a thread... name the most unusual thing you've recovered on a dive.

You should just get one of those inflators for your rig so you can inflate the bike's tires and just ride it out of the lake...