Chamber Day is coming up on Wednesday, May 4th. Is anyone planning to play hookie from work and diving while supporting a really excellent cause?
http://wrigley.usc.edu/hyperbaric/chmbday.htm
Taken from the Chamber Day website (without permission):
CHAMBER DAY 2005
For a Donation of $85* You Receive:
Two (2) Dives at Santa Catalina Island
Tour of the USC Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber
Chamber Day 2005 Commemorative T-shirt
Five (5) Chamber Day 2004 Raffle Tickets
Chance to talk to Local Search and Rescue Personnel
*Plus a $20 Food and Air Charge
The daytime event is known as Chamber Day and runs as it has in the past. (And dont forget the date - Wednesday, May 4.)
Fourteen of the SoCal dive boats donate their services for the day. They are (in alphabetical order): Aquatica, Bottom Scratcher, Cee Ray, Encore, Great Escape, Island Time, Magician, Mr. C, Psalty V, Pacific Star, Sea Bass, Second Stage, Sundiver, and Westerly. Heres the way it works. (And for those who cant actually take the day off, theres always the Flying Dutchman. More on that later.)
You pay $85 for the day (all the proceeds go to the Chamber) and choose the boat you want to go on. (Book early because once a boat fills, its unavailable. Although well hold a reservation for you for 72 hours, after that time, spots are only guaranteed when they are paid in full.) This year, all the boats are doing food-and-air-included so well also collect $20 from you for that (making the total tab $105).
In general, the boats will leave their respective dock at 7AM and head for Catalina. (Some boats may allow you to board the night before and sleep on board.) There will be an free on-board raffle on the way over to Catalina. Youll also get a commemorative Chamber Day 2005 t-shirt, five raffle tickets (youre encouraged to buy more on your boat or at the Chamber), and youll make two dives at Catalina.
Sometime during the day, your boat will stop at our Catalina Chamber in Big Fishermans Cove. Youll all disembark for a 75-minute overview of Chamber operations. L.A. County Lifeguards will explain their job, rescue helicopters and crews from the Coast Guard and Sheriffs will be on hand, and the Chamber crew will show you the Chamber itself, including taking you inside and pressurizing the Chamber to a depth of 1-foot. (Yes, youll have to clear your ears. Its really weird and we cant explain it logically.)
Boats will arrive back at their landings between 5 and 5:30PM. Raffle winners can come by the Aquarium of the Pacific for our drive-through raffle prize pickup. And everyone will have a good time. But you cant do it unless you sign up for the event by calling our coordinating store at 310/652-4990 or by going to our secure server at www.chamberday.org. Come alone or come with a friend, but just come.
But if you cant do the daytime event (or if you do the daytime and want to cap it off with a fabulous evening) . . .
http://wrigley.usc.edu/hyperbaric/chmbday.htm
Taken from the Chamber Day website (without permission):
CHAMBER DAY 2005
For a Donation of $85* You Receive:
Two (2) Dives at Santa Catalina Island
Tour of the USC Catalina Hyperbaric Chamber
Chamber Day 2005 Commemorative T-shirt
Five (5) Chamber Day 2004 Raffle Tickets
Chance to talk to Local Search and Rescue Personnel
*Plus a $20 Food and Air Charge
The daytime event is known as Chamber Day and runs as it has in the past. (And dont forget the date - Wednesday, May 4.)
Fourteen of the SoCal dive boats donate their services for the day. They are (in alphabetical order): Aquatica, Bottom Scratcher, Cee Ray, Encore, Great Escape, Island Time, Magician, Mr. C, Psalty V, Pacific Star, Sea Bass, Second Stage, Sundiver, and Westerly. Heres the way it works. (And for those who cant actually take the day off, theres always the Flying Dutchman. More on that later.)
You pay $85 for the day (all the proceeds go to the Chamber) and choose the boat you want to go on. (Book early because once a boat fills, its unavailable. Although well hold a reservation for you for 72 hours, after that time, spots are only guaranteed when they are paid in full.) This year, all the boats are doing food-and-air-included so well also collect $20 from you for that (making the total tab $105).
In general, the boats will leave their respective dock at 7AM and head for Catalina. (Some boats may allow you to board the night before and sleep on board.) There will be an free on-board raffle on the way over to Catalina. Youll also get a commemorative Chamber Day 2005 t-shirt, five raffle tickets (youre encouraged to buy more on your boat or at the Chamber), and youll make two dives at Catalina.
Sometime during the day, your boat will stop at our Catalina Chamber in Big Fishermans Cove. Youll all disembark for a 75-minute overview of Chamber operations. L.A. County Lifeguards will explain their job, rescue helicopters and crews from the Coast Guard and Sheriffs will be on hand, and the Chamber crew will show you the Chamber itself, including taking you inside and pressurizing the Chamber to a depth of 1-foot. (Yes, youll have to clear your ears. Its really weird and we cant explain it logically.)
Boats will arrive back at their landings between 5 and 5:30PM. Raffle winners can come by the Aquarium of the Pacific for our drive-through raffle prize pickup. And everyone will have a good time. But you cant do it unless you sign up for the event by calling our coordinating store at 310/652-4990 or by going to our secure server at www.chamberday.org. Come alone or come with a friend, but just come.
But if you cant do the daytime event (or if you do the daytime and want to cap it off with a fabulous evening) . . .
I'm scheduled to be on the Encore. I must admit I try and get on as many boats as I can (hard to always find buddies that'll sign up with me--you know, I always thought that it was the cost of the boat, having to get up early, or seasickness; but maybe it is ME?!?! Nah, never!)
