New Dive Club: New York City Scuba Divers

[theoceanblue]

There's a *new* dive club in New York City. A club with focus, activities and a downtown sensibility. We are an Eco-focused dive club, and one of our main aims is to raise awareness about issues relating to the oceans and marine ecology at a time when the marine environment is under siege.

Our first meeting was this past Tuesday, July 25th, at People Lounge on Allen St, and 42 members participated. There was a slideshow highlighting dive destinations called "Around The World in 80 Slides" given by a member/assistant organizer who is a published underwater photographer, and a talk about sharks called "Sharks: Separating Fact From Fiction".

The club was started on meetup.com one month ago, and has (as of this writing) 100 members. To see what we're up to, you can go to our meetup site. It's FREE to join and takes less than a minute to do so. The site is located at:

http://scuba.meetup.com/111

You can also visit our very own website at:

http://www.nycdivers.com

We'd love to have you join and participate. We're in the process of planning a number of different activities:

• Local dives (Dutch Springs and local dive boats)
• Dive trips
• Presentations about the environment and marine ecology
• Course offerings
• Happy hours
• Other social activities

Come visit us, join the club and hope to see you at our next event which is planned for August 22nd!

 

[theoceanblue]

Our August Happy Hour is on August 22, at 7:00pm at People Lounge on the LES. To join our club and RSVP for our Happy Hour you can go here:

http://scuba.meetup.com/111/events/5047746/

Come on down, we'd love to meet you!

 

[divad]

Hey, that's less than two blocks from my apartment. That's within rolling distance if necessary.

 

[theoceanblue]

Even more reason for you to roll on down. And bring some of your diving buddies too. Go to the meetup site and join up so you'll be best informed of what's going on.

 

[theoceanblue]

We're going to be diving the Iberia on August 27th. Anyone interested should join the club and RSVP.

You can find information relating to the event here:

http://scuba.meetup.com/111/events/5060811/

Come dive the Iberia with us!

 

[sealkie]

you should plan on coming along - the first meeting went so well ! Any type of diver could find someone with shared diving interest - it was very cool mix

 

[theoceanblue]

Just a reminder that our happy hour is next Tuesday, August 22nd at People Lounge. You can find more information here:

http://www.nycdivers.com/Events.html

or join our club here:

http://scuba.meetup.com/111

Hope to see you there!

 

[theoceanblue]

We're going to the New York Aquarium this Saturday, September 9th. We'll be meeting there in front of the ticket booth at 11:00am and then heading over to Nathan's afterwards for some dogs!

Come on over and meet us!

Event details are here:

http://scuba.meetup.com/111/events/5100728/

Also keep in mind our happy hour on September 26th@People Lounge!

Event details are here:

http://scuba.meetup.com/111/events/5095938/

Hope to see you there. Feel free to write me with questions.

-Michael

 

[theoceanblue]

For those interested in local diving with our club, we now have a listserve that people can write to in order to let people know about local diving they're doing to find buddies, and also to find out about others who are diving locally who are looking for buddies.

To subscribe, send a blank email to:

localdiving-subscribe@nycdivers.com

For more information go to:

http://www.nycdivers.com/Lists.html

 

[theoceanblue]

New York City Divers next Happy Hour, November 6!

Mark your calendars! We're going to be at a new, larger venue (details forthcoming), we have a very special guest speaker this time, so you won't want to miss it.

I'll post more details as the date approaches. Please see our sites:

http://www.nycdivers.com

for information about the club, events, trips, friends we support and more!

To join our club, go to:

http://scuba.meetup.com/111