Shawnee Mission Lake Clean-Up 5/9/09 - KCMO Area

[Coopa]

Hey folks,

This year the Divemaster Training Class for The Dive Shop is putting on the Annual Shawnee Mission Lake Clean-Up.

We will be cleaning up one of the local lakes here in the metro area of trash and other misc debris from the bottom of the lake. I've attached a Flier for the event and If anyone has any questions please shoot em out. We'll be providing lunch for the divers and its a good chance to get wet and meet some other KC area divers.

Thanks,

Todd

 

[Kyzzle]

Thanks for the info, sounds like a good way to find
some dive buddies as well. Plus there's free food!?
Can't beat that!
The brochure says its the "annual" clean up, how
many divers have you had in the past show up?

 

[nagel]

I live about an hour away from this and never heard of this lake as a "divable lake". Is this open for diving? If so, how are the conditions typically?

Snagel

 

[Coopa]

Its not really a divable lake by any stretch of the matter. Meaning, it’s a typical midwest lake with very limited vis. I think it’s got a few feet, depending on how much rain we'll have had. The lake was chosen because it’s in the KC Metro area. We typically dive beaver, table rock but its tough to get clean up on those lakes because of the distance from the city. This lake clean up is simply a way for shop to help pay back to the community a little and get some bottom time in the process. There aren’t any real power boats on the lake either so no real issues with boats coming too close to the divers like there would be at say Smithville, Longview or some of the other lakes in the metro. In the past I believe the attendance ranges from 20-35 people, depending on the weather. If it rains, were just going to bbq under the shelter and get wet the un-fun way.

 

[Coopa]

If anyone's interested, were still on for tomorrow. The park ranger reports the water is about 62-64 degrees with limited viz. either way its going to ge great weather and a good time. Feel free to stop by if your in the area and you just want to say hi and meet some people.