Eric Sedletzky
Contributor
I was thinking about it and we need a new dive club up here on the North Coast. There are a few in existence already but I've been a member of both and we never dove. I seemed that all we did was pay dues and sit at the meetings and hear about somebody's vacation they just had in Cozumel.
What I had in mind was a club along the lines of the Sandeaters in Socal. They are a club that has no monthly meetings or dues but rather a group of divers that shows up at a pre-arranged dive site every Sunday morning. It could be a revolving group of people with the idea in mind that not everyone would be able to make it every weekend.
We could plan to do a mini picnic at each one or if it's a scheduled ab dive we could shuck and cook up an ab on the beach with a drift wood fire. I've done that where I've brought a hammer, small board, knife, garlic, olive oil, spices, cast iron pan and pounded an ab up and cooked it right on the beach as soon as I got out of the water. It was great!! At most of the places up here there is always somewhere to have a picnic.
It would also give more people an opportunity to dive the north coast that don't know anything about it or where to go. Divers from out of the area could join in if they happened to be in the area during a scheduled outing.
I think it should be kept as a shore diving organization so people can dive on the cheap.
The only other thing I could see would be to have an occasional kayak dive only if everyone diving had a kayak.
You people in the Sacramento Valley could really benefit from this because it would
give you a group of regulars to dive with and it would be a good alternative instead of always having to go to Monterey.
I feel the diving in Sonoma and Mendocino Counties is outstanding and I want to try and promote the North Coast as much as I can and to try and help the diving community grow. I think certain people up here are very secretive and they tend to hoard what they think is theirs, but I think everyone should be able to enjoy it.
The diving would all be done in Sonoma or Mendocino Counties. I know of some great spots and I haven't even scratched the surface yet. There is 80+ miles of coastline and a lot of it is like Point Lobos but you don't need a reservation so we need to explore it!
This should be the summer that we do this.
So what should we call it?
Sand Eaters North ( there's not much sand)
Rock Eaters
North Coast Rock Crawlers
North Coast Shore Divers
North Coast Bottom Feeders (Jim K)
North Coast Rock Pickers (Jim K)
North Coast Divers
North Coast Rockers
NorCal Sea Hunters (Andy)
Hunters of the North Coast (Andy)
North Coast Diehards (Andy)
NorCal Buccaneers (Andy)
NorCal Explorers (Andy)
North Coast Buucaneers (Andy)
Should the dives be advertised on this board or an e-mail group?
Like I said, I think the Sandeaters have the right idea and I want to use their idea as a model: They are just a dive scheduling organization, nothing more. All the divers involved agree to dive with the group holding their own full personal responsibility for their own safety and they can't hold the organization liable if they do something stupid.
Just an Idea.
Anyone?
ZKY
What I had in mind was a club along the lines of the Sandeaters in Socal. They are a club that has no monthly meetings or dues but rather a group of divers that shows up at a pre-arranged dive site every Sunday morning. It could be a revolving group of people with the idea in mind that not everyone would be able to make it every weekend.
We could plan to do a mini picnic at each one or if it's a scheduled ab dive we could shuck and cook up an ab on the beach with a drift wood fire. I've done that where I've brought a hammer, small board, knife, garlic, olive oil, spices, cast iron pan and pounded an ab up and cooked it right on the beach as soon as I got out of the water. It was great!! At most of the places up here there is always somewhere to have a picnic.
It would also give more people an opportunity to dive the north coast that don't know anything about it or where to go. Divers from out of the area could join in if they happened to be in the area during a scheduled outing.
I think it should be kept as a shore diving organization so people can dive on the cheap.
The only other thing I could see would be to have an occasional kayak dive only if everyone diving had a kayak.
You people in the Sacramento Valley could really benefit from this because it would
give you a group of regulars to dive with and it would be a good alternative instead of always having to go to Monterey.
I feel the diving in Sonoma and Mendocino Counties is outstanding and I want to try and promote the North Coast as much as I can and to try and help the diving community grow. I think certain people up here are very secretive and they tend to hoard what they think is theirs, but I think everyone should be able to enjoy it.
The diving would all be done in Sonoma or Mendocino Counties. I know of some great spots and I haven't even scratched the surface yet. There is 80+ miles of coastline and a lot of it is like Point Lobos but you don't need a reservation so we need to explore it!
This should be the summer that we do this.
So what should we call it?
Sand Eaters North ( there's not much sand)
Rock Eaters
North Coast Rock Crawlers
North Coast Shore Divers
North Coast Bottom Feeders (Jim K)
North Coast Rock Pickers (Jim K)
North Coast Divers
North Coast Rockers
NorCal Sea Hunters (Andy)
Hunters of the North Coast (Andy)
North Coast Diehards (Andy)
NorCal Buccaneers (Andy)
NorCal Explorers (Andy)
North Coast Buucaneers (Andy)
Should the dives be advertised on this board or an e-mail group?
Like I said, I think the Sandeaters have the right idea and I want to use their idea as a model: They are just a dive scheduling organization, nothing more. All the divers involved agree to dive with the group holding their own full personal responsibility for their own safety and they can't hold the organization liable if they do something stupid.
Just an Idea.
Anyone?
ZKY
