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THIS WEEK (July 28 - Aug. 4) AT REEF SEEKERS DIVE
CO.
(Please scroll down
a bit for all the info, text, pictures, & links.)
NEW!!!
---> INDONESIA
2014 TRIP REPORT INDONESIA
2014 PICTURES & SLIDESHOW
2014 FOREIGN
TRIP SCHEDULE
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HERE TO READ OUR MONTHLY NEWSLETTERS
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HERE TO VISIT OUR PICTURE PAGE
CLICK HERE TO READ OUR FOREIGN TRIP REPORTS
DIRECTIONS TO
BOATS and VETERANS PARK (REDONDO)
REEF SEEKERS REPAIR DEPARTMENT
Contact our repair guru Robert Stark directly at 310/947-8523
or via e-mail at ReefSeekersRepair@gmail.com
(Ask Robert about our unique concierge "Repair Pickup & Delivery Service")
SAVE
33% ON YOUR REG, OCTO, OR BC REPAIR - CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT HOW
Upcoming local dives & classes in
2014 (call us at 310/652-4990 to sign up for any of these
activities):
Wed., July 23 - Vets Park,
Redondo - Night dive ($20)
Sun., August 3 - Asante
- Olympic wreck & then Oil
Rigs (room for 4 more - $130)
FULL 2014 SKED (TRIPS & CLASSES): http://www.reefseekers.com/FLYERS/2014%20RSD%20Boat%20&%20local%20sked%20(chronological).pdf
SAVE $10 EACH TRIP AS A MEMBER OF OUR
"FREQUENT DIVER" PROGRAM
Need rental gear? Get a 20% discount at
Hollywoodivers (near Universal City) or Scuba Haus
(Santa Monica).
Want to travel??? Upcoming 2014
vacation trips:
August 16-23 - Return to Isla
Mujeres for Whale Sharks (7 confirmed - we
cans till add you)
November 1-8 - Belize Sun
Dancer (11 confirmed - room for 1 more female)
March 2015 - Yap/Palau combo
(or you can do just one, or part of one and all of the
other - flexible opportunity)
GET MORE INFO ON ALL OF OUR VACATION TRIPS HERE:
www.reefseekers.com/foreign_trips.html
BAD
COMPUTER LUCK Last week it was
my dive computer flooding in Indonesia. This week its the
hard drive of my laptop crashing and dying on my laptop up
here in Santa Cruz. Fortunately, I found a backup computer to
use, but even so . . . maybe July simply isnt my month for
computers.
ASANTE
THIS COMING SUNDAY Weve got 9
divers confirmed for the trip this coming Sunday so that means
only 3 spots left available. Its shaping up to be a day
with a lot of potential. Well start at the wreck of the
Olympic, do a dive there, and then move a few miles to the oil
rigs (most likely starting at Eureka), do a dive there, and
then decide whether well do the third dive at Eureka or
move over to Ellen/Elly. The weather forecast looks to be
favorable for calm seas and hopefully good viz as well.
Well be diving on the Asante
out of Ports O Call and this will be our first trip on
her since the major refurbishment which includes new engines,
new compressor, and re-doing the galley as well. 6:30AM load,
7AM, departure, back by 4PM (or maybe a bit earlier). If
youd like to join us, give us a call at 310/652-4990 to get
signed up. If you get the machine, leave a message because
Ill be in transit until late Monday afternoon but will get
back to you as soon as I can.
THE
JOYS OF SMUGMUG If you are a
photog, I want to tip you off to SmugMug in case you dont
know about it already. This is the photo site I use when I'm
posting my pictures from our various trips and Ive been
really happy with it. Theres a free version of it as well
as a couple of levels of pay versions (more storage space,
better for videos, can sell your work and its priced
pretty reasonably). But the point is that its worked well
for me and if youre looking for places to display your
work, you might want to give it some thought. You can check
them out at www.smugmug.com
.
DUTCHMAN
T-SHIRTS If you were on the
Flying Dutchman this year, the shirts have all (so Im told)
been mailed out about a week ago. If you have NOT received
your shirt yet, please let me know and well figure out why
it hasnt landed in your hot little hands.
SINGLE
SPACE LEFT FOR BELIZE (Would that
all of our trips filled up this quickly) Were down to
one spot for a single female available on our adventure on the
Belize Sun Dancer November 1-8. Cost of the entire dive
package is $2695 which is the boat and the group crew tip.
Airfare is extra and is running around $750 (although a few
folks were able to get First Class for $930). Well be able
to get in up to five dives per day for five-and-a-half days so
you really get a lot of bang for your buck, especially when
you consider that you get food & lodging as well. If
youre interested in that last spot (and if youre of the
female persuasion), give me a call at 310/652-4990 to nail it
down.
WANNA FIND A GIANT SQUID??? Heres how: www.huffingtonpost.com/tedtalks/giant-squid-ted-edith-widder_b_5599461.html?ncid=webmail1
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LATE
ADDITIONS We added three more
people to our August 16-23 Isla Mujeres trip last week and it
points out that if you need to schedule trips closer
(relatively) to the departure date, dont assume we cant
work something out. A lot of our flexibility depends on
whether its a land-based or boat-based trip but you never
know unless you ask so dont be shy about piping up. (And
yes, I can still add you to Isla.)
WHEN
NOT TO DIVE Hopefully youve
had time to reads through the Indonesia trip report and Im
also hopeful that one of the lessons you walked away with was
that there are times when you shouldnt dive. We had a
number of people, including me, make the decision to skip a
day because something just wasnt right. I commend them for
that. Many times when we look at accidents, both fatal and
non-fatal, we find its not one thing or the first thing
that does you in. Its #1, then #2, then #3, and somewhere
along the line as things pile up, it gets to be too much.
Its always going to better to sit out a dive than to become
a statistic. As I always like to say, You never get hurt on
a dive you dont make.
And thats it for now. Have a great week and
lets go diving soon!!!
- Ken
Ken Kurtis
Owner, Reef Seekers Dive Co.
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