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Great Lakes Underwater Explorers |
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<<Aug 2003>> |
Volume 1, Number 1 |
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Great lakes Under Water Explorers 4052 Bath Rd Kingston Ontario K7M 4Y4
Phone: (613) 634-8464
Fax: (613) 634-8135
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Welcome to our first Newsletter On behalf of the G.L.U.E. president, Ken Fuller, I am proud to be a part of the first G.L.U.E. Club Newsletter. Our club has grown to about 120 members. The G.L.U.E. members have been very active this year in helping to maintain moorings and lines as well as relocating some wrecks. Club dive nights have also been a great success. If anyone has any comments, ideas or stories they would like to share with the other members please send an e mail to the club. GLUE Members relocate Wrecks On Saturday, August 2, GLUE members James Pate(photographer), Krystal Lapierre(support) and Harold(captain)and myself set out to photograph a new wreck known as “wreck X” and then over to the William Johnston to raise the marker which has not been up for a couple of years. A new bottle was placed on the William Johnston. The Queen Mary Mooring had the tie rope on the Bottom replaced with a length of Chain by Harold Vandenberg (Seaducer).
Right - Club Member on the Stern of
Club Members by the William Johnston
August 18, 2003
The Moorings were fixed on the Aloha and Comet, along with the last deployment of the new buoys on the Glendora.
POW members, along with G.L.U.E.. Dive Club members, established a mooring line on the Monkey Wrench.
Some photo’s of the day:
Club Dive Nights We had a full boat for the August 2 Saturday club dive. The Seaducer took us out to the Maple Glen. A very large wreck, with 2 gigantic boilers and large prop as seen here:
Glue Members on the
Maple Glen (Photo’s by Tom Wilson)
Following the dive we had a BBQ at the NTD shop, where we were joined by some visiting G.U.E. instructors Andrew Georgitsis, Tyler Moon and some of the tech 1 students. A nice evening was had by all.
August 7 The club took a trip out to the. It was another calm evening on the lake. With a full boat we set off for the Cornwall, a paddle wheeler which lies at about 65 ft. and was a pleasant 64 degrees. A new wreck for most divers on the boat.
August 9 Members decided to try a drift dive by the Three sister Islands.
August14 Diving still happens even during black out’s. Members chose to do a night dive on the Comet.
photos By Vlada Dekina
August 16 The club had the rare opportunity to do a night dive on the Frontenac. Several photographers took part and here are some photo’s :
photo by Vlada Dekina
Tech Corner
As you most likely have heard, there were a lot of technical divers at NTD in the past couple of weeks. Club members got to meet or be taught by Andrew Georgitsis of 5th Dimension, Tyler Moon of Extreme Exposure, Bob Sherwood of the WKPP (all three of these guys dove the Britannic) and of course Kingston’s own Dan Mackay. The first week was the GUE Level1 course; we had people from California, Detroit, Ohio, Peterborough and Kingston.
For the second week, Kevin Ripley and Doug Smeaton finished there GUE Level II with Andrew Georgitsis and Dan Mackay. Bob Sherwood came and filmed the final dive on the Londonderry near Amherst Island.
Here is Steve is going through stern on the Sheboygan
( photo by - Andrew G)
Kevin and Doug on the Londonderry
(photo - Bob Sherwood)
More Pictures will be posted on the 5th Dimension site, NTD Site and Expedition Divers Site.
Club Dive Nights
Don’t forget our Thursday and Saturday club dive nights. The boat will leave NTD at 6 PM.
Club Sweatshirts We are taking orders for Hooded Sweatshirts and Weatherwear Microfibre fleece sweatshirts with an embroidered club logo. Hooded or crew neck sweatshirts come in navy blue or sand navy blue, and are $45.00 plus tax. Fleece sweatshirts come in navy blue, light blue, sand, forest green and cranberry and are $75.00 plus tax. Please email club@northerntechdiver.com with your order. I will be placing an order in the next couple of weeks. Payment can be made at NTD or by sending a cheque to Carole Addington .
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