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Date: 1/31/2025
Subject: The Aqua Tooter (February 2025). Aqua Tutus Diving Club's Newsletter
From: Oliver Edwards


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The Aqua Tooter

February 2025
 
Announcements and Club News
 
 
 
Greetings from the President
 
 
Jim Driggers monthly newsletter is here.
Monterey Ocean Conservation
February 6 General Meeting 
 
Dan Abbot and True Barnes from Reef Check will educate us about conservation efforts in the Monterey / Ca area.
Board of Directors Meeting 
February 20
Interested in how the club is run? Want to contribute to club activities? Come attend the Board of Directors meeting via zoom. All current members are welcome to attend. See the event for details. 
Annual Club Christmas Party
was enjoyed by all
 
 
The annual Aqua Tutus club Christmas Party was held at La Cabana December 14 featuring a delicious Mexican Buffet, a door prize, and a surprise (!) visit by Santa. Thirty tooters and guests attended.
Club members shared their favorite
dive sites in January's General Meeting
 
Club members shared their favorite dive locations, where they would like to go, and "reviews" of sites they've been to in an open discussion format.
 
 
Upcoming Dives
 
 
Ad-Hoc Dives or How to Dive
with Club Members
 
Planning to go diving outside the club dive? Want to find more dives with club members? Look on the "Ad-Hoc dive" forum on our website. Sharing dives on our website benefits everyone. Read the news article for details. 
 
"Lovers 3" February club dive
Saturday, February 1
 
Two attempts to dive at Lover's 3 in January were postponed due to bad weather but third times a charm, right?  See the aqua tutus event and dive forum for more information. 
 
Dive Reports
 
 
Tooters enjoyed good diving at Cozumel
 
A good number of club members and guests dove in Cozumel over the Christmas holidays. Attendees included: Dennis, Patti, Arnie, Jono, Arielle, Oliver, Neil, Fritz and (I believe) Don - My apologies if I missed anyone. The weather was decent (harbor closed/missed diving only 1 day), water reasonably warm (about 84), visibility good and the coral reefs were in decent shape. 
 
Mid-week ad-hoc dive at South Monestary
 
Four tooters (and a guest from reef check) took advantage of a mid week weather break to dive at South Monestary. See Derek's great video of his and Oliver's DPV excursion at Mono Lobo wall.
 
 
Diving Related News
 
 
 
 
 

Comic Relief
 
 
ell puns...
 
  
 
 
'Super pod' of 1500 dolphins spotted in Monterey Bay
 
Article in the San Francisco Chronicle and a great overhead video on Facebook.
 
What's the deepest underwater photo shoot of a model?
 
The new Guinness world record for shooting portraits of a model (not actively breathing on scuba) is 163 feet! While the model doesn't look entirely relaxed to me, the effect is pretty good. articles here.  
 
Don't underestimate sneaker waves
 
Respect the ocean - don't underestimate sneaker waves. This national weather service video features good clips of ocean watchers being caught off guard. The incident at 0:46 could have easily been fatal (they were caught in surf with moving logs). 
   
 
CAS program to raise sunflower stars
 
California Academy of Sciences are researching ways to raise them in a SF lab. Unfortunately young sea stars are cannibalistic (one star gobbles up hundreds of siblings). Can I make a joke about "sibling rivalry" here?
Shark Stewards Newsletter
 
Is here.
 
 
 
 
Club Minutes
 
 
The General Meeting minutes are located at at November. January the secretary was diving in Cozumel.
 
The Board of Directors Meeting minutes are located at November. January the secretary was absent.
 
 Aqua Tutus' minutes are stored as news articles (under the categories "General Minutes", "BOE minutes" or for older minutes, under "Officer Reports") on our website, aquatutus.org.
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