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Party December 13 Bring your log books and see if you take home (if Howard gets it repaired) the Most Dives of The Year traveling trophy. All Four Lakes certificates will be distributed. E-mail the Newsletter Editor if you’ve earned one. Be prepared to regale the group with your best and worst dive stories. Food trays, ferment ed & soft liquid refreshments will be provided. Dessert donations are welcome! If you have something really interesting, bring the recipe to pass. This year we are going to try something different! In many circles re-gifting is considered poor behavior. On December 13th the Four Lakes SCUBA Club embraces re-gift ing with open arms. Here’s what’s going to happen: Bring an unwrapped re-gift and $1.00 US to the Holiday Party. It doesn’t have to be SCUBA related! Put the re-gift on the re-gifting table and give the dollar to Howard. Anyone contributing to the table and Howard will get a chance to choose a re-gift off the table. Please address any questions to Howard. E-mail and telephone number on side banner. Check signs for room location. Thanks to Dr. John J. Magnuson Dr. Magnuson’s research shows a very sobering fact: Madison’s lakes are freezing later and thawing earlier. 150 years ago Lake Mendota averaged four months of ice. Today we are down to three months. Should this trend con tinue, in 10 to 15 years, an estimated two months of ice will occur. Not only Madison but the whole of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, New York, and Ontario, Canada are follow ing the same pattern. Worldwide the majority of the named glaciers are receding. What does this have to do with diving? The obvious for us is finding a good day to attempt an ice dive! For all divers, Dr. Magnuson’s research points toward global warming and that may be contributing to the coral bleaching issue. Follow the next three links for discussion on the subject. http://www.oceansatlas.org/ unatlas/uses/uneptextsph/ settleph/2575bleach2.htm http://www.crc.uri.edu/down FOUR LAKES SCUBA CLUB NEWSLETTER Volume 27 Issue 12 F Wednesday December 13, 7:30 pm Coliseum Bar Officers President Ellen Evans Vice President Deb Brookhyser Treasurer Howard Schuck Dive Officer Weston Ledford Webmaster Tamara Markgraf load/coralbleach_expert.pd http://www.biology.duke.edu/ bio217/2001/sealevel/page2. htm Dr. Magnuson can be reached at jjmagnus@wisc.ed or by phone at 608.262.3010. Play begins every Monday eve ning except Christmas and New Years Day. Players & Spectators welcome! Contact Danny! 608.821.0048 UnderwaterHockey@ FourLakesSCUBAClub.or Thanks to Breezeway Bubbles SCUBA Several Four Lakes SCUBA Club members took advantage of Breezeway Bubbles SCUBA gen erous offer of free gear recently. Though a short fuse timeline, Terry and Barb was able to divest themselves of the majority of their excess gear to good homes. Our thanks go to Barb and Terry of Breezeway Bubbles SCUBA. NOTICE - SUUNTO D9 AND D6 DIVING INSTRUMENTS Dec 1, 2006 Suunto Oy has identified a soft ware bug in the D9 and D6 div ing instruments. The software bug may cause the D9 and D6 to incorrectly track dive time on rare occasions, potentially causing a risk to the diver. For further information please read more her . Therefore, Suunto is requesting that the D9 and D6 products with the serial numbers listed below shall be returned for a software update that eliminates this issue. The products affected are: D9 serial numbers 62102582 and below D6 serial numbers 62103693 and below Suunto strongly recommends that D9 or D6 should not be used for diving before the unit has been updated with the lat est software. If the product is used before updating the software, backup instrumentation must also be used Suunto will provide a free soft ware update to fix the bug. Please bring your D9 and/or D6 to your nearest local authorized Suunto retailer for the software update as soon as possible. For contact infor mation please visit our web site www.suunto.co If that is not possible or if you require any fur ther details, contact the Suunto Help Desk at SuuntoD9-D6@ nordictelecenter.f To contact Suunto by phone, call toll free 1 800 543 9124 in the USA and Canada, or +358 284 1160 (inter national call rates are applicable) from all other countries. As a complimentary service Suunto will at the same time replace your battery and perform a pressure test free of charge. Suunto apologizes for any incon venience. Please read related FAQs her The joint U.S. CPSC-Suunto press release, may be viewed by clicking her Thanks to All Our Speakers of the Past Year Thanks to those who keep our speaker schedules so interesting. January 11: Kurt Welke, Fresh water mussels February 8: Brendon Baillod, Ghosts of Gitchee Gumee: Tales of Keweenaw Shipwrecks March 8: Capt. Bill Prince, Truk Lagoon April 12: Deputy Sheriff Mike Doeden, Dane County Sheriff’s Office Dive Team May 10: Sue Jones, Dane County Watershed Management Coordinator June 14: John Fafinski, St Vincent & Other Interesting Ports-of-Call July 12: Open Forum: Many & George Socha, Grand Cayman August 9: Deb Brookhyser, Fiji September 13: Kimm Stabelfeldt, 2005 GLSRF dive research season October 11: Rick Krueger, Discovery of the Ronald Wick and Carl Stolz wreck November 8: Dr. John J. Magnuson, Climate changes and its effect on our four lakes • If you have ideas or suggestions for future speakers, please contact any of the club officers. • Florida Expands Marine Reserve to Largest in North America November 15, 2006 — By Bill Kaczor, Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The largest marine reserve in North America is emerging on Florida’s southwest coast. Gov. Jeb Bush and his Cabinet voted 3-1 on Tuesday to approve a management plan banning fishing in a 61-square-mile section of Dry Tortugas National Park in the Gulf of Mexico and Florida Straits about 75 miles west of Key West. The new Research Natural Area will be added to the existing Tortugas Ecological Reserve, where fishing has been prohibited since 2001. Combined, the two areas will prohibit fishing in 261 square miles. The plan is designed to help over fished species such as grouper and red snapper recover. It also will provide scientists with a living laboratory, and divers and other visitors with recreational and edu cational opportunities. “It’s good for the fish; it’s good for the ecosystem; it’s good for fisher men,” said University of Miami marine biologist Jerald Ault, who testified in support of the plan. The only dissenting vote was cast by Attorney General Charlie Crist, also Florida’s governor- elect. “I am reluctant to restrict a free dom from individual recreational fishermen and fisherwomen,” Crist said, who spoke fondly of growing up fishing with his father. Bush and the Cabinet added a provision that would restore fishing after five years without another vote. The research area is so far from shore few recreational fishermen go there, said Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Chairman Rodney Barreto. Pristine dive sites in North Sulawesi spared 23 November 2006 North Sulawesi, including areas of outstanding natural beauty above and below sea level such as Bunaken National Park, Lembeh Strait and Bangka Island, has been spared an environmen tal tragedy. The Indonesian Ministry of Environment recently announced that a gold mine operation, which was threatening to dump millions of tons of waste into the sea in North Sulawesi, will not be allowed to do so. British-registered “Archipelago Holdings” gold mine (operating locally as “MSM”), threatened to dump up to 1,500,000 tons of ground up mining waste into the sea, between the award-winning Bunaken National Park and the famous Lembeh Strait. Marine biologists acknowledge that North Sulawesi is the centre of marine bio-diversity on the planet. It is now a popular desti nation for discerning dive tourists, earmarked to become a World Heritage Site. The North Sulawesi Watersports Association (NSWA), which represents many of the area’s dive resorts, helped achieve this important vic tory in the protection of a unique marine habitat. The NSWA launched a local media campaign to raise awareness of the threat, even presenting the case to rep resentatives of the Indonesian Parliament. The Ministry’s announcement comes as welcome news for sus tainable development. However, concern still remains about how the gold mine will dispose of its waste. It is believed that it is now planning to dump it on land, but this could lead to new threats. Local environmentalists are wor ried that toxic bi-products of the mining process could end up in the area’s water, creating a health risk to the local population. Also, that an earthquake, in this seis mically active area, could trigger a landslide. (A recent earthquake in Papua led to a deadly landslide at another mine.) To support the continuing cam paign or read more on this story, visit www.divenorthsulawesi.com. Alternatively contact Richard Parks at RP Marketing in the UK; email rpmarketg@aol.com. For Sale Vicki (formerly of Diversions) has a Faber LP95 steel tank she wants to sell. It’s in great condi tion, in hydro but may need a VIP. Original cost was $360.00; she wants $175.00 for it. Vicki can be reached at home, 846-7463. Elections Next Consider what posi tion you would like. All positions are due to rotate; President, Vice President, and Treasurer. Join the fun. We need your new ideas. Assistance Needed Divers and EMTs are needed for the 2007 Iron Man safety teams. Contact Howard Schuck. Our Four Lakes Second Edition $14.95. See Danny at the meet ings or call 821-0048. Four Lakes SCUBA Club P.O. Box 6112 Madison, WI 53716 www.FourLakesSCUBAClub.or DAN Silver Level Sponsor #3035 Calendar 2006 Dec 13 — John and Ellen (view the “SCUBA” tree / chart the future of the Four Lakes SCUBA Feb 9-11, 2007 — Our World-Underwater Mar 23-24, 2007 — Ghost Ships Festival May — Take a Stake in The Lakes dives: two weekends / four dives / R U Ready! Jun 2 — Dive for DAN