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Kelp Lecture — June 3
Cabrillo Marine Aquarium will offer a special lecture Saturday, June 3, 11:00 a.m. to 12 noon. Tom Ford (“Captain Kelp”) of Santa Monica Baykeeper will talk about the beautiful kelp forests of the Southern California coast and the efforts to reintroduce the plants to areas where they once flourished. Cabrillo Marine Aquarium is located at 3720 Stephen M. White Drive in San Pedro and is a facility of the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks. Admission to the lecture is free but there is a charge for parking.
For reservations or further information or to receive a calendar of events, please call (310) 548-7562, or visit the web site www.cabrilloaq.org.
3Rs Beach Diving Workshops—June 10, July 8 and more
Rocks, Reefs and Rips program (3Rs) is a mini-course designed to familiarize divers with popular beach dive sites and improve their beach diving skills. Spring sessions in the Greater Los Angeles metropolitan area will take place: June 10 at Deer Creek Road (south Ventura County) and July 8 at Old Marineland (a.k.a. Long Point on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, Los Angeles County). Sessions are also being planned for the San Diego area. Additional workshops are planned at various locations for both areas through summer and early fall.
Instructors will demonstrate and supervise proper surf entry and exit procedures, explain unique aspects of the dive site, and discuss dive condition assessment techniques. Participants are then led on a snorkeling tour of the dive site. (Participants are to wear full wetsuit, mask, fins, snorkel, and a weight belt with half of the normal weight they use for diving. Tanks and regulators are not allowed.)
All classes begin at 8 a.m. but participants should arrive at 7:45 for registration. There may be a fee depending on the session (visit the appropriate web site as indicated below).
The Los Angeles area workshops are organized and conducted by the L.A. County Underwater Instructors Association in cooperation with the Greater Los Angeles Council of Divers (GLACD). For more info on the L.A. County workshops, e-mail 3rs@glacd.org, call 310-344-3250 visit online www.lascuba.com/3rs.html. The San Diego sessions are hosted by the San Diego Council of Divers and various dive clubs. For more information on the San Diego 3Rs, visit http://www.sddivers.com/events.
CA Beach Dive Photo Competition, Monterey — June 10-11
The 25th annual California Beach Dive Photo Comp will take place in Monterey on June 10 & 11, 2006. All contestants must dive from the beach, no boats allowed! There will be separate judging for film and digital entries. All compete for Best of Show. Great prizes, including dive trips, dive and photo gear, and other goodies will be awarded to the winners. The competition starts with registration on Saturday morning. Photographers spend the day shooting images. Images must be turned in at Backscatter Saturday afternoon. Everyone gathers for dinner and a show on Saturday evening. The judges select the winners Sunday and the winners are announced and prizes awarded Sunday afternoon. The entry fee is $60 if postmarked on or before June 2, 2006, $75 thereafter. Registration on Saturday is allowed until 9 a.m. The entry fee includes a T-shirt and a ticket to the dinner/show. Nonparticipants may also enjoy the dinner and show for $5. This event is presented by the Northern California Underwater Photographic Society. Details on their web site at www.ncups.org.
SCUBA Show 2006 — June 24-25
The largest dive expo in the western is U.S. is the annual SCUBA Show that will take place for 2006 on June 24-25 at the Long Beach Convention Center. There will be 57,000 square feet of exhibits, seminars, a continous film festival, door prizes, in-water demos and trials and much more. For complete details including advanced registration visit www.saintbrendan.com online.