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Casino Pt. Scuba Trail - Dec. 7
The Catalina Conservancy Divers are once again providing divers with the Casino Point Scuba Trail experience in Avalon’s Underwater Park. On December 7, approximately 25 markers will be placed temporarily along the trail to identify various marine organisms. Depths of the trail average between 20 and 35 feet. In addition, trained CCD research divers will be on hand to answer questions and provide resource materials to help you learn more about the unique marine animals and plants that thrive around Catalina Island. The trail will be available from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (weather permitting) and is free. For further details, visit the Catalina Conservancy web site at http://www.ccd.org or call 310-510-9452.
John Chatterton to be Guest Speaker at CA Wreck Divers Banquet — February 22
“Hitler’s Lost U-Boat” will be among the topics that undersea explorer John Chatterton will present at the upcoming California Wreck Divers Annual Banquet to be held in February in Marina del Rey, California.
Chatterton, a commercial diver, scuba instructor, dive boat captain and member of the Explorers Club, discovered the wreck of an unidentified German U-Boat off the New Jersey coast in 1991. Following numerous exploratory dives and years of painstaking research, his team identified the lost submarine as the U-869. The endeavor corrected faulty war records and became the subject of a PBS television special.
Chatterton’s list of other discoveries and accomplishments is formidable. He was part of the first team of technical scuba divers to explorer the RMS Lusitania in 1994, and he discovered the first World War II casualty in American waters, the Norness. John also discovered the World War I tanker Sabstian, and the World War I passenger freighter SS Carolina, which was sunk by the German submarine U-151. Recently, he was a member of the British expedition to the HMHS Brittanic, a sister ship of the RMS Titanic, where he was the first individual to dive the wreck utilizing a rebreather.
The banquet will be held at the Harbor House Restaurant in Marina del Rey, California, at 5:30 P.M., February 22, 2003. The evening’s entertainment will include dinner and the California Wreck Divers’ famous “Giant Raffle.” For more information, call Steve Lawson at (949) 462-0462, or contact the California Wreck Divers’ web site at www.cawreckdivers.org.