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Winter Diving with VSAG 2011 |
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As we enter Winter this year the club will be organising dives on a fortnightly basis. If the weather proves too bad on the chosen week, then the following week will be targetted for the dive.
Dives will be planned the week before, taking into account the prevailing weather and the decision of where to dive will be made by the Dive Captain 1-2 days before the chosen day.
Keep an eye out for emails to members in the week before the dive. Winter last year gave us some memorable dives, hopefully, this one will too.
Posted by Shadow on Sat, 18 Jun 2011 06:08 AM (272 reads)
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The Presidents Yearly Report |
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VSAG: Presidents Annual Report:2010
Another great year has passed for VSAG. Firstly the sinking of the Canberra, plus the “Sinking” Ball, numerous social events, a photo competition, many well attended local dives as well as Long weekends and the Annual Overseas trip.
Socially, we had a great year with the highlight being the 70 plus turnout for the Christmas Party at Deb Georges Mt Martha shed. We had good numbers turn up for Lawn Bowls, Xmas In July, Imax nite, Mentone Bakery and a tour of the Maritime Museum. Many thanks, to John Lawler for organizing most of the above.
On the membership front we had several new members join and we welcome them to the club and it was good to see them on a few dives and joining in the weekends away as well. Overall membership numbers remain strong.
On the subject of weekends away we had our usual suspects again this year. The Queens Birthday at Boarfish was well supported except by the weather gods. Cape Jaffa on the March Long Weekend was a roaring success. The Prom at both Easter and the Cup Weekend were blessed with mostly good diving weather and had large numbers of divers turn up. We had over 35 campsites at Easter and the first day of diving saw over 20 divers taken out. The first ever, annual Kilcunda Anzac weekend although dogged by appalling weather, still managed to get a few hardy souls wet.
The club ran a very successful overseas trip to Fiji during winter and more recently we had 12 members out on the MV Venus 11 diving the southern Great Barrier Reef.
The backbone of our club is the common as mud garden variety “Day Dives”. This year we have had the best roll up of divers in the last 5 years. Over summer and Xmas in particular it was not uncommon to see 18-22 VSAG divers milling around the shotlines from up to 5 boats. When the weather was good, which was often, we had no trouble filling boats and even had to twist the odd boat owners arm occasionally, to meet demand.
Our meetings this year continued to offer a guest speaker more often than not and the standard again was high. These topics ranged from Diving with Whale Sharks, The Port Phillip Pilots, Fiji Shark diving, Safety in Diving, Predicting the weather and Diving the Deep Wrecks of Victoria. We even had a session on Hard Hat diving.
The club couldn’t exist without our boat owners assistance. A big thank you goes out to Mick Jeacle, John Lawler, John Gladding, David Geekie, Peter Briggs, Andy Mastrowicz and more recently David Kelly. Without these guys commitment we wouldn’t be the strong vibrant club we are today.
Lastly, I want to thank the entire committee for organizing all the events, dives, raffles, social nites, magazines, trips away and keeping the club financial and functioning. I won’t single any one out, just to say, they do all the work, I just get to run the meetings. Without them it just wouldn’t happen. Thanks guys for a great year!
Greg Richards.
Posted by Shadow on Wed, 29 Sep 2010 07:42 AM (766 reads)
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VSAG Annual General Meeting |
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Dear VSAG Members,
VICTORIAN SUB AQUA GROUP (VSAG)
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
SEPTEMBER 17TH 2009
The Annual General Meeting (AGM) which was announced in the August-September issue of Fathoms is now confirmed.
VENUE: Bells Hotel Corner Coventry and Moray Streets,South Melbourne
TIME: 7PM for finger food.. 8PM for the AGM.
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Agenda:
1. To approve the minutes of the 2008 AGM
2. To receive the Annual Report
3. To receive the Treasurers Financial Report
4. To elect new members (Directors) for the committee
5. To present Club awards and recognitions
6. AOB
Thanks
Alan
Posted by BUBBLEDIVER on Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:10 AM (501 reads)
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AIMA/NAS Part 1 Course |
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Mark Ryan is running an AIMA/NAS Part 1 course over the weekend of 17/18 October 2009.
AIMA/ NAS is the collaboration of The Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology (AIMA) & The Nautical Archaeology Society (NAS).
This is a 2 day introduction to maritime archaeology. Focuses on aspects such as pre-disturbance, or in other words, non-intrusive surveys of shipwreck sites.
These courses don't run very often, so if you're interested, book now. I have!
Cost: $220
Location: Aquability
16 Balcombe Road, Mentone Victoria, 3194
Duration: 9 am - 5 pm both days
Phone: 9585 7277
Email: info@aquability.com.au
See www.aima.iinet.net.au/...manas.html for course details.
Posted by lloyd_borrett on Sun, 09 Aug 2009 10:37 PM (523 reads)
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Ex-HMAS Canberra Project Update |
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Photo Competition |
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VSAG PHOTO COMPETITION
25TH APRIL-16TH JUNE 2008
VSAG is to run another members photo competition during the time frame above.
VSAG has had dive trips to Jarvis Bay and the Queenscliff Queens Birthday long weekend during this time.
Diving has continued in the bay and on the outside reefs and wrecks,so there should be many great photos to be put for the competition.
So for those happy snappers who took photos in the above time frame..send them please to Alan Storen.
Prizes will be awarded for the best pictures
Only two photos per entry please..photos should be from underwater.
Winners will be third,second and first…each to win a prize.
Prizes will be judged by Dave Bryant from Seapics.
Posted by BUBBLEDIVER on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:38 AM (522 reads)
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VSAG Monster Xmas Party - Sun 9-Dec-07 |
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VSAG has put all the final arrangements in place for the end of year Xmas party.
Our party this year will be at the Beaumaris Motor Yacht Squadron right on the shores of beautiful Beaumaris Bay, Port Phillip Bay.
The date is this Sunday 9th December from 12 noon... Cost is just $30 per person... Drinks are from the bar at normal bar prices.
Enjoy a BBQ meal from the esteemed VSAG master of the lamb spit roast Mick Kakafikas!!
Huge array of raffle prizes... The best on offer for many years!!!
Book in with the treasurer Andy Mastrowicz
on 0402 060 711
Posted by BUBBLEDIVER on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:33 PM (667 reads)
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