PowerPoint Presentation FSH Feb 2003

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Monthly Meeting
February 19, 2003
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Agenda

• Da Prezs Corner
• Roberts Rules of Order
• Club Financial Review
• Festival Update
• Membership Report
• Activities Chair Report
• January Business Update
• Break
• New Business
• New Business from the Floor
• Preview of Coming Attractions
• DIR Overview
• Adjourn
• Saltwater Video

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Da Prez's Corner

• Vote on accepting minutes from January
• SS Seahorse 30 of membership working to
  ensure Festival success
• Roberts Rule Consultant Jana Smith
• New SIG DIR
• New Newsletter Column Look for it
• Activities Page Reorganized
• Boat Based Dive Activities
• Shore Based Dive Activities
• Social Activities
• Working on Web Page Need Input
• If U C anyone from other Clubs, bring them to me
  at the Ushers area - Please

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Robert's Rules of Order
Jana Smith
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Treasurer's Report
Club Financial Review
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FSH Membership
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Festival Update
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Festival Update
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Membership Chair Report
Diane Love
Membership Chairperson
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Membership Chair Report
My job is to get their attention and then getem
into the Tent
FORD SEAHORSES SCUBA CLUB

• Recruitment
• Festival Club Table
• Ford 100 Club Table
• Flyers at Dive Shops
• Flyers at Workplace
• Media exposure
• Web Page
• Member Recruiting

• New Members
• SeaPal
• Club meeting Format
• Multiple types of Club events
• Affiliation
• Special Interest Groups
• Club Festival

• Existing Members
• Meeting Format
• Multiple types of Club events
• Special Interest Lectures
• Special Interest Groups
• More Club events
• Club Festival

• Past Members
• Cmon back mailing
• 3 months of the Newsletter
• Phone Call follow-up

It may take a village to raise a child, but it
takes the membership at large to keep new
members We need SeaPal volunteers
Da Luv Nurse
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Activities Chair Report
February ,2003
Shipwreck Festival Feb 22, 2003
March, 2003
The Titanic Exhibit with Dinner at the Mexican
Village RSVP Debbie Armour 734 728 7664
debdiver_at_aol.com
Any member attending the dinner will receive a
jar of
April 2003
Middle Eastern Night _at_ LaShish Dearborn RSVP
Diane Podsiaiik 313 336 7644
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TITANIC EXHIBIT / MEXICIAN NIGHT The Titanic has
docked!!
Join your fellow divers, friends and family to
tour the Titanic Exhibit on display at the
Detroit Science Center When March 22,
2003 Time 300 p.m. - ?? Entrance is every
15 min. so Ill get tickets as close to 300 as
possible Cost Detroit Science Center
11.95/pp Special IMAX Planetarium Titanic
presentations available but not part of group
event. Titanic plus 1 event 15.95/ for both
17.95 Then off
to dinner approx. 530 Mexican Village
Restaurant Oldest Mexican restaurant in
Mexicantown 2600 N BagleyDetroit313-237-0333
Please sign up tonight, or with Debbie Armour
by calling 734-728-7644 She needs the money by
tonight in order to ensure your spot with the
group.
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Activities Chair Report
Did I forget to mention that
We still need an Activities Chair
Volunteer
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Vice President's Report

• Objectives
• To develop and create a viable and useful
  safety program to the benefit of the club and its
  members
• Successfully implement Revenue Generation
  Programs
• Plan and manage 2003 Ford Seahorse Christmas
  Party
• Develop Members Reward Point Program

• Safety Related Initiatives
• Plans and Programs
• Diving Practices
• Formal Training initiatives
• Life Support Equipment Training

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Vice President's Report

• Oceanic CDX First Stage Regulator Recall
• Serial Numbers
• 9200001 thru 9205622
• 9800013 thru 9801711
• 0200001 thru 0213294
• 0D0001 thru 0D3046
• 9D0001 thru 9D3273

Sold with 2nd stage regulators Alpha 7, Delta 3,
Gamma 2 and Zeta Dates Sold May, 1999 thru
October, 2002 Problem Air leaks, noise and
vibration On the Net http//www.OceanicWorldWi
de.com/ If you have this Regulator, it needs to
be repaired
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January Business - Update
Ron Roberts
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January Business - Member Rewards

• Objective
• Create programs that encourage Membership
  participation

• Parameters
• Club activities are assigned a point value
• Points are cumulative throughout the year
  exchanged at the Christmas party for raffle
  tickets
• Prizes are awarded to a drawn ticket Winners
  Choice
• Only one prize per winner
• Board Published point factors at February
  meeting
• The value of prizes is determined by the amount
  of money in Club Discretionary Funds

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January Business - Member Rewards
Point Distribution
Activity
Points
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January Business - GLSF Raffle

• Status
• Collecting State Required information in order
  to get license
• Will not be sold at the Festival
• What
• Offer
• 500 Cash First prize
• 250 Cash Second prize
• 150 Cash Third prize
• 6 tickets for 5.00
• Parameters
• Cost 900 (1,080 tickets Breakeven)
• Minimum projected revenue 2,200
• Raffle held AFTER all tickets sold or by 7/1/03,
  whichever occurs first
• Booth needed at GLSF
• Club needs to approve expense

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January Business - Shirt Sale

• Status
• 250 Shirts ordered
• Type Long Sleeved, and short sleeved
• What
• Sale of Seahorse shirts at Festival
• Club members order shirts separately
• Ford Seahorse logo Sweatshirts for members,
  24.00 (Separate order)

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January Business - Proposed By-Law Change

• Issue Eliminate the By-Law rule requiring Club
  validation of new member dive skills
• Process
• By-Law Change is identified at Business meeting
• Within 30 days, Regular members are sent
  written notification of intent to amend either
  the Constitution, or By-Law
• Proposed change is discussed at the next
  business meeting
• Proposed change is voted on by Regular members
  only
• To effect change, 75 of voting members need to
  vote in the affirmative
• Status
• Reviewing prior meetings to determine if issue
  was already resolved

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This explains it all
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Intermission 15 Minutes
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New Business

• Floor New Business

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New Business - Seahorse Calendar
Objectives Take advantage of Seahorse
photographers Underwater photography skills to
earn revenue

• What
• Establish a Feasibility group to develop a plan
  to publish a 2004 Seahorse Calendar available for
  commercial sales
• Parameters
• Chair volunteer required to form Feasibility
  Group
• Group reports their finding to the membership
  within 90 days
• Membership votes on whether or not to proceed
  with the plan
• Plan should be for a final layout for sale
  starting in October

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New Business

• Floor New Business
• Old Business

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Coming Attractions - March

• Considerations for Advanced Great Lakes Boat
  Diving
• Presenter Andy Donato

The March meeting will be primarily this
presentation. The normal business meeting topics
will be covered at the April meeting
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Coming Attractions - April

• Recreational TriOx An overview of a GUE class
  on the use of TriOx as part of Recreational NDL
  diving
• TriOx utilization when diving within
  Recreational Diving limits
• Skills developed when obtaining the CERT
• Presenter Tom Rhoad, and GUE Trainer

• Club Safety Equipment Review A review on the
  Clubs safety equipment and its uses
• If you go on a club sponsored dive, knowing how
  to use this equipment may save someones life
• Presenter Tom Rhoad

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Coming Attractions - April

• Everything You Wanted to Know About the
  Seahorse Photography Contest but were afraid to
  Ask
• The Award accumulation process
• The Category Selection Process
• The Selection Process
• Examples of why pictures win and lose
• Presenter Ray Berch

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Introduction to DIR

• A presentation on a practical, sensible approach
  to Diving from a new training agency, Global
  Underwater Explorers, that focuses on
• Fundamentals
• Safety
• Equipment Configurations
• It combines dive philosophy from multiple
  certifying organizations into one, taking the
  diver into the realm of TEC diving

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Marty Lutz Credentials

• Open water 1984
• Advanced open water 1985
• Swift water 1986
• Nitrox, Technical Nitrox 1994
• Deep Air 1994
• Advanced Deep Air 1994
• Technical Deep Air 1995
• Cavern/Full Cave 1995
• Trimix 1996
• Halcyon Rebreather 1998

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Introduction
Overview of DIR Philosophy Review of GUEF class
9/02
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DIR Philosophy

• Holistic Approach
• Team oriented
• Gear
• Training

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Review of GUEF class Review of GUEF class

• Class held at Gilboa Quarry, Sept. 02
• Friday night lecture
• Saturday, equipment changes, dive, video review
• More diving, skills, video review

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Videos of Skills

• Horizontal ascents/descents
• Frog kicks
• Helicopter turns
• Backward kicks
• OW skills
• Out of air
• Liftbag deployment

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Ascents Descents
Back Kick Frog Kick
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Helicopter Shoot the Bag
Out of Air Skills
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Real Life Uses

• Better planning pre-dive reduces stress
• Optimum equipment setup facilitates comfort in
  water
• Practice of OOA, free ascent, lift bag, allows
  confidence in dealing with an emergency
• Better buoyancy skills, kicking skills,
  reduce/eliminate silting

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Adjourn
Great Lakes Shipwreck Festival 2/22/03
Next Meeting March 19, 2003
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Saltwater Video
Speaker Tony Gramer
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• GUE Videos
• Ascents
• Back Kick
• Descents
• Frog Kick
• Helicopter
• Out of Air
• Shoot the Bag
• Skills