Hey guys:
I've been meaning to post this from Oceanblue Divers, a NYC-based dive club. And I'm pleased to say that I will be attending both the seminars and the gala. Hope to see some of you there -- and if you do make it, find me at the gala and the first round is on me.
Keith Phillips
Publisher and Editor
Scuba Diving
(912) 351-6234
Oceanblue Divers Hosts Scuba Legend Stan Waterman and Other Dive Industry Luminaries for Gala Event
Founding with Seminar Series and Evening Gala to Benefit OCEANA
New York, NY—Oceanblue Divers, “America’s Ultimate Scuba Diving Club,” and the Women Divers Hall of Fame will celebrate the second anniversary of the dive club’s founding with a Daytime Seminar Series and an Evening Gala in Manhattan on Saturday, October 11. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the ocean advocacy organization OCEANA and the Women Divers Hall of Fame scholarship program.
The Daytime Seminar Series will be presented at the Bleecker Street Theater, 45 Bleecker
Street in New York, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The slate of presenters includes:
• Stan Waterman, legendary underwater cinematographer and author, shows his newest
video from a recent trip to the Philippines, and moderates a screening of Michele and
Howard Hall’s IMAX movie Island of the Sharks.
• Underwater explorer, writer and photographer Anne L. Doubilet, a Fellow and Board
Member of the Explorers Club, presents the photographic journey “From the Ends of
the Earth: Papua New Guinea to the Arctic.”
• CAPT (retired) Bobbie Scholley, US Navy, a former Navy diver who led underwater
recovery efforts for TWA Flight 800 and the USS Cole bombing, shares her experience
raising the turret of the historic wreck of the USS Monitor.
• Martha Watkins Gilkes, president of the Women Divers Hall of Fame and Explorers
Club Fellow, talks about Caribbean wrecks and the writing of her book Shipwrecks of
the Caribbean.
• Bonnie Toth, Women Divers Hall of Fame Chair, presents "Diving LARGE on the
West Coast," a discussion about diving with humpback whales and white sharks.
• Andrea Zaferes, vice president of dive rescue training organization Lifeguard Systems,
discusses public diving safety.
The Evening Gala will take place at BLVD, 199 Bowery in New York, beginning at 7:00 p.m.
Stan Waterman and the rest of the Daytime Seminar Series presenters, along with many other
dive industry professionals and VIPs, will be on hand to mix and mingle with attendees. The
evening’s festivities will include a one-hour open bar, a silent auction and a raffle of such items
as dive trips, training courses, scuba equipment and more.
Tickets for the event can be purchased in advance at www.oceanbluedivers.net/anniversary,
or in person on the day of the event. Tickets are available individually for either the Daytime
Seminar Series or the Evening Gala, or as a combined Package. Advance ticket prices start at
$35 (Seminars), $40 (Gala) and $65 (Package) until September 12; prices increase at regular
intervals until the day of the event. Full ticket price schedule is available at
www.oceanbluedivers.net/anniversary.
Links:
Oceanblue Divers http://www.oceanbluedivers.net
Women Divers Hall of Fame http://www.wdhof.org
OCEANA http://www.oceana.org/dive
CONTACTS:
Melissa Morrissey Michael Feld
Oceanblue Divers Oceanblue Divers
646-593-1439 917-442-0228
melissa@oceanbluedivers.net
michael@oceanbluedivers.net
