Got Pork?          ~ By Jeff Guzowski

For upcoming events, don’t forget the Dania Marine Flea Market Thursday, April 15th thru Sunday, April 18th.  You can definitely find some great buys on new dive gear.  Look for the big dive flag and yellow Ryder truck for some great bargains. 

On May 2nd & 3rd, will be the Air and Sea show, featuring the Navy’s Blue Angels.  This might be the last year for this show due to funding.  Friday’s a great day to go to see the show; last years crowd on Friday was 15,000 compared to Saturday/Sunday’s 500,000.  See the signup table for Friday’s show.

Since the winds have been up, our non-diving events, dinner & bowling, trap shooting, Uncle Funny’s, and the beach cookouts have had big turnouts.  Sign up for one of these events and come get to know your fellow club members.

April’s club speaker will be our own Melissa Ames with her world diving presentation.  If you don’t know who Melissa is, she is the person who maintains our club store.  She has been diving since college and has been all over the world diving.  I hear she has a great slide show from her travels for us.

Dive safe,
                                    ~ Ski 

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WELCOME TO OUR NEWEST DIVE BUDDIES!

We are delighted to welcome new members Jeff Kolodny, Tim Ohlbrecht and Elizabeth Wolfe.  We look forward to diving with you!

April 2004 Calendar and beyond

Phone numbers of trip coordinators are not posted here to ensure privacy.  If you are a club member, consult your Buddy List for numbers or call Cheryl Teugels.

• March 21, 8 AM show for 8:30 go: Join Allen Ryant for a  2-tank charter dive aboard American Dream II.  $45 includes tip.
• March 26-28:  Ginnie Springs camping/diving weekend with Debby and Rick Auchter.  Camping Friday and Saturday nights and diving Saturday and Sunday is about $90 per person (discounts apply if we get a large enough group).  Explore the Ginnie Springs website to see all they have to offer!    Non-divers adult rate is about $60 for the weekend; kids 7-14 is about $30 for the weekend.  There is a full-service large dive shop in the premises if you need to buy or rent gear.  Bring along your non-diving family members to enjoy swimming, snorkeling, tubing, kayaking, canoeing and volleyball (see Ginnie's website for costs). 
• March 27, noon: Bike and Barbecue. Join Cheryl and Lou Teugels for some free wheeling fun as we bike through Birch State Park, Sunrise Boulevard and A-1-A.  Plan to Bring a Covered Dish.  For details, call Cheryl.
• April 1: Annual nude night dive on the Andrea Doria.
• April 3, 5:30 PM: Annual Pig Roast at Lauderdale Isles Yacht Club. [Map here] Just $5 per member and first guest, $10 for each additional guest, plus a dish to share.  Your club provides pork and chicken, beer and wine, soft drinks and water, YOU provide a side dish or dessert!  See photos of last year's fun here.
• April 4: Daylight Savings Time begins.
• April 7, 7:30 PM: General meeting.  Program:  Melissa Ames' World Dive Travel Photography.RAMADA INN FORT LAUDERDALE AIRPORT, 2275 State Road 84.  [Driving directions here] [Map here]  NOTE: additional parking on west side of Ramada. 
• April 12, 7:30 PM: SFDI Executive Board meeting at Connections for Business, 2843 Pembroke Road, NE corner of I-95 and Pembroke Road.  Members please feel free to sit in and join us! 
• April 15-18: Dania Beach Marine Flea Market.
• April 26-30: Fleet Week.
• May 1-2: McDonald's Air And Sea Show.
• May 14-16: Ocean-Festival.
• June: Cayman Brac with Jeff Guzowski and Michele Burzese.
• July 4-11: Captain's Choice private boat trip to Andros Lighthouse Yacht Club and Marina in the beautiful Bahamas!  Approximate cost (share of expenses) about $1200.  See Joe Smariga for more details.
• August: Keys trip with Cheryl Bartek Teugels.  Date and details TBA.
• December 11:  Annual Holiday Party at I.T. Parker Center in Dania Beach.

Join us on April 7 for our monthly general meeting.  Our own Melissa Ames will be presenting her world diving presentation.  If you don’t know who Melissa is, she is the person who maintains our club store.  She has been diving since college and has been all over the world diving.  I hear she has a great slide show from her travels for us.  You won't want to miss it!

SFDI meetings start at 7:30 at the Ramada Fort Lauderdale Airport.  If you are not a member, and you are reading this on the Internet, please join us because visitors are ALWAYS WELCOME! For driving directions to the meeting, visit our About Us page.

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Book Review Surface Tension By Christine Kling

On a steamy Florida morning, Seychelle is answering a Mayday call launched from the five-million-dollar Broward yacht called Top Ten. Racing her fiercest competitor for salvage rights, Seychelle has a personal stake in this rescue: Her former lover, Neal Garrett, is the yacht’s hired skipper. But being the first to reach Top Ten will lead Seychelle to a bloody payday. A beautiful woman has been stabbed to death onboard. And Garrett is nowhere to be found.

Even on shore, the pressures are mounting–Seychelle owes money on her boat, and her love life is in shambles. Within twenty-four hours of finding the dead woman and towing Top Ten out of the surf, Sychelle realizes that she has stepped into a lethal business involving some of South Florida’s sleaziest criminals. 

While the police treat her as the prime suspect, Seychelle begins to unravel a tangled plot centered on a strip club where “all the girls are tens on top.” Discovering the sordid secrets of the owner of the yacht she rescued and the fate of the man she had once loved, Seychelle is connecting human predators with innocent victims, and a mystery on land with a mystery buried deep beneath the sea. Now, to find out what really happened to Neal Garrett, Seychelle must retrace his last steps, through two murders and a horrific crime wave, to a final confrontation with someone who may want to kill her . . . or be her salvation. 

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OPEN WATER: THE MOVIE

As Rolling Stone writes, "Take Open Water, the scariest thing to come out of Sundance since 1999's The Blair Witch Project. Two married scuba divers, played by Blanchard Ryan and Daniel Travis, are abandoned in the brine off the coast of the Bahamas. As they shiver and watch the encircling sharks (played by the real things-the budget couldn't handle facsimiles), the diabolically clever writer-director Chris Kentis-shooting digitally-fries your nerves to a frazzle. And you thought Jaws was the last word on the subject. Think again."

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April Wacky Foto

The only way Marc Cohen will watch a movie.

Photo from Ananova.com: A British deep sea diver has become the first man in the country to watch a DVD while fully submerged underwater.  Lloyd Scott donned an antique diving suit to watch Finding Nemo on an 8ft x 6ft acrylic screen in the Atlantic Tank of the London Aquarium.