Diving the Great Lakes Shipwrecks and Caves By Jeff Lindsay
Please join SFDI this coming Wednesday, October 6th , as we welcome Jeff Lindsay of Potomac, Maryland, who will speak about diving the Great Lakes shipwrecks and caves. We'll cover some of the stories behind specific shipwrecks and techniques that Jeff uses for imaging deep water wrecks and caves.
About Jeff Lindsay
From Ontario, Canada
Rebreather / Expedition Trimix / Full Cave / Photographer / Cinematographer
Growing up on the Great Lakes fostered a natural curiosity of the unexplored for Jeff Lindsay; learning to dive in 1990 led to a lifelong desire to visit and photograph the unknown and forgotten. With an almost limitless number of shipwrecks nearby, a natural progression into technical diving was required for the more remote and deeper locations. Known for wide angle photography and varied lighting techniques. Attempting to capture the entire story in 'one shot' remains the elusive goal. He's been invited on numerous projects as team photographer and his biggest thrill is visiting a new wreck or cave for the first time and capturing some, small part of its essence in a photograph.
Are you well trained? By Tec Clark
Charter dive boat captains and divemasters are reporting increased occurrences of diver assists and rescues on their trips. The increased issues include problems with equalizing, crashing into the reef due to improper buoyancy, buddy separation, and running out of air. The vast majority of these incidents do not happen because divers have been out of the water too long. Instead, these occurrences are most often related to poor training.
Please join SFDI this coming Wednesday, September 1st, as we welcome dive industry educator Tec Clark, who will speak about the decline in training standards and the increase in standards violations by diving professionals. Tec will help us identify dive centers that offer good, solid training, as opposed to abbreviated training. He will tell us what to look for in a dive instructor, either for beginners, or seasoned divers who want to continue their dive education. He will also advise us how to prepare for new members joining SFDI who have had inadequate, abbreviated dive training.
See you there, and please note that Tec’s presentation will be IN PERSON, and not on Zoom.
About Tec Clark
Tec Clark is a dive industry expert who has held very elite positions in the industry including Managing Director of the University of Florida’s Academic Diving Program and National Director of the YMCA Scuba Program. He holds over 40 professional certifications with over 15 diving agencies. Tec has been a police officer, dive rescue team member, and forensic dive accident investigator. He has appeared as a diving expert on A&E, The Learning Channel, and the Outdoor Life Network. Tec was Captain of the US Freediving Team, and is the founder of Reef Ministries. He curates ScubaGuru.com and ScubaGuru Academy, and is the host of two podcasts: The League of Extraordinary Divers and The Dive Locker. Tec is also the Associate Director for Aquatics and Scuba Diving at Nova Southeastern University.
Exploring the Dolphin Mind By Dr. Kelly Jaakkola
How do dolphins think?
Do they really have names?
And how do we know that, anyway?
Please join SFDI this Wednesday, August 4, when we will meet Dr. Kelly Jaakkola from the Dolphin Research Center in Grassy Key, FL. She will take us behind the scenes and show us how scientists study the dolphin mind “up close and personal.” She will share some of what she and her colleagues have learned about these amazing animals, and discuss the importance of these types of studies, which help to improve dolphin welfare and conservation. This will be a presentation on Zoom. We look forward to seeing you on Zoom or in the room!
About Dr. Kelly Jaakkola
Kelly Jaakkola, PhD, is one of the very few people in the world whose job it is to figure out how dolphins think. Director of Research for the Dolphin Research Center, she has investigated dolphin behavior and cognition for over 20 years. She earned her Masters degree in Psychology from Emory University, where she began her career studying cognition in chimpanzees and human children. After earning her Ph.D. from MIT, she won a grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct research on dolphin cognition and communication, where she has stayed ever since.
Kelly has taught courses on human and animal thinking at several colleges, including Boston College, Brandeis University, and MIT. Her research has been published in numerous international scientific journals and book chapters, and her research findings have received worldwide coverage in news shows, newspapers, books, magazine articles, and television.
The Great Whites of Guadaloupe By Dr. Gary Rose
SFDI looks forward to the return of Dr. Gary Rose, who will address us in person at the VFW! (Those who cannot meet in person can join the meeting on Zoom.) We enjoyed Dr. Gary’s presentations in 2015 and 2016 when he talked about the sharks of the Florida coast and the Caribbean, as well as the venomous stings and bites of marine microorganisms.
This Wednesday, July 7, Dr. Gary will take us on a journey to Guadaloupe Island with the great white sharks. Through his anecdotes and animated style of speaking, you are bound to have a great time. Looking forward to seeing you in person or on Zoom!
About Gary Rose:
Gary Rose MD has been a certified diver for over 45 years and is a PADI Open Water Instructor. As a Plastic Surgeon and Associate Professor of Microbiology and Surgery at the College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University, he has fulfilled his life passion as a marine biologist with his research on marine microorganisms, as well as large ocean apex predators.Dr. Rose lectures all over the world on “Shark Identification and Behavior” and gives seminars on “Updates On Diving Medicine”. An avid underwater photographer, his articles appear in Alert Diver and X-RAY magazine. Dr. Rose is a member of the Divers Alert Network and The Undersea And Hyperbaric Medical Society. You can find him on weekends diving our local waters and photographing our plentiful and diverse sharks. You can reach him at garyrosephotos@gmail.com
