If you have not had the opportunity to hear one on Scuba Steve’s presentations, you do no know what you have been missing. Steve is an entertaining presenter with lots of practical knowledge to share. He has previously spoken on Dehydration and diving, as well as first aid hints for divers.
Blending practical advice with current medical knowledge as well as experience from his travels, Dr. Steven Brennan, more affectionately known as Scuba Steve, will talk about traveling around the world in this month’s Club Aquarius Social Club get together. His presentation entitled To the Ends of the Earth: Tips on Remote Travel will prneude you with some great tips for traveling around the world as an adventure traveler, whether you are diving or not.
I hope you will plan on joining your friends at the February Club Aquarius Social Club meeting. Remember members and non-members are welcome.
Time: 7:00 PM on 20 February 2014
Location: The Black Labrador, 4100 Montrose Boulevard (at Richmond) Houston, Texas 77006
Club Aquarius
Tote Bag Tuesday – Renew your Diving & Social Membership
December 3 is Tote Bag Tuesday
It is finally here! Tote Bag Tuesday is here and it is your change to receive free gifts i a tote bag for simply renewing your Club Aquarius Membership. Renew your Club Aquarius membership and receive a tote bag full of treats and savings. Don Q Rum is helping to sponsor Tote Bag Tuesday with some special gifts including free rum or a hat (you have to be 21 to receive the rum). So, plan on coming by and renewing your Club Aquarius membership. Who knows, you may find something else to put in your tote bag.
And, don’t forget to join us for some of our other holiday events!
Houston's First Dive Cach Ready for Scuba Crawfish Boil Weekend
Steve will be placing the cache somewhere in 288 Lake and then posting the instructions on how to find it on the GeoCache website. He will also monitor the cache and post the logs periodically to the website. He has plans for placing other DiveCaches in area lakes to make the search even more fun. Keep watching for hints to this location as well as others around Texas.
Watch this short video clip to learn more…
From the Highlands to the Islands – A Tasting Event
Recently, David Morris and I were sipping on a special glass of uisge beatha, which was a recreation of the spirits carried by Shakelton on his Antarctic expedition when we both had an idea. Wouldn’t it be fun to do a Scotch whisky tasting? We did a bourbon tasting last year so it seemed only natural to shift our attention to Scotland. So, David being the resourceful person that he is came up with a plan and voila we had an event.
With a little more thinking, refinement and an ambassador or two, we have assembled a really fine event that will be a real treat for our Club Aquarius members and our guests. On February 23, we will be hosting Andrew Hyman, from Whyte and MacKay, who will be leading us on a tour of Scotland through our palettes. He has promised to bring us a selection of Whisky from The Dalmore Distillery and the Jura Distillery. To make this event even more special, we will be in the Whisky Bar of the Royal Oak Bar and Grille which is located at 3100 Westheimer. As Ann would say, this bar is decorated in old world stuffy so it is an appropriate location for our event.
If you are in the area or plan on being here, please join us for this special event. In order to bring enough whisky and hors d’oeuvres, we need to know you are coming. Please email us and let us know you will be joining us on 23 February 2012 at 7:00.
Andrew Trent Speaks at Club Aquarius
- Drew Trent and Ann Keibler
What a fun presentation Drew Trent, Vice President of Oceaneering’s Engineered Solutions Group, made at our Club Meeting last evening. It was a full house at the Black Labrador with no vacant seats available. For those of you who were not there, Drew spoke about a variety of topics including what his group does and their particiation in the BP incident in the Gulf. While he did not give a lot of particulars, he did talk about things his group and the ROV group did to help coordinate and bring a positive conclusion to that incident.
Of course, Drew also talked about his past life as a saturation diver in the North sea and his love of diving and sailing. He had photographs from these adventures as well as his early courses with Oceanic Ventures. He even recounted how a mixed gas dive supervisor was forced to take a series of diving courses beginning with the Principles of Technical diving through Trimix.
It was fun getting together with so many people to talk about diving and to have such an entertaining speaker. You can see photographs from the event by clicking here.
Don’t forget to put next month’s meeting on your calendar (23 February 2012). The topic is From the Highlands to the Islands – A Scotch Tasting Event .
Club Aquarius Meeting Thursday 26 January 2012
Club Aquarius Guest Speaker, Andrew Trent,
Too Deep to See, the Development of Deep Water Technology
Join us as we welcome Andrew Trent, Vice President of Oceaneering International, Inc., Deep Water Engineering Services unit, for a discussion of deep water operations around the world. Oceaneering is a Houston based global prneuder of deepwater diving, ROV, and engineering services with offices around the world. Their clients are the whose who of offshore oil drilling and production companies including Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon and British Petroleum.
A native of Canada, Andrew began diving in the early 1970’s, prowling the wrecks around southern Ontario. His early adventures thrust him into a career in the offshore diving business, where he worked extensively with saturation and one-atmospheric diving systems. When he was not puttering on his sailboat, he could be found working in the oil patches of the North Sea, Gulf of Mexico or the US and Canadian Arctic.
His feet are firmly planted on the ground now, and he continues to wreck and cave dive from his Houston home. Always interested in cutting edge diving technology, he uses his rebreather most days, and his camera is rarely out of reach.
The details
Date: Thursday, 26 January 2012
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: The Black Labrador, 4100 Montrose, Houston, TX
Dinner: Cash bar and dinner
