Wreck, Sidemount, Tec, & Rebreather Mini-Seminars this Sat.!

[Dive_Girl]

Saturday, February 12th (10am-2pm) - Wreck, Sidemount, Tec, and Rebreather Mini-Seminar Day! (FREE)
Hosted by: Seven Seas Scuba, 3200 SE 164th Ave., No. 216, in Vancouver, WA

We are excited to host our first mini-seminar event! The line-up is as follows:

10am - Wreck Diving with Scott Boyd and Jeff Carr
Join Scott and Jeff in talking about their exploration of local Pacific Northwest ship wrecks! Scott and Jeff co-authored the book Northwest Wreck Dives. There will also be a drawing at the end of the presentation for a complimentary autographed copy of Northwest Wreck Dives.

11am - Sidemount with Dan Robertson
Dan is a PADI Tec Instructor and one of the few Sidemount Instructors in the Pacific Northwest. Dan is a Master Technician by trade which gives him incredible mechanical experience to draw upon and is a natural fit with more gear intensive diving. Dan's presentations take on a very round-table feel encouraging people to participate in the conversation. Dan will be talking about about Sidemount diving, equipment, it's local application, and sharing his recent dive trips to Crater Lake with an OPB film crew (click here for the OPB video online!) and diving the Titan 1 Missile Silo in Eatern Oregon in sidemount (click here for an article and photos on this trip)!

12pm - Tec Diving with Dan Robertson
After the Sidemount presentation, Dan will transition into talking about tec diving, equipment and sharing his recent tec diving trip to the Warren Wreck in Crescent Lake (click here for an article and photos of this trip).

1pm - Rebreather Diving with Ron Micjan
Ron is a certified CCR instructor and provided Megalodon training to John Chatterton and Richie Kohler of Shadow Divers fame! His other diving certifications include Mixed Gas CCR, Full Cave CCR and Sidemount Cave. He is also the designer of the COPIS version of the Megalodon CCR, and the author of a website dedicated to homebuilding rebreathers and detailed teardowns of commercial rebreathers.

Please post here (or send me a PM) if you are interested in attending some or all of these exciting seminars so we have a head count for chairs and goodies!

[Gooch]

Sounds like a great day! I for sure want to see the wreck stuff with Boyd and Carr and the side-mount sounds cool too.

[Dive_Girl]

Thank you to everyone who joined us this past Saturday! What an incredible day. The speakers, Scott Boyd, Jeff Carr, Dan Robertson, and Ron Micjan were simply outstanding.

Scott and Jeff mentioned that although they both give wreck presentations, it is on rare occasion they give their presentations together. All I can say is WOWOWOW! They are so energetic and absolutely inspiring. I think they birthed some new dive explorers on Saturday! Jeff Groth, Dive Coordinator of the Oregon Scuba Club, was the lucky recipient of our autographed copy of their book, Northwest Wreck Dives!

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Dan is so incredibly talented in explaining the simple mechanics of diving that initially looks to the eye to be complicated. He also easily and unabashedly shares his passion and enthusiasm for diving. We thank Dan for presenting on not one, but two topics Saturday!

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Ron Micjan with the assistance of Ashely and Jerry, Megalodon's General Manager, wrapped up the day with a fantastic presentation on rebreathers. The absolute highlight of the presentation was when he built a rebreather onsite. Billy Snook, owner of Seven Seas Scuba, didn't give it a second thought as he jumped right in testing Ron's creation which performed flawlessly providing 40% O2!

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Again thank you to all who attended and our amazing presenters!

[selkie]

Thank you to everyone who joined us this past Saturday! What an incredible day. The speakers, Scott Boyd, Jeff Carr, Dan Robertson, and Ron Micjan were simply outstanding.

Scott and Jeff mentioned that although they both give wreck presentations, it is on rare occasion they give their presentations together. All I can say is WOWOWOW! They are so energetic and absolutely inspiring. I think they birthed some new dive explorers on Saturday! Jeff Groth, President of Oregon Scuba Club, was the lucky recipient of our autographed copy of their book, Northwest Wreck Dives!

Seminar1.jpg

Dan is so incredibly talented in explaining the simple mechanics of diving that initially looks to the eye to be complicated. He also easily and unabashedly shares his passion and enthusiasm for diving. We thank Dan for presenting on not one, but two topics Saturday!

Seminar2.jpg

Ron Micjan with the assistance of Ashely and Jerry, Megalodon's General Manager, wrapped up the day with a fantastic presentation on rebreathers. The absolute highlight of the presentation was when he built a rebreather onsite. Billy Snook, owner of Seven Seas Scuba, didn't give it a second thought as he jumped right in testing Ron's creation which performed flawlessly providing 40% O2!

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Again thank you to all who attended and our amazing presenters!

I would like to say it was a great event and I will be contributing the book to the Oregon Scuba Clubs Wheel of Scuba auction. I would however like to point out I am not the club President. I am but the lowly dive coordinator and Shane Boyle is the President. Shane would have represented the club himself but like any good dive club President he was out diving this weekend with the Vice President.

[Dive_Girl]

whoops my apologies Jeff - edit made