Diving With Legends Book Published

From Bottom Breathers Member Peter Millar:

The book will be unveiled and presented to 10 of the legends on Sat 20th at 4PM at the Our World Underwater show.

I have Stan Waterman, Richie Kohler, Howard Hall, David Trotter, Jarrod Jablonski, Leigh Bishop, Tony Groom, Ralph Wilbanks, Martha Watkins Gilkes, Paul Oberle and Dan Crowell coming. The presentation will be held in one of the seminar room and will be free to get into. If anyone is going to the show come and see the presentation. I’ll do my powerpoint presentation on the legends, the book and Doxa. Doxa and I will then present the book and watch and throw the floor open for a Q&A with Stan and the guys. Should be a pretty cool gathering. The room seats 150 people.

Doxa will be giving the DWL watch to them also. If you go here you can see the watch and the final contents and cover for the book.

www.divingwithlegends.com

Peter has offered special pricing to the dive club members (sent to members via email), but others can buy the book via the website.

Best job in the world

Last winter, there was a contest put together by the government in Australia. They wanted to hire (partially as a publicity stunt) a “Reef Caretaker” to monitor the reef’s health and blog about it. They had over 30,000 applicants who made videos and took tests to compete for the job. Well, they hired someone and he’s been on the job since July. It was a 6-month appointment that paid well and they provided a nice beach house for you to live in for the 6 months too. Unfortunately, all the fun ended last week when the contest winner Ben Southall got stung by a lethal jellyfish. He’s okay and recovering, but it’s a reminder to know your local waters and wear appropriate exposure protection whenever you enter the water. I seriously considered entering the competition as I was between jobs back when the applications were open. My wife even said to go for it (yes, really). I’d like to think that I wouldn’t have had this problem if I were in the job, but you never know. Glad Ben is going to be okay. Ben has been blogging about this job since July or so.

See you all on January 8th at 6:30p for our next dive club meeting!