Webinar This Week: Returning To Diving

If you’ve been out of the water for a while, it’s important to set yourself up for a safe and successful return. Tune in this Thursday, May 20, at 7:00 p.m. ET for a webinar by DAN research director Frauke Tillmans, Ph.D. The presentation will cover health and fitness considerations, ensuring your equipment and dive skills are up to date, and getting ready for travel. We hope you’ll join us!

 

From the Divers Alert Network a live webinar event that will help keep divers returning to the water safer after a very long surface interval.

If you are not a DAN member, please consider it as a good investment in your own health and safety and continuing the legacy of training and equipping those that respond to dive accident emergencies.  Visit their website at DAN.org.

Updated with full obituary, 5/13/2021.

It is with great sadness that I share the passing from this life of Stella Kidd.  Club Mom to many of our club family members at one time or another.

Stella Keener Kidd, wife, mother, photographic artist, gardener, and humanitarian, passed away on Sunday, May 9, 2021 of cancer, in her home in Lexington, Kentucky. 

Visitation will be held in Lexington from 1pm-3:30pm Saturday, May 15, 2021 at Milward-Southland, 391 Southland Drive. The funeral service will be held afterward at 4pm.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the charitable organization Stella founded and served for many years, Church Under The Bridge. Please mail checks to: Church Under The Bridge, PO Box 11805, Lexington, KY 40578.

The complete and updated obituary can be found at the link below.

Stella Keener Kidd – Obituary

April 2021 edition of the Undercurrents newsletter is available here.

In this months edition:

  • 2021 Calendar, aka Life As We Know It Today

  • May meeting Program on Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease by Tammi Warrender, Lead Coordinator SCTLD Response Project, Cayman Islands Dept. of Environment

  • ILADSFT – Experience & Risk

  • 7-14 August 2021, Belize Aggressor IV Trip is SOLD OUT, unless you are a lone male diver willing to share a cabin

  • Tips to be sure you are receiving Club emails and we encourage sharing

Index to previous Undercurrents newsletters is available here .

Our program at our virtual Club meeting on Tuesday, 3/23/21 at 7:30PM will be:

Update on The State of Dive Destinations & Operators

Presented by:  Ken Scarbrough, owner at Ultimate Dive Travel

Ken and UDT have over 25 years experience and are the worlds premier SCUBA dive travel agency.  Bluegrass Dive Club has been fortunate to have benefited from a long partnership with Ken and UDT, during which our club’s members have enjoyed many great travel destinations and some world class diving experiences.

As we pass the one year anniversary of the global pandemic, Ken has an update to share about the state of the dive industry, its destinations, and the people and facilities that make it all possible.  As many of us are chomping at the bit to travel again, this kind of update is needed.

Plan to join the presentation and Q&A during our meeting Tuesday evening, 3/23/2021.  The event details and Zoom link can be found here:
https://bluegrassdiveclub.com/event/regular-club-meeting-3-23-21-zoom-only/2021-03-23

Introducing your Club’s newly elected officers

2021 Club Officers

President:  John Geddes
Vice President:  Kathryn Bowers
Secretary:  Kris Harn
Treasurer:  Dan Miller
Trip Director:  Leigh Ann Bowe-Geddes
Safety Information Director:  Bart Bertetto
Newsletter Editor:  Terri Anderson
Webmaster:  Alex Fassas