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Let the Fun Begin!

Memorial Day May 24-27 -

Cozumel

Jun 22-23 Flower Gardens

Jul 11-12 Flower Gardens

Jul Vortex & Mighty O

Aug 17-18

October Fun Fest 5-11

Thanksgiving in Bonaire

Howdy!

We want to start this newsletter off by

welcoming Kelly Currington to the

retail staff. She comes to us from an

Optical clinic in Rockwall via Turks

and Caicos. You’ll have to ask her the

details. We are happy to have her. She

is currently a PADI Dive Master who

will do her instructor course in June.

We had loads of fun Mother’s Day

with over 30 students. Some mom’s

and others mom-in-support. We had

perfect weather and great water at

Athens Scuba Park.

Summer is now upon us. Come on in

Let’s Go Diving!

International Scuba

May 29, 2013

Volume 13, Issue 5

Milestones & Certs 2

What’s Happening 3

Fish Friends 4

Inside this issue:

Where are we diving

May 11-12 Athens

May 25-26 Clear Springs?

Jun 8-9 Clear Springs

Jun 22-23 Clear Springs

Jul 6-7 Clear Springs

Jul 20-21 Clear Springs

Aug 3-4 Clear Springs

Aug 17-18 Clear Springs

Aug 31– 1 Clear Springs

to get your gear serviced sooner

rather than later. Want to make sure

we have the parts and time to care

for your equipment before your next

trip.

We have lots of spots on Flower

Gardens and it is coming up on

Whale Shark season - who wants to

join us.

We listened to recommendations for

the newsletter so watch for changes

next month.

Have a great and safe weekend

Your IS Family

GIFT CARD

Spotlight Specialty - Digital Photography Do you own a camera or wish you did? If you own one and have had pictures that you look at going - yuck, that didn’t turn out at all how I wanted. No amount of Photoshop could fix it. I know I have.

Here is your chance to improve current technique or get started on the right foot.

June is PADI Digital Photography month. The student manual that accom-panies the course is fantastic as it tells you a lot about photography in general outside of our underwater world.

We will have a pool session where we fine tune your buoyancy, add the housing in and work some more on buoyancy then take a series of photos making ad-justments and such. We will jump out of the pool and take a look at them on a laptop, make some changes and then jump back in to see if we made the right changes. Once happy there, we head to open water for a minimum of 2 dives. We will do a dive - jump out and look and then make corrections and jump back in until you are happy with your progress.

Of course, we expect to see pictures from the trip after you come home to see how you improved or just how much fun you had.

Master Scuba Diver

Dive Master

Rebecca Billings

Lauri Schisel

Assistant Instructor

Evan O’Connell

.

Volume 13, Issue 5

DSD

Charles Kremer

William Moyle

Rebecca Hayslett

Open Water

Zachary Cole

Rebecca Fripp

Scott McLain

Ty Alexander

Alexandra Jacobs

Michael Fripp

Jacob Fripp

Rafael Garcia

Gabriel Garcia

Kate Gatlin

Sarah Green

Deborah Green

Jason Hastings

Matt Rayford

Ziye Ren

April Young

Aakash Padakandla

Jay Delmar

Rita Delmar

Abhisheck Chinchalker

Amanda Gringas

Austin Jacobs

Ricky Lawson

Saurabh Maheshwari

Nicholas Riccione

Josh Robertson

Max Wolszon

Karina Harrison

EANx

Allan Siu

Michael Fripp

Jacob Fripp

Kate Gatlin

Craig Alexander

Intania Hasibuan

Chris Hillin

Aime Keener

Max Wolszon

James Pierce

Glen Worsham

Nathan Fripp

Alexander Fripp

National Geographic

Open Water

Allan Siu

Miguel Olivarez

Peak Performance

Buoyancy

Kate Gatlin

Allan Siu

Jerry Anderson

David Charles

Nicholas Riccione

Rescue Diver

Mary Wallace

Wreck

Vicki Ellington

Lee Ellington

Diving Milestones and New Divers

Happiness depends more

on the inward disposition

of mind than on the

outward circumstances.

- Ben Franklin

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Let the Fun Begin! Volume 13, Issue 5 Page 3

What’s Happening!

Texas. After each of your dives around Texas, stop by any Inter-national Scuba location and have us verify your dive in your personal logbook with the official ‘Dive Around Texas’ stamp. Continue to dive in Texas as often as you like, the more times you dive the more ‘stickers’ you receive for a chance to win Priz-es at the Awards Recognition Day on September 26th. YOU MUST COMPLETE 12 dives in 4 different locations to receive a meal ticket and be eligible for the prize draw-ing.

For a complete list of Rules, participating Dive Retailers, Calen-dar of Events, that divers can participate in, and an up-to-date prize listing and Sponsor list, refer to www.divearoundtexas.com Also, Watch for details in Dive Training Magazine at: www.dtmag.com

YOU MUST BE PRESENT TO WIN PRIZES on SEPTEM-BER 26th or have your verified Logbook submitted at the Recog-nition Event by your participating Retailer or dive buddy. RSVP for Recognition Day Lunch by Sept. 15th. Additional guests of participants may pay at the door for the BBQ meal, but also need to RSVP by Sept 15th.

International Scuba & “DiveAroundTexas” challenge Texas divers to get out and explore some of the great diving that Texas has to offer. Texas is blessed with over 30 different, incredible dive spots including rivers, springs, quarries, lakes, and the Gulf of Mexico. Texas even has a flooded missile silo. Plus the Na-tion’s only quarry built especially for divers. DiveAroundTex-as.com is about divers going diving in Texas and receiving the chance to win prizes and awards based on the number of verified dives you have in your Logbook. The more times you dive in Texas, the better your chance to win valuable prizes and trips.

The program launched Tuesday, October 6th, 2012 and concludes October 6th 2013.

It’s simple just stop by any International Scuba location or online at www.internationalscuba.com , and you can sign up. For a $25.00 registration fee, you will receive an event T shirt and complete details. Upon completion of the minimum of 12 dives in 4 locations, you will receive your ticket to the lunch at the Awards Recognition Day in San Marcos on Saturday, October 6th, 2013. Plus for every dive you do, you get a ticket that enters you in a drawing for a chance to win fantastic prizes.

The rules are simple. Get with your dive buddies and dive a minimum of 12 times in at least 4 different dive locations in

Dive Around Texas

Diving for Texas Treasure Challenge: NEW!

In tandem with Dive Around Texas, DEMA has announced a local diving promotion using Dive Caching (underwater geocaching) to keep divers active and having fun. The “Diving for Texas Treasure Challenge” is a Texas-based in-water game for divers and is designed to help support fun and easy local diving while providing retail businesses with a fun and competitive diving pro-motion using Dive Caching.

“The Diving for Texas Treasure Challenge is a new program we will test in the Texas market,” commented Tom Ingram, DEMA Executive Direc-tor. “It is designed to promote local diving by using a fun treasure hunt which requires diving, the use of technology and a few basic diving skills such as navigation. Any retail dive center in Texas can promote the program by displaying the free coun-ter card they’ll receive from DEMA and sharing the short promotional video. To encourage local divers to participate in the Challenge, retailers located in Texas will receive a rack/counter card and holder from DEMA and are encouraged to promote the game to their customers both in the store and through their own marketing efforts.”

The fun of the Challenge is for divers to find a se-

ries of five DiveCaches hidden underwater in five different locations throughout Texas. Divers participate by registering for the Challenge with their local retailer or using the online form found on DiveCaching.org. Divers can use the descriptions and clues posted on OpenCach-ing.com, the free Open-Caching app (or a GPS) and an underwater com-pass to find the DiveCach-es and be eligible to win $1,000!

DEMA is encouraging all local divers and retailers to be involved in the 2013 “Dive Around Texas” game, and to use the Div-ing for Texas Treasure Challenge as part of Dive Around Texas. Any Texas retailer can par-ticipate and all will be receiving a kit from DEMA to help promote the Challenge to their current customers and can learn more by visiting www.DiveCaching.org and www.DiveAroundTexas.com.

We have been in your neighborhood for over 15 years serving your diving, education,

travel, sales, and service needs. Who better to take care of you but a neighbor.

International Scuba is a 5 Star Instructor Development Center and one of only 2

National Geographic Dive Centers in North Texas. The stores boast a Platinum

Course Director (instructor trainer) and over 70 years of experience amongst the

group.

Looking for a change of lifestyle—come see us we can help!

2540 Marsh Lane

Suite 128

Carrollton Texas, 75006

Magnificent Cuttlefish

Phone: 972-416-8400

Fax: 972-416-8507

E-mail: [email protected]

International Scuba

Getting You There...Starts Here!

Cuttlefish are amazing unique and beautiful animals.

Hopefully learning more about them will inspire you

to admire and appreciate them!

The cuttlefish belongs to the same family as octopus

and squids (cephalopods). They are considered to

have the highest intelligence of any invertebrate, as

well as the ability to see backwards, use jet propulsion

and keep buoyancy in the same way that submarines

do. This is accomplished by the chambers of the

“cuddle-bone” (the thing you often see hanging in

bird cages) filling or releasing gas.

Cuttlefish have three separate hearts, one for each gill

and one for the rest of the body. One reason is their

blood flows more rapidly because hemocyanin con-

tains much less oxygen than hemoglobin. The hemo-

cyanin also contains copper which lends to their

blood being green.

Cuttlefish have unique shape pupils; which plays a

part in the most highly developed eyes of any animal.

They allow the cuttlefish to perceive light polariza-

tion and completely reshape their eyes to focus. They

also really do have the proverbial eyes in the back of

the head, with a second spot on the fovea which

allows them to see backwards.

Cuttlefish change color using a series of special skin

cells, chromatophores, iridophores and leucophores,

which reflect light in all sorts of colors. Not only do

they reflect colors, they are able to merge almost

completely with the seafloor. But don’t be fooled by

the beauty of their flesh as it is poisonous.

Cuttlefish can shoot ink like their family members the

octopus and squid, which is used as a defense to

confuse predators and allow the cuttlefish time to

escape. Their ink was the original sepia; which was

once used by artists. Nowadays most have been

replaced mostly with synthetic sepia.

They have a fin all the way around their body instead

of tail fins, like squid, and they use this fin to control

movement.

Kevin getting ready