March's winner Beth	April's winner Sarah	May's winner Mike

June's winner Ed

FUN, FOOD and FRIENDS...Keystone Divers meeting is Sunday August 6th at the Jay Street bridge in Lock Haven. The first dive will be around 11:00am followed by a Pot Luck Dinner (remember to bring a dish), a brief meeting at 1:00pm (so come to this if your not ready to hit the water yet) followed by another dive for the hardy at 2:00pm. So let's get the dust off your gear at a site everyone knows and Go Dive!!

MAJOR LIVEABORD CHANGE Due to airfare cost to Belize the Nekton is moving it's home port for next year to Puerto Rico and St. Croix. What this to our divers is an airfare that is about $400.00 less than it would have been to Belize. So come with us March 7 - 14, 2009 to Eastern Puerto Rico (PR) and St. Croix and see what the Caribbean has to offer, all without leaving American waters.

Area native helps rehabilitate, release sea turtle in Georgia By ASHLEY M. WISLOCK awislock@sungazette.com When Dylan, a loggerhead sea turtle, was released back into the wild after nine years in captivity, the nation watched as the media covered her crawl toward the ocean. Jeannie Miller, a former resident of Avis, had a beachfront seat for the event. Miller, a 1999 graduate of Jersey Shore Area High School, works as an aquarist for the Georgia Sea Turtle Center, on Jekyll Island, Ga. Her job made her very familiar with Dylan, who was transferred to the center when it opened in early 2007. Dylan was found on a Jekyll Island beach in 1998, after being left behind by her fellow sea turtles. "She was one of the hatchlings that didn't make it out of the nest," Miller said. After being found, she was sent to the Georgia Aquarium, where she became "an ambassador"
to the public about issues facing sea turtles, according to Miller. "Five million people saw her while she was at the Georgia Aquarium," she said. When Dylan was moved to the Sea Turtle Center, she began training to be released back into the wild. Miller's job was to create a diet for Dylan, as well as help with everyday care, such as feeding and cleaning the tank. In addition, Miller helped teach Dylan how to hunt, so the turtle would know how to catch food when she was released. "We would freeze her (food) in an big ice block and then she would have to chase it around the tank to 'catch' it," Miller said. "She loved it." According to Miller, Dylan let her caretakers know when she was ready to be released. "She really told us (when to release her)," she said. "She was ready to go." Miller described Dylan's release as "bittersweet" and "exciting." On the day of the release, Miller helped in the prerelease examination of Dylan, helped put a transmitter on the turtle and carried her out to the beach. The release went well, with Dylan swimming easily out into the ocean. "My first thought (when watching Dylan swim away) was, 'This is way too easy,' " Miller laughed. "Nothing with Dylan was that easy." Miller said that Dylan, who now is 9 years old, most likely will spend her days swimming along the East Coast and eating crabs until she is 30 to 35 years old, when it will be time for her to make a nest somewhere along the Georgia Coast. "She's a wild turtle again," Miller said. The transmitter placed on Dylan prior to her release allows her movements to be tracked for research purposes. Charts of her location can be found at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center's Web site, georgiaseaturtlecenter.org. Miller said the center's employees have prepared for national media coverage of the event, but due to Dylan's popularity, they were unprepared for the "overwhelming" response to the turtle's release. "We had talked about (national coverage), but we didn't quite realize what that meant," she said. Dylan's release was featured on ABC's "Good Morning America" and on several high-profile news Web sites, including Time.com, Yahoo news and CBSnews.com. Miller's interest in threatened and endangered species began in at Juniata College, where she majored in biology. Since then, she has worked with a variety of animals, including zebras, antelope and many kinds of sea turtles. She has worked at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center since it opened last year. In the future, Miller plans to continue her research project, which deals with the effect of fire ants on loggerhead turtle eggs. She also is pursuing her veterinary technician certification and looking at the possibility of graduate school. What Miller knows for certain is that she loves working with animals that need her help and she plans to continue to do so. "I want to stay in the field of conservation medicine," she said.

Scuba Lessons in the comfort of your home..Start Today!!! That's right let the Adventure begin. we always have private courses going - the flexible solution for today's busy lifestyle - eLearning or a Private Course.

Don't Miss It ....Imagine exploring underwater with your best friends, hovering near a tropical reef, hanging with a pod of dolphins above a shipwreck. But wait! How can your friends go with you if they don't dive? This is your opportunity to turn your friends into dive buddies. The PADI Open Water Diver Course Online went worldwide on Monday, 21 May 2007. . Want to get your friend started? Listen to what Drew Richardson had to say. “PADI eLearning is an innovative and necessary step into the future of scuba diving,” said Drew Richardson , PADI Worldwide President and Chief Operation Officer. “It’s important to point out that, while the knowledge development portion of the PADI Open Water Diver course is now available online, the PADI Open Water Diver course content itself has not been altered. Now, it's just more convenient for divers.”

So how easy is it? Just get them to push the Get Started button and before you know it they'll be right there diving with you.

>>>>>REVISED PRICE Wreck Diving the Saint Lawrence 9/08 Brockville, Ontario is one of the hottest SCUBA diving destinations in Canada. Situated on the St. Lawrence river in the Thousand Islands region, it offers all the features necessary for a memorable dive holiday. The St. Lawrence has been an important trade route from the 1700's up to the present day. The main diving attractions are the clear visibility and the many historic shipwrecks that litter the bottom of this exciting stretch of water.

Your Certification Card...Don't forget if you recently took a program with Sunken Treasure to stop by the store and pick-up your permanent certification card or send us a SASE.

Air Card
Don't forget to get your STSC Air Card and save. Air fills are normally $6.00/tank however if you buy a ten pak air-card you get them for $5.00 each.

Training Dives... Please remember that you have only 12 months to complete open water dives or you will be required to take a scuba review (cost $39.95). Dates for 2008 will be listed on the Schedule page of our web site as time nears or you can call the store to make arrangements to do your dives by appointment. Group training dives during the summer are $30.00/dive and $40.00/dive from September 1st thru May 31st. Currently we are doing training dives by appointment only.
>>>Remember you can always do training dives in Florida on our Manatee trip!!!


They're everywhere - They're everywhere..Keep your eyes open because STSC is having a new contest for the summer and the winner will win Aeris Manta Dive Computer valued over $400.00 at our annual pig roast in October and anyone can play. All you have to do is get wet.

Recalls:
EANx32 Recreational Dive Planner.....PADI Americas is recalling a single version of the English Imperial EANx32 Recreational Dive Planner used for calculating dive profiles. A printing error caused a series of numbers to be out of alignment, thus incorrect. The risk of injury from these errors is remote and no injuries have been reported.
All RDPs included in this recall bear the printing mark “Printed in the USA” located on the back of the table, upper right corner. The product number and production code are located on the lower right corner, also on the back of the table. The product number and production code affected by this recall are:
Product No. 60049 Ver 1.2 (Rev 02/03) XXXPDK7
The product code digits indicated by “X” may vary. The last four digits “PDK7” indicate a recalled table, irrespective of what the first three digits are.
As a double check, on Table 3, check the 110 foot row under Pressure Group G. The table should indicate a Residual Nitrogen Time (upper number in white) of 13 and an Actual Bottom Time (lower number in green) of 12. If this box is blank, you have a misprinted table.
Stop using the recalled RDP immediately and bring them to any PADI Dive Center/Resort or return them to PADI for a free replacement.

Aqua Lung Announces Regulator Recall.....Aqua Lung was recently informed about the breakage, under pressure, of a TITAN/CONSHELF DIN HANDWHEEL RETAINER weakened during service by manual torque loads superior to the recommended values.
Aqua Lung asks all the owners of TITAN DIN regulators whose serial number is lower than 6062501 or TITAN/CONSHELF DIN adaptors that are marked 300 BAR MAX to return their regulator to their Aqua Lung authorized retailer for an upgrade.
The corrective action is replacement of the brass DIN HANDWHEEL RETAINER by another stainless steel DIN HANDWHEEL RETAINER marked 300 BAR MAXI .
This replacement is made under warranty.
All the TITAN DIN regulators whose serial number are above 6062501 and\or whose DIN handwheel retainer is marked 300 BAR MAXI are assembled with a stainless steel DIN handwheel retainer and are not affected by this recall.
For more details, contact your Aqua Lung representative.

Limited Recall of Apeks TX, ATX and XTX 2nd Stages....This is limited to those 2nd stages/octopus that have not undergone an authorized annual service.
It has come to our attention that an incorrectly assembled 2nd stage has been purchased. If you have an Apeks regulator or octopus that has never had an authorized annual service, regardless of how recently purchased, please take the regulator/octopus to your Apeks dealer to be visually inspected.
All Apeks dealers and distributors have been made aware of this issue. Do not dive with the regulator until it has been visually inspected. Apeks apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause. We are dedicated to making the world's best diving products and ensuring diver safety at all costs.
For more details, contact your APEKS representative.

Scuba Review...Are you a certified diver, but haven't been in the water lately? Are you looking to refresh your dive skills and knowledge? Are you a PADI Scuba Diver or referral student diver and want to earn your PADI Open Water Diver certification? If you answered yes to any of these questions then PADI Scuba Review is for you. Let us set one up for you so give us a call.

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Dates to remember:
June 25th - Free Gear Day 5:00pm
August 23rd - Free Gear Day 10:00am
August 24th - Drift Dive the Niagara River
September 19 - 21, 2008 St Lawrence Seaway Wreck Diving AOW Divers only (filling fast)
October 5th - 2:00pm U/W Pumpkin Carving Contest
October 11 - Pig Roast at STSC
February '09 - Florida
March 7 - 14, 2009 LiveAboard the Nekton Pilot to Puerto Rico/St. Croix...6 Spaces Remain
March/April '10 Grand Cayman

STSC Trivia Answer:
The correct answer is No. Biological material is completely incinerated
because of the enormous partial pressure of oxygen.

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