Season Opens with Octopus & Seahorse

2025 Season Kickoff at Blue Heron Bridge 4/12/25

Our annual season opener dive, BBQ and raffle was a smashing success and a great time was had by all! Divers were treated to cool air temps, relatively warm water and great camaraderie at our season opener picnic at the Blue Heron Bridge. 27 divers and a handful of non-divers made it a great day with decent viz, water temp 78 degrees, no current, depth 16 feet. We were treated to sightings of a small octopus, sharptail and spotted moray eels, a seahorse, arrow crabs galore, coral crabs, hermit crabs large and small, schooling Atlantic spadefish and Bermuda chubb, large rainbow parrotfish, juvenile French angelfish, queen angelfish, tons of lobsters and much more! 

Heartfelt welcome to new Active Divers making their first dive with the club: Cindy Sutton, Samantha Weisz, Enrique Menocal, Fran Hare and Harry Wolin. 

Job well done for Safety Officer Candidates Aaron Brooks and Hilda Balbi working hard to keep everyone safe and for bringing drinks. Thank you to Vice President and club Founder Lon Von Lintel for shopping and cooking the BBQ, Steve McPhillips for doing sentry duty and selling out (almost) our new blue rashguard shirts, Juliana Bach for setting up and calling the raffle, and John Davis for taking reservations. And to everyone who showed up! We can't have a club without our wonderful members and volunteers and we appreciate all of you!