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Bottom Breathers Dive Club meeting 4-Mar-2016
1. Bottom Breathers Dive Club
Meeting: 4-Mar-2016
Today's topics: Club tshirts, Keys trip
info, sea turtle identification
2. 2016 Events
• Next meeting – Apr 1
• Our World Underwater – Feb 26-28
• Pizza Party – Apr 23
• May meeting - May 13 (not first Friday)
• Our "usual" Florida Keys Trip – June 16-20
• Turks & Caicos Liveaboard – July 23-30
3. 2016 Events
• Monthly Club meeting – Aug 12 (not first
Friday)
• Club BBQ – Aug 13
• Mermet Springs Trip – Sep 9-11
• Underwater Pumpkin Carving – Oct 8
• Pizza Party – Nov 12
28. Florida Keys Trip 2016
• June 16-19 (flying on Jun 15 and 20)
• 4 days of diving: 2 morning deep wreck dives,
2 afternoon shallower reef dives, 1 night dive
(maybe)
• Sharing rooms at Ocean Pointe Condos
• 8 afternoon dives + room = $595
• 16 dives + room = $919
• Night dive will be extra
29. Florida Keys Trip 2016
• Air tanks + weights included
• Nitrox tanks = +$7 per tank
• Flights and car rentals extra (can share cars)
• $150 deposit (refundable until May 1st) to
book a spot -> info@bottombreathers.org
30. Sea Turtle Identification
• Terms:
– Prefrontal - area on front of the head - "forehead"
– Postorbital - behind the eye
– Carapace - top part of the shell
– Plastron - bottom part of the shell
– Scutes (aka scales) - bony sections of carapace,
plastron or head
31. Sea Turtle Identification
• Terms:
– Costal scute - large scutes along the sides of the
shell
– Vertebral scute - along the middle of the shell
– Nuchal scute - one scute in the front middle of the
shell
– Marginal scute - small scutes along the edge
33. Sea Turtle Identification
• Loggerhead
– Most common in the US
– Threatened status - only species not listed as
endangered
• Green
– Endangered around the world (1978)
– Increasing numbers on east coast of Florida and
Costa Rica
34. Sea Turtle Identification
• Leatherback
– Largest, deepest diving, farthest traveling
– Endangered in 1970
– 22% decline annually in 12 years along Mexico
Pacific coast
• Hawksbill
– Endangered in 1970
– Rarely nest in North America, more in eastern
hemisphere
35. Sea Turtle Identification
• Kemp's ridley
– Most endangered of all sea turtles (1970)
– Only major nesting is a small beach in Rancho Nuevo,
Mexico
• Olive ridley (aka Pacific ridley)
– North Atlantic nesting declined more than 80% since
1967
– Larger numbers in Indian Ocean - 398,000 nests in a
given year
– Smaller in size
36. Sea Turtle Identification
• Flatback
– Found only in north part of Australia and New
Guinea
– Smooth, waxy shell can be easily damaged