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October 2005
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Scuba Plates Close to Application Goal
Applications come in daily and we need to increase the flow. We have embarked on o campaign to let every dive store and dive club know what is going on and elicit their support. Marty DeReus and his very scuba enthusiastic family are making trips to dive shops all over the state to make sure they have the marketing display and materials they need to let people know and encourage them to join us. Why a license plates? Well it is a great way to honor our sport and the avocation that for many of us is a lifetime passion. We all know the many benefits of diving and that diving is a cooperative and sharing sport. It's adventurous, exciting, educational and a socially wonderful way to spend time with friends. What better way to make that statement to all your neighbors than to display a scuba license plate and welcome them to come join our band. Scuba plates can help us provide day-to-day visibility for diving and help keep in front of the community the opportunities that they have to play, work, learn about and conserve a most valuable global resource. North Carolina Approves Scuba Plate Just this past month the North Carolina legislature authorized a plate in their state. Maryland already has a plate. We can't let them outdo us! Let's challenge North Carolina to a race to see who can get to 350 plates first. Show your scuba and state pride. Beat Carolina! See how we're doing across Virginia and who will have the new plate first! Download Application and Instructions ...And give one to a friend, too. If we work together, we can get the plates issued and help raise the visibility of diving in the Commonwealth of Virginia. If I can help you in any way, please contact me.
Note: All proceeds raised by these plates go to the Virginia Department of Transportation and no money is paid to any other party.
SeaDevil@YahooGroups.com For sometime we have had a group email address. But many people that I speak with don’t seem to know that it exists or how to use it. The list allows you to send an email using the single address to everyone subscribed to the list. You can announce your upcoming dive trip or write a report on your last trip. Of course, you’ll be able to see what others are doing and maybe get a chance to go on a diving adventure that you wouldn’t have even known about otherwise. You can trade news articles and opinions. You can even post photographs and whole galleries and then tell everyone to check it out. You can ask questions about anything concerning diving and receive informed responses; where to stay in Grand Cayman, question about diving medicine, pretty much anything. You might be surprised just who is on the list. Membership is not public and only available to actual members. This protects your email address and privacy, but we have folks all over the world that count themselves as SeaDevils and will be happy to hear from you and help you. The list is hosted by YahooGroups and membership is monitored. You can set your email options; whether you want individual emails as they are posted, a daily digest, or have them held for you to read on the web. How to become a member: 1 Go to the site http://groups.yahoo.com/group/seadevil/ There click on the “Join this Group” bar on the upper right. If you are already a Yahoo member that will pretty much do it. Just sign-in and complete the membership election 2. If you not a Yahoo member you can sign up. Just click on the “Sign Up” statement that appears on the next page. They ask you some basic registration information, not too much and then you too can complete the membership election. 3. Membership of the list is monitored, which means that we get an email saying that you want to join and then approve it. We just want to have a system that discourages anyone form signing up in the middle of the night to blast us some unwanted piece of junk. So far it has worked great. So Come Join Us. Check it out and take the plunge into more diving opportunities.
We'd love to talk with your teacher about coming to visit your class to talk about the ocean and the creatures in it. We'll bring scuba equipment and would like you to help us show it to your classmates. We'll talk about the animals in the ocean, the things that are happening to the ocean to hurt the fish and the things that you and your classmates can do to help protect the ocean.
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We are on our way. We now have returned applications amounting to 34% of
our goal of 350 paid applications. 
