Richmond Dive Club

Dive Club Meeting 10/13/2020 -virtual Zoom meeting

Holly, club president, opened Zoom meeting at 7:00pm

Board members met at O’Toole’s earlier this month to present John O’Toole with donations collected which totaled $1000. Donations were collected from members as a way to give back to servers affected by club meeting cancelled due to COVID-19.

Membership

Individual members: 42

Family membership: 33
Corporate memberships: 2 (Lake Phoenix & Tri-City Scuba)

10/31 Lake Phoenix -Pumpkin Carvin Day!

10/14 Tri-City Scuba -VA Beach Diving (and a whole lotta classes going on)

Club accounts total: $5162.58

Upcoming speakers:

November 10: VMFA Treasurers of Ancient Egypt -Sunken Cities
December 8: Bimini Dolphin Communication Project

Holly raised the question to members about resuming in-person meetings or a combination in-person/virtual meetings. Consensuses was not reached; Holly will reach out to VMFA to see if they have space/interest to host a hybrid version for the November club meeting. If they cannot accommodate us, we will continue to only meet via Zoom. More details to follow…

2021 Elections:

Holly proposed a COVID amendment to the BYLAWS which allows, current board members, to serve another year in their current role should voting support the outcome.

Proposed slate:

President: Holly Law Eve
Vice President/Secretary: Reenie Kennedy
Treasurer: Debi Moir

Motion was made and seconded to accept slate. Slate was accepted as no other nominations were offered.

2021 Elected Board of Directors:

President: Holly Law Eve
Vice President/Secretary: Reenie Kennedy
Treasurer: Debi Moir

Featured Speaker: Ron Watkins -Photographer

Ron shared great photos and inspiring tales of travels to Moorea, French Polynesia to snorkel with whales. Breaching, feeding and parenting -we saw beautiful photos of each part of a whale’s life. Please we learned about fin-der (the whale dating app) -swipe left…. and the 3 male whales singing on the Voyager soundtrack. Thanks Ron we LOVED the presentation!!

When you get a chance check out: SHARKS4KIDS -Shark talk webinars (www.sharks4kids.com/webinars) Ron promised, the kid in all of us will enjoy!

Next club meeting:

November 10: VMFA Treasurers of Ancient Egypt -Sunken Cities

-stay tuned for details…

Meeting was adjourned.