Announcing the LAUPS California Shootout!



WHEN:   Saturday, September 23, 2006



BOAT:    Sundiver - Alamitos Bay Landing

                                   7:00 a.m. departure


DIVE SITES:        * Oil rig

                            * Catalina - Giant black sea bass

                            * Catalina - TBD


COST:   $90 - limited load.  Checks payable to LAUPS


CONTACT:      Cory Gray

                        (310) 568-0797

                        5319 Reynier Ave.

                        Los Angeles, CA 90056



This is a one-day boat dive photo competition.
Rules are posted on our Club Competitions Page.
Judging will be done at the regular club meeting October 18th.
Prizes will be awarded in still and video categories at our annual banquet in January.

LAUPS member Jim Lyle is back from his annual August trip to Cozumel. Here's his trip report:

Jim Lyle - Cozumel August 2006

An extremely rare oarfish entered Big Fisherman Cove at Catalina over the weekend, story here:

15' Oarfish in Big Fisherman Cove

Photo © Gerry Smith

The Los Angeles Harbor Light Station website has just begun research. Our goal is to complete a research paper on the history and facts concerning this lighthouse.

Los Angeles Harbor Light Station (also known as "Angels Gate", LOSA Light, Los Angeles Light, Los Angeles Harbor Lighthouse, L.A. Light and San Pedro Breakwater Light) was constructed in 1913 at the end of the San Pedro Breakwater. It was operated by the United States Lighthouse Service until 1939 when the United States Coast Guard took over management. It was manned until 1972 and now operates automatically using solar power.

If you have anything you would like to contribute to this research project your involvement will be very appreciated.

San Diego Underwater Photographic Society is presenting its 37th Underwater Film Festival, September 9th, 2006 at Sumner Auditorium, SIO, La Jolla, CA USA.

The Matinee will be at 2PM and an evening show at 6PM. We will have a snack break at 4:30pm hosted by SUBWAY sandwich with a potluck dessert. SDUPS members will present a program of short films and Proshow still image presentations that will utilize our digital projection system. I hope you were able to come and enjoy our artists’ visions of the colorful marine life large and small, from such exotic locales as the tropical waters of the Indo Pacific and Caribbean to the temperate waters of North America, and of course our own backyard, San Diego.

WHERE: 8602 La Jolla Shores Drive, La Jolla, Sumner Auditorium - Scripps Institution of Oceanography

SHOW TICKETS ARE FREE: eMail: sdupsfestival@hotmail.com
The snack ticket is ONLY $5.

Issue 31 of UWP Magazine is now available for free download.

Hey Everyone!

Our fabulous webmaster is unable to attend this month's meeting, so pleeeease email me your mini comp entries for: Poisonous Water Creatures!! [ed.- not so fabulous when he's this late]

Don't forget to the name them correctly:

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You can send them to: president@laups.org

Be sure to attend this month's meeting, we have a great workshop to get you ready for the International Competition:
"What Judges Look For In The International Competition"

....And a great speaker: Georgienne Bradley, from The Imaging Foundation www.imagingfoundation.org


See you there!!!!

Kelly--

This week the Los Angeles Times is running a five part series on the condition of the oceans:

Altered Oceans - Los Angeles Times