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CARIBBEAN NIGHT - February 19, 2000

Planet Ocean is hosting the fourth annual Caribbean Night at the Valley Forge Hilton on Saturday February 19, 2000! Everyone is welcome, bring your non-diving friends and let them try SCUBA in the shallow end of the pool.

We decorate the pool and offer tropical food, drink and music. There will be a travel table and plenty of course information. Come join the fun.

Please RSVP and let us know how many are coming.

THE ADVENTURES OF TANK BOY

PLANET OCEAN DAY AT DUTCH - July 1, 2000!

Planet Ocean Day at Dutch Springs is coming Saturday July 1, 2000! Everyone is welcome, divers and non-divers alike.

Planet Ocean Day at Dutch is promising to be an event that you can not afford to miss. We will have a raffle, food, drinks, volleyball, frisbee, horsehoes and of course diving. If you have friends or family that do not dive, BRING THEM! There will plenty to do including sea kayaks, paddle boats and swimming. If you are looking for someone to dive with, there will be plenty of people to buddy up with you.

Anyone who buys a $1.00 raffle ticket (proceeds benefit DAN) Planet Ocean will provide a free tank of air to use at Dutch Springs on Saturday. Enclosed with this newsletter is two discount admission tickets for Dutch Springs. If you need anymore tickets be sure and let us know. Raffle tickets will be distributed Saturday morning at Dutch Springs.

Planet Ocean Day is a great way to start your dive season if you haven’t already! Come out and join the fun. We will be giving away a free DAN membership, and some dive accessories to some lucky raffle ticket holders.

PLEASE: Be sure and call us, fax or e-mail us and let us know how many are coming with you. We need to have plenty of food and tanks!

A LEGEND PASSES ON

Another SCUBA mentor of mine has passed away. Actor Lloyd Bridges a.k.a. Mike Nelson from the TV show Sea Hunt passed away March 10, 1998 he was 85.

Lloyd Bridges starred in the television series Sea Hunt from 1958 - 1962. He played the an ex-Navy frogman Mike Nelson, turned underwater investigator and hero to many of us land lubbers. Bridges learned to SCUBA dive for the role and actually performed many of his own stunts.

It was less than a year ago, last June 1997, when Jacques Cousteau died and the world lost the father of SCUBA. Cousteau was a pioneering advocate of the world’s oceans and environmental awareness. Lloyd Bridges also turned his attention towards the environment and was active in American Oceans Campaign and Los Angeles based "Heal The Bay".

Bridges wanted to be remembered as someone who cared about "our Mother Earth" said son Beau Bridges. Both Beau and Brother Jeff made their on screen debuts on Sea Hunt.