REEF is asking any interested REEF members to submit to us a Field Survey T-shirt design for our upcoming 2008 season. Those of you who have participated in the past on a REEF Field Survey know that you receive a t-shirt as part of your participation in the program and every year we have a different design. There are only a couple of guidelines for you. Our new REEF Shirt must incorporate our REEF flag with our slogan, Diving That Counts! (I will send interested parties the jpeg file upon request).

Wow! Linda Ridley is now officially the 6th entrant into the Golden Hamlet Club (GHC) which has as its main membership requirement entrants having completed 1,000 fish id surveys. Linda Ridley joins Lad Akins, Linda Baker, Judie Clee, Peter Leahy, Linda Schillinger (what is it with the name Linda anyway, maybe should be renamed the Linda Hamlet Club?). This really is a tremendous achievement and those of you who survey regularly understand just how much work goes into completing 100 surveys and submitting all that data , now imagine 1,000 surveys.

NORFOLK, Va. -- A decommissioned Air Force ship, that once tracked Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space launches off Florida, is being prepared in a Virginia shipyard to become a new habitat for marine life and an attraction for recreational divers in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Read more.....

NORFOLK , Va. — A decommissioned Air Force ship is being prepared at a Virginia shipyard to become a new habitat for marine life and an attraction for recreational divers in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Read More.....

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