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Legends Weekend Packed with Events
for All Levels of Divers
Weekend activities August 11-13, 2006
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Northwest Ohio will be the hotspot for all diving in the
country August 11-13, 2006 as the legends of diving
gather for a weekend of non-stop activities. Among the
events:
iscussions from some of the best known
names in diving including
Sam Lecocq,
Dr. Sam Miller, and
Alec Peirce.
The two Sams will meet at Portage
Quarry August 11 for a unique reunion of legends
in diving with a meet and greet party.
Dive with the legends for a
Book of World Records mark to be set on Saturday.
Relax on the beach
Saturday night to watch some of
155 Sea Hunt shows on a temporary giant movie
screen, presented by Alec Peirce.
Peirce, from Scuba 2000, Toronto Canada, will
exhibit his collection of
Sea Hunt memorabilia and have
the stage for an hour to discuss its meaning in the
history of this sport.
Carrie Sowden and
Robert Graham will speak about the
wrecks in the Great Lakes and
will confirm the work of their Maritime Archaeological
Survey Team.
The nationally recognized school
steel band Pantasia from Findlay, OH will perform on
Saturday.
The event is sponsored by the
Portage
Quarry, the Ohio Council of Skin and Scuba Divers, Inc.,
Mares, Belize, The Best Western Falcon Plaza, Thayer Family
Dealerships, Scuba 2000
and VintageDoubleHose.com.
Chicken Barbeque on
Saturday.
The
Best Western
is the Host Hotel for this event.
Win a trip for two
to Belize through sponsorships courtesy of
the Belize Tourism Board, Hamanasi Reef & Adventure Resort, Aqua
Marina Suites, Aqua Dives Belize Ltd and Maya Island Air.
Drawing will be held Sunday, August 13. You must be present to win.
Vintage Swap Meet
on Sunday, contact us for more information.
Bring your
Sportsways dive equipment to Portage Quarry Legends Weekend for a
Certificate of Authenticity personally signed by Samuel Lecocq.
Details and times will be announced later.
Saturday's admission is
$20.
Weekend pass Friday
through Sunday, $35 does not include camping. Camping $5.00 extra each
night. No advance sales. Hold the date and watch for more announcements.
Legends of Diving
Series Archives
Visit the Archive of
Articles written by the Legends
Inventor of Single Hose Regulator First
in the Legends of Diving Series
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Sam Lecocq, inventor of the
Water Lung is the first in the
Legends of Diving series starting
this Summer
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The
first in a series of diving legends will visit the Portage Quarry the
weekend of August 11-13, 2006 for three days of activities promoted to
interest the novice diver to the most experienced. Sam Lecocq, the
original inventor of the Water Lung, and his wife Debbie, will present a
unique perspective of diving history. Sam Lecocq has been described as
the father of sport diving. He is the inventor of the Waterlung
regulator, the single hose regulator and the dive tank valve as we know
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which he holds eleven
U.S. patents. He was U.S. Divers Co. first engineer and redesigned the
Aqualung models DA, Mistral and DY to make them more safer and more
reliable. He went on to develop the diving line for Healthways, and then
founded Sportsways, manufacturers of the Waterlung. Sam and Debbie live
on the Sea of Cortez in Baja California, Mexico where they still enjoy
diving.
Dr. Sam Miller, Witness to Many Emerging Programs With Over 60 Years of
Experience
Dr. Samuel Miller began
his long diving career in 1943 as a result to a very serious eye
infection contracted while swimming in a local YMCA pool. In order to
continue swimming he was required to wear a pair of crude goggles for
eye protection. When he had graduated
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from high school in 1950 he had managed to acquire a Sea Net
mask and a pair of Churchill fins. He was a “goggler” in a sport
that had no name, no shops, no magazines, no training programs,
no organizations, no flag, and very few participants.
Equipped with
only a mask, fins and a GI surplus sweater for thermal
protection and using borrowed equipment he made his first “lung”
(SCUBA) dive on Memorial Day 1951 in Divers Cove, Laguna Beach,
California. Read a more comprehensive
biography of Dr. Sam Miller. |
Dr. Sam Miller |
Renowned Scuba Enthusiast Alec Peirce Presents at Legends of Diving
Attributes his interest to Sea Hunt
Proud Sponsor of Legends of Diving
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Alec Peirce of Scuba 2000 will present Sea Hunt
adventures Saturday, August 12, to include a
presentation on the making of the show with Sea Hunt
episodes on a giant screen that night. Lloyd Bridges
starred in the show which ran from 1958 to 1961 and
inspired many who took up diving for a living and for
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It's 1958, almost half a
century ago, and a 10 year old boy runs home from to watch his hero Mike
Nelson on the TV "Sea Hunt". Today that boy runs the largest scuba
school in Canada and introduces thousands of divers to the exciting
sport of scuba diving each year.
Alec Peirce attributes his interest in the sport of scuba directly to
his life-long hero, Lloyd Bridges, and to that famous TV show. Scuba
2000 is recognized as the finest scuba training facility in Canada and
one of the best in North America. Scuba 2000 has been the subject of
dozens of diving articles, TV Shows and endless chat lines.
Scuba 2000
EMail
Website
Phone: 1-800-324-3483
Fax:
1-905-771-1597
9033 Leslie Street
Richmond Hill, Ontario
Canada L4B 4K3
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Wrecks of the Great Lakes
Presentation
Carrie Sowden and
Robert Graham
will speak about the
wrecks in the Great lakes and will confirm the work of their Maritime
Archaeological Survey Team. They spend their summers diving and
surveying wrecks of the Great Lakes and have much to share on the
subject. Robert of Bowling Green State University has one of the top
archival collections in the Great Lakes.
Carrie
started diving eight
years ago as a class for credit in college. Since then, she has had the
fortune to go all over the world and visit fascinating sites, including
Truk (Chuuk), Belize, Long Island, NY, Lake Erie, Maine, Florida, and
Alabama. For the last four years
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Carrie Sowden |
she has been working on her master's degree
at Texas A&M University in the Nautical Archaeology Program in
the Anthropology Department. The Institute of Nautical
Archaeology has given her the opportunity to work with 16th
century timbers in Lisbon, Portugal, dive a 16th century wreck
in the Azores, work with artifacts from a shipwreck from 1300
BC, dive in Turkey, and spend three summers working in the Red
River in Oklahoma on a steamboat wreck from 1838, the earliest
western river
steamboat excavated
to date. She currently |
works as the archaeological director of the Peachman
Lake Erie Shipwreck Research Center at the Great Lakes Historical
Society and is the Maritime Archaeological Survey Team's coordinator.
She has been involved with the survey of The Craftsman and currently is
directing the survey of the schooner barge Dundee.
The Historical
Collections of the Great Lakes (HCGL) is part of the Center for Archival
Collections at Bowling Green State University. Its purpose is to
collect, preserve, and make available to scholars, students, and the
public, historical materials documenting the Great Lakes region and
connecting waterways. The HCGL's collections include materials related
to commercial shipping, shipbuilding, navigation, maritime law,
commercial fishing, shipwrecks, yachting, labor history, popular
literature, freshwater ecology, recreation, and the history of Great
Lakes ports.
Click here for more information on
HCGL.
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President of the
Double Hose Club
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Jerrie Struble
Jerrie
Struble has been diving 37 years and has 25 years of
experience in diving retail sales. He has been certified through
various manufacturers as a double hose Technician. Has been
diving with them for over thirty years. He is the manager of
Divers Paradise and is a certified double hose technician by
Aqua Lung.
Visit the Double
Hose Club |
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2006 Weekend Activities
Friday, August 11
Dr. Sam Miller and Sam
Lecocq Meet and Greet party
Saturday, August 12
Morning Vintage Dive
Vintage Swap Meet
"Earliest Days of
Dive Equipment Development," by Sam Lecocq
Sunday, August 13
Vintage Swap Meet |
Sponsored by
Portage Quarry and
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Pantasia
Puts an Island at Portage
Pantasia, the High school Steel
band from Findlay, OH will perform on Saturday, August 12 with their island
sounds. They have been on ABC, played various times in New York and have
performed at Sea World.
More information and to order a CD.
Weekend Rates and Notices
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Our insurance does
not allow the filling of tanks on site by portable air compressors.
You will have to sign a liability sheet for diving and vintage
diving. We will fill all tanks that are current with visuals and
hydro’s. And you must have log book and certification card.
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Divers normal rate $
10.00 per day,
Camping $5.00 extra
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Meet and Greet on
Friday, $4.00
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Special day,
Saturday 12th, $20.00
Sam Lecocq Sportsways
certifications extra
Additional Parking has been
arranged
Win a Trip for Two to
Belize
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Weekend Host Hotel
The Best Western Falcon Plaza
1450 W. Wooster St.
Bowling Green, Ohio 43402
Phone (419) 352-4671
email Tom
Baer, Manager
The Group account Number is
101104 The rooms are under the name Portage Quarry Divers.
The rate quoted is $89.95 includes a very nice continental Breakfast. These are
very nice rooms and there is a free shuttle to and from the Quarry and key spots
in town by the motel.
The hotel is thirty minute's from Toledo Express and 1 hour and a half from
Detroit. The motel is from I-75. Get off at the Bowling Green exit and go east
toward the university. The motel is on the left next to McDonalds. |
