Dear Dolphin Divers of Sacramento, June 1st, 2025

Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers in the club and to those that mentor others. June is the time we celebrate our fathers all over the world. Father’s Day is a special occasion that holds deep meaning for many people, offering a chance to recognize and celebrate the role of fathers, father figures and the influence they have on our lives.

Celebrating fatherhood and mentorship is a time to honor dads, stepdads, grandfathers, uncles, mentors, and other men who have played a supportive role in our lives. Recognizing hard work and sacrifice, fathers often work tirelessly behind the scenes – providing, protecting, teaching, fixing, and cheering from the sidelines. This day offers a pause to acknowledge all they’ve done, both big and small.

Father’s Day encourages families to come together weather for a barbecue, a dive trip, a game of catch, or just a heartfelt phone call. It opens space for bonding, storytelling, and making new memories. Father’s day is a perfect occasion to do something fun and memorable like a fishing trip, golf outing, or for scuba divers, a dive trip to Catalina or the Channel Islands, or my favorite Belize.

The board is currently reviewing and updating Bylaws and Policies for the club and will hopefully have them finished for a vote at the July or August general meeting. Your new board met in May, and it was great getting to know the new members of the board and for them to meet the seasoned board. We will be working on planning out future trips to go diving. and other activities. What I am asking of you…is to think of some fun events for the new 2025/2026 year and get them out to the Board. If you have anything to add to our activities, please email me at ocautry@gmail.com and I will help you get things going.
It’s also that time of year again…time to renew your membership with Dolphin Divers of Sacramento! Renewal is easy! Just visit our website at www.dolphindivers.org or bring your complete renewal form and dues to the next club meeting.
We appreciate your continued support and look forward to another great year of diving together. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to any board member or reply to this message.
Please note, our next Dolphin Club General Meeting will be held in-person on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm at Mountain Mike’s Pizza located at 2220 Gold Springs Ct., Gold River, CA 95670 and we are able to have a Zoom link for this meeting. Go to their website and check them out. Marilyn will send out more information prior to the meeting. Come early to enjoy visiting with your follow divers.

Hope to see you in the water and bubble’s up!!

Owen Autry, Club President

Safety Officer’s Message
By: Brad Freelove

Alcohol and SCUBA Diving

Diving and consuming alcohol has almost always been considered a foolish endeavor.  Alcohol impairment and dehydration are two of the main reasons why you should not mix alcohol and diving.  Diving can be unpredictable.  Currents can pick up with very little notice.  You can have flat water when you submerge for your dive and find 2-meter waves when you surface.  Dehydration can make you more susceptible to DCS.  Alcohol can enhance the effects of nitrogen narcosis.  Analysis of statistics show that nearly 40% of diving accidents have alcohol involvement.  Alcohol and diving are not a good mix. 

But you just arrived in the Philippines for an 8-day liveaboard diving vacation and free wine is offered during and after dinner.  Up to you if you want to partake in the free stuff.  Just remember that you paid a ton of money and flew halfway around the world.  Do you want to start your diving experience with a hangover?  Worse yet, do you want to make your first dive still drunk from the night before?  Will you have an accident that causes you to drag your dive buddy into danger.  Will the dive master have to abort the dive because you are having problems?  You are ruining the diving for all those in your group and they will not forget it. 

I have heard many divers respond in an unfriendly manner when someone asks them to stop drinking so they will be in good shape for the next day of diving.  The next morning, they show up for the first dive of the day, still drunk from the night before.  Puking their guts out and claiming it is motion sickness fools no one.  Not a reputation you want to have.

Just remember that you are responsible for your own actions.  Don’t expect your dive buddy, the dive master, or anyone else to appreciate your lack of common sense.

QUOTES FROM THE SEA

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“I wanted to meet octopuses who lived in the wild ocean. In the shower, I began to repeat in my head the first words of the Fisherman’s Prayer, the words to which John F. Kennedy kept on his desk at the White House: “Oh God, Thy sea is so great and my boat is so small….”I fervently longed to get out of that boat and enter the Creator’s great ocean, if only for an hour at a time, as a breathing, swimming sea creature.”
― Sy Montgomery, The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

“The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can’t.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

“I really don’t know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it’s because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it’s because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea – whether it is to sail or to watch it – we are going back from whence we came.
[Remarks at the Dinner for the America’s Cup Crews, September 14 1962]”
― John F. Kennedy

REMINDER
NEW MEETING LOCATION
ROUND TABLE CLOSED

Mountain Mike’s Pizza
2220 Gold Springs Ct, Gold River, CA 95670

Member Yard Sale

Member News

June 2025 Birthdays

Phoebe Scholar 6/5
Glenn Ripley 6/9
Tom Oja 6/23
Margie Tomenko 6/27
David Oberst 6/30

May New Members

Melyssa & Steve Bruegeman
Chris & Colette James

AS MEMBERS, REMEMBER WE ARE ALWAYS LOOKING TO GROW OUR “DOLPHIN DIVERS FAMILY” SO PLEASE REACH OUT TO OTHER DIVERS AND LET THEM KNOW ABOUT THE CLUB WHENEVER YOU GET THE CHANCE.

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CALENDAR OF UPCOMING EVENTS

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June 18, 2025	DDS General Meeting	Mountain Mike’s	Owen Autry
July 2, 2025	DDS – Board Meeting	Dave Whiteside ‘s	Owen Autry
July 16, 2025	Picnic in The Park	Fair Oaks Park	Owen Autry
August 2, 2025	Inland Lobster Feet	Lake Natomas	Jack Millard
August 6, 2025	DDS – Board Meeting	Brad Freelove’s	Owen Autry
August 20, 2025	DDS – General Meeting		Owen Autry
Aug. 29 to Sept. 1, 2025	Spearfishing Contest	Ocean Cove	Bob Taylor
Sept. 20, 2025	Great American River Cleanup	American River	Brad Freelove
Oct. 10 for Oct. 12	Albion River Dive/Fish Campout	Albion River Campground	Ken Takata
Oct. TBD	Pumpkin Carving
Nov. 4, 2025	DDS Board	Ken Takata’s
Dec. 13, 2025	Christmas Party	Aviator’s Resturant

DOLPHIN DIVERS OF SACRAMENTO
CAMPOUT / DIVE/ FISH EVENT
OCTOBER 10 TO 12, 2025
AT THE ALBION RIVER CAMPGROUND

DOLPHIN DIVERS OF SACRAMENTO        

CAMPOUT / DIVE/ FISH EVENT

OCTOBER 10 TO 12, 2025

AT THE ALBION RIVER CAMPGROUND

albionrivercampground.com   (707) 937-0606

WE HAVE 10 CAMPSITES (D8, D9, D10, D12.D13, D14, D15, D16, D17, D18) SET ASIDE FOR OUR CLUB’S EVENT AT THE ALBION RIVER CAMPGROUND. THE EARLIER YOU CALL TO RESERVE A CAMPSITE, THE GREATER YOUR CHANCES OF SECURING A SITE.  DON’T WAIT TOO LONG BECAUSE THE CAMPGROUND IS TYPICALLY FULL DURING THE SUMMER.   THE CAMPGROUND WILL ONLY HOLD SITES FOR THE DOLPHIN DIVERS GROUP UNTIL JUNE 11th. AFTER THAT DATE, OUR VACANT SPOTS WILL BE OFFERED TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO CAMP IN OUR GROUP’S AREA.  I APOLOGIZE FOR THE SHORT TIMEFRAME, BUT THAT IS THEIR POLICY.   SO, CALL FOR YOUR RESERVATIONS ASAP. A FEW OF US ARE ARRIVING ON OCT 9th

THE CAMPGROUND’S TELEPHONE NUMBER IS (707) 937-0606. IDENTIFY YOURSELF A BEING WITH THE DOLPHIN DIVERS OF SACRAMENTO, AND KEN TAKATA AS THE GROUP’S LEADER WHEN MAKING YOUR RESERVATIONS. APRIL OR ELIZABETH, OF THE CAMP’S STAFF, IS FAMILIAR WITH THE OUR CLUB’S RESERVATIONS, SO IT WILL BE BEST TO TALK TO THEM.

PLEASE LET ME KNOW THE CAMPSITE NUMBER YOU HAVE RESERVED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

GROUP ACTIVITIES TYPICALLY INCLUDES POTLUCKS.  

IF OCEAN CONDITIONS PERMIT AND SPACE AVAILABLE, A FEW BOATS MAY BE AVAILABLE FOR DIVING AND/OR FISHING. YOU CAN KAYAK ON THE ALBION RIVER, DO A SHORE DIVE AT VAN DAMME STATE PARK, VISIT THE PICTUREST TOWN OF MENDOCINO, TAKE THE SKUNK TRAIN IN FORT BRAGG, PLAY GOLF AT THE LITTLE RIVER GOLF COURSE, OR JUST RELAX AT THE CAMPGROUND. LET ME KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.

KEN TAKATA

kennethktakata@gmail.com

(916) 599-5270

EDITOR’S NOTE
By: Joe Morgan

I’M LOOKING FOR MEMBERS TO SEND IN PICTURES OF DIVING, DIVING VACATIONS ETC.

• Trip Reviews: Let us know where you have been diving, what operator you used, the hotel you stayed at and how was the diving there. Let us know if the operator was safe and fun. Let us know if the hotel was a good deal, give us as much detail as possible and hopefully more Dolphin Divers will venture there in the future.
  
• Recipes: I was told that in the past Dolphin Divers gave each other SEAFOOD recipes that they loved so that everyone could enjoy the bounty of the sea, I hope to continue that each month with at least one good recipe.
  
• Dive and Camping yard-sale items you wish to include in the newsletter.
  
• Dive Activities: Please let me know if there are any dive-related activities you would like included in the newsletter.
  
• Pictures from your last dive. Please make sure to let me know how you would like the picture credited in the newsletter. -example – Picture by John Member, of a Silky Shark, at Roca Partida Mexico.

PLEASE MAIL ALL SUBMISSIONS

Editor@dolphindivers.org

DOLPHIN DIVERS OF SACRAMENTO
BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Owen Autry – President
Ken Takata – Vice President
Marlyn Sepulveda – Treasure
Corrine Fuerst – Secretary
Douglas Hillblom – Events Chair
Brad Freelove – Safety Officer
Renee Viehmann – Webmaster
Jack Millard – Historian
Joe Morgan – Editor
Tracy Clarke – Promotions
Dave Whiteside – Member at Large
Tom Mischley – Member at Large
Sally Walters – Member at Large
Cheryl Anderson – Member at Large
Ed Hurff – Member at Large
Chris Matthews – Member at Large
Liz Marchiondo – Alt Mem at Large