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Neptune`s Nimrods Scuba Diving Club

Dive Club (English)

Service:
  • Vacation Holiday Scuba Diving
  • Wreck Diving
Company description Neptune - Roman god of the Sea
Nimrod - Mighty hunter and king
Neptune`s Nimrods - Explorers of the Underwater World
The Neptune`s Nimrods Dive Club was founded in 1958 and state chartered in 1961, it is Wisconsin`s oldest skin and scuba diving club. Members include divers of all experience levels from new, to advanced and technical divers. The club monitors all dive related legislation, books, videos, dive news, television, and now the Internet. Monthly meetings are held by the Club on the second Tuesday of each month at the Sideline Bar on Lombardi Access Rd, Across from Lambeau Field. In addition to Club business, a program or presentation is typically part of the agenda. Social time always follows, giving you an opportunity to network with fellow divers. Organized dives and events are conducted each month throughout the year (yes, unlike the coasts, Wisconsin offers year round diving!). Membership is open to all certified scuba divers and is only $20.00/year. One membership covers your immediate family. If you are interested, please come to our next meeting.
``Hi!
My name is Al Hulsebosch and I am the caretaker of Neptune`s Cove. I have been diving since the spring of `95 (I decided learning to dive was going to be cheaper then playing golf while I was in Hawaii. It was $$$ a round and all I was doing was losing a lot of golf balls.) To date, I have 391 dives. I am currently a PADI certified Master Diver & Dive Master, as well as an IANTD Technical Nitrox Diver & Advanced Deep Air. You may be able to tell by the type of site information I have collected that I am quite addicted to wreck diving. But I try to get wet (figure of speech, as I normally dive in a dry suit) as often as possible.
My Club involvement started in summer of `95 and have served as Vice President and then President (never make a beer run while nominations are being taken!). I have assisted in a number Club events, including our Annual Banquet and Treasure Hunt Dive. The Club is where I`ve met the majority of current dive partners (the ones with the boats that allowed me to get those 391 dives in). Through the club I have gone from an Open Water Diver to a beginning Technical Diver (ice diving and deep wrecks mostly).
My other big hobby/vice is computers and telecommunications. I have been playing (I am an old style hacker, someone who loves to dig into the hardware and programming to find out how things work.) with computers since `78 and telecommunication (through the Navy) since `80. My first EMail account was in `85 on the Bitnet (b.I. - before Internet, but later absorb into what is now the Internet). I started in `88 ``Telnet``ing, ``Gopher``ing, etc. Payed for my first shell account in `90. And used Lynx about 6 months after it came out. Boy, I must be a dinosaur. As you can tell from my site, I still love computers and playing with code (HTML and Java Script are just more programming languages). Fortunately, this hobby has been able to keep the bill collectors at bay.
As caretaker of Neptune`s Cove, I created this an the unofficial site of the Neptune`s Nimrods SCUBA Diving Club of Green Bay. You will find information on finding some of our favorite local sites. ``Local`` means ``within a half-day`s drive from Green Bay, WI``. Basically, Green Bay divers can make a weekend dive out of any of these sites. While I have made every effort to insure this information is accurate (I use it myself), there are no warranties (as with everything in diving).
I created this site to:
•Share the dive & shipwreck site information I have gathered.
•Publicize the world class wreck diving of the Great Lakes.
•Provide links to further relative information already on the web.
Location description: For those non-``Great Lakes Divers``, a few things about Great Lakes Diving:
•The Great Lakes are not ``cold-water diving``! You can look it up in any dive book, ``cold-water diving`` is when the water temperature gets into the mid-50`s. A ``Great Lakes Diver`` hopes that some time during the summer, their hang is in the mid-50`s!!! A dry suit is the norm for early season, late season, and deep dives.
•This is the Best Wreck Diving in the world, IMHO. You are not going to find intact wooden wrecks like these in many other places in the world. You will not find as many, in as small an area anywhere.
•These dives can be very advanced. If you haven`t dove the area, try to start off diving with local divers or local charters familiar with the area. You can expect any or all of the following:
- Low visibility, sometimes < 1`; I don`t like diving in it, but sometimes you don`t know it`s going to be that bad until you are into the dive. ``Great Lakes Divers`` think 20`-30` is excellent visibility.
- Cold water, sometimes < 32 degrees (particularly Lake Superior). If you are going deep or not ``use to`` these temperatures, use a dry suit. You can get training and rent them at many local dive shops.
- If you mix depth, low visibility, and cold; guess what you may get? Narcosis!
•If you are going out in your own boat, in addition to the normal Coast Guard safety equipment remember:
- Check the Marine Weather Forecast before you leave (and bring a weather radio or Marine Radio with you to check it through out the day).
- A large ``Diver Down`` (Red background with white diagonal slash) flag. This is the local law; the fines aren`t cheap. Stay within 50` of the flag if you are a diver and stay at least 200` away if you are a boat (actually 100`/200` in Wisconsin & Michigan, 50`/100` in some other states, so keeping 50`/200` prevents you from coughing up for a fine!).
- If you are going to dive an off shore site, you will need a GPS, Lorain, or perforable both.
- If you are going to dive an off shore site, make sure you have the coordinates to the entrance to harbor or landing (you can get them on the way out). Fog that roles in from now where is quite normal. It is quite hard to avoid fog on the northern Great Lakes, if you do a lot of diving.
- Your D.A.N. or similar Emergency Oxygen Provider kit.
- RADAR is extremely nice to have around the Apostle Islands, Isle Royal, Munising, far Northern Lake Michigan, and White Fish Point. Again, the fog can be quite thick at times.
- A marine radio (or at least a cell phone).
- Lots of anchor line and a good anchor. You will need 3-4 times as much line as the depth of the wreck. This will give you the proper scope the ensure your boat is still there when the dive is over. It is also the amount of line you will need to keep your boat in one place if you have problems.
- An extra tank of air or plan to come up with 1/2 tank. You may need it to free your anchor.

Website: Preview http://www.neptunescove.org/neptune.shtml by Thumbshots.org http://www.neptunescove.org/neptune.shtml
Green Bay area club website features Midwest and Great Lakes diving. Links to additional diving and site information.

Contact information:

Street Address:
6900 HWY 42/57
Sturgeon Bay
Wisconsin
United States
542351
Spoken language(s): English
Open: from 09-00 till 17-00
Local time:  GMT - 6 Mexico, Monterrey, Guadalajara
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