TO:
UASC MEMBERS AND FRIENDS
FROM: DON
DOHERTY
RE:
GROUP DIVE IN BONNE TERRE MINE
Last week, it was "Our World Underwater." This weekend the
annual "Chicago Maritime Festival" takes place. Next month,
the "Ghost Ships Festival" in Milwaukee returns, and the
month after that the "Ford Seahorses Shipwreck Festival"
is back in Michigan.
All these dive shows sure
make me want to go diving. How about you?
It's too cold to dive in Chicago and too
costly and time consuming to go to Cozumel or Bonaire. So I've been
looking for a way to split the difference, and I decided to try to
plan a trip this winter (or early spring) to Bonne Terre Mine,
in Missouri. If you've never been there, the former mine today
contains a billion-gallon underwater lake, where water temperatures
are 60 degrees year round and visibility is up to 100 feet.
The dive operation provides packages
including dives and lodging. For example, a 2-night stay with 5 dives
costs $370.00. All dives include a tank and guide to specific
underwater features (there are a couple dozen from which to choose).
You can rent additional equipment (a full scuba set up if
needed).
Naturally, in addition to certification and
equipment, you need BUDDIES to dive. So I'm interested in organizing
a UASC group trip to Bonne Terre on one of the 3 proposed weekends
listed below. Bonne Terre is some 350 miles from Chicago -- southwest
of St. Louis -- about a 7-hour drive. We're talking about leaving
sometime Friday morning and returning after the final dive on
Sunday.
If you are interested in diving in Bonne Terre, please let me know.
Send me an e-mail (or call me at (708) 932-5737). And tell me which
weekend is your first choice=8Awhich one second.
Proposed
Dates:
1. March 28 - 30,
2008
2. April 11 - 13,
2008
3. April 25 -27,
2008
For more information on Bonne Terre
Mine, visit the Web at:
www.2dive.com/btm.htm
I hope we can go there this year as a
group. I think it will be fun! And perhaps a good training dive
for anyone who needs some more diving.
-- Underwater Archaeological Society of
Chicago (UASC)
