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SEA NAGS is one of the oldest "continually diving" clubs in Ohio.
We are the Columbus Sea Nags a dive club in the central Ohio area. We do a lot of Sport diving in and around the state. Every week and weekend. Our members can be found diving and training people in diving. We have members that are just getting started to ones that make a living at it. If you are looking at diving in Ohio and are in Columbus stop by one of the meetings
General Meetings are held on the first Thursday of every month at Plank's Restaurant on the eastern edge of German Village at the corner of Parsons and Sycamore ( 743 Parsons Avenue Columbus Ohio, directions). Meetings begin at 8:00 PM in the upstairs meeting room. Many members arrive early to eat dinner and socialize. Visitors are always welcome. Just ask the wait staff "where are the Scuba Divers"
To become a member of the Sea Nags, come to a meeting or send your name, address and phone number to the Treasurer along with a check for $20.00 made payable to The Columbus Sea Nags.
| Date | Upcoming Events | Contact |
| Apr 3 | Member Dive Stories, Sea Hunt video (Marty) & pizza | meeting |
| Apr 25-27 | ScubaFest Wilimington, OH | |
| April 27 | OCSSDI Meeting, Wilimington, OH | |
| May 1 | John Sanders Public Safety/Rescue Diving | meeting |
| May 17 – 18 | MAST Workshop, Part 2, White Star | MAST |
| May 18 | Sea Nags membership drive/hot dog feast Circleville | Rob |
| May 24-26 | wreck diving NY - Marty | Marty |
| June 1 or 8 | Sea Nags dive/hot dog feast Circleville | Rob |
| June 8 | Sea Nags dive/hot dog feast Circleville | Rob |
| June 5 | Carrie Pratt, Asst Curator Columbus Zoo, to speak at General Meeting, Planks Café |
Meeting |
| Jul 5 – 12 | Nekton Dive Cruise to Cal Say Bank (Bahamas) | Marty, Mike Kitchen |
| June 7 | Sea Nags membership drive/hot dog feast | Rob |
| July 3 | Florida trip (Andy Dennis - tentative), | Meeting |
| July 5 – 12 | Nekton Dive Cruise to Cal Say Bank | |
| July 20 | DAN BBQ, Portage Quarry (Bowling Green, OH) | Rob |
| Aug 8 – 10 | Legends of Diving, Portage Quarry (Bowling Green, OH) |
Portage |
| Aug 15 | Club night dive, Circleville | Rob |
Sea Nags are diving. Please contact Marty Bailey if you want to know when and where people are getting wet each weekend Yes, even in the winter.
An article from 4-26-08
Things did not go exactly as we had planned this weekend, but overall I was satisfied with the results. Maggie and I had intended to attend ScubaFest this weekend, where I was supposed to give two presentations, one on Saturday and one on Sunday. Unfortunately Maggie did not feel well Saturday morning and was in no shape to drive to Wilmington. She stayed at home and I headed to the conference. Maggie had asked me to come home Saturday night, so I returned my dinner ticket and canceled my Sunday presentation, thinking that after my presentation and a quick walk through the exhibits, I would be heading home in a couple of hours.
My presentation (Diving the "Oriskany", an aircraft carrier sank as the world's largest artificial reef) was well received with standing room only and several more chairs brought in to aid in seating. I spent the next three hours in the exhibits room taking with various vendors and meeting some old friends. Before I knew it, it was time to head home. I ran into Jim at the conference and we were still talking as I was climbing in my car to leave. We made tentative plans that if Maggie was OK, I would meet him at Lancaster for a dive on Sunday. Maggie spent most of the day sleeping and with the help of some anti-biotics she was feeling much better by the time I got home.
The dive was on for Sunday. Jim and I met at 11:00am and we both constructed some plastic plating to put on our arms just underneath our exhaust valves on our drysuits. Both of us were talking about the problems we sometimes have while venting the suits. I used an old wrist slate and Jim fashioned an arm band out of a Gatorade bottle. We hoped that would prevent the outer layer of our underwear from sealing the vents in the bottom of the exhausts valves, allowing more efficient transfer of air out of the suit.
We dove for 71 minutes while doing a figure eight on the lines. We headed to the trench, then the west side, up to the van and wheelchair reef and over to the airplane. We headed back by way of the boat, Frito-Lay truck and old wooden platform. Our experiment was a complete success, neither of us had any problem venting our suits and we varied our depths during the dive from as deep as 52 to as shallow as 10 feet. I also wore my MP3 player during this dive which added to my enjoyment.
Next week it's back to training for me. I'll be heading to Lancaster on Saturday and White Star on Sunday as I continue to learn to dive with a rebreather. My unit hasn't arrived yet, but I hope it will be here in time for next weekend's dives!...