Please keep fellow dive buddy, Pat Purkhiser, in your thoughts. He is currently in ICU in critical condition after open heart surgery.

Club members can confirm that the Nassau Grouper love to be petted!
http://www.sportdiver.com/10-reasons-to-dive-little-cayman?cmpid=enews04...

Have you stayed at any?
http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/26/hotels/best-luxury-dive-resorts/index.html

Heck ya I would! Dubai’s first partially underwater villa—“The Floating Seahorse”—has been completed, marking a major milestone for The World Islands project.
http://www.travelandleisure.com/hotels-resorts/vacation-rentals/first-un...

There are some really amazing shots in the Underwaterphotography.com contest's winning photos. The top prize winner below is so darn cute! Get inspired and take some pictures to submit for the club's 2017 calendar.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3512615/Incredible-picture-momen...

Did you know that a female lionfish can spawn more than 2 million eggs per year?
http://blog.oceanconservancy.org/2016/03/17/lionfish-a-crash-course/

SEAWORLD ENDS CAPTIVE BREEDING OF ORCAS!

"Customers visit our marine parks, in part, to watch orcas. But a growing number of people don't think orcas belong in human care. Now we need to respond to the attitudinal change that we helped to create -- which is why SeaWorld is announcing several historic change"
Joel Manby, President and CEO of SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment

A Florida diver was lucky and survived being sucked into the intake pipe at a nuclear power plant.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/scuba-diver-survives-sucked-nuc...

Interesting article

http://www.alertdiver.com/Gradient_Factors

# 18 is a good one if you haven't already - "I will join a local diving club"
# 11 is one of my personal goals.

http://www.scubadiving.com/25-new-years-resolutions-only-scuba-divers-ma...