June
MUD Club
Next Meeting:
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Andrews University
Biology Amphitheater, Price Hall
Berrien Springs, MI
Meeting starts ~ 7:30 p.m.
(3rd Tuesday of every month except December)
June Meeting:
Changes/ discussion, addition of dates and places you are willing to be the diving contact for, Show & Tell – so bring something, share tales of dives since last meeting, and of course, talk about most anything else you’d like to talk about. After the meeting gather at Roma’s to continue tales and plans for diving. J
Events since last meeting that MUDDIES participated in:
- 5-14 Front Beach Park Grubbing – Off Forrest Beach Road, Watervliet
- 5-16 Havana Dive & break in the new boat, St. Joseph
- 5-19 Grand Mere Area Dive– Bottom Investigation & sampling
- 5-22 Chamber Dive – Bronson Hosp, kalamazoo
- 5-23 Ironsides Dive – Grand Haven
- 5-23 Grand Mere to Glenlord Area Dive – Bottom Investigation
- 5-28 Visit Flame Tamer Fire Protection (Tank hydro) ydroHy– Paw Paw
- 5-28 Willbank Barge & Crane Dive, Holland – Bounce Dive
- 5-29 Havana Dive, St. Joseph – Set the Buoy
- 5-30 Willbanks Barge & Crane Dive, Holland – exploration Dive
- 6-2 Gull Lake Dive – Ross Township (North E of Kazoo)
- 6-5 Front Beach Park Grubbing– Off Forrest Beach Road, Watervliet
- 6-5 Gull Lake Dive – Ross Township (North E of Kazoo)
- 6-7 Lake Cora
- 6-8 Front Beach Park Grubbing – Off Forrest Beach Road, Watervliet
- 6-9 McAlhany Wreck Search = HIT J – Grand Mere area
MUD Club members:
Populate the MUD Club web site with club member Bio’s or add your picture.
Send email & pictures of ANY scuba related activity You participated in.
Tidbit for today: “Hutch Bottles”
In April of 1879, Charles G. (Doc) Hutchinson, the son of William H. Hutchinson, a successful Chicago soda bottler, patented the Hutchinson Patented Spring Stopper. This closure soon gained popularity and replaced the cork and wire closure on soda bottles throughout the U.S. The Hutchinson Soda Water bottle, called “hutch” for short, was in use around 1880-1910. Most of the bottles made for the Hutchinson Spring Stopper were shades of light blue-green known as aqua . This was the typical color of glass produced in the U.S. Clear glass was produced by the addition of manganese to the glass. When exposed to the rays of the sun these clear bottles became light purple known as sun-colored amethyst. A few clear soda bottles that contained selenium in the glass became a smoky gray color. These changes of color in clear bottles are not considered by collectors to be “colored” sodas. Later other minerals were used to produce clear glass. Some soda bottle makers produced colored sodas by adding various chemicals to the glass. The most common colors and the chemicals added are: Green -copper oxide; Blue – shades of Blue – cobalt oxide; Amber – light to dark- iron sulfide and carbon; Yellow-green- ferric oxide. Typical prices $10 and up. A Coke A Cola Hutch is worth $ 1,000’s. Hutchbook.com.
The Lakes are getting warmer so Get out Your gear and Get Wet!
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