Join us this Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 at Benvenuto’s in Fitchburg. The meeting starts at 7pm, but feel free to come by starting at 6:30 to get your order in and socialize.
This month’s speaker is Scott Dicks
Scott got his C-Card in 1966 from the YMCA in Decatur Illinois. He got is fascination for diving from watching Sea Hunt and Jacque Cousteau documentaries.
As a science major at Ripon College with majors in Chemistry , Biology and Psychology. He studied blood chemistry in sharks and theorized about the impact on behavior.
Later in life, he hooked up with Eugenie Clark’s old research team in the Caribbean who discovered the “Sleeping Sharks of the Caribbean”.
He was a safety diver for the research team and handled a bang stick watching the backside of the research team.
Scott Dicks is a NAUI Certified Instructor and Dive Master. He has over 4,000 hours underwater. He specializes in spearfishing, wreck and cave diving. In 1975, he won the Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Minnesota contests.
