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Hart House Underwater Club Events 2022

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Club life resumes with diving, training, fitness, underwater hockey and more!

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December Holiday Party, Recognition Night Celebrations & AGM

HHUC group

Save the date, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022, 7:30 pm for a great party together once again with the Hart House Underwater Club.

New members, scuba course trainees and potential members are welcome to attend. We would love to meet you, and share our stories of diving, and what’s ahead for the future.

December Holiday Party, Recognition Night & AGM

Date: Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022

Time: 7:30 pm

Location:
Harbord House Pub
Map: https://harbordhouse.ca/find-us/
124 Harbord St., Toronto

RSVP
Please RSVP to Emily Franklin to help us with space planning: moc.liamgnull@pihsrebmem.cuhh

Who’s invited: HHUC members, training members, underwater hockey players, scuba divers, snorkellers, fitness buffs, HHUC alumni, and people interested in learning about scuba diving.

HHUC Executive Committee Elections
Would you like to be part of the action to add your voice to our decision making processes, meet some really terrific people, and gain experience in running an organization with a very substantial budget. We offer a mentoring process to learn new skills for these Executive positions. And it looks great on your resume! Different positions open up each year from the following list. We really need help in the position of Equipment Director. Other vacancies include “Social Director” (booking parties and group fun events), “Secretary” (taking minutes of the meetings), “Social Media” (to keep our Facebook and Instagram up to date). Get an idea of what we do, and where you might be interested in putting your energies to help this excellent Club, and maybe work your way up to President! 

  • President
  • Training Director
  • Equipment Director
  • Underwater Hockey Coordinator
  • Treasurer
  • Secretary
  • Membership Director
  • Social Director
  • Communications Director
  • Social Media Coordinator
  • Club Photographer
  • Inner Space Seminars Coordinator
  • and other “Executive Members without portfolio”

Contact

Contact Jim Elliott if you would like to be involved with this wonderful group:
moc.liamtohnull@nosmijnos

Covid Protocols Apply

Please follow Covid protocols for vaccinations and masking

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HHUC Pub Night is back! Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022 at 7:30 pm

HHUC group

Hart House Underwater Club Pub Night returns at last!
Please join us for the first Pub Night of our 2022-2023 academic year on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022 at 7:30 pm at Harbord House. 

We are delighted to resume many of our favourite HHUC club activities such as scuba course, fitness Sundays, underwater hockey — and now, Pub Nights!

November Pub Night

Date: Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022

Time: 7:30 pm

Location:
Harbord House Pub
Map: https://harbordhouse.ca/find-us/
124 Harbord St., Toronto

Who’s invited: Training members, underwater hockey players, scuba divers, snorkellers, fitness buffs, and HHUC alumni are invited.

Contact:  
Emily Franklin,
moc.liamgnull@pihsrebmem.cuhh
HHUC Membership Director

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Inner Space Seminars

Caribbean dive

Returning next year: One of our favourite activities, the Inner Space Seminars will return to the Hart House Underwater Club at the University of Toronto.
Send your suggestions for guest speakers to: moc.liamgnull@snoitacinummoc.cuhh

Hart House Underwater Club has wrapped up another fabulous series of Inner Space Seminars. Please see the links below to reflect back on our previous seminars.

When our seminars are online on Zoom, they are free and open to everyone, diver or non-diver, student, alumni or member of the general public. Everyone is welcome to tune in!

Thank you very much for everybody who made these seminars a big success:
– to you, the participants, for connecting with us to learn about diving
– to our fabulously entertaining and knowledgeable guest speakers
– and to our organizers from the Hart House Underwater Club.

HHUC is pleased to have presented an exciting series of seminars to UofT students, divers, non-divers, alumni and members of the general public — despite Covid-19 closures and uncertainties. This has been a shining example of HHUC’s participation in university life and virtual offerings from Hart House. Kudos to all for a very well-received endeavor!

Previous Inner Space Seminars

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Inner Space Seminar: The Great Storm of 1893 and the wreck of the “Riverside”

Shipwreck Riverside, Lake Erie

Monday, March 14, 2022, at 7:00 pm
Part of our “HHUC Inner Space Seminar” series at Hart House.

Guest Speaker: Kevin Magee
This is the story of the Great October 1893 storm that sank many vessels on Lake Erie, including the three-masted schooner, Riverside. Kevin Magee, co-founder of Cleveland Underwater Explorers (CLUE), will tell the story of one of the most powerful hurricanes ever recorded. He will also share the 2007 discovery of the Riverside shipwreck.

Kevin Magee Bio:
Kevin Magee began snorkeling as a kid in Florida, became a certified scuba diver in 1984, and is a mechanical engineer living in the U.S. His work involves the development of space experiments, including their design, fabrication, assembly, testing and flight operations. These experiments investigate the fundamental physics and behavior of combustion and fluids in microgravity. He has worked on projects of the Space Shuttle, International Space Station, sounding rockets, drop towers and parabolic aircraft. In 2001 he co-founded Cleveland Underwater Explorers, Inc. “CLUE” is a non-profit corporation whose members include divers and historians dedicated to researching, locating, exploring and documenting the shipwrecks and submerged history of the Great Lakes. CLUE has discovered and documented over 20 shipwrecks.
greatlakeswrecks.info

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Index to more seminars: 
– Inner Space Seminars

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Inner Space Seminar: Freediving on the Niagara II Ice Expedition

Freediving on the Niagara II Ice Expedition

Tuesday, March 22, 2022, at 7:00 pm
Part of our “HHUC Inner Space Seminar” series at Hart House.

Guest Speaker: Andrew Ryzebol
Andrew Ryzebol recounted his team’s 2022 “Ice Expedition” freediving experience on the Niagara II. It’s such a graceful and peaceful way to dive.

Andrew Ryzebol Bio:
Andrews has been freediving since 2013. He coaches, and competes regularly in Canadian freediving competitions, and is a national depth champion with multiple provincial records. Andrew freedives year-round in Canada, and recently completed this amazing freedive on the Niagara II.

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7o8dCK2sJk

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Index to more seminars: 
– Inner Space Seminars

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Inner Space Seminar: Vessels of the Great Lakes during WW1

WW1 ships of Lake Superior

Tuesday, March 29, 2022, at 7:00 pm
Part of our “HHUC Inner Space Seminar” series at Hart House.

Guest Speaker: Walter Lewis
Walter Lewis presented a range of vessels that were active on the Great Lakes in 1914 and went to sea during WW1, including the Northwind that HHUC dove on in 1981. Some came home. Some didn’t. Some are Great Lakes dive sites now. Others are for the “vacation bucket list”! Some were split. Some were half lost. One ship even had to be rotated sideways to fit the Welland Canal. Enjoy the wealth of material in Walter’s historical perspective.

Walter Lewis bio:
Walter Lewis took up diving in 1990 specifically to dive on the wreck of the Cornwall. Subsequently he was awarded the S.O.S. Marine Heritage Award, and named Great Lakes Historian of the Year. He is known to many in the Great Lakes community for presenting the raw materials of history, gathered through the work of many researchers, particularly those people interested in shipwrecks.
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Index to more seminars: 
– Inner Space Seminars

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Inner Space Seminar: Scuba Talk with Dan Lindsay

Monday, April 4, 2022, at 7:00 pm
Part of our “HHUC Inner Space Seminar” series at Hart House.

Guest Speaker: Dan Lindsay
It was a wide-ranging talk with Dan Lindsay presenting many of his gorgeous, crystal clear videos of deep shipwrecks of the Great Lakes, and a delightful look at diving in the Philippines. As a member of the Ontario Marine Heritage Committee, Dan and his team members successfully identified the famous mystery schooner in Lake Erie as the schooner St. James. Through his company, Sea-View Imaging, he has created images and video from tropical locations, the Andrea Doria, Tobermory, Lake Erie’s Long Point, the Empress of Ireland, Gunilda, Hamilton and Scourge, the Avro Arrow Project and many other shipwrecks in the Great Lakes.

Dan Lindsay Bio:
Dan Lindsay has been diving since 1972 and is a NAUI Divemaster and Tri-mix diver. Dan spent six years in the commercial diving industry working as a diver-EMT with Canadian based companies in the Beaufort Sea, Davis Strait and the Great Lakes. He is now a retired designer with strong interests in deep water wreck exploration, videography and photography.

Find out more
– https://www.sea-viewimaging.com/

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Index to more seminars: 
– Inner Space Seminars

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News

HHUC logo with diver at bottom of the pool, blowing air rings

Prep work for a post-Covid active scuba club

Our Scuba Instructors and Staff are getting ready for you

  • First Aid: Our HHUC First Aid Instructors are re-certified for another two years. We ran a successful “NAUI / DAN First Aid for Professional Divers” Course. We will coordinate another first aid course for scuba divers closer to the summer dive season — Covid-permitting and depending on the number of people interested. 
     
  • OUC: The Hart House Underwater Club is renewed for 2022 with the Ontario Underwater Council as a Training Club to be ready for training and diving once we are cleared to continue. 
     
  • NAUI: Our HHUC Instructors are renewed with the National Association for Underwater Instructors, ready for the 2022 season.