Rafael, CA, will host training classes in its pool, and the 216- member Chicago Underseas Explorer Society will be using Roosevelt High School’s facilities for a Blue Friday celebra- tion. Our colleagues from Blue Friday in 2024 are again poised to get wet on the Big Island of Hawai’i… Jami Leslie Feld- man of #UnderwaterPaparazzi has plans to dive in San Diego… Sun Divers Roatan will host a “Dive Against De- bris” at its PADI Adopt The Blue dive site, joined by mem- bers of The Coral Reef Alliance, then will conduct a beach clean-up that evening in Half Moon Bay… Our amigos at Amigos del Mar in Mahahual, Mexico, will do some drift dives in the Western Caribbean… as will our new connec- tions at NECO Marine in Palau… with more participants to come. Finally, several writers are helping to spread the word. Our mates Terry and Cathie Cummins at Dive Queensland will again dive in the Coral Sea, Australia… Jeff Bozanic is plan- ning a dive in either California or Florida… and Carlos Lan- der is connecting us with some dive shops in the Caribbean. Or Organize Your Own Blue Friday Event: We invite you to organize your own Blue Friday celebrations. It’s this RETAILING continued
easy: For divers: Get wet the day after Thanksgiving, or any- ▪ time that week, then send me an email to let me know you participated, attach a photo or two, add a descrip- tion of where you went and what you saw, or include a link to your social media. I’ll recap all activities in a fol- low-up story. For dive shops, liveaboard boats, and resorts: Kick off ▪ your holiday sales a week earlier or all week long, from Monday through Sunday, to free up divers who want to “Dive… Then Shop!” Or lead a group Blue Friday dive event, even if it’s in your training pool or a nearby body of water. Wherever you are, warm or cold water, great viz or not, start planning your Blue Friday 5.0 dive now for the last week- end of November. Ask your dive group, shop, club, and bud- dies to join you, but if you can’t get wet, at least visit and
support your local shop during its holiday sale. With your expanding global participation, Blue Friday can continue to grow as an evergreen hol- iday event.
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