SCMAS Meeting June 15th (Speaker: Dr. Richard Pyle)

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SCMAS Meeting

When: Friday, June 15, 2018 @ 7:00 p.m.
Where: IHOP, 1001 E 17th St, Santa Ana CA 92701-2546

Speaker: Dr. Richard Pyle

Dr. Richard Pyle was born and raised in Hawaii, where his passion for "all things fish" began at a very early age. He set up his first aquarium when he was five years old, and started scuba diving when he was thirteen. By the time he was nineteen, he wound up living in Palau where his passion for discovering new fishes lured him into deep water, resulting in a crippling case of decompression sickness while diving with world-renown ichthyologist John "Jack" Randall. Jack then offered him a job in the fish collection of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu, where Richard continues to work nearly two decades later.

Earning his PhD under Jack's tutelage, Richard's passion for undersea exploration never waned. Determined to continue exploring of the coral reef "Twilight Zone" (200-500 feet deep) in a safe and responsible way, he was among the pioneers of modern Technical Diving in the late 1980's. In 1994 he began as a test-diver for the prototype Cis-Lunar MK-4 closed-circuit rebreather, and has traveled the Pacific in search of new species of fishes on
deep coral reefs - which he and his colleagues are discovering at a rate of eleven new species per hour of bottom time.

Richard has authored over a hundred scientific, technical, and popular articles and has been featured in dozens of documentary films (including the IMAX film, Coral-Reef Adventure). He was a founding member and is currently on the Board of Directors for the Association for Marine Exploration - a non-profit organization dedicated to conducting innovative scientific exploration using advanced diving equipment and techniques. In 2004, he was selected by Esquire magazine for the "Best and Brightest" issue, and was also recipient of the "Genius Award" from General Electric to help support his research.

Also, we will discuss our pending July 21st tank tour, exciting upcoming speakers, raffle items, and so much more!

Don't forget to bring your water samples to have them tested by Steve Garrett.

Also, be sure to get your raffle tickets for another amazing raffle!
 

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I bet some members here have some of the fish named after him in their tanks. This is going to be an exciting meeting!
 
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Great raffle prizes:

Gen 4 Radion
Icecap salinity pen (if arrives in time)
bubble tip anemones (donated by member Brian Karol)
Hundreds od dollars in other reef safe live goods
 
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Wow! What an amazing presentation! One of the best I have heard in this hobby. Thanks again to Dr Pyle for coming out from Hawaii and doing an amazing presentation.


 

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Here's the full video he showed on his coelacanth expedition. Love the helium voices from the re-breathers they used. The subtitles may say one thing but there are a few expletives in the dialog that say another which was funny
https://youtu.be/SLx3zAlt8UU
 

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