LAUPS: The Los Angeles Underwater Photographic Society
Founded 1957 - Celebrating 50 years of underwater photography

We've got a great meeting this Wednesday, featuring several competitions. We'll have the images from our second California Shootout on the Sundiver from last weekend. We'll also have our first ever digital slideshow competition, and the video competition is "3 minutes edited".

To keep the meeting to a reasonable length, we'll have a short workshop but no speaker. Workshop will be by Roger Carlson on "Do It Yourself Housing Maintenance". See you there!

Please name your entries, as usual:

for the shootout:

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0706_shoot_novice_your-title_your-name.jpeg for novice entries

for the slideshow (if you are entering a file and not a DVD or tape):

0706_show_open_your-title_your-name.jpeg for open entries
0706_show_novice_your-title_your-name.jpeg for novice entries

for the video comp (if you are entering a file and not a DVD or tape):

0706_video_open_your-title_your-name.jpeg for open entries
0706_video_novice_your-title_your-name.jpeg for novice entries

Head down to Long Beach this weekend to take in the Scuba Show! visit us at booth 749, right next to our friends from OCUPS!

Mexican regulation NOM-029-PESCA-2006 Took Effect May 16. This new regulation was promoted as a way to protect Shark and Ray populations from overfishing. Instead, it permits thousands of longline fishing boats inside parts of the Sea of Cortez that are now supposed to be protected from commercial take.

Several sections of the regulation will act as "Trojan Horses" to reverse the intended effects of this new regulation. These Trojan horses include a reduction in protected zones, permission to keep any bycatch caught while fishing for sharks, and no reduction in current permits.

Basically, longline boats can now fish for sharks in areas formerly closed to them, and keep any fish caught while fishing for sharks.

More information and an electronic sample letter opposing the regulation are available at:

http://www.seawatch.org/mail_campaign/alert.html

Rodale's Scuba Diving magazine has posted the winners from their annual contest. Congratulations to LAUPS member Jim Lyle for several winning photos!

ULCS has announced new buoyancy arms, now with even more floatiness!

Arm Length Amt. of buoyancy
8" 4.5 oz
10" 8 oz
12" 11 oz
14" 14.8 oz
16" 1 # 2 oz
AC-CSL

With two arm lengths, 1 AC-CSL, 2 AC-CSF, and 1 strobe and 1 base adapter:

Arm lengths Amt. of buoyancy
Two 8" neutral
8" & 10" 1.75 oz
Two 10" 7 oz.
10" & 12" 8.3 oz
Two 12" 11.2 oz
12" & 14" 15 oz
Two 14" 1 # 3 oz
14" & 16" 1 # 6 oz
Two 16" 1 # 9 oz