Florida Sea Base News

Today was a fairly routine, paperwork kind of day.  Until Carl and Ingred Lindsten arrived.  Carl explained that he was a retired professional Scouter from Sweden.  He and his wife happened to be visiting the Florida Keys and had stopped at the Brinton Environmental Center earlier.

Carl and Ingred Lindsten of Sweden

They took several photos and were kind enough to allow me to take a photo of them in front of our BSA Centennial / FSB 30th Anniversary seal.  So while I had the camera out I took a few photos that relate to earlier posts.

Phase one of the sea wall repairs was completed last Friday as I recall (minus setting the Habitat back in place).  This section of sea wall is about 80 feet long and cost nearly $100,000.

Here are “before” and “during” photos of the exterior repairs to the staff housing unit referred to at the Annex.  It is the original motel from the old Tollgate Inn.

Before repairs

During repairs

The volunteers who are doing this project, plus landscaping and much more are Steve and Leah martin, Warren and Carol Bacon, John and Marlene Reilly and Walter and Maxine Frost.  When they finish here, they will go to the Brinton Environmental Center and meet up with Dennis and Karen Bobo and do even more good works there.  These folks are the epitome of Scouting volunteers.

I appreciate everyone who has been checking this website, blog, or whatever the correct techno term may be.  If you do a Google search on Florida Sea Base you will find that Florida Sea Base News has moved from the fourth page of Google hits to the second page.  Hopefully we will make page one in the near future.

As I have mentioned before, I am severely computer illiterate.  My son Aaron is the brains and he managed to set this site up in such a way that even I can add posts, photos, and edit the various pages.  Thanks Kiddo.

Today was another busy day for the Divemaster Academy.  I taught risk management this morning, then the group headed out to the reef for three scuba dives.  After dinner they had two more classroom sessions plus a guest speaker, Bert Hubby, who is a Course Director at Florida Keys Dive Center.  Bert is a retired attorney from Texas and a former Florida Sea Base staff member.  He was very instrumental in the formation of the Divemaster Academy and was one of the instructors for DMA Class 1.

The Scuba Adventure and Scuba Certification crews went out for two more scuba dives.  The Scuba Adventure crew then had an early dinner and went back out for a night dive.  Four Coral Reef Sailing crews came back to Florida Sea Base today for their “fun day” and participated in the same activities that I posted pictures of yesterday.

And the last panel was installed in phase one of the sea wall repairs at Florida Sea Base.  And while their is still much to do before phase one is complete, it was good to see the last panel put in place.  All in all, quite a busy day.

The final panel being installed in phase one of the sea wall repair.

I want to remind everyone that there are limited openings for spring and summer 2010 at the Florida Sea Base.  Check the official website at www,bsaseabase.org for details.  And don’t forget to visit the Ship’s Store online at www.fsbshipstore.com.