In Gear R O T A R Y C L U B O F B E A U M A R I S W E E K L Y B U L L E T I N

Number 30, 16 February 2015

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2014—2015

Serving the Community since 1985

Presidents Report We have a busy few weeks coming up, with a fel-lowship night, A Day on Oak Street BBQ, Farmer’s Market, and District Conference all happening. Yes, you read correctly, our Farmer’s Market has been approved and the first market will be on March 14th. This is the same weekend as confer-ence, so a plea to all those who are not going to conference, please try and keep the Saturday morning free so you can help launch our first mar-ket. This is a very important opportunity for the club not only to raise funds, but engage with our local community. Our speaker this week was none other than Mal-colm Cosgriff, who runs the Beaumaris Pharmacy in the Concourse. He educated us on some of the wonders of diving, and the unusual way things stay preserved in deep water. We also had a brief up-date on the “Ride to Conference” by David Ferres. Thanks to Megan for the Valentine’s Day decora-tions. We also viewed video for the proposed “Glow for Good” project by Hampton. Have a look at the web site: www.glowforgood.com.au Beaumaris has agreed to support this with man-power on the day. Keep April 18th evening free. Hampton would also welcome expertise on the or-ganising committee. A list of roles has been circu-lated to club members. This project will engage the community, celebrate Rotary’s 110th birthday, break a Guinness world record and help promote Rotary in Bayside. Next week we have Edward Tudor talking to us about ways we can help our Indigenous People. David Hone is chair for the night. I look forward to seeing you on Thursday.

Ken

Contents

1 Presidents Report 2 Notices 3/4 This Week’s Speaker 5 100 Year ANZAC Anniversary Function 6 Fellowship Night 7 GLOW4GOOD 8 Conference 9 Ricketts Point Fossil Event 10 Club Structure / Picture of Week

Unless stated otherwise venue is Victoria Golf Club 6.30 for 7.00

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Hocking Stuart Sandringham 62-64 Station Street

Telephone: 03 9521 9800

Note; As part of our arrangement with Hocking Stuart discounts on agents fees are available to RCOB members.

Fellowship Night; 26 February Our next fellowship date is Thursday 26 Feb-ruary. There is no meeting at VGC this night. THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL

TIME : 6 PM for 6.30 PM screening @ Dendy Brighton Cinema, Church St. Brighton. COST : $ 25 per ticket includes lucky door prize ticket and glass of wine or soft drink. All profits raised from this night will be going to the End Polio Now Rotary International Pro-ject.

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For Details see Page 7

100 Years of ANZAC Anniversary Function

Thursday 23 April

See details on Page 5

Sandringham Foreshore Association

Ricketts Point Fossil Event

Sunday 22 February

12pm to 3 pm

Discover the rich fossil history on your doorstep.

See details on Page 9

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Malcolm owns and runs the Beaumaris Phar-macy o the East Concourse. He has been there for around 30 years. Prior to entering the retail pharmacy field Malcolm specialised in di-abetes testing. Outside of his pharmacy his passion is diving and he has undertaken around 9000 dives so far. He chose to talk about and illustrate one of his favourite dive sites; Truk Lagoon (see side bar for some background detail) Much of Truk Lagoon lies at about 55 metres depth which means that there is little light pene-tration and therefore limited coral growth. The water temperature is also steady at 31 Celsius all year. The area is a Japanese war grave and

Chuuk Lagoon, also known as Truk Lagoon, is a sheltered body of water in the cen-tral Pacific. About 1800 km north-east of New Guinea, it is located mid-ocean at 7 degrees North latitude, and is part of Chuuk State within the Federated States of Micronesia. See map below left.

The atoll consists of a protective reef, 225 kilome-tres around, enclosing a natural harbour 79 by 50 kilometres , with an area of 2,130 square kilo-metres. It has a land area of 127.4 square kilome-tres, with a population of 34,651 people.

During World War II, Truk Lagoon was the Empire of Japan's main base in the South Pacific theatre. Truk was a heavily fortified base for Japanese operations against Allied forces in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, serving as the forward anchorage for the Japanese Imperial Fleet.

Truk Lagoon was considered the most formidable of all Japanese strongholds in the Pacific. On the vari-ous islands, the Japanese had built roads, trenches, bunkers and caves. Five airstrips, seaplane bases, a torpedo boat station, submarine repair shops, a com-munications center and a radar station were con-structed during the war. Protecting these various facil-ities were coastal defense guns and mortar emplace-ments. Due to its heavy fortifications, both natural and manmade, the base at Truk was known to Allied forc-es as "the Gibraltar of the Pacific".

A significant portion of the Japanese fleet was based at Truk, anchor in the lagoon, were the Imperial Japa-nese Navy's battleships, aircraft carriers cruis-ers,destroyers, tankers, cargoships, tugboats, gunboats, minesweepers, landing craft, and submarines. Some have described Truk as Japan's equivalent of the Americans' Pearl Harbor.

In 1944, Truk was devastated in one of the important naval attacks of the war. Forewarned by intelligence a week before the US raid, the Japanese had with-drawn their larger warships (heavy cruisers and larger vessels) to Palau. Once the American forces captured the Marshall Islands, they used them as a base from which to launch an early morning attack on February 17, 1944 against Truk Lagoon. Operation Hail-stone lasted for three days, as American carrier-based planes sank twelve smaller Japanese war-ships (light cruisers, destroyers, and auxiliaries) and thirty-two merchant ships, while destroying 275 air-craft, mainly on the ground. The consequences of the attack made "Truk lagoon the biggest graveyard of ships in the world".

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all the bodies have been removed from the wrecks. Due to the benign conditions the wrecks are in amazing condition even after 70 years under water. To dive down to the bottom of the lagoon means that you have to go beyond the limits of Recreational Diving and into the realms of Technical Diving. Simply put Technical diving is any dive on which the parameters preclude the possibility of a safe and direct ascent to the surface. At the depth of Truk lagoon divers can only spend 10 minutes at the bottom and need to stop twice on the way up to decompress for 12 minutes and 5 minutes respectively. These photos show some of the equipment sit-ting on the bottom still in amazing state of preservation including the rubber tyres. Amongst the items is a Mercedes Benz car; a gift from Adolf Hitler to the Admiral in charge of the Japanese Fleet.

Since qualifying 1972 the highlight of Malcolm’s diving career was diving with David Attenbor-ough on the Galapagos Islands in 2000. Other highlights included diving in Antarctica. He has had some close calls including being adrift in Bass Strait for 12 hours and needing to be rescued by helicopter. His recommendation for the must not miss des-tination is Lord Howe Island.

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Sheep Family Portrait Photograph by Cameron Zegers, National Geographic “While I was driving through a sheep farm near Waiuku, New Zea-land, these four sheep stopped grazing to watch me watch them,” “To achieve this shot, I wait-ed for the sheep in the back to walk into the frame. Luckily, it stopped in the perfect place, and the result looked like a well-posed family por-trait.”

CLUB STRUCTURE 2014 - 2015 UPDATED 28/07/2014

BOARD CLUB SERVICE

President Ken Mirams Director Trish Smyth

PE, VP Trish Smyth Auditor Tony Phillips

Secretary Roy Seager Program Richard Jones

Treasurer James Glenwright Meeting Attendance Trish Smyth

Foundation Mike Hede Communications David Lea

Branding & PR Malcolm Sawle Fellowship Megan Glenwright

International John Beaty Photographers John Beaty, Greg Every

New Generations Kerrie Geard Almoner Geoff Stringer

Community Chris D'Arcy Chair /Host /Cashiers /AV Roster

Fundraising Adrian Culshaw Youth Protection Officer Malcolm Parks

On to Conference Robert McArthur^*

TEAM MEMBERS

International Community New Generations Fundraising

Fred Hofmann Geoff Abbott David Rushworth Harry Wolfe

John Sime Rob Fenton Mary Sealy Heather Chisholm

David Langworthy Richard Shermon Tony McKenna * Roger Frewen

Geoff Stockdale Tony Phillips LOA Geoff Stringer

Ross Phillips David Greenall David Greenall David Hone

Malcolm Parks Chris Martin Judi Hall

John Manks Royal Melbourne Golf Charmaine Jansz

Branding & PR Jim O'Brien Antony Nixon

Concourse Festival Peter Flude^ Harry Wolfe Peter Flude

Kerrie Geard Martin Fothergill David Hone# Mike Hede

Masters Golf Parking David Lea MUNA / NYSF

James Glenwright Heather Chisolm

^ Farmers Market # Indigenous Project * District