Diving artificial reefs and wrecks and living to tell about it

  • by Fred Grieger
  • Saturday, January 31, 2009 4:00pm (CANCELLED)
  • 108 Wartik building on the Penn State, University Park campus (directions)
Due to unforeseen circumstances, our presenter has had to cancel this Saturday's presentation. He extends his sincere apologies and plans to reschedule when he can.

Abstract

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An entertaining and educational talk about his personal experiences; some good, some bad and the knowledge he gained from those experiences. Fred will draw from bits and pieces of stories that express a common idea about diving for survivability as well as pure enjoyment. His talk will focus on some of the main differences between diving an artificial reef such as the USS Oriskany versus natural wrecks lost unintentionally such as the WWII wrecks in North Carolina or the Andrea Doria. This 90 minute presentation will include still photos and also some film segments that were personally produced and edited over the course of Fred's diving career.

Biography of Fred Grieger

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Having started diving in 1974 at the age of 12 in the cold quarries of Eastern Pennsylvania, Fred Grieger is a very experienced diver who has had an interesting diving career. In 1981 he became the world's first certified NAUI / CMAS instructor under the age of 21. He later became certified as a commercial mixed-gas, surface-supplied diver in 1983 and has since continued to dive for sport, logging more than 4,800 dives. He is has authored various SCUBA-related articles published in periodicals such as PADI's Sport Diver.

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