Sand Dog IX will be held in Panama City Beach Florida June 8th through 10th.
Our dive store will be The Dive Locker Tony Snow is the owner and our host.
Friday's diving will be at the jetties in St Andrews State Park
This is the perfect place to get your gear sorted out and do some relaxing shore diving. Lots of info and pictures all around the net on this site.
Friday night we will be gathering for supper at J. Michael's Restaurant on recommendation by our own Bernie Campoli.
Saturday is boat diving with The Dive Locker. Each person is responsible for making their own reservations for a spot on the boat. Each boat can hold 17 divers and I can see this year we may need both boats.
In between the morning and afternoon dives our own Bernie Campoli and some of his friends will be catering our traditional "Sand Dog" cookout in the parking lot of The Dive Locker. Please be sure and give generously to the beer fund for the all volunteer armada providing us lunch
If you don't want to boat dive the jetties are available as are Morrison and Vortex springs.
Saturday night we will be gathering for supper at Captain Jacks Seafood Buffet
Sunday is wide open....Jetties, Boats, Springs etc.
Hotels are all over the map....I would recommend getting on Orbitz and or a similar site and getting the best deal possible where you can. PCB traffic is a pain like any other resort area so I would recommend finding a place as close to the shop as you can...
Tony says they will fill cylinders to their rated pressure as long as hydro and VIP are current. NO pre 89 aluminum cylinders.
If you have questions or need specific details please contact him directly.
Barb, Bernie and Tony have all been a great help putting all this together and they were so quick about it that we have plenty of time to make plans.
The illustrious Allan K will be handling the media outlets and getting us coverage wherever we can.
LOOKING FORWARD TO A GREAT WEEKEND!!!