PDG Rick Mendoza, Scuba Diving Experiences
Posted by Wes Bradford
on Aug 05, 2014
PDG Rick Mendoza (2002-2003), of the Redondo Beach Rotary Club, has been a travel agent for many years, and is also a Certified Underwater Instructor (wearing his red instructor’s jacket). He was introduced tonight by Bob Welbourn, an experienced SCUBA diver in our Club.
Rick showed a series of slides of underwater photos he has taken in the South Pacific and elsewhere. He showed close-up underwater photos of many kinds of tropical fish, lobsters (including an 11-pounder), moray eels, rays, groupers, many kinds of coral, sea squirts, sponges, nudibranchs, urchins, anemones, starfish and a turtle. The clarity of the water was striking.
He also showed a professional video (downloaded online) of scuba divers swimming among a variety of dense schools of tropical fish, colorful coral reefs, a venomous sea snake slithering across coral, venomous lionfish, seahorses, whales, and octopus.