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[madlobster]

I had a great time at the show, brought Janet (my none diving wife) and she too had a good time. I also had two other divers from my area join us so all was good. It was great meeting Kamala and George and a few members from SD, as always a good crew I will be back next year for sure!!!

[WreckWench]

I had a great time at the show, brought Janet (my none diving wife) and she too had a good time. I also had two other divers from my area join us so all was good. It was great meeting Kamala and George and a few members from SD, as always a good crew I will be back next year for sure!!!

It was great to meet you as well! I hope we get to meet your wife next year! As we say...we are wife friendly and wife approved...husbands too!

[WreckWench]

Here we go with...

Part II:

The show was a huge success for SD and I expect as soon as we get all the names we collected into our mailing database the NE will be the largest group of SDer's in the world! We had almost 500 names registered at the show and many of them were winners in our tremendous contest. The list of sponsors just continued to grow and are as follows:

FREE Nitrox for any SD trip from Explorer Ventures (Proud 2nd Year SD Sponsor)
FREE Diving Larry's WildSide Bonaire
FREE Diving Larry's WildSide Bonaire
OMS T-shirt, Cap, High Intensity 7 LED Dive Light
Handicapped Scuba Association T-shirt
Guide to Marine Life Caribbean - Bahamas - Florida from AquaQuest.com Publications (Proud 2nd Year SD Sponsor)
Ocean Quest 1 FREE Tech Pkg Upgrade on any Standard Trip
Ocean Quest 1 FREE Tech Pkg Upgrade on any Standard Trip
Spirit of Freedom Cairns Australia first 6 people to book and deposit before April 30th will receive 30% discount off of day tours (Some black out dates apply.)
The Magic Pool Video from AirSeaLand - And one of SD's newest vendors!
FREE Diving from Sand Dollar Sports Cozumel
FREE Diving from Sand Dollar Sports Cozumel
FREE $1650 Safari for the first person to book the Seal Expeditions Sardine Great White Run in S. Africa via SingleDivers.com
FREE Diving from Dive Experience St Croix, US Virgin Islands - and one of SD's Women Hall of Famers
FREE Diving from Dive Experience St Croix, US Virgin Islands - and one of SD's Women Hall of Famers
FREE Diving the Cooper River from Off The Wall Charters, Salem, SC
50% discount off 14 day adventure when accompanied by full fare passenger good til Dec 2007 from Adventure H20 Luxury Liveaboard Diving
10 FREE Raffle Tickets 'WheelChairs to Fiji' worth $45 each or $450 sponsored by DiveGear.com
3 FREE Subscriptions to Scuba Diving Magazine
4 FREE Admissions to the History of Diving Museum Islamorado, FL
FREE Prescription Dive Mask from the Prescription Dive Mask Company
2 FREE SingleDivers.com t-shirts

We registered several more new members at the show and recruited several folks to help us plan and organize some Happy Hours and local events for the NE!

Our volunteers gave BTS over 80 hours of volunteer time! (We needed to give them 56 hours and we well exceeded that!)

More to come as we announce the winners and post even more pictures...

[annasea]

Great news, WW!

And a big to both the sponsors and the SDers who were there to help!

[madlobster]

I had a great time at the show, brought Janet (my none diving wife) and she too had a good time. I also had two other divers from my area join us so all was good. It was great meeting Kamala and George and a few members from SD, as always a good crew I will be back next year for sure!!!

It was great to meet you as well! I hope we get to meet your wife next year! As we say...we are wife friendly and wife approved...husbands too!

I (we) hope to be there a bit earlier and partake in the Friday night festivites too! I am sure we will both meet up with you all then.

[WreckWench]

Part III:


Well the third and final chapter of the BTS saga continues...

This saga focuses on the OUTSTANDING contributions of our members to make BTS a success. The MVP award goes to Colin aka NYDiver for getting us free hotel rooms at the Holiday Inn Express. I guess living in a hotel 300+ days a year has rewards...too bad Colin had to stay yet again in a hotel room so close to home to help us with the show and to ensure we had AWESOME places to stay!

Our next award goes to speedy Gonzalez aka Kim the Fingrabber. In this case she was grabbing key strokes and spent the better part of the weekend entering all the names of people who signed up to receive more information about SD and/or those who entered in our prize drawings! WOW! We had record numbers of people visit the booth and register with us! Just ask the keygrabber...er...I mean the fingrabber! On second thought...don't ask her just yet...I don't think she has quite recovered from all that typing!

Next on the list of alcolades go to Jerry aka NCMasterDiver for flying in from NC to help us with the show and single handedly becoming SD's Roving BTS Marketing dept! Everywhere I went people were telling me...what a nice man and Jerry is so nice! So Jerry DEFINITELY gets the "Mr. Nice Award"! And of course when he was not networking for SD...he was Mr. BTS helping out the show.

Of course we could not have done this show with George aka Tolly...he is a machine when it comes to making these shows happen! What with water, fruit, granola and nuts to help us survive in the booth, copies and brochures and that famous "Its Not What You Think" line...BTS would not be the same with out Tolly. Nor would we have about half the names we got without him! Nor any of the new instructors he spoke with who'd we love to have join our team!

When Colin aka NYDiver was not securing free rooms for SD or picking SDers up at the airport or working for BTS as an SD volunteer he was in the booth helping SD! Colin you are my hero! Thank you soooooo much!

And of course we have Rick aka HipShot...or should be say "Mr BTS BigShot"!!! Way to go Rick...you helped SD be one of BTS's top volunteers and were great in the booth...but then how could anyone resist your charm!

And last but not least...Ray aka Latitude Adjustment! He gives whole new meaning to his name! Not only did he work over 36 hours for BTS...he helped to supply the SD booth saving us nearly $300; he helped me find my phone!; he worked and recruited for SD every chance he got; he got us to very important engagements and he was a great sport both dealing with car problems AND being my roommate!

And how about our vendors....

WOW!!! What a tremendous outpouring of generosity and tremendous prizes for our members! But that is only the tip of the iceberg...many of the same vendors have also announced travel specials to launch our new travel arrangements with them. Yes it only gets better!

And the song played on.....

And last but not least...if you came by the booth you may have heard what sounded like a pop artist or even one of the American Idol contestants singing a great song about diving. And if you listened a bit closer you would have realized that the singer was singing about SingleDivers.com. Yes it is true...our very own American Idol Neptuner has written, recorded and now released the SingleDivers.com Song! It is polished, professional and powerful! It will soon be available to hear on the site and will be on Neptuners's aka "Pup Morse and the DCD" album of Tropical and Scuba Tunes to be released later this year. Stay tuned as you'll hear and see it here first!

The Ending...

Yes all great stories have an ending. Sometimes endings are just beginnings. In this case I think it is a bit of both. The show has ended but we'll have tons of new friends and members from the area. Our vendors have been so supportive and we can't wait to start offering you fantastic dive trips to visit them! And our members set us apart...so much so that one of them wrote a song about the SD experience and how incredible it is...and its been recorded and is being looked at being picked up by a recording label. And it all started with an idea...and that idea grew because of each and every one of you being a part of the story. So I look forward to the next installment in the saga...its a spellbinder...stay tuned! - Kamala aka Wreck Wench