Annual Holiday Party - Mark Your Calendars
Schedule
Sat Jan 31 2026 at 06:00 pm to 10:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
Charlies Eatery & Pub | Rochester, MN
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We have secured Ken Merryman to pick up where he left off on his 9 year Circumnavigate the Great Lakes. We will be in the Event Hall.
Itinerary 6-7pm Social Hour, Club Provided Appetizer – Meat and Cheese tray w/ crackers - Potato Skins w/ Nacho cheese sauce
7pm Buffet Style Meal- Burger /Chicken bar – Lettuce, tomatoes, onions, cheese, pickles – condiments – Italian Pasta Salad – Tator tots.
7:30 Club Meeting
8pm Guest Speaker Ken Merryman will be talking about his: Nine Years of Circumnavigating the Great Lakes This presentation shows the highs and lows of nine years of circumnavigating the Great Lakes in my 1947 wooden cruiser. It shares the shipwreck discoveries, as well as different Great Lakes places of interest.
About the speaker: Ken Merryman is past president and founding member of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Preservation Society. He is a retired computer engineer and a veteran speaker at scuba shows around the Great Lakes. Ken has been an avid Great Lakes shipwreck hunter and diver for 50 plus years and operated a scuba diving charter service for 40 years. Although his charter business operated mostly at Isle Royale National Park, he also frequents all of the Great Lakes diving and searching for new shipwrecks with his shipwreck hunting partner of thirty years Jerry Eliason. Their shipwreck hunting partnership is responsible for the discovery of thirty shipwrecks and the initial exploration and documentation of a half dozen more including the discovery of the deepest shipwreck found in the Great Lakes the Scotiadoc at 870 ft deep. In efforts to preserve these discoveries through the GLSPS and often in cooperation with Wisconsin Historical Society they have helped add eight shipwrecks to the National Register of Historic Places. In cooperation with the Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport they have done the initial documentation to list five of the discoveries as archaeological sites. Now their initial documentation includes photogrammetry models and Ken is leading a massive GLSPS 3Dshipwecks project to create and archive photogrammetry models of all Great Lakes Shipwrecks crowd sourced through the diving community. The last nine summers Ken and friends have been circum-navigating the Great Lakes in his 1947 Owens Cruiser. He has cruised over 25,000 miles covering most of all five of the lakes finding ten new shipwrecks and creating over two-hundred shipwreck photogrammetry models along the way.
Cost: $30.00 need not be a member to attend. When responding please give meal preference for planning purpose. Please Respond by January 20, 2026 .
You can pay with PayPal: [email protected]
Or Checks can be mailed to:
Rochester Scuba Club
c/o Dan Lovik
1504 7th St. NE
Rochester, MN 55906
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Charlies Eatery & Pub, 1654 E Frontage Rd, Rochester, MN 55901-1664, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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