2008 HDS Conference & ADCI Western Chapter Annual Meeting Speaker Nyle Monday

Scrap Lundy’s involvement with diving began in a rock quarry in Iowa in the mid 1950’s. Following his graduation from Marquette University in 1961, he was commissioned an Ensign in the U.S. Navy, eventually becoming qualified as an Explosive Ordinance Disposal expert and a Second Class Diver. He took his expertise back to the civilian world when, in 1966, he joined the underwater division of Reading and Bates Offshore Drilling Co., and later CAL-Dive, Inc. In 1969 he left the diving industry and went in the investment business, a career which he has pursued down to the present day. His involvement in diving has never ceased, however, as he remains an avid sport and technical diver. Mr. Lundy is a founding member and former Director of the Historical Diving Society USA and is a serious student of the history of diving. His highly regarded book, The California Abalone Industry: A Pictorial History, is a seminal study of this important fishery and has made an important contribution to the written history of California. As a by-product of his love for the history of the Monterey area, Mr. Lundy takes an active role in the Cannery Row preservation group and will soon be publishing a new volume on the lives of the actual people John Steinbeck modeled his characters upon.

	2008 HDS Conference & ADCI Western Chapter Annual Meeting
Presenting A. L. “SCRAP” LUNDY
Presentation: “The Divers Who Made Cannery Row the Sardine Capital of the World”
Scrap Lundy’s involvement with diving began in a rock quarry in Iowa in the mid 1950’s. Following his graduation from Marquette University in 1961, he was commissioned an Ensign in the U.S. Navy, eventually becoming qualified as an Explosive Ordinance Disposal expert and a Second Class Diver. He took his expertise back to the civilian world when, in 1966, he joined the underwater division of Reading and Bates Offshore Drilling Co., and later CAL-Dive, Inc. In 1969 he left the diving industry and went in the investment business, a career which he has pursued down to the present day. His involvement in diving has never ceased, however, as he remains an avid sport and technical diver. Mr. Lundy is a founding member and former Director of the Historical Diving Society USA and is a serious student of the history of diving. His highly regarded book, The California Abalone Industry: A Pictorial History, is a seminal study of this important fishery and has made an important contribution to the written history of California. As a by-product of his love for the history of the Monterey area, Mr. Lundy takes an active role in the Cannery Row preservation group and will soon be publishing a new volume on the lives of the actual people John Steinbeck modeled his characters upon.
Saturday April 19, 9 AM - 4:30 PM HDS 2008 Conference at Monterey Maritime Museum A.L. “Scrap” Lundy presenting “The Divers Who Made Cannery Row the Sardine Capital of the World”
Tel: 800-222-2446	Conference Hotel — Casa Munras web: www.hotelcasamunras.com Request ADC / HDS Conference rate of $169 Alternate hotels listed at www.hds.org	Fax: 831-375-1365
	Conference organizers: Nyle Monday, Sid Macken, Leslie Leaney and Fred Aichele. All weekend events are open to the public.

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