January 2026 General Meeting

Club General Meeting

Wesley United Methodist Church

Doors open at 6:30 PM
Meeting Starts at 7:00 PM

   January Guest Speaker
   Rosie Moore
    the International SeaKeepers Society 

Seakeepers is looking for people with boats to add a device to their GPS that will keep a record of where the boat goes This will help Seakeepers track the ocean floor with one of the goals being the verification/updating of Mean Low Water depths on charts...some of which have not been verified for decades.

The small device is provided free of charge by Seakeepers and it is designed to simply plug into a GPS. A micro SD card in the device gets pulled out every 6 months by the boat owner and is simply placed in a computer. This allows the collected data to be downloaded to Seakeepers.,

When it is downloaded, it goes through a proprietary program that adjusts the data for current tide heights at the time and location of the boat travel to arrive at the correct bottom depth,

The Marco Island Police are using the program and have recently had their boats travel in all of the Marco Island canals to get data on current water depth. This will also help with other canal/water quality issues.

To contact Seakeepers

786-924-6209