The Chicago Scuba Meetup Group

Happy New Year everyone! We hope this year is a great one and that you all get in some good diving adventures!

We will be meeting this month at the Irish Times in Brookfield.

Our presentation this month will be with Matt Udelson, a professional diver and possibly the first person we have presented who has had direct experience with saturation diving. This is the type of diving done by those that need to spend extended time under water, housed in a dry environment, to perform tasks of a scientific or commercial nature. Nitrogen saturation allows people to stay under atmospheric pressure without continuously adding to their decompression obligation. He did this while working as a commercial diver in the Gulf of Mexico.

Matthew Udelson is the Co-Founder and Co-Owner of Matt’s Diving and Marine, LLC with his wife. There he utilizes his diving credentials to clean boat hulls, and to recover items that are dropped into Lake Michigan Harbors by boaters and non-boaters alike.

Matthew started his diving adventures when he was 21 as a way to help maintain his parents sailboat and make it more competitive. He then went to Diver’s Institute of Technology in 2016 at the age of 23 and became an Unrestricted Surface Supply Diver. After which he went on to work in the Gulf of Mexico for 1 year, before coming in-land and continuing to work as a professional diver.

At the end of 2023, after several years doing other endeavors he came back to diving and started Matt’s Diving and Marine with his wife, and obtained his USCG 50 Ton Captain’s License in Mid-2024.

7:00- Meet and Greet (buy food and drink!)
7:30- Meeting
8:00- Presentation

Hello Everyone!!! Its that time again!!
Will be posting details for the Annual International Scuba Show XII shortly....

Contact me for a copy of the brochure at
Msputer1@ameritech.net or Julienne.Scheibe@Sedgwick.com or call/text me at 847-409-4816.

Set aside the dates of:
Feb 28 through March 7, 2026!!!

Just shoot me an email and I will get all the deets out to you!

The rates are amazing and in 3 easy payments!

Hope to see you in..... One of the top 5 dive destinations in the world! DOMINICA!!!

Join me and the CSM dive family for a week long adventure on THE NATURE ISLAND!!!

Can't wait to dive with all of you!!
JS

Our fellow group member, Aneta Cop needs our help. She is trying to raise funds for charity to secure a place in the 2026 Chicago Marathon. If a perspective runner is not drawn during the lottery- there is 130,000 applicants for about 50,000 spots in the race- the other way to be able to run is to run for charity- some of them fill up so quickly that if you lucky you get a spot with the ones that are left over. She was able to be approved by The Morton Arboretum foundation. So her goal is to rase $2200 and if I am able to to so she is guaranteed a race bib for the event. If you can help out I know she will greatly appreciate. https://haku.ly/295637fcc5