About BARR

The

Bay Area Reef Runners Dive Club

was started in 2000 by Genny Donaldson in the St. Petersburg / Clearwater, FL area. Originally started at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium as the CMA Dive Club for staff and student interns. We held classes and went on dive, camping and canoeing trips. As the club grew there were more people from the Bay Area looking for an independent dive club to meet other divers. It was voted to change the name to the Bay Area Reef Runners (BARR) Dive Club. Currently we have had over 200 divers all over the area and even as far away as Tennessee.

Genny is an active SSI Instructor for Ocean Sports in Dunedin. Ocean Sports is a sponsor for the BARR divers and for the Clearwater Marine Aquarium. www.oceansportsdive.com Genny started the first dive club at Essilor of America in 1992. As this club grew, more people wanted to become divers to join. She eventually worked full time for a local St. Petersburg dive shop and became the shop manager, instructor, and trip coordinator for 3 years.

Our interests include

Gulf Diving
Drift Diving
Spring Diving
Cavern Diving
Wreck Diving
Night Diving
Underwater Photography
Underwater Videography
Underwater Archaeology
Fish Identifications
Spearfishing

And we're always finding more to interest us.

Monthly Meetings

Bay Area Reef Runners meet the

2nd Wednesday of each month at 7pm

at Pssghettis Meetings are free and open to the public. Consider joining us.

Each meeting we invite divers to share their experiences with photos or videos or stories of dives. We also invite guest speakers with educational topics. Our underwater videographer, Captain Jeff always takes his underwater video camera on the dive trips. So we always get to watch our dives on DVD.

This is a free dive club. We welcome divers of all ages and interests.

Sea y'all at the next meeting.