Hope everyone enjoyed Thanksgiving! With an eye towards the upcoming holidays, we realize that many folks are just now considering what special gift to get (or put on their list). What else but a pair of tickets to the the largest saltwater aquarium conference?!
For the more than 200 who have signed up already – we do thank you! You (and those of you who have not yet picked up your tickets) might be interested to know some more details of the event.
Our Friday night reception has taken a turn for the entertaining! We know there just isn't enough time in the day for chatting with fellow reefers so we'll spend Friday night networking, chatting and enjoying each other's company. We’ll be bringing in a band with a local start to entertain us –
The NERDS (sorry, Springstein & Bon Jovi were both already booked).
The Official Homepage of The Nerds. All along the Jersey Shore they are considered a local legend and truly one of the great cover bands to hit the scene. They have played from Carnagie Hall to the White house and many places in between.
Saturday night's banquet guests will have the pleasure of seeing
Mr. John Chatterton, a speaker that I can assure you will find both engaging and entertaining. John Chatterton is one of the world's most accomplished and well-known wreck divers. He is the star of the book
Shadow Divers, in which he was instrumental in discovering and identifying a German U-Boat that sank off the coast of new Jersey. He is a co-host for 57 episodes of the popular History Channel series Deep Sea Detectives. He is also a consultant to the film and television industries and has worked with 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, and CBS. Most recently John worked with a crew solve the 90 year mystery of the
true reason for the rapid sinking of the Titanic. More of his bio can be found
here:
This event is a truly
hobbyist driven event (with over 20 speakers speaking on topics that hobbyists want to hear!). Those who have attended in the past already know that your fish and corals will appreciate all the knowledge (and perhaps prizes) you’ll bring back along with the memories of putting faces to all the Usernames you know from the boards!
Stay tuned for our next installment of MACNA XXI where we'll tell you about the vendors who have signed on so far to make Atlantic City a conference not to miss!
In case you haven't already, here's the link to sign up:
Macna XXI - Registration