I'd like to meet:
I would like to meet others who are very resourceful who could share with me resourceful tips. Please give me any additional topic or any ideas/elaborations/stories on the follow topics:
Suggested Topics for Meetings/Chapters for Masterdivers Handbook
(Please add more ideas for topics or give me any elaborations and thought on these topics)
1. Documentation
a. Pictures
b. Patterns
c. Maps (trees, cans, homes, neighborhoods, stores, colleges, garbage days)
d. Journals
e. other
f. other
2. Types of dives
a. Cans
b. Curb
c. Trees
d. College
e. Seasonal
f. Business closeout sales
g. other
h. other
3. Conversation Starters/Discussion Topics
a. Quotes
b. Favorite/best stories
c. Nick-names
i. Best
ii. Most popular
d. Most reliable cans
e. Acronyms/Diver lingo
i. Hand signals/dumpster signals
ii. Morse code
f. Risk/reward
g. Ethics
h. Etiquette
i. Safety
j. Dumpster dating- Raw confessions of divers
k. Getting others into diving
l. Tour guides- have the local specialist give tour
m. Diving calendar
n. Existing books/videos on diving
o. other
p. other
4. Activities
a. Dumpster Diver Olympics
b. Field trips
c. Annual and local meetings
d. other
e. other
5. Types of treasures (food, clothing, electronics, pools, ect.)
a. Graphics/sign shop
b. Books
c. Cds
d. other
e. other
6. Dumpster IQ
a. Dumpster senses
b. Vision
c. Awareness
d. Alertness
e. other
f. other
7. Education
a. What to bring with you on a dive
b. Your first dive
c. Dumpster awareness day
d. Inform the ignorant
e. How to get your friends to accept diving and get them into it
f. Diver sustainability
i. Dumpster diet/cookbook
ii. Living on dumpster food for 1 yr and getting physically fit
iii. Dumpster gardening/mulching
iv. Utilizing your doven treasures
g. other
h. other
8. Types of “divingâ€
a. Cans
b. Curb crawl
c. Intercepting
d. Front door
e. School schedules
f. other
g. other
9. Technique
a. Interfacing with cops
b. Alibis
c. Laws about diving
d. Locks
e. Compactors
f. Quadrants
g. Jumping
h. To enter or not to enter the can
i. Buddy diving
j. Holidays- what is available and when?
k. Overcoming diver sabotage (i.e. chemical dousing)
l. other
m. other
10. Developing a handbook that is always growing and passed on
11. White collar vs blue collar diving
a. how to convert a blue collar to a white collar dive
i. how to approach store owners
ii. how to develop a respectable food band/donation bank for your community
b. how to do both blue and white collar types of dives
c. other
d. other
12. Current events
a. map of locations to host diving meetings nation wide
b. other
c. other
13. Connecting the DD community
a. Making contacts
b. Insider information
c. who’s who of diving- listed by location
d. cook book- original ways to get the most of your treasure
e. celebrity divers and dives throughout the year
f. voting on top dives of the year
g. voting on issues that affect dumpster diving
h. bartering
i. how to get the work out about available treasures or needs
i. Electronic DD yearbook
j. other
k. other
