Flotsam
Flotsam is the newsletter of AUUC. It’s a sporadic publication that documents club trips, events, social life, marine life and general tomfoolery. The club newsletter was started by Dr Garry Tee in 1970. Five issues were produced in that year. Some time between 1972 and 1974 the newsletter was called Flotsam and has been published under that banner since.
The scanning of club copies of Flotsam from 1971 to 2002 is almost complete. It took Kathryn (thanks Kathryn!) and me a solid 10 hours at university to scan, download, check and upload all of the issues listed below. I guess we knew it was going to be a massive job and that’s why we’d put it off for so long. 
In some instances, the below scans are not perfect. In others, the original document was in a poor state and we did the best we could. If you are trying to research something and are finding it unreadable, don’t hesitate to contact us, we may be able to decipher the original document for you. If you happen to have any copies of Flotsam that are not listed below, please contact us as we would love to get copies from you to add to our site.
Download and read to your heart’s content! The old copies of Flotsam are bound to stir up wonderful memories for former members and for current club members, they’re a summary of the evolution of our club… good times! If you’re a former club member taking a look, please sign up in the right column for our 50th Anniversary updates as AUUC plans for celebrations in 2011.
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Happy reading,
Ali Perkins
flotsam@akunidive.com
1998? Hen & Chickens Trip Report 151KB
1989 Issue #1 March Flotsam 482KB
1987 Issue #2 Term 1 Flotsam 4450KB
1985 Issue #2 September Flotsam 883KB
1985 Issue #1 March Flotsam 724KB
1984 Issue #2 July Flotsam 1410KB
1984 Issue #1 April Flotsam 1840KB
1983 Issue #2 August Flotsam 2640KB
1983 Issue #1 April Flotsam 1470KB
1982 Issue #2 August Flotsam 1220KB
1982 Issue #1 April Flotsam 615KB
1981 Issue #4 October Flotsam ??KB
1981 Issue #3 August Flotsam 470KB
1981 Issue #2 June Flotsam 1010KB
1980 Issue #2 September Flotsam 192KB
1980s? Miscellaneous Trip Reports and Newspaper Clippings 368KB
1979 Issue #2 July Flotsam ??KB
1979 Issue #1 March Flotsam 2640KB
1978 Issue #3 September Flotsam 1445KB
1978 Issue #1a March Flotsam 181KB
1977 Issue #3 September Flotsam 4316KB
1977 Issue #2 July Flotsam 1786KB
1977 Issue #1 April Flotsam 1197KB
1976 Issue #4 September Flotsam 4292KB
1976 Issue #3 July Flotsam 830KB
1976 April List of Members 243KB
1976 Issue #2 April Flotsam 2856KB
1976 Issue #1 March Flotsam 1759KB
1975 Issue #6 September Flotsam 864KB
1975 Issue #5 August Flotsam 2018KB
1975 Issue #4 June Flotsam 429KB
1975 Issue #3 April/May Flotsam 1202KB
1975 Issue #2 April Flotsam 373KB
1975 Issue #1 February Flotsam 346KB
1974 Issue #3 September Flotsam 404KB
1974 Issue #2 July Flotsam 541KB
1974 Issue #1 June Flotsam 572KB
1972 Issue #1 March Newsletter 268KB
1971 Issue #5 September Newsletter 597KB
1971 Issue #4 August Newsletter 307KB
1971 Issue #3 June Newsletter 616KB
1971 Issue #2 April Newsletter 2145KB
1971 Issue #1 March Newsletter 353KB
A big thanks to Anthony Hafoka for digging through his garage and finding another four Flotsams (1990 and 1991) that we did not have copies of. I’ll scan them and upload them to the site.
Thanks to Lisa Jamieson for finding issues #1 and #4 from 1992!
Thanks to Leif Pigott for finding issues from 1992, 1993 and 1994!