The Institute of Diving (IOD) Mark Five Monument Committee would like to provide you all with an update to the progress of the project. 

June 12, 2007 the Committee signed a contract with Divers Gifts & Collectables to produce the Mark Five Monument.  In addition to the monument, in an effort to raise the required funding, the committee has decided to produce 300 each, 18-inch certified, serialized, limited edition, exact replicas, in solid bronze statuettes of the monument for sale.  There will only be 300……..  Fist come first served.  The price of these statues is $2,000 each.  Considering the cost of similar small bronze quality statuettes, this is a great price! 

Committee members have recently met with local monument companies to discuss the shape, size, and color of the granite that will make up the base of the monument.  We have decided on a pentagon shaped black granite base.  The five sides of the base will have a bronze seal for each of the five services; Navy, Marines, Army Air Force, and Coast Guard.

The production of the initial clay model is complete and is now in the molding process.  The committee received pictures on a weekly basis for our comments and suggestion to ensure the end product is technically accurate and to ensure we erect a “JAKE” that all graduates (past, present, and future) of navy dive schools will all be proud of.

The first run is expected to be available for shipping around the beginning of December / January.  We are taking orders now.  Reservations require payment in full.  The first run pour of the statues you can reserve (with payment) a specific serial number if you wish.  After the first pour you will have to be happy with what ever serial number is available.  At the time of writing this document nine numbers are presently reserved, # 001, #005, # 007, # 021, #049, #056, #057, #072, #081, and #300.  If you have any questions please contact any of the committee members.  Contact information is located on the committee Member Tab. 

We encourage and are still accepting donations for this effort.  However, in addition to the sale of the 300 statuettes we have come up with an additional way of adding to the funds that are required.  We are providing “drawing” tickets at $10 each.  We have printed 1,000 of these tickets.  The winning ticket will be drawn either at the erecting of the Mark Five Monument or when the 1,000^th ticket is sold, which ever occurs first.  As of the printing of this flyer 142 have been sold.  For those of you that have already purchased tickets, which were originally “raffle” tickets for the “sitting Jake” your tickets are now for the above described statuette.  We have reprinted the “drawing” tickets and stapled the corresponding ticket stub to your stubs.  The statuette for this drawing is serial # 001.  which will soon become a collectors item.

Please help in spreading the word on this project.  The sooner we sell the 300 statuettes, the sooner the Mark Five Monument will be erected.  Progress of the clay model can be viewed at http://www.diversgifts.com. 

Last modified: 12/01/07