Northwest Dive Club

Hey James Good to meet you and great to dive with you! Nice dive report. I also really liked to see all the little Plainfin Midshipman out there too. Thanks for helping me sort out the issues before the dive :) I'm coveting your camera in response. Great sailfin sculpin pic! Wow! Probably the best I...

Article from today

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Has anybody looked for this?

Hi I've heard from many that edmonds oil dock is no more, and the site is now desolate. Yet I heard from somebody else that the pilings are still there, just cut below the surface? (although near the surface was of course the best part of the site). Can somebody confirm? If nothing else, it seems li...

Hi All. Cool find on the ling! Last time I was at keystone, I saw some crabs (decorator crabs?) cleaning a gunnel. At first, I thought the gunnel was dead. Took a closer look and the gunnel was not dead. In fact, the gunnel was not even sedate or anything, because eventually I scared him off, and he...

Hi
I found a mask at about 30' tonight as Les D tonight. If you think it might be yours, please PM me with a description.
Thanks!
-Eric

Late notice, but my buddy cancelled. Anybody up for a night dive tonight?
Preferably meet at cove 2 around 7? (could also meet at another site)

Thanks for the dive guys! Next time I'd be happy to navigate and show you more of the wall :) Really, you guys were a bit early, we felt total slack about 35 minutes into our dive and we were later than you. And there's no bouy, other than the one sometimes seen just to the left outside the entrace....

Cameron and I dove Three Tree last night. It was my first dive since October, so it was good to get back in the water (was out due to bad back, then the holidays and snow) Some of the sightings: A beautiful pink tritona Several small white sea pens or sea whips (not sure which, ~110') Lots of stubby...

Interesting! Once a buddy and I were looking at a red octo during a night dive, and a seal come down and ate him. We felt kind of bad because we were illuminating the octo. So yes that does happen. The octo tried to wrap his legs around the snout of the seal, but the seal ate him up in a couple bite...

Hi All I snorkeled with salmon in the Cedar River a couple years ago. It was great, got to see them up close, readying their nests, and courting the females. We snorkeled in about a foot of water, just held on to the rocks on the bottom, no fins required. I think the females liked my orange drysuit ...

Isn't the monolith concrete? This was wood. Big lopsided shape at least 6-7 feet tall. Seal came by and silted the place out before I could video it or get a good look.

Good to hear other people are seeing the octo!

Hi Wondering if I've captured the hectocotylus of an octo on this picture. Note there are no suction cups on the end of the small arm ending you see in the middle. What do you think? This was a pic of the waiting male outside the honeybear [mentioned in http://www.nwdiveclub.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&a...

Videos: http://www.motionbox.com/videos/a791d1be1512ec2e

Cameron and I went for a scooter dive last night at cove 2... in hopes of finding a sixgill... We spent 57 minutes between the depths of 90 to 105 feet, zooming way down south of cove2. No luck on the sixgill sighting. But we did see a couple wrecks we haven't seen before (one huge, pretty much unre...

What an interesting guy. The guy looked like a Leprechaun with wooden clogs. He was returning polished rocks to the beach, yet cursing under his breath how he could barely resist picking them back up again because they were so beautiful... :) Was complaining and very concerned about the knots people...

Great video, thanks for sharing....

I noticed some of the pilings on the south side of the docks are metal, and are really nicely covered with life. ...I don't suppose they'll leave those...

The best part of the dive is 4 feet from the surface on a low tide... the amount of life is mindboggling.

I wonder if search engines (msn, google, yahoo) are going to be able to find the content in these opt-in forums

Cameron and I saw a 5-6' sixgill this morning. We started in cove 2 on our scooters, and we saw it probably somewhere in cove 1, at about 100', around 7:30-8am. It was unmarked and moving very slowly. We followed it around for 5-10 minutes, and it was doing slow circles around the 100' depth. Beauti...

Great photos as always Dave!

I was on this trip too. There was a ton of candy (stripe shrimp) on these dives. Most I've ever seen. I think I saw up to 6 on one anemone. Some of the biggest I've seen too.

What a treat!
-Eric

Hi All
A buddy of mine just got a scooter, and I'll be getting mine on friday.
What are some of the best sites to take advantage of the scooter? (once we learn the ropes)
-Eric

Very cool
I've seen a baby grunt before, but not with any obvious parents around

Hi Matt Put simply, it's going great, I'm loving it too :occasion5: I have dragged my CCR to all the fun northwest locations, like Neah Bay, Port Hardy, Nanaimo, Hornby, Gabriola, Sechelt, etc -- it has never let me down. Best part though are the 90 min+ local night shore dives. Lots of bottom time ...

wow, were you diving in that super-low tide today?

Seasonal yes, and I think it helps to go at night
Last time I was there (during the day) there wasn't too much besides oregon tritons and gunnels

I was very surprised to see the white seapen too, it definitely had a much taller shape and different proportions than the usual oranges. It was at about 100' and about 4-6" tall, just southeast of the deep bottle field outside the antler house if I remember correctly.

-Eric