Northwest Dive Club

I figured I had better change from the Red Irish Santa now that Christmas is over, so I have several 'general diving' photos already presized that I use for the front page of pnwscuba, and grabbed that one! Love the colors. Was trying to figure out how to caption it on here, but didn't know how. So ...

Today, I was out geocaching with some other divers (yes, we do have other hobbies besides diving!) and we were hunting some over at Alki... I realized I didn't have a good photo for my dive site directions page on my pnwscuba website, so we stopped so I could take a few shots of the beach area. Who ...

Holly, great shots for your first time around! Taking pics underwater is quite addicting and you'll just get better and better.... Sea Life sells a specially made weight that goes on the INSIDE of the strobe, in the battery compartment. This solves the problem - it's basically that huge strobe head ...

From time to time, I get stupid theives walking into my store with stolen gear, thinking I might "buy" it. Amy, that stinks. I was in your fins last April when teaching a Fish ID class at Titlow. My van was broken into while we were underwater and everything valuable (DVD player, Laptop, ...

Wow, she did it. Whatever this gal sets off to do, she accomplishes it in a BIG way, that's for sure. She (our own ZenDiver) has worked for an attained the highly esteemed Dive Emergency Specialist Instructor certification. There are only TWO other DES Instructors in the entire State of Washington, ...

Don't tides and currents push the Noxious Nastiness to other locations? So it wouldn't stay centralized, but rather drift all over Puget Sound?

But, as you say, is it enough to dilute it to safe levels?

- Janna

I think I'd think twice about diving in the Sound anytime soon!!! http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003480669_stormsewage16m.html "While the massive but relatively brief spill isn't expected to cause long-term environmental damage on its own, health officials were advising people...

hehe, yeah, he was very much a 'real' person when we had a conversation. Showing us pics of his new grandbaby and talking about how yummy lingcod are

- Janna

Well, I do know last April or so, she authorized some emergency funding to go to the Styela clava tunicate problem, so that seemed pretty good. I don't know that she's been in office long enough to have a track record...anyone else have a feel for this? And yes, Congressman Norm Dicks spoke, as well...

The dive community was well represented by Washington Scuba Alliance members at a press conference for Governor Gregoire and the Puget Sound Partnership on December 13th, 2006. Divers wearing drysuits and were interviewed and photographed by many members of the press. Governor Gregoire specifically ...

I've seen orcas plenty of times right BEFORE or AFTER a dive, but never DURING a dive. And when you think about how close they'd have to be to you, in order for you to actually SEE them....hmmmm....that would be a tad bit unnerving. and considering the stuff they like for dinner is about our size, a...

Bob, Do you know if there is any kind of Civil penalty? A civil suit could be brought against Dave by Chad's family ... but I do not know if they are considering such an action. Nor do I know if there would be any benefit to their doing so, since Dave had no insurance . Right now what Chad's loved ...

- Janna :) How in the world did you get that Red Irish Lord to pose with that santa hat on? When I tried to put a Santa hat on one of those lingcod at EUP, he just kept knocking it off with his pectoral fin. Tim Ah, well, I've been at this just a few years longer than you, Tim. Patience. It took ye...

I saw this one on TV last week and laughed so hard!!! Loved it!

- Janna

One of the things I have loved about being underwater is the fact that even in the worst allergy seasons, I don't seem to feel the need to sneeze underwater. Even when sneezing topside before and after the dive! Did you have a cold? Allergy? Any reason you can think of WHY you'd have the urge to sne...

What she said

And a BIG welcome to one of my favorite Tunicator Terminators!

- Janna

I always say,

"Lights on for Safety"

Dive lights aren't just for looking at stuff - they're critical when locating a buddy in bad vis!

- Janna

Well, it's a blog in the PI, but still it's pretty cool stuff!

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/envi ... 108693.asp

- Janna

I'm in for counting fish too! I don't have a slate (yet). FISH-O! :bounce: And... Rest-A-While has WiFi so if we were really inclined, we could enter our surveys online right there from the campsite! \:D/ Wishful thinking, Sounder!! REEF hasn't set up online data submissions for the PNW yet. The ev...

The tug sounds cool, actually! How was the food and the accomodations? I have a friend who dove in the Agememnon channel YEARS ago, and stayed on a tug, but then the guy went out of business - I have to wonder if this is the same tug, resurrected with a new owner! I'd love to see photos and more inf...

I think the place I'm talking about is something different. Browning Pass Hideaway If you were moored in Clam Cove, did you notice this other place while you were there? I did find a little contact info about your charter: http://vancouver-webpages.com/diveBC/stores/bcspacific31989.shtml But that's ...

Has anyone ever been to this place? It's an alternative to God's Pocket. I hear the hideaway is a floating lodge, very primitive, but the prices are very good and about half the cost of God's Pocket. I want a warm place, comfy bed, decent food, and a bathroom is always good. A dive operator who know...

Well, you're gonna laugh, but I have a really simple basic setup!! And it's FILM, not digital. I use a Sea&Sea MX-10 with a YS-40 strobe. It's just a little yellow underwater camera, 35mm, and an attached strobe. Nothing fancy, and I think you can pick one up for about $200. I also have a closeu...

I led a REEF Field Survey to Rendezvous Lodge at the beginning of October, and have finally gotten my underwater pics scanned in a month later! I know I'm slow! And yes, some of us still like film :) So I posted a sampling of the underwater ones, along with some of the topside photos on my smugmug p...

Try this site too. http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/race/media/photo_gallery/invert_by_phylum.htm If you can't find what you're looking for, give me some more details about how large, what depth, etc and I can ask Dr Crabby himself, Greg Jensen (who just happened to write the book on crabs and shrimps) :) H...