Northwest Dive Club

You can take a look at my personal dive website if you like. It allows you to select the type of dive you want to do and will kick out the results along with photos and reviews. Let me know if you find it helpful. The link is below in my sig. Hey thanks for the link and offer...I bet it will be of ...

It's currently 3 degrees outside and the winds are gusting to 60mph! Making for somewhere around -25 wind chill. It's not cold it's freaking cold. Good news is that it should be 30 on Saturday! Still a little cold for my new guys. Chuck, I HATE the pool! If I never had to do another pool dive as lo...

I dove on Saturday morning admist gale force winds and a blizzard in my WETSUIT! (My drysuit is in the shop.) Hardcore baby! \:D/ Way to go!!!! I have been doing the same here in Texas the past few weeks....waiting on a dry suit part so have been in the wet suit....we even did one day last weekend ...

A bit of both, I won't take students out less than 36 degrees. I've done it many times and it's miserable and IMO dangerous. I've become more conservative with students as I get older. The water might be in the mid 30's but usually there is no place to hide from the cold on a surface interval. So, ...

I had scheduled my Openwater class this weekend but mother nature seems to have other plans. .SAT...N WIND 30 KT. SEAS 6 FT HIGHS AROUND 28. .SUN...N GALE TO 40 KT. SEAS 7 FT. HEAVY FREEZING SPRAY HIGHS AROUND 19 #-o . It's a little colder than my minimum 36-38 that I like to have for my classes. C...

I had scheduled my Openwater class this weekend but mother nature seems to have other plans. .SAT...N WIND 30 KT. SEAS 6 FT HIGHS AROUND 28. .SUN...N GALE TO 40 KT. SEAS 7 FT. HEAVY FREEZING SPRAY HIGHS AROUND 19 #-o . It's a little colder than my minimum 36-38 that I like to have for my classes. C...

Let us know when you are going to be here, and I'm quite sure that you'll have no lack of people offering to meet up and show you our local mudholes. There's really quite a bit of good diving from shore, and some superb sites accessible by boat. Appretiate the offer....seems like folks here are ver...

Welcome Tex! You'll find no shortage of great folks to dive with up here... these folks DIVE! Did you ever dive the Flower Garden Banks in your time in the Lone Star State? Thinking about trying to do that in May when I'm in Houston... short jaunt to San Antonio and the charter for the 100 mile tri...

Here ya go: http://www.amazon.com/Northwest-Shore-Dives-Stephen-Fischnaller/dp/0961710624/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1196382726&sr=8-1 Has just about everything you need to know to get started in salt water at some of the more prolific sites (critterwise). Current tables availa...

How many days do you have? Do you have access to the Steve Fischnaller Shore Dives book? If you have a weekend or so, I'd recommend: Edmonds Underwater Park Keystone Sunrise Beach Park 3 of the better PNW sites. The first is easy breezy, the latter 2 are fairly straight forward if you have the book...

Any dive locations for a visitor 'new' to this area to get their fins wet both in salt and fresh waters....something not overly complicated for a NW newbie-?

Could only probably spend 4-5 days diving and would be caring all my own gear minus any gas fills.

Thanks in advance..

Thanks again guys for the nice words......I am thinking late spring 08' at this point, as I will be diving The Lakes later in the summer for a few weeks.

I will defl. want to hook-up with you folks whom are experienced NW divers....I will be as green as they come.

Thinsulate and fleece.

I have a 03' Ford Focus Station Wagon that works great for kitting up and transporting dive gear.

The reasons why they were probably doing this wasn't as a space but more to "in theory" maximize the economics. In the big scheme of thing, scrubber is cheap and trying to save $5.00 worth of scrubber can get you killed. It's cheaper than Nitrox. Dave You would think that they would reali...

Burntchef wrote:welcome tex, i do recognize the name from the tds. let us know when your coming up so i can place a order for some smoked brisket!

LOL...I will do! :-)

Seth T. wrote:Welcome! NW diving is true diving! None of this 85 degree, 200 foot viz crap like in the tropics!

Thats for me!!!! Vis is to highly over rated anyways....

Thanks fellows for the warm welcome and info.. I do look forward to a spin up NW in the future...I have never travel in that part of our wonderful USA!

Well I bet you can tell already I am not from the NW area. Brand new to this board, I am hoping that in hanging out I will gain some insights as to the dive opportunities that await the NW newbie visiting diver. Look forward to reading current and past post. Wishing each of you safe and fun diving!!