Northwest Dive Club

Were these in rental service or something?

Speaking of dive-rite, we ordered 10 renal bcd's (rec. wings) slowly everysingle one of the oral inflator buttons broke... 10! of them!!! They said it was a defect and we had to order new parts. We also had a lot of problems with their regulators breaking while underwater :pale: BUT they were purch...

Thanks, both for the update and trying to clean up periodically too.

I'm ok with this whole line thing - not for me, but sounds like you all have a good time. But is there any chance some of the old lines will get removed? Some of the old gunky ones are beginning to be more like "litter". They present an entanglement hazard at times and they aren't biodegra...

I have definately gotten confused there trying to find the way back to the shorebound set of piles.

Inside the piles gets spookier all the time with them breaking and coming loose and all.

My Northern Diver fits my chest like a barrel and is too short in the arms. Also a "custom"

Sure, in some marginal area depending on the agency you may or may not need helium. DSAT is still diving deep air in their introductory tech class (150-160 ft for the final dives, 2 deco gases, no helium). A GUE curriculm has you on helium as shallow as 80ft. NAUI has a recreational He mix 26/17, an...

So Gray, how would one accumulate a full set of facts to make decisions about the need for helium? The only thing that will truly illustrate the need is f*cking something up royally at depth. Ala what happened on the U-who 13 years ago. Those people paid for their improper (IMO) gas choices with the...

Does task loading create the errors or just illustrate them? (I don't know)70ft is kinda marginal to tell. I was at ~95' doing stupid stuff. Day 4 on 30/30 = fewer mistakes. Somewhat because I learned from day 3's mistakes, some because I had a clearer head. The problem with the acclimatization to n...

Personally, I don't think you handle narcosis any better with experience, you may be less anxious about it, but the underlying impairment is still there. I took Tech1 with over 250 dives under my belt and its easy for even the reasonably experience to make major errors - mine were on video for me to...

Well nitrox or not... you dont do a night dive with your friends at 120 feet. Especially if the are newbie and still wet behind there ears... I knew, and I told jeff before we went down to our dive , That those 3 kids were going to have an accident , and that one of them was going to be going home ...

Usually if you are acute the fire dept will transport you. If you have no acute immediately life threatening injury they will arrange for a commercial ambulance. Actually, it depends on the municipality. In January Auburn FD started charging $$ to transport patients and now transports almost exclus...

Perhaps I missed it, but why was the diver taken from the scene to the hospital while experiencing no apparent problems? What it precautionary? Was the diver outwardly upset or panicked once he was back on dry land? Or, do we not know? Also, I appreciate the way this is being talked about - so many...

Were you really working that hard? Or that anxious?

CO2 can go from managable to hell spawn danged fast, if you are working hard or nervous and breathing hard - slow down and fix the situation. This is supposed to be fun afterall.

Well you're still narced. Your perception of it definately changes over time and from day to day (does for me esp. day vs. night). But your ability to respond to problems hasn't substantively improved, except maybe slightly through increased familiarity with the site, gear and buddies. Personally, I...

I don't dive air at all. The advantages of nitrox are used on most every one of my dives, I'd be heading shallower quite a few minutes earlier on most of my dives without it. And my gas choices are standardized across my team/buddys. I also don't dive 32% that close to the edge where I couldn't help...

That's nice, but unless there's some lithium hydroxide or sofolime in that mouthpiece there's no way it can deliver that much air OC. And it does say "positive pressure" - so it must be at a minimum a SCR.

The air itself weighs more than 5 pounds. Ahhh marketing.

Get a shell suit. I dove an Apollo for several years. The compression at depth and reduction in warmth was noticable, leading to having thicker undergarments, but of course that required more lead to get down... The Apollo's ankle valves are also totally BS. Its like the suit is designed to put your...

Can ya scream good expensive stuff inside any louder?

Whoo hoo a rebreather you can drive!

200 mile range sounds fantastic, but there's no head. So the real range is maybe 20 or 30 for me (at 9 knots).

Are you just going to shovel them off the rocks? How is this going to proceed?

Really curious
Richard

Must be those leased bottles. Central supplies owner Ts of He at 2400 by my gauges. I got the K of argon cause the bottle was ~$50-60 cheaper (refurbished from Fire King).

I don't see the benefit. You start with 300 cf at 2400 psi and don't boost the first 15 fills. I start with 250cf at 2200 psi and start boosting right way. We both use the bottle down to 400 psi, you return yours with ever so slightly more than I do.

Bring big tanks of 32% nitrox (if certified) 100s or larger. Stay above ~100 ft - you are more narced than you realize. Go slow and try not to see the whole ship on 1 dive. You can come back some other time, CO2 is very narcotic so take it easy. slooooow you ascents esp from 50ft to the surface. tak...

T's are too heavy and expensive (the cylinder not the gas) IMO