Northwest Dive Club

Huge change. ALL the surface and catenary buoys have been replaced. The Water Taxi and everyone else should like it. On Tues the viz difference was nothing short of remarkable. I could see the line at 40' where I couldn't find it from 4' the week before. Big applause to Randy Williamsfor working wit...

Tues. Cove 2 - My! aeroacrophobia set in. What was that strange surface WAY down there? The bottom?
Last time I dove here (last Wed.) couldn't see the bottom when ON the bottom.
Fritz

Please, report back.
Not an exchange or timing I would have picked.
Fritz

In terms of general effectiveness benadryl is a better antihistamine. It crosses the blood-brain barrier and has creates drowsiness (or other side effects) in a lot of people. The non-sedating antihistamines are tweaked to not (or at least minimally) cross the blood-brain barrier. This lowers their ...

You get a racing heart from Afrin!?! Not impossible but that would indicate a SERIOUS drug sensitivity. It ain't pseudofed-that stuff is an outright stimulant along with being a vasoconstrictor. Personally I think the most serious side effect for recreational diving is increasing the tendency for an...

Hope you meant Zyrtec, NOT Zicam. Zicam has been associated with a permanent loss of sense of smell. FDA Advises Consumers Not To Use Certain Zicam Cold Remedies Intranasal Zinc Product Linked to Loss of Sense of Smell http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm167065.htm The stuff...

Cold and allergies seem similar to the affected but they are really different things. Viruses cause a series of inflammatory reactions. Different viruses will cause different ones. Allergies cause a different series of inflammatory reactions. The symptoms of either may seem to end up being similar b...

That's beyond my realm of expertise but my general rule of thumb for clearing is if you can't clear above water, you can't clear below. The ear drum is at the very outside of the clearing process. Clearing happens via the Eustachian canal. If the membrane is intact and can take the stress it would s...

Great suggestions from the forum. For minimal drug impact go with nasal rinses. Nelli pot or nelli bottle work fine. I'm a 'bottle' user-squirt device. They have these in drug stores. Make your own rinse: 1/4 tsp. non-iodized salt in 1 C water. You can add a tad of baking soda if you find it works m...

Pretty remarkable change. Yesterday I was shoving around a 5 gallon bucket of concrete suspended from a lift/SMB bag looking for the line and had serious trouble finding it. Today, thanks to Randy's work collecting supplies, scheduling the work, and some dedicated rock, rope, and brick wrangling we ...

Good finds. Never seen a pipefish in Cove 2. We dove the Duwamish Head on Sunday. It's the corner bump just north of the boat ramp. You have to rappel down a few rocks to get there. The most interesting thing on that dive was the pink tritonia like yours. That sucka was a FOOT LONG! We measured it. ...

Grateful Diver wrote:but I'm not really good at that sort of thing. It'll be interesting to see what gets edited out ...
... Bob (Grateful Diver)

Bob, not good at talking diving......
Aw, shucks man, you are just too modest.

Fritz

Was of the impression that water had to be REALLY hot to do any good by denaturing the nematocysts. I carried vinegar around for 10 years. Don't think I'd be inclined to be boiling water and carrying it around in a Thermos for just this eventuality. AND-NW divers always get stung in the face. Boil y...

Water! NOOooo Makes residual cysts fire. Got a Lion's Mane sting. Happily (well, sorta) went back to the ER kit for the vinegar I've been carrying around for years. Get to try this out. Splash it on > NOTHING! :questionmarks: Try again > NOTHING!!! :angry: OK, saturate paper towel, lay it on face. ...

Saltwater St. Park_5/23/09 Sat. This was to check out the NEW REEF!!! Got there at 10AM to beat the park traffic. Successful but it got pretty busy later. Big minus tide > long walk to the water but short swim to the buoys. Dropped in gunk to find some artificial reef sections. Viz was maybe 5 feet....

I think anyone waiting weeks for reg service should indicate to that shop the wait is unacceptable and find another service. A number of shops do not do their own service, they send them out. So you have transit time, wasted time, and service time all ganging up on you. Find out where they go and ta...

ScubaTools - that used to be Peter Built. Haven't looked a that site in a long while. Good stuff. Appreciate the link for the sonic cleaner. Is it decent? Some of the HF stuff is just crap but there are occasional gems. I've been using plain old white vinegar for a long time. The class I took went i...

I took a diver class UWS gave that actually lasted 2 days and covered equip maintenance at a much greater depth than most non-shop folks ever get. With a background in machining (a whole year) and bike mechanic (many years) I have the aptitude and attitude to jump in. The tech at the time was open t...

There is an article Fathoms of Fear in the recent Alert Diver (May/June 09). It appears like like it should be on line at DAN (http://www.diversalertnetwork.org/). You have to be a logged in member and it's being flaky and won't let me in. I quote from the magazine article: The most common relative ...

I've got some little gizmos that look like very tiny Q-tips. They have a fiber tip rather than cotton. Might fit. I got them from a friend a long time ago but you can probably get them in a drug store. There is also the tiny brushes you can use to clean around braces and between teeth. Browse around...

Bob , Fritz , is the dive club doing 1 or 2 dives at Sunrise? Do I need to bring a buddy if I want to come? Felix One dive. If you have a buddy-great. If not, come anyway and we'll either match you or take you our self as a 3-some. When we lead dives that's the way we work. We generally hit Gig Har...

Let me get this right....you are leaving the San Juans to go dive in our local sites? Will wonders never cease. Does no one dive up there? You are welcome to come to Sunrise (Gig Harbor) for a 10 AM meet on Sunday. It's a bit of a hump to the water but a very pretty wall with some friendly wolfies a...

I don't think I have ever heard of hypocapnia before. In the scuba classes that I have taken so far instructors and books talk about to watch out for the building up of too much CO2 and Nitrogen. I did not think that not having enough CO2 could cause problems too. One thing is sure: when I was down...

Interesting point. Only reason I thought CO2 buildup is because he mentions being tired from fighting the current right before that--I'd imagine hypocapnia would be difficult to cause under that much exertion. Also, I thought hypocapnia was more of a tingling, visual disturbance thing instead of th...

Some other folks may weigh in on this. I've got about a dozen dives at Skyline. At first I followed the directions in the NW Shore book and info from Anacortes dive and was pretty successful. Then I started working on smaller exchanges. Less exchange > less current, right? Wrong at Skyline. When it ...