The return of SCUBA trivia!!!

[CaptnJack]

Nope. I've sailed on a Dauntless, but that is not the name I was given for the wreck.
-Curt

You sure? The Dauntless wrecked in the 1920s!

[ljjames]

The Flyer?

My mom used to dive on burnt wreck bits when we lived up there.

[oldsalt]

Laura, I probably dived with your mother. I have a different name. I have learned about two other wrecks, Dauntless and Flyer. A hint. The woman who told me the name of the wreck is a diver and published author.
-Curt

[CaptnJack]

Betty Pratt-Johnson?

[oldsalt]

That's the person. I met her on a dive near Anacortes. One of her books names the ship.
-Curt

[lundysd]

Curt you're stymied us all! Any other hints?

[oldsalt]

When we dived it Betty called it the Utopia. I thought it would be easy because she published it one of her books and it was frequently dived in the 80's, although not much was left. I was past the artifact collecting stage, but stuff just disappeared. How about an easier pair of wrecks - a tug towing a clipper ship which grounded off the west side of San Juan Island early in the 20th century. The clipper ship is still dived (My god-grandson did it last week) and the tug was salvaged and sank later.
-Curt

[boydski]

That one is much easier. The ship was the bark rigged America, towed by the Steamer Lorne.

The figurehead from the ship can still be seen at the Rosario Resort.

[oldsalt]

Scott, this is in your book. If we ever get together, I would like you to sign my copy.
Wreck of the America and Lorne.

You go Scott.
-Curt

[boydski]

Thanks Curt, we do need to get together one of these days (maybe in the San Juan's).

Keeping with Curt's San Juan Islands Wreck Diving theme, I'll start with a passenger vessel that was built in Seattle in 1908. At the time she was built, she was billed as the fastest passenger vessel in the world. For decades she carried passengers throughout the San Juan islands. She then worked ferrying workers to the Harbor Island shipyard for the Moran Family (Rosario Resort, Orcas Island). Eventually, she was abandoned and turned into a floating church in the San Juan's.

Today, she's stitting on the bottom in a protected harbor, a fascinating bit of history that only a few lucky divers get to visit.

[citycatred]

Thanks Curt, we do need to get together one of these days (maybe in the San Juan's).

Keeping with Curt's San Juan Islands Wreck Diving theme, I'll start with a passenger vessel that was built in Seattle in 1908. At the time she was built, she was billed as the fastest passenger vessel in the world. For decades she carried passengers throughout the San Juan islands. She then worked ferrying workers to the Harbor Island shipyard for the Moran Family (Rosario Resort, Orcas Island). Eventually, she was abandoned and turned into a floating church in the San Juan's.

Today, she's stitting on the bottom in a protected harbor, a fascinating bit of history that only a few lucky divers get to visit.

M/V Speeder?

[boydski]

M/V Speeder?

Excellent work! It was in fact the Saint Speeder that is now sitting on the bottom of Reid Harbor on Stuart Island in the San Juan Islands. This wreck is also known as the Reid Harbor Wreck.



Citycatred, you're up!

[citycatred]

I needed the help of your website to figure out that one >.< I'm not that great with wrecks....so Im going to move the subject back to biology....

I am a rare sight in the Puget Sound but I have been spotted at both Redondo and Point Hudson, my mother always told me that I was not fat... I was only big boned...yet she said that to my 300 million brothers and sisters as well....What am I?

[ktb]

I needed the help of your website to figure out that one >.< I'm not that great with wrecks....so Im going to move the subject back to biology....

I am a rare sight in the Puget Sound but I have been spotted at both Redondo and Point Hudson, my mother always told me that I was not fat... I was only big boned...yet she said that to my 300 million brothers and sisters as well....What am I?

Too easy...mola mola!

[citycatred]

I needed the help of your website to figure out that one >.< I'm not that great with wrecks....so Im going to move the subject back to biology....

I am a rare sight in the Puget Sound but I have been spotted at both Redondo and Point Hudson, my mother always told me that I was not fat... I was only big boned...yet she said that to my 300 million brothers and sisters as well....What am I?

Too easy...mola mola!

Correct =^.^= Did you know that some scientists actually consider the mola mola planktonic, since they are normally observed using the water currents to drift instead of actually swimming?

[oldsalt]

[quote="citycatred] Did you know that some scientists actually consider the mola mola planktonic, since they are normally observed using the water currents to drift instead of actually swimming?[/quote]

Especially after sea lions have bitten off their dorsal and ventral fins. A gruesome sight. I can't help but feel sorry for the sunfish.
-Curt

[citycatred]

[quote="citycatred] Did you know that some scientists actually consider the mola mola planktonic, since they are normally observed using the water currents to drift instead of actually swimming?

Especially after sea lions have bitten off their dorsal and ventral fins. A gruesome sight. I can't help but feel sorry for the sunfish.
-Curt[/quote][/quote]

Yeah there is a youtube video out there of a mola mola divers found without its fins, it pretty much just sinks to the sea floor and waits to get eaten by sea stars....that just sucks

[ktb]

[quote="citycatred] Did you know that some scientists actually consider the mola mola planktonic, since they are normally observed using the water currents to drift instead of actually swimming?

Especially after sea lions have bitten off their dorsal and ventral fins. A gruesome sight. I can't help but feel sorry for the sunfish.
-Curt

[/quote]

Yeah there is a youtube video out there of a mola mola divers found without its fins, it pretty much just sinks to the sea floor and waits to get eaten by sea stars....that just sucks[/quote][/quote][/quote]

Well THAT'S a lovely thought . . .

Damn. I guess I need to come up with a question now, eh?

[Joshua Smith]

I guess I need to come up with a question now, eh?

The answer is "yes."

Do I win?

[citycatred]

[quote="citycatred] Did you know that some scientists actually consider the mola mola planktonic, since they are normally observed using the water currents to drift instead of actually swimming?

Especially after sea lions have bitten off their dorsal and ventral fins. A gruesome sight. I can't help but feel sorry for the sunfish.
-Curt

Yeah there is a youtube video out there of a mola mola divers found without its fins, it pretty much just sinks to the sea floor and waits to get eaten by sea stars....that just sucks[/quote][/quote][/quote]

Well THAT'S a lovely thought . . .
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How about we turn that thought into an actual experience =^.^= heres the video [youtube]http://youtu.be/FGS8yBQ5Yt8[/youtube]

[ktb]

Sick and wrong.

[defied]

Is that the question? If so, then... "yes"...

D

[citycatred]

Is that the question? If so, then... "yes"...

D

We already know you are sick and wrong defied

[ktb]

Thank you Sonia!

And now, my question:
How many hyperbaric treatment centers are there in Washington State? (And yes, I'm including non-public ones.)

[citycatred]

Thank you Sonia!

And now, my question:
How many hyperbaric treatment centers are there in Washington State? (And yes, I'm including non-public ones.)

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