Hey. I'm new here, and live in Seattle.

[kf7lze]

Hey everyone. I signed up here after a couple of people separately told me about it. I forgot to bring fins with me to Cove 2 one day and a nice woman putting on a dry suit told me where a nearby shop was, and then came and handed me a NW Dive Club sticker a little bit later. My friend Rachel also told me to come on here...so here I am.

I finished my OW on 6/10 and have been on 4 dives since then, two at Cove 2 and two at Redondo. I'm learning how to use a dry suit in a few weeks, pretty excited about that.

As far as what I do when I'm not underwater, I repair electronics and work at a company on the Eastside staring at a computer screen most of the day. Great to meet everyone!

[Penopolypants]

Welcome to the board!

[Zen Diver]

Welcome! You'll find lots of folks here who enjoy diving with new divers, and lots of dive opportunities here.

[rgugler]

Does your friend Rachel happen to work at UW as a fisheries biologist?

[kf7lze]

Yup that's the one.

[rgugler]

Small world! I met her in January when she was doing the fish ID tests for NMFS observers 4 day briefings! I asked her about SCUBA in Seattle, and she may have actually pointed me to this site, but my 4 day briefing was a little crazy with the blizzard and then I forgot by the time I got back from Alaska in April. Glad I found it again on my own!

[BASSMAN]

Welcome to our addiction!
And welcome to the club!
Please say "Hi" to Racheal, our Frog fishy friend.
It's been way too long since I've seen her at one of our Thursday dives.
If you get a chance, come South and join in on one of the South Sound Dives on Thursday, I'll give you a tour of one of our South dive sites!

Keith.

Glad you decided to join!

[kf7lze]

I'm actually going to be down in the south sound area on Thursday already...but am unsure if I'll be able to make it out diving. Sounds like there's a lot of regular events though, I'm excited to make it out for some of them and get some more time under water.

[BASSMAN]

I'm actually going to be down in the south sound area on Thursday already...but am unsure if I'll be able to make it out diving. Sounds like there's a lot of regular events though, I'm excited to make it out for some of them and get some more time under water.

If your in the area, you can always stop by and say, "Hi" and get a first hand dive report
If you have your gear and the time, come dive!


Keith.

[kf7lze]

Since my meeting in Tacoma ends at 3, I should be good on time to actually go under water...and it sounds like there's an early group getting together. I don't want to do a night dive just yet.

I'm competent but still new, I hope that won't be a problem for anyone. I'm still working out air consumption and stuff like that, have only managed 33 minutes on an AL 80 so far, surfacing around 500-600 psi.

[BASSMAN]

Since my meeting in Tacoma ends at 3, I should be good on time to actually go under water...and it sounds like there's an early group getting together. I don't want to do a night dive just yet.

I'm competent but still new, I hope that won't be a problem for anyone. I'm still working out air consumption and stuff like that, have only managed 33 minutes on an AL 80 so far, surfacing around 500-600 psi.

If I get my aluminum 80 back from being vis insp. I might actually join you on the first dive and we'll do a nice shallow comfortable dive. I bet I could get 30 min out of an 80 LP.
Just a maybe, I'm trying to limit my dives to, two a day, so I'm not stressing my back out.
3 or 4 dives in Bonaire is no problem.
If I decide to not dive, is there someone who is willing to dive with kf7lze on that first dive?

[RoxnDox]

Since my meeting in Tacoma ends at 3, I should be good on time to actually go under water...and it sounds like there's an early group getting together. I don't want to do a night dive just yet.

I'm competent but still new, I hope that won't be a problem for anyone. I'm still working out air consumption and stuff like that, have only managed 33 minutes on an AL 80 so far, surfacing around 500-600 psi.

If I get my aluminum 80 back from being vis insp. I might actually join you on the first dive and we'll do a nice shallow comfortable dive. I bet I could get 30 min out of an 80 LP.
Just a maybe, I'm trying to limit my dives to, two a day, so I'm not stressing my back out.
3 or 4 dives in Bonaire is no problem.
If I decide to not dive, is there someone who is willing to dive with kf7lze on that first dive?

I'd be happy to drop with ya, Kilo Fox 7 I'm still new too and this is just planned as a get-back-underwater "checkout" dive for me. Shallow and short just seems to be the way my life operates (diving wise anyway)

Jim

[kf7lze]

Works for me! Sounds like I should be set with or without a big tank, then

Looking forward to meeting you guys.

[kf7lze]

I did just find out I secured an LP95, but I like this idea of taking it easy on the first one, so Jim: shallow and short it is!