Northwest Dive Club

Pepe is a squat lobster,

I should have said "crustacean", instead, so that I didn't look quite as silly. Crab-like? Ah well.

Thanks for the clarification Dusty!

Thanks for the amazing photos! Those were all outstanding.

:biggrin:

Matt and I went to Octopus Hole today, and probably the MOST exciting thing for me was that it was my 10th dive. That's right! I've moved into double digits! I'm VERY excited, which is why the subject line should be sung, when you read it. We went to the shallow wall and saw tons of stuff, including...

Awesome photos!

What's the third picture of, the one on the net?

Look. I'm posting to myself. More too much time: This website is simply ... WRONG. I'm posing the link to this particular page for the bread commercial video about halfway down the page. I am a girl of the 80's, but SERIOUSLY? http://pictureisunrelated.com/page/3/ Anyone have their own "too muc...

So, I'm just surfing the net, waiting for Matt to finish packing up, and I came across this web site http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/ It says "The Dialectizer takes text or other web pages and instantly creates parodies of them! Try it out by selecting a dialect, then entering a URL or English...

Im in for the ratfish song!!!!

<polishing up the keytar>

I can play the spoons.

Nwbrewer wrote:Not that shark anything is high on my personal menu choices. It's pretty much down there with domestic pets and rodents. :huge: I've had domestic pets and rodents. Take my word for it, shark has to be better. No, I am not endorsing eating sharks... Gator is good though. They have BBQ...

Jenbowes wrote: Poor girl squids. :uh: ...did you miss the part about the male's losing "parts of his arms and tentacles in the violent struggle?" Self-defense. I tried the link, too, Spat, and it didn't work. The only video I could find of squid spawning was this one http://squid.us/hi-d...

Honestly, I thought that you had photoshopped those pictures, because they look completely UNREAL so I looked up "squid fertilization penis" in google - and mostly got normal sites. But OH! The horror of the sex lives of squid! http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,598222,00...

So, the next question then is how does the sperm get on her arms? (okay, this question is PRIME for jacking ...AAAHHHHHHAAAAAAAA!! wait? am I diverting my own post? STOP ME!) And am I still correct that the male squid has a "packet of sperm", not just individual ones? Thanks for your resea...

Neat! So the eggs are fertilized after? I thought they were fertilized while still in the cavity.

Cool! ... Now I want to see a video of this taking place!


... Pez?

Okay, I took this off the net. But now you know what they look like. Awesome photos, Pez, and good visual to my question! But Pez, I already KNEW that! I saw them on my 5th dive at Sunnyside (the only interesting thing we saw that day, as I practiced my trim and buoyancy). What I don't know is how ...

No, I don't have a picture of it. I have a question about the egg sacks. If I remember my 1992 Zoology correctly, the female squid has a bunch of eggs just floating in her mantle, and the boy squid swims up to her with the romantic gift of a spermatazoa packet (awww, yummy!). He then says hey baby a...

"I coulda been a contender!" What a drag about the fall! I'm so very sorry and I hope you have a very speedy recovery, not too much pain, and a lot of people pampering you over the next 2 months - POOF, make it so! On the plus side, you have a KILLER shiner, and so that's something. (I use...

You wouldn't need gas if you could do this.....amazing! http://www.verticalblue.net/freediving_gallery.php# I literally couldn't watch this video all the way through, it made me so nervous and uncomfortable. But, what I did see was amazing. On the brief moments when my brain wasn't screaming "...

Someone posted this early on in the West Seattle blog: I happened to be at Seacrest when this happened today, they were saying that one of the divers had a heart attack. Comment by anna — April 3, 09 9:38 pm # I've tried to find out more info since it happened, but no news. And as they say, no news ...

... people suck

Mostly Tiger Sharks, Mako Sharks, Bull Sharks, Oceanic Whitetip sharks, Seasnakes, Barracudas, and flesh-eating water scorpions down there, I hear. Flesh-eating scorpions? My FAVS! Thanks! Paul Humann and Ned DeLoach's 3 Volume Reef ID set will set you back about $75 on Amazon. If you're serious ab...

We're staying at CoCo view.

Okay, dive compadres! We're going to Roatan for a week in May, and if I don't know Pacific NW water creatures (which I DON'T), I SURELY don't know Caribbean/Golf of Honduras ones! So, if anyone is interested in sharing, please do so. You can add whatever you think would be helpful and interesting fo...

You know, taking pruning sheers with you on a dive will kill you. They're a death trap waiting to spring.

Awesome! Thanks for this info.

I'll take a more thorough gander of the websites and keep my eyes peeled!

OH, but I should also say that my hoses were well tucked in and not threatening to snag on anything.

... unlike SOME divers...

Agreed! I'm also pretty impressed that she found anywhere in the park that was 45 feet deep! I think I got to, like, 32 feet there once....

I was in the ferry lane, of course!

.... at night

... without a light

... at 500 PSI

... in shorts ...

Textbook dive, I think!