Northwest Dive Club

Lighter fare... Have you ever taken a liquid with you (water, juice, coffee, etc) while diving, and successfully been able to take a drink without getting a mouth full of seawater? If so, how did you do it? Does a Camelback work? How 'bout a plastic bottle with a pull-top spout, like bicyclists use...

Now that's a water leak!

A light but interesting article about saturation diving in NY's water supply in the Times on Sunday:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/nyreg ... wanted=all

And a local commercial diving outfit here in Seattle gets a little press too.

-Eric

I'm hoping to be promoted to the assistant vice assistant supervisor to the under director of upper middle management.

-Eric

Me too... it's creeping by. Anyone want to meet in downtown Seattle for a martini lunch? Crap. I just got back from lunch and it was martini-less. Give me more of a heads up if you're drinking during the day downtown. I did stop by the Pacific Marine Expo this morning at Qwest... and was totally bo...

Pez7378 wrote:

Fishstiq wrote:Doug, couldn't you wait until after Thanksgiving to start this?


I'm gonna ask for people to be nice to me.

Santa isn't real! You're wasting your time here.

Oy vey. Must you ruin my holidays with information like that?

-Eric

Sounds like we have a pretty good turnout tonight. I will see you all there. Someone is going to be there with bells on. That will be a first for me. I hope he attracts some six gills. I haven't seen one there in several years. Well crap, I guess I need to find some non figurative bells on short no...

(Spatman gets eight retractors) :evil4: only eight!??! where am i supposed to clip off my barry bonds bobblehead octo keeper, ricky ricardo maracas shaker noise maker, redundant back up scoobydoo folding snorkel, captain picard laser pointer, etch-a-sketch dive slate, spongebob safety sausage, and ...

I saw these folks at the Ballard farmer's market recently: Puncontrollable.com.

Expensive shirts... but funny nonetheless.

Keep your friends close and your anemones closer

or

Squid Pro Quo

-Eric

Gear's in the car... I'll be there tonight

-Eric

All, I'm all signed up for the fundies on Dec 4 here in Seattle with Steve, and was wondering if anyone else was interested in taking the class at that time. Or does anyone know of a diver out there that is even moderately interested? Right now I'm the only person who has applied for the class on GU...

I found my iriver housing the other day. It might fit a nano or shuffle if someone wants to play with it. It has never been used since I bought it on a lark a couple years ago.

PM if you're interested in borrowing it.

-Eric

I think the Duamish needs some immodium AD. Or maybe someone redirected the Mississippi river into Puget sound last night? I took these photos this morning from Pier 69 on Elliot Bay right near high tide across the water from Alki. If anyone is headed to cove2 today I would rethink you plans. From e...

http://www.h2oaudio.com/waterproof_dive.php Anyone here used one of these yet? Just curious. I buddied up with someone on a dive boat in Hawaii a few years ago that had one of those h2oaudio iriver dealies. Even for the required stop at 15 feet it was pretty fun to hang there and listen to one of h...

A few of us are meeting at Redondo tonight at 7 PM if anyone is interested in joining up.

PM me if you think you might stop by.

Thanks!

-Eric

Looking on the googles I found a couple pages that outline basic scuba nav: http://www.ukdivers.net/diving/uwnav.htm http://www.geocities.com/k_o_dionysus/scuba/uw_nav/basics.html#comp The quality of the writing is up for debate.... but regardless of how useful or valid the information in these link...

Handheld HID maybe?

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/gear-e ... dheld.html

-Eric

Pinnacle 3mm marino wool lined wetsuit . Its as warm as a 5mm. And I've beaten a couple pinnacle wetsuits up pretty hard and I'm here to say they're sturdy as all get out. Wool is your friend. You can cop a feel of my wool lined drysuit hood the next time we bump into each other. A back inflate BC ...

I would cast another vote for an Honda element. For me its not just the rubber floor mats/hosability, spaciousness, honda reliability, etc... at my height I just fit in the thing really well... which is a rarity. The seats and mirrors and everything are just in the placed right for my frame. However...

I'm not sure any backup style light is bright enough for the über darkness of the pacnorwest daylight to be used a primary. And that's not just because of how freaking bright other people's lights are that I dive with. -Eric The Raider should be bright enough. It's got the same LED I use in my prim...

Very cool. Thanks! Now...know anything about the different raiders? :book: Nope. I have a couple H scout lights that I still can't deploy without failing around. I suggest hunting around scubaboard and the deco stop for reviews if you're in the slacking/surfing mood. ANd why cant' you use velcro on...

There seem to be several versions of the Raider. What do I need to know between the versions besides just plain old price? And what is a goodman handle? Or a light sock? I was reading a thread on the oxycheq raider and they were referring to these terms. THanks. This is a light sock ? (never seen o...

SockMonkey is an addict. He was out at Cove 2 tonight in weather that made ME wonder if I wanted to go diving, and what did he want to do? SKILLS! I had no idea there was any other kind of weather around here. Why else dive with such a bright light during the day? OK, 1 more.... You use spit or 'se...

Scott/Richard, Thanks for the heads up on your experience with DR lights... and I couldn't agree more about those threads. Shortly after posting the photos here I added a couple wire ties to secure the light head to the base. The shallow threads are already pretty well stripped. I found a stainless ...

Pez7378 wrote:To steal a line from Mr. Lutovsky:

Clearly you people have an addiction to diving that makes Crack addicts uncomfortable!

Frankly I think you folks need an intervention...................

Pot.
Kettle.
Black.

I didn't include Pez's pamphlet-you-find-outside-the-school-nurses'-office material... because it was just that funny.... and scary. Did I miss anything? You start to assess your land friend's ability to have your back when things go to hell. You no longer detect the musty mold smell your car has ac...