Northwest Dive Club

So sad that I wasn't able to make it! Thanks to Delta I ended up being delayed and had to spend the night in Detroit of all places. I hope the dives were good! It's really sad to see you guys go, but I'm definitely planning a trip to Florida sometime in the future!

It's difficult to tell a molted crab shell from a dead crab. Things eat the molted shells, and unless you pull the body apart and find the liver, I'd be skeptical of calling it a dead crab.

I saw a ton of crab molts there on Monday.

I'll be up there tonight, probably a bit later than your splash time though.

Up at Neah Bay the grey whales were feeding pretty close to the rock jetty. My husband dropped off the boat and met one face to face! But, these 'events' will probably be few and far between for you, unfortunately. If you need any info on the UW, feel free to drop me a line as I'm currently a gradua...

Cool, I head to St. John in August. Can't wait, although the lack of a dive buddy is perplexing.

In for the 6:30pm dive.

There'll be a group of us camping out there this weekend at Hobuck. I'm not sure if the boats will be at the campground or at the docks between dives. I'm sure you could find us by locating the cars with dive stickers :P

pensacoladiver wrote:No worries, even with the folks who are turning tail and running, there will still be plenty of folks out there to dive. Even with 4 divers in the boat, it will be a great day.

Damn straight

Peeps are dropping like flies!

FWIW.... Im gonna get my 5 bucks back from you this time Chad! :boxer: Good to hear you are in for the trip. You seem quite confident in your above post. With that confidence, I am sure you would not mind upping the ante a bit... say $20.00, $50.00, $100.00??? So who all is in on the lingzilla wage...

Can you bring it home from Neah Bay on the last day? If so, I might just be able to have my name as the collector. :joshsmith: :joshsmith: Don't forget science can't tolerate any holes, you gotta catch it by hand :smt064 Hehe, while that would be nice, we're obviously happy to just have one :) Don'...

Can you bring it home from Neah Bay on the last day? If so, I might just be able to have my name as the collector. :joshsmith: :joshsmith: Don't forget science can't tolerate any holes, you gotta catch it by hand :smt064 Hehe, while that would be nice, we're obviously happy to just have one :)

FWIW.... Im gonna get my 5 bucks back from you this time Chad! :boxer: Good to hear you are in for the trip. You seem quite confident in your above post. With that confidence, I am sure you would not mind upping the ante a bit... say $20.00, $50.00, $100.00??? So who all is in on the lingzilla wage...

I'm still trying to decide what to bring, but it'll probably include something I've foraged (morels, spring kings (porcinis), stinging nettles made into pesto), and some of my charcuterie stuff (bacon, pancetta) from a pig I got from a local farmer raised naturally/sustainably. Oh, and this past wee...

sign me up for the 21st on cory's boat. 22nd and 23rd on chads boat if thats okay with him... (btw anyone else notice the "st, nd, and rd"?) I put you down on Chad's boat for those three days as Cory may or may not be staying. There'll probably be enough room during the week so it shouldn...

I just got my speargun and an SMB yesterday, I'm ready. :snipersmiley: Wish we had some more boats though. Yeah, definitely. As no one else has pulled out, this may be the final assignment for the boats: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=0Av80wdnVFc9LdE9OdTdOMGlyQ01pYmtPbnowNGNmcVE&hl=en&a...

Wish I could make it, but I don't even get off work until 5pm, and tomorrow Greg will have the car until late :\ Disembowel some barbies for me please!!

pensacoladiver wrote:Can you bring it home from Neah Bay on the last day? If so, I might just be able to have my name as the collector.

Yep, I can certainly do that!

It turns out that the UW Fish Collection does not have a good-sized cabezon. If anyone is willing to donate a cabezon, that would be awesome. It doesn't need to be cabzilla, just a nice-sized adult (all we have are tiny ones). These fish are used for multiple purposes, including training observers t...

I hope the vis is better in Neah Bay - yesterday it was so hard to see (maybe 5 feet max) that cabzilla ran into ME (and no, I was not about to shoot myself in the stomach).

WASP7000 wrote:Dang, where'd you guys go? Altitude, temp, etc? Been thinking about heading out and looking myself but haven't yet.

Don't you know that mushroom locations are top secret? But try the Leavenworth area, at least 1800 feet.

Last weekend's hunt:



Can you smell the grilled bacon-wrapped morel-stuffed lingcod fillets??

I'll try to make that!

Did you have the preferred plan Matt?

I'm guessing it doesn't matter which plan you have though, a dive, by their definition, remains the same?