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- Mon May 06, 2024 7:33 pm
- Forum: Introductions (New Visitors, Start Here)
- Topic: New to Seattle-Looking for Advice/Dives/Dive Buddies
- Replies: 15
- Views: 709
Re: New to Seattle-Looking for Advice/Dives/Dive Buddies
Wow that is a really nice looking and sounding suit. And they’re 1/3 the price of other manufacturers?
- Mon May 06, 2024 1:48 pm
- Forum: Introductions (New Visitors, Start Here)
- Topic: New to Seattle-Looking for Advice/Dives/Dive Buddies
- Replies: 15
- Views: 709
Re: New to Seattle-Looking for Advice/Dives/Dive Buddies
Welcome to the best diving in the world. For drysuits check out Seaskin. They're about 1/3 the price of a DUI, Bare, or Santi and are fully custom at that price. I dove farmer-john and semi-dry for years here but loathed the surface internal regardless of season. Hour plus dives also suck when wet ...
- Sat May 04, 2024 10:42 am
- Forum: Introductions (New Visitors, Start Here)
- Topic: New to Seattle-Looking for Advice/Dives/Dive Buddies
- Replies: 15
- Views: 709
Re: New to Seattle-Looking for Advice/Dives/Dive Buddies
Great photos!
- Wed May 01, 2024 2:13 pm
- Forum: Introductions (New Visitors, Start Here)
- Topic: New to Seattle-Looking for Advice/Dives/Dive Buddies
- Replies: 15
- Views: 709
Re: New to Seattle-Looking for Advice/Dives/Dive Buddies
Yes sure thing you can dive in a wetsuit and many of us start that way. You’ll probably want a 7mm farmer John type suit unless you are truly not bothered by the cold. And the water temps don’t change THAT much from summer to winter, at depth. Usually in the 49 - 53 degree range I think. You can ren...
- Wed May 01, 2024 8:25 am
- Forum: Introductions (New Visitors, Start Here)
- Topic: New to Seattle-Looking for Advice/Dives/Dive Buddies
- Replies: 15
- Views: 709
Re: New to Seattle-Looking for Advice/Dives/Dive Buddies
Welcome to NWDC! Nice photos. That one of the iguana with one claw out is awesome, and looks like he’s at a bar waiting for his next drink
Plenty of dive sites in the area and people doing regular dives. Are you already set up to dive dry or with a wetsuit?
Plenty of dive sites in the area and people doing regular dives. Are you already set up to dive dry or with a wetsuit?
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:08 am
- Forum: Introductions (New Visitors, Start Here)
- Topic: Florida transplant hoping to get certified!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4151
Re: Florida transplant hoping to get certified!
Haha, you might have to up the age of dive buddy around here. Some of us are geezers now!
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 6:07 pm
- Forum: Introductions (New Visitors, Start Here)
- Topic: Science diver* transplant looking to find community and keep up my diving experience
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3650
Re: Science diver* transplant looking to find community and keep up my diving experience
Ouch, mine showed up and indeed it was only the green weight!
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 11:32 am
- Forum: Introductions (New Visitors, Start Here)
- Topic: Science diver* transplant looking to find community and keep up my diving experience
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3650
Re: Science diver* transplant looking to find community and keep up my diving experience
Bonus: I stumbled on this the other day-- the most screaming deal for soft weights I've ever found! Less than $1/pound. Holy smokes, am I reading this right? Soft weights are usually $5 a pound or more. (Might be a mistake, grab it fast.) https://www.walmart.com/ip/Soft-Weight-Bag-Pouch-Lead-for-BC...
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 5:55 pm
- Forum: Introductions (New Visitors, Start Here)
- Topic: Science diver* transplant looking to find community and keep up my diving experience
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3650
Re: Science diver* transplant looking to find community and keep up my diving experience
Welcome to NWDC! Glad you found your passion even if there was a wrong turn toward academia along the way. Better to realize it before going even further in that direction! You’ll find many divers here but what’s probably the best is to jump in on a weekly dive in the South Sound sometime. ScubaJess...
- Mon Dec 04, 2023 8:04 pm
- Forum: Introductions (New Visitors, Start Here)
- Topic: Newbie diver saying hello
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3688
Re: Newbie diver saying hello
This is a smart approach of being on the right side of caution, imho.Scuba-T wrote:Thanks for the invite to the night dive, but I thought about it and I think that's a bit beyond my comfort zone at this point. However, if you do get a dive on a weekend together I'd definitely be interested.
- Wed Nov 01, 2023 5:25 pm
- Forum: Introductions (New Visitors, Start Here)
- Topic: Newbie diver saying hello
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3688
Re: Newbie diver saying hello
A trustworthy primary and also a backup light, I’d say for starters.
- Thu Oct 26, 2023 1:25 pm
- Forum: Introductions (New Visitors, Start Here)
- Topic: Newbie diver saying hello
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3688
Re: Newbie diver saying hello
Welcome to NWDC, sounds like you’re starting out in all the right ways!
- Mon Sep 25, 2023 7:33 pm
- Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
- Topic: Scuba Jess pics
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2104
Re: Scuba Jess pics
I love it. Are these from Port Hardy?
- Sat Sep 09, 2023 2:20 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Mystery Golden Orb found in Alaska
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1449
Re: Mystery Golden Orb found in Alaska
They should use this as inspiration for the next Alien movie.
- Fri Sep 08, 2023 11:41 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Mystery Golden Orb found in Alaska
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1449
- Fri Sep 08, 2023 5:23 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 5432
- Views: 1041512
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Gorgeous photos and love the illustrations and descriptions, Jan. Please keep them coming. Though I can't be in the water lately, this is the next best thing by a mile!
- Sun Aug 27, 2023 8:53 am
- Forum: Introductions (New Visitors, Start Here)
- Topic: Beginner Diver - looking for partners to explore dive sites around the PNW with
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1541
Re: Beginner Diver - looking for partners to explore dive sites around the PNW with
Hello Sousheel, and welcome to the board! Sounds like you’ve had some great dive travels already, that’s great. As far as PNW diving, a lot of it is done from shore. There are weekly dives happening both south and north of Seattle. You’ll find more info in the Dive Planning section of the site. This...
- Tue Aug 22, 2023 4:07 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 5432
- Views: 1041512
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Gorgeous colors, Jan. Those tunicates are so cool. I think I need some "mushroom compound"!
- Tue Aug 22, 2023 1:09 pm
- Forum: General Info
- Topic: NWDC Website Planned Maintenance
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4350
Re: NWDC Website Planned Maintenance
Well, the board still seems to be here after that operation. Yay!
Carry on folks, and sorry for any downtime you may have experienced!
Carry on folks, and sorry for any downtime you may have experienced!
- Tue Aug 22, 2023 1:02 pm
- Forum: General Info
- Topic: NWDC Website Planned Maintenance
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4350
Re: NWDC Website Planned Maintenance
test test 123
- Mon Aug 21, 2023 1:47 pm
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
- Replies: 5432
- Views: 1041512
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Love the GPO pic, Jan - hard to get photos of them that look like they do in real life. I think you nailed it here though!
- Mon Aug 21, 2023 11:46 am
- Forum: General Info
- Topic: NWDC Website Planned Maintenance
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4350
NWDC Website Planned Maintenance
Hello All, Please know that the board will be undergoing some maintenance tomorrow, August 22nd, at around Noon. During this time the website may be down or less functional than normal. So, if you are authoring an extremely detailed dive report or dive site listing, please back that content up somew...
- Mon Aug 21, 2023 11:41 am
- Forum: Gear Central (Recreational)
- Topic: Picked up more gear
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1847
Re: Picked up more gear
Jeff is a terrific guy and very knowledgeable!
- Tue Jun 20, 2023 1:00 pm
- Forum: Introductions (New Visitors, Start Here)
- Topic: Diving again after a long break
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2668
Re: Diving again after a long break
Welcome back Don!
- Sun May 14, 2023 2:42 pm
- Forum: Introductions (New Visitors, Start Here)
- Topic: New to WA - Looking for Dive Buddies
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2367
Re: New to WA - Looking for Dive Buddies
Hello Brendan and welcome to NWDC! From what I hear Colorado has a lot of divers but not a ton of great dive sites. You will find lots of both here in WA! There are typically weekly dives both north and south of Seattle. Edmond Underwater Park is a well known dive site but also a longer surface swim...