Northwest Dive Club

So...you're the graduate student??? How amazingly exciting. I'm sending a PM to you...time for story telling.

Chris, Not sure what your experience is with cold water diving...but we are starting Friday Night Experience Dives at Redondo for newer divers to practice their skills with some supervision. If you're new to cold water, come out...I'll help you get your weighing squared away, then we'll have a team ...

Dave, That may have been ok for you...but you had quite a few dives under your belt, right?? One of the couples (girl my student, guy not...) had less than 10 dives each. Here's the suit...and good luck?? This particular couple waited to contact me...not wanting to bother me...and tried it twice on ...

Recently, I had two of my students come to me with drysuits purchased from shops in the area and asked me to teach them how to dive the suits. Apparently, the shops are selling the suits but not providing training? I'm not charging these students for the orientation...it's part of what they get for ...

Ah...yes...but can they make the "She-Pee" work??

In honor of Aquachic coming up to the Puget Sound area...the girls are getting together!! April 12th...3:30 meet up at Redondo. For those with an Advanced cert...we'll hit the lower boats with the octo under...anyone coming with an Open Water cert only, well, we'll arrange for a trip through the rop...

So...in the issues of "buddy-diving"...class aside, for a moment...would a dive professional be held "to standards" if a dive accident should occur? For example: A dive instructor who dives with the same 3 or 4 buddies on a continual basis. Not his students...just friends. They a...

Pretty sure we're having an "It's a GirlDive" on the 12th...JUST FOR YOU!! So, hold that date open. Would love to have an evening romp...but the tides are yucky.

Stay tuned and I'll let you know where it is.

Looking forward to meeting you!

As far as liability...I'm not a lawyer...but a few years ago at a Vicencia & Buckley seminar at DEMA, I was awakened to the fact that even if I announce that "I'm not diving as an instructor today" and I go for a "fun dive" with a diver, if something happens...I can still be ...

It'll be interesting to hear whether it was a class or not. I'd be interested to know the instructor, the agency, and what class it was. Someone's :bootyshake: will be in a sling. I guess that this is "ass"uming that if it's a class situation then the instructor is to blame? Or the agency...

I was taught originally to use my drysuit for buoyancy...and I always have taught that myself. EXCEPT...if you've got a neoprene neck collar...or if your latex neck seal is almost too big...then the air will escape out of the neck. Just did a drysuit clinic today in the pool...and discussed with a w...

My first sighting of a six gill (two of them) was at Redondo...4 pm in the afternoon on a sunny day in 40' of water with about 10' of viz.

You know who the biggest fish in the sea is then....

Great quote in this article about invasive tunicates in the San Juans


www.sanjuanislander.com/groups/seadoc/tunicate.shtml

Regarding "over the rings"...the mounting ring on this system can be installed so that you still have the latex seal on the inside of the ring...OR the latex seal can be stretched around the outside of the ring, o-rings go over latex...and a final seal of electric tape to protect the latex...

I've been in the Skaana system for 3 years. Permanently mounted with the latex seal OVER the rings. No equalization tube. No fat hands...no popping glove...really...no issues. Except for the time that I went diving in Canada and thought I forgot my gloves at home. Would have had to McGyver the syste...

Welcome to the board...and look forward to seeing you at dive sites in the near future!!

I have soooo got to get rid of my day job!!!! Have fun in Sitka, Keith!!

Jodo...and anyone else who may have been involved in this situation...my thoughts and prayers are with you. I must tell you that for a newer diver, I'm impressed with the entire "rescue". From what I've heard, it sounded like everything was done as it should be. And to be in the situation ...

Wow!! Great pics! Love Day Island Wall!!

And I thought that I was the only one lagging behind...

Welcome!! It was in Colorado (down in the Springs) that I first decided to become a scuba instructor. Would have been certified in Blue Hole...but moved back to the NW on a whim...two weeks prior to my Open Water class. Took an extra year...but finally got certified out here. Really miss Colorado. I...

Hey Brit!!

Welcome to the board! Just talking about you yesterday on a charter regarding how AWESOME you are!

Happy Holidays!

Cindy

All guys (old...fat...bald...whatever!) and gals are invited.

Did I mention the hot food????

we're holding an informal dive get together at Les Davis at 1 pm this Saturday, Oct. 6. Our Eugene Skin Divers contingent (8 divers) is in town for the Dive for the Cure event, so we wanted to treat the gals to a day of diving on Saturday, as well as Sunday. If I know you're coming...there'll be hot...

The event is in the Tacoma Elks Ballroom on Hwy 16 & Union.