Northwest Dive Club

lamont wrote:

ljjames wrote:Jim,

<edit, lamont beat me to it>

Concision, FTW =)

Ah, but there's a fine line between Concise and "overly terse" For a newbie diver her explanation gets the Win

Jim

Thanks Laura, great explanation. And a few more things to think about as I continue to work on sorting out gear, trim, ballasting, and all that sort of thing.

Jim

(partial thread-jack here) A quick google makes it look like a "CO2 hit" is something that happens with rebreathers. True, or can it happen with open-circuit recreational gear too? Just wonderin'... Yes. The leading edge of a CO2 hit is a "dark narc" or "paranoid narc"...

Based on the divers that I know have taken CO2 hits, I often wonder about how many of the divers who are selling their dive gear to "spend time with their family" have really just had a very bad dive. The last 2 dives I did below about 50 feet, I got hit pretty bad. I'm "spending mor...

I've got a couple of spare AL80's. thats the best I can do. Mucho Grassy-ass, Jeff, but unless Santa really comes thru with another HP100 under the tree I'll likely just get one from the dive shop for a second... A second tanks and a BC (or BP/W) is all the major gear items I need to acquire. Then ...

BASSMAN wrote:I'm going to try to do this one too!
One dive or two?

At least one! (I will try to get hold of another tank to make it two...)

Jim

Yep, it was a great day. All the gear worked fine (no zipper blowouts like the last time I tried Les Davis with Chris!), just poked around looking at stuff and practicing... Still need a bit of trim adjustment (I was a little feet-heavy still) but nothing too bad. The viz was really good, Jeff and C...

Seconded - had a great dive with Jeff and Linedog Viz was great, everything worked fine, and the sun came out...

Jim

Guys, I'm in for Les Davis tomorrow. Probly just one dive, see you at 9:30 or shortly before...

Jim

I'll come down... Last year I rang in the New Year at Keystone... Do they have Guinness on tap??? I've a dive float we can use... :partyman: http://www.tidestavern.com/ourbar/beer.html They have a wide variety of choices for both liquid and solid foods :burntchef: And I've yet to have a bad meal th...

I didn't get much for photos either. There was one octo that I saw, but I have so many pictures of octos in dens by now that they all look the same! If I hadn't gotten so terribly lost in Bremerton looking for the dive shop (yep, the one that it turns out you can SEE from 3-S...) I could have made ...

Jim, I'll be at Les Davis Saturday morning. Kewl. I might be there, but we just started on a major redesign of the spousal unit's craft room and I might be occupied hauling stuff out to the garage... I'll PM you tomorrow with status update. How's yer social calendar look for 01/01? :smt064 Jim

I talked to the manager at the Tides today, and she gave the OK to do a dive off their dock on New Years Day as long as we have the safety flag, are aware of boat traffic, etc. Although they have all their tables and furniture put away for the winter, she also liked the idea of a bunch of divers sta...

Linedog wrote:A buddy of mine wants to dive Les Davis at 9:30 A.M. splashing shortly after. That is where I will most likely end up.

Chris, is Les Davis still on for you? I *might* be able to join...

Jim

She would need a bunch of hull work to even be towed right now. The Corps of Engineers showed me some pics of her hull at the water line and its sad. They are concerned she'll sink at the pilings she's squatting at and in the process slide downhill into the navigational channel. So it would be a ha...

Lights really are a matter of personal preference ... but in Puget Sound, when the runoff is flowing, or the plankton is blooming, it can get awfully dark down there ... even at relatively shallow depths. And even when it's not dark, you'll see so much more with light because the ambient filters ou...

She would need a bunch of hull work to even be towed right now. The Corps of Engineers showed me some pics of her hull at the water line and its sad. They are concerned she'll sink at the pilings she's squatting at and in the process slide downhill into the navigational channel. So it would be a ha...

I'll add a couple of Woo Hoo!s to the list... Sounds like everything went great and is lookin' good for rehab

Jim

One of the things Randy told me when I was wondering about it was that this way I know what it's like to use the wetsuit, which could be useful if I traveled somewhere and didn't lug along a drysuit. Jim Didn't you do pool sessions in a wetsuit? I don't buy that logic you can dive in shorts and t-s...

One of the things Randy told me when I was wondering about it was that this way I know what it's like to use the wetsuit, which could be useful if I traveled somewhere and didn't lug along a drysuit. Jim Didn't you do pool sessions in a wetsuit? I don't buy that logic you can dive in shorts and t-s...

Oh. My. Gawd... Gorgeous pics! I'd be terrified to approach such fragile clusters of stalac[ tites|mites ] for fear breaking them. I get nervous enough about that in a terrestrial cave...

Dunno - I did my OW classes in wetsuit this last spring/summer, and I was warm enough. We did have one student who did his with drysuit, though. One of the things Randy told me when I was wondering about it was that this way I know what it's like to use the wetsuit, which could be useful if I travel...

I was getting 10:57AM from Plan Your Dive with the settings adjusted to Titlow Beach. Either time is fine with me. If we enter a little on the early side there might be some intial current but conditions will be improving as we go. When I made an earlier attempt at Titlow I used the Plan Your Dive ...

<sending good vibes for good outcome and fast healing!>

Jim

I don't know, but will certainly be interested in the responses (I'm going to be there same time frame, vacationing while the wife does a medical conference :partydance: ). I have been looking at Bubbles Below for gear rental and at least one boat dive. Doing some shore dives is also on the list......