Northwest Dive Club

There is an interesting article in the latest scuba magazine about this exact dive. I haven't had a chance to read it yet!

Not only does it have to be miserable for you but for students who are going to experience diving for the first time! I did my first dives in 35ish degree weather, with an instructor who had never dove here before and was totally new to the area. Right before we got into the water, we got thunder an...

WOW Grats Bob!

She's a beauty!

LOL that was awesome.

The "soft handle" on the DR is a gimmick. You don't want it since you can't easily switch hands to check your gauges and stuff - so you end up giving all sorts of spurious light signals. The huge benefit of a nice bright spot to keep track of your buddy and signal with is lost. The DR bul...

One other consideration is bulb durability. One drop with the Dive Rite and you'll be cringing and hoping God is smiling on you, whereas the Salvo bulb is fairly robust. Why does this matter, you may ask. HID bulbs are around $100 . . . This isn't true with the new bulbs they are using. Mine was re...

I have a dive rite 10w and two friends of mine have the salvo 10w and their's is certainly a little brighter than mine. It's really noticeable during the day when it's dim underwater but not really dark.

I agree on the difficulty of the kicks but you say above "master diver" that means someone can't take a Divemaster course in splits? It's not a tech course and to my knowledge there are no requirements for a divemaster to be able to do the "tech" kicks. DM The user who takes it ...

I know of two instructors who require standard paddle fins when taking any of the classes above master diver. ;) Why as an instructor would someone do that? That makes no sense at all. I can certinally see "strongly" recommending jet fins but requiring them? Especially in the recreational...

One last question: What agency taught you and your buddies to wreck dive using splits? Seems like wreck penetration with splits is also a bit outside accepted norms. Agencies don't teach, Instructors teach using agency standards and if I'm not mistaken most will allow you to dive in splits. They ma...

I hope they can maintain the same good humor when the entire DIR gathering descends on them in October, and they're looking at filling doubles for 20 divers . . . ! Somehow I suspect Matt will be able to maintain a sense of humor ... ... Bob (Grateful Diver) If the world were on fire, everyone was ...

These are the reasons why I keep going far far far out of my way to get my tanks filled. Just awesome people all around.

Plus I could never imagine getting any training from anywhere else now, I've seen the light yeee haw!

Pinkpadigal wrote:I haven't been to Cove 2 in a while but there used to be signs posted warning divers to stay outside the boundary line.

Not that anyone pays attention to the signs anyway, but I did see them last time I was there.

yeah they are still there but easily missed if you're not paying attention.

Doing a direct ascent is fine but it's a good idea to look up once in a while, especially if you're hearing the whirring of a boat. It's a little hard to miss the ferry as it's not like it's a small skiff or anything.

Very scary, I'm sure they felt like a real tool by the time they got back up onto shore, but still maybe someone hadn't previously spoken to them about the boundary line, it is quite easy to miss the line if you're scooting along the bottom silting as you. ;) In all seriousness though I know I've se...

I drove by cove 2 & 3 yesterday to see where they are. Looks like the boat traffic can get pretty close, how critical is a diver down flag there? I noticed the signs that reccomended one. One of these days I'd like to try out this site with someone familliar with it.. BTW, I love my wet suit bu...

I forgot to mention my computer. I'm currently using the IQ-700 (hockey puck made by Seiko, used by Apex, Tusa, dive rite and a couple others). The computer itself is awesome, easy to navigate and understand. Everything needed is easily visible while on a dive and it's nitrox and two tank (different...

Oceanic VT3 with wireless transmitter - never had a problem and thoroughly enjoy it. Still have an spg clipped off to my left belt d-ring. I have a friend who uses a similar layout and the same computer, if something does go wrong and it will it's good to know your remaining air pressure at least. ...

Why? You would just end your dive. I can see it being a problem if you were in deco however. In the past year I have done quite a bit of diving with vintage gear, and that also means diving with a 'J' valve & no SPG (I also dive without a BC). You would be amazed on how quickly you adapt withou...

Oceanic VT3 with wireless transmitter - never had a problem and thoroughly enjoy it. Still have an spg clipped off to my left belt d-ring. I have a friend who uses a similar layout and the same computer, if something does go wrong and it will it's good to know your remaining air pressure at least. ...

i'm getting close to purchasing my very first dive computer. there are so many options out there, i find it difficult to determine what i should get. what i do know is that i would like something relatively easy to use, nitrox compatible, good for cold water with the occasional tropical vacation, a...

We have waterproof dive rite and XS scuba notebooks in the shop (NWSD). the XS scuba ones are really cool; a bit of elastic to keep it closed and they look pretty much bombproof. Both come with pencils. Yeah I've been thinking about those, I'm still debating at this point how much I want to spend. ;)

I made some log pages in MS Word and put them in a 1" binder. I use excel for Rock Bottom calcs and tack on any extra gas management techniques sometime before the dive, touch base with the buddy and splash. Yeah I do the same thing in excel. I have all my formulas there and inputs for figurin...

LOL

dsteding wrote:

runamonk wrote: Totally off the wall question Doug, but exactly how many tanks do you currently own?

Two single 119s, a set of 100s, a set of 130s, two 72s that may become a set of doubles pending some work, an AL40 and two Al6s.

hehe you do have an addiction. I don't feel so bad now.