Northwest Dive Club

fine by me. time location, and I'll be there.

Donning gear in the dark... I just dont like doing it, never have. Even less, coming back out in the dark. My back and I have tenuous relationship. A wrong twist or slide, etc, and it lets me know of its unhappiness. In the dark type stuff has that risk for me, and if the dice come up snake eyes, I'...

where ya thinking?

hmm, I'm off monday 1/2 too. remind when it gets nearer. Might be fun.

cool video... I might actually have to reconsider taking a night dive sometime...

[sarcasm]I'm so surprised[/sarcasm]

I feel so relieved to know they fairly evaluated it yet a second time and came up with the same result.

I can take the day off if I want.

Suppose I'd like to do something different, like EUP, or Fox Island Wall, or someplace I havent down in the south ebd yet.
(Doing Titlow on saturday). Maybe even Harpers Ferry, or Hood Canal (sund rock?).

I hear that train a' coming

Choo choo, watching that train wreck coming

As a hack, you use a big bucket run a hose into it, and just let it overflow, this getting a fresh supply of 55d water

For cooling your tanks you could recirculate they water like atig welder cooler, and keep that water cool

For me, I've found the frog kick more effort that a scissor kick.

Once Bob squared me away on my flutter kick, it's almost effortless for me now.

I just use the frog when I need minimal propulsion

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 ...

yea, its a fairly big exchange still, so timing and a smiling upon us diving god, and we should be ok, but ready to call the dive if timing is off.

maybe... Doing Tides tavern sat the 1st., not sure if I wanna be driving about on NY eve though...

I know, its a tough choice, but I think a zodi opens spots I could still do with a scooter, and opens yet more.

It was a nice thought anyways. Between a compressor, zodiac, and scooter...

Zodiac is first I guess...

Listen to what Dusty said about getting Bob for a weekend. I did, and its the best 200$ on diving I've ever spent. So much less headache. Helped me setup my gear, made sure it was all right, tricks and tips on wearing, donning/doffing, then the water work. Yea, I thought I could do it myself too bec...

By the time I buy that many tanks, I've bought a compressor...

Chicken and the egg

Suggestions for a personal compressor? I've heard nice nice about the Bauer's, but spendy.

I could spend 1500 maybe 2g on a compressor, but most everything except unknown used ones are 3k plus plus.

Maybe its a pipe dream, but has anyone ever thought about a group of folks chipping in to buy a compressor? Geographic proximity would have to be a factor. I would think such a group buy would involve everyone into a binding legal contract (like ownerships, rights, location of unit, access, liabilit...

thats why I said "may never even be".

Yea, I thought the sig line was funny as well, you gotta be able to poke fun at your self.

That makes sense,and I don't want to be one of those new divers that make a big mistake!I don't want to run out of gas and not know it,but can you have a gas gauge and a air-intigrated computer,and both reading your gas at the same time?(ie have a gas gauge as a back-up) If your AI goes out, dive i...

BDub makes a good point, and why I still have my Vyper wrist computer. I just use it for BT and depth. That way since I've learned from Bob to keep my hands out Superman style, my wrist computer is right there to watch depth and dive time. Plus when using left hand on the BCD inflator, can watch dep...

As a new diver and new member, I think some members need to temper their advice to the level and knowledge of the person asking for it. New divers are asking for help and wisdom, but they aren't (and may never even be) a DIR, Tech, GUE, or whatever super charged, adrenaline filled, wreck diving, dee...

The only reason I've understood so far for air integrated, is so that you can easily calc your SAC (Oceanic 2.1 Pro Plus) and the download software does it for me. Its interesting to mentally go over the dive, and see what my air consumption changed. (What was I doing?) My first dive kit was an SPG,...