Northwest Dive Club

Calling all Puget Sound divers and friends! Join us for an underwater Seahawk rally this Saturday at the Marine Science & Tech Center ( the MaST) at Redondo. Dive at 1100AM! The MaST Marine Mammal coordinator, Jamie (Marine Beast Mode) Woodward and I will be doing a special "LIVE-DIVE"...

Anyone lose a black Cressi Frog-Fin at Redondo recently? Rus and crew have it at the MaST Center.
I'd hate to think someone out there is swimming around in circles.

Hey all you dive bums! We are less than two weeks away from this years great local event, Dive Around The Clock! This is our 7th year! It starts at 4PM on Friday July 19 2013. Join in the fun! We really need to make sure that we have an unbroken chain of divers beneath the waters of Redondo in Des M...

When I had my shop, those things would sit in a bucket along with all sorts of weight retainers. Just in case someone needed a few. You know, impulse buy. Ha! Hardly moved a one. I did use them for adjusting rental weight belts. That was about the max use for these clips. Now you know why no shop ca...

The owner of the GoPro camera has been identified and confirmed. With a bit of online detective work and some luck, I was able to confirm that this was the camera that got away at Redondo about a week-10 days ago. It evidently drifted N on the wind and tide and came ashore on the S side of 3 Tree Pt...

Anyone know who was on that "Thursday group"?

Hey Koos!

Just my luck...I'd get the picture returned but not the camera.

This past Friday at 3 tree, I was approached by a local resident who told me that she had found a GoPro camera on the south-side of Three Tree Point. She told me she had found it at least a week prior to this past Friday. (It may have drifted around the point from the usual dive site) The resident s...

Looks nice! Keep an eye on your SS hardware. In commercial buoy work we use hot-dipped galvanized hardware. SS fittings can corrode in seawater after some time goes by. Strange as it may seem, the HD galv stuff will last longer (Usually). Are you applying any grade of a hard anti-fouling paint? Good...

You shoulda been there when she was burning. It was interesting to watch from the helo deck on the USCGC Boutwell.
Actually, I cheered as she went down. I spent way too much time in court over the violations I'd written against that crappy ship. Semper Paratus!

Don't beat yourself up too bad now. We've all been there and done that. Anywho...I have your gear. We were working on the new line system yesterday afternoon/evening. We spoke as you were gearing up for a 2nd dive. I came out of the water after dark and saw your gear. I assumed it might have been yo...

Actually, when we built the first boundary line system, the outer 5 buoys were always yellow (easier to see in the dark). The smaller subsurface floats were red. As are the new ones. Some of the earlier buoys were stolen. I made the mistake of attaching them with nylon line. It's amazing how fast th...

For those of us who grew-up diving in the 1970's, one of our icons, (Ron Taylor) has found the perfect reef to forever dive upon. http://www.xray-mag.com/content/ron-taylor-dies Ron and Valerie Taylor were fascinating to watch and to follow their diving exploits. Australians are rightfully proud of ...

Ditto! Those new buoys are quite the sight!! Very comforting feeling really. Work be damned! Else i'd be out there today! We moved about 25-30 blocks last night to the orange buoy and will start to construct the "Critter Cove" as soon as we have a little outhouse worth of bricks! K Koos a...

I and the hardworking crew of this buoy project really do appreciate your support. Yesterday was the boundary line pulling event. We shifted a few of the anchors to better align everything. Kimber Chard and Ross Fleming coordinated the pushing and pulling of the 1" yellow poly line...all 600ft ...

Contact the City/Port of Des Moines. One must take the initiative and be proactive. The new hand railing got done because some directive pressure from fellow citizens. The lack of buoys on the Saltwater State Park reef was resolved because of one citizens vision to "Get 'er done!" On a tec...

Hey all! Getting close to finishing phase 1 and 2! Today I finished building the remainder of the buoys and their rigging. The plan for Tuesday (9/4) is to get them attached to their appropriate anchors. Then... Thursday (9/6): The goal here is to start running the new yellow 1" poly line down ...

Wed and Thursday status at the cove: An outstanding couple of days. All the anchors are now in place. There are now three buoys that have been installed. A number of the old cinder/construction blocks have been moved over to the middle ground of the cove 2 area. John Sanders had a good time moving b...

Sad news to report...The mask embedded in the concrete done got itself busted during deployment today.
Not only am I shattered over this ordeal but so is the mask. No other dive implements were harmed during this phase of construction. oops.

OK group...Cove 2 work plan: Wed PM: Meet about Noonish. Install some of the new buoys and their rigging. Move an anchor block from Cove 3 to the new line in cove 2. (more fun with lift bags!) Thursday: A later start. Meet at cove 2 at about 2pm-ish. I'll be delivering 3 new anchor units. The goal h...

Thanks Ross(Renoun)! Great shots from our "expedition" yesterday. This was the culmination of a project that started this past spring. I was frustrated over the lack of attention over the loss of the buoys at this jewel of an artificial reef. I felt that I should do something about it. So,...

Ross (Renoun) just sent me this article:
http://westseattleblog.com/2012/08/head ... ay-tuesday
No work at cove 2 on this coming Tuesday.
In fact, I'd avoid the place entirely. Sounds as if it'll be a zoo. OK...more of a zoo than usual.

Work day at Cove 2 this coming Wednesday, August 22. Meet at noon.
Plan:
I'm shootin' to move some of the old buoy anchor pads over to the new line.
Also, now that the viz has improved, we'll work to recover more of the old and nasty lines, junk, etc still left there.

Thanks again to the hard work by our cove 2 crew today. Like Lynne said, we did get some good work accomplished even with the absolutely rotten viz! There are still some coils and blobs of old line still sitting on the bottom near the 40ft level on the new survey line. Feel free to bring that stuff ...

We got all sorts of work done at the cove today. Conditions were doo-doo in the water (technical term). Our work didn't help it at all. The old line has been removed down to about 90ft. The old buoys are now gone too. An anchor block got moved to the deepest point at about 70ft. That will be buoy #6...