Northwest Dive Club

While I'm coming to this party pretty late, I want to specifically thank: Bob Laura Valerie Amy for their very good explanation (almost defense) of the "system" under which almost all of us have been trained and under which we do our training. I really regret telling Lynne about my convers...

Just finished a class with an instructor who does a lot of dives off the N. Cal coast (and lots of other places) where he is working with boats in swells and recreational divers. He complained about the continuous webbing for OW divers especially where there were swells/waves. He said he wanted at l...

Jana -- thanks -- I will read it -- but I just "fixed" my Canon housing issues by buying another new housing. At $120 I figured I could buy three housings which would last much longer than I'll be using the camera rather than spending the same amount to get an Ikelite for my S80 (which flo...

But beware, at least one of "us" is a stroke and merely TDI FC and does not have the blessings from the "Three Amigos" of P.A. Willing to take danger into your own hands and dive with such a critter?

I've been (take your pick) -- Amused, Bemused, Amazed, Bewildered -- by the number of comments from people who are opposed to "labels" and thus oppose the word "Techreational." What's with that? A label, when it makes sense, is merely a shorthand way of providing a information ab...

Lynne and I picked up the gear yesterday and it is still in the THREE gear bags. There are numerous masks, hoses, boots and gloves that will certainly be offered for sale. I'm not sure exactly what will be "declared surplus" and offered but decisions will be made soon. One of the reasons I...

I'm off to pick everything up this afternoon. If there is something in particular you want, PM me with an offer -- doesn't mean I'll accept it, but I'll listen to anything, reasonable or unreasonable! "The only insulting offer is the one not made" -- said by my father to a street vendor wh...

A "marketing term?" By whom? Do I like the term? Yes -- I use it frequently. I'd not heard it before me dear sweet wife used it to describe some of the diving we do. Definition -- The "gray area" between "PADI (or other) Recreational Diving" and "NAUI (or other) 'T...

Scott,

Thank you. It was a well organized and presented workshop and something every serious diver should know.

Scott,

I hope to see you tomorrow.

Peter Rothschild

Im in the same boat...going may 14th and no one to dive with. That just isn't right. My wife and I go to Maui fairly often (my parents live in Kihei) and as a result we've gotten to know some of the people in the business there. A. We always rent tanks from B & B Scuba and Brad has been wonderf...

Several people have called the Park a State Park -- which perhaps it was and then given to the City. If anyone knows when it became a City park, as opposed to being a State Park, perhaps someone could then look up the conditions of the transfer to the City. It is possible there are some clauses rela...

I'm assuming that no one on this board: a. Lives in Mukilteo (i.e., is a constituent of the City); nor b. Knows any of the City Council members or the Parks Commission members. PLEASE, if I am wrong here, shout it out. My opinion, for what little value it may have, is that the best chance of reversi...

For what it's worth (and that ain't much!), I thought JC's post wasn't terribly well reasoned the first time I read it -- and now having read it again, I find myself in agreement with my first conclusion! I know there are many who believe it is "doing it right" (heh, heh) to experience dee...

Thanks for bringing this up -- and I think many (most/all?) have missed some other important parts of this. From the City Council Minutes when this was adopted: Councilmember Tinsley suggested that the information about scuba diving at the Mukilteo Community Beach (Rule #27) listed under Community C...

Doug, are you sure it was built to test the hull design for the America's Cup? I seem to recall it wasn't the hull design they were testing, but the hull integrity using some new super-duper material -- maybe BuckyBall's? I tried to Google this but, as I had forgotten, the designers and builders mad...

Sigh, probably not enough to tow a boat or a horse trailer.

What's the rated towing capacity?

I'm attempting to install a new stand-alone hard drive on my network and I need to turn off the firewall on my computer. I'm using "Norton Protection Center" but I can't find any way to turn off the damn firewall -- or anything else for that matter. Guru's -- Please help. How do I get this...

These deaths raise the question (again) that Gray Bryan asked a while ago -- What good is accident analysis? That is, what does one REALLY learn from the analysis of most diving accidents. It seems that most of the time my response is of the "What were they thinking" or "Why did they ...

I'm just curious why people think scooters (DPV's) are NOT allowed in the park? The last time I read the Act it referred to "watercraft" which were described, in part, as things like motorboats and sailboats. Since criminal statutes are to be read "conservatively," to me, at leas...

I must add my thanks to Pac Adventures, Doug and all the rest for a wonderful day of diving. It was COLD for this old man but I managed to stay underwater for just under 3 hours so it wasn't wasted. Next time Argon!

The link to the video was posted and I don't have it anymore. If you are still interested, maybe I can find it or maybe Sounder has it.

Yes, I needed it today and the short time line was because I didn't get the assignment until yesterday and then had to think about the assignment ("buddy skills") and decided a video clip would be a good teaching tool. I know there are many people who have posted videos so I was hoping som...

As part of my PADI Assistant Instructor Course I've been assigned to do a Micro Teaching Segment on "Being a Buddy." Just for kicks, I'd like to use some video of a DIR/UTD dive team dinking around on a recreational dive to show how "buddies" can manuever, communicate, etc. This ...