Northwest Dive Club

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If you have friends or family who don't (yet?!) dive, but would still like to see what's down there, have them go to the beach tomorrow. It's the lowest tides of the season and there will be Seattle Aquarium Beach Naturalist on hand. ⋅ Tomorrow, June 16, at 1:30 pm, the low tide will be -3...

Is that the Loch Ness monster??? Maybe that's the real reason no one dives in the area. There is something out there, but at low tide she isn't swimming. Other sightings: https://www.google.com/search?ei=LrkJW6KhKNCy0PEPlIqQ6Ak&q=%22samish+bay%22+nessie&oq=%22samish+bay%22+nessie&gs_l=p...

Thanks for the replies.
Yeah, we did notice some mud. Here is the Samish Bay, 12 miles south of Bellingham, 30 minutes after lowest tide.

We recently kayaked in the Chuckanut area, just south of Bellingham. The sea-carved rocks are wonderful. Why don't/can't people dive around here?

-1.4 foot Low tide

(I'm the original poster) Thanks for the tips. They worked! I moved 10 lbs from my trim pockets (about half way up my back) to my dump pockets (at my waist). That did the trick. (Indeed, I may move a little weight back). Somewhat independently of this, I'm also considering replacing my neutral split...

5/13 Les Davis - 5 to 10 feet.

(I'm the original poster)

Thanks for all the tips!

Penopolypants, I can't make the dive tomorrow, but I very much appreciate the offer of first-hand help. For now, I'll see what my buddy and I can figure out.

- Carl

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My dive buddy thinks she may have seen people with straps around their boots to (we presume) lessen the boot volume.
Has anyone heard of this?

Greetings, I just got a DUI Yukon drysuit with boots attached. I love the convenience, but my feet feel much floatier. Is this expected? Should I just add more ankle weights? Details: Before: White Fusion Fit Drysuit, with separate boots. Current fins are Atomic split fins, which are considered ligh...

Monday, April 9, Edmonds UW -- 30+ ft'

There is a proposal: http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17381-scuba-emoji.pdf !

ORDiver wrote:The SiTech dry gloves can be put on any suit with latex wrist seals.

I may do this. Are people happy with the durability of attaching this way?

Any advice on where in the Seattle/Bellevue to get a Bare Techdry (UW Sports don't list it, Silent World doesn't list products)? Can it be ordered with Sitech cuffs?
Thanks,Carl

JT, The "Trilam Bare techdry" looks good (very similar to the DUI Yukon). How did you get the Sitech drygloves added? (what options did you get on the wrist and neck of the Bare on your original order?)

I'm looking for a new drysuit, but can't find one with the features I'd like. I'd love advice. The features I (think I) want are: * One layer of trilaminate material (my current White/Aqua Lung Fusion Fit has two layers, which is annoying) * Attached boots (to save a step while dressing) * Rings lik...

Can you help identify what I saw today at Keystone Jetty. It's some find of shelled(?) critter feeding by pulling in feelers(?). Thanks!

Details: Slow motion (40%), all sound added.

- Carl

why wasn't your strobe working User error. I wanted the simplest settings and had it set to "Auto" instead of "P[rogram]". In "P" you can say "Flash On". In "Auto", even with the flash up, the camera decides for itself whether to fire it. I've previ...

Thanks for your suggestions. With just Lightroom's Auto WB and Auto tone, it still ends up green: IMG_4605 - Copy (2).jpg justlightroom.jpg But with Photoshop's Auto Color, it looks better: fixup2.jpg autocolor.jpg I don't see any thing like Auto Color inside Lightroom, so I think Photoshop is the b...

Greetings, In Photoshop I can vastly improve the green of pictures like this with just a few clicks of the "auto" features. (I think it's basically noticing that the histogram of each color is shifted and just rescales them to overlap.) Does Lightroom offer the same feature, or is one just...

I have Atomic Split fins and am currently wearing 2x2lbs of ankle weights. For most of the dive, everything seems fine, but at the end of the dive my feet seem light.

If you had to guess, what would you think is a more likely cause of light feet at the end of a dive: ⋅  Lighter HP100 Steel tank ⋅  Didn't get all air out of feet of drysuit For the first, I might try moving 2 more lbs of weight to my feet. For the second, I'd try to get more air...

Here are my temps via a Cobra dive computer (you can tell it's native Celesius). This is various Puget Sound locations, but over half at Edmonds. Everything is an average.




- Carl

We dove at Edmonds yesterday (Sunday) and had no problem. Many people were diving the afternoon slack. This updated report from Saturday shows the numbers down, even close to the plant: http://www.kingcounty.gov/~/media/depts/dnrp/wtd/report-response/incidents/2017-02-09-storm/2017-02-11_water-quali...

Here is a map of beach closures. Not sure how up-to-date: https://fortress.wa.gov/ecy/coastalatla ... osure.aspx