Northwest Dive Club

60south wrote:What are these particulates, anyway? Not sure it's from runoff as we haven't had much lately

I was referring to the particulate in Hood Canal, which is definitely River runoff

Beautiful. It was really gorgeous, and for some reason unexpected (by me, anyway). One of the nicer ones I remember seeing. At least it opened up for us in Lakewood, I know lots of folks were clouded out....

Sund Rock on Monday 1-21 above 40 fsw was pretty bad, with tons of particulate in the water no doubt from the flooding rivers. The halocline was thick and 15' deep. Below 40 fsw viz was nice, 20-25', the place to spend as much of your time as your computer would allow!

Nice!

Fun stuff!

Looks like a lovely lumpy evening!

Very nice! I need the secret code / handshake for best conditions to look for to dive here!

Lovely pics!!

Yay Slugs!

I'm in for New Year's Day! Can't wait!

Scubak wrote:Happy New Year!!!
Hope the viz is good!
Kirsten

Are you going to try and make it? We will have had 3 days of sunshine by then!

Thanks for posting this. Still trying to work out details, but Monday / Tuesday will likely be my last dives of the week. I'll confirm here when I'm a definite!

Fantastic!

Lovely pictures, and a wonderful adventure!

We are so privileged to live here!

Hmmm.... trying to talk some folks into doing Sund Rock with me tomorrow. If that doesn't pan out I'll most likely be there.... Dive #1300!

Just one story... My brother was an avid fisherman. He loved Alaska. His two sons and I were in Alaska and we were out trolling for salmon in our small boat. A few words of memory, then each of us took a handful of his ashes and scattered them behind the boat as we were trolling. The only thing that...

So.... every time I mentioned to someone that I had never dove Keystone they turned to me in wide eyed incredulity, "YOU'VE NEVER DOVE KEYSTONE?!?!" :tomnic: :nutty: :BDub: Wow... give a guy a break... Seattle traffic is evil and I live in the South end, which makes several awesome norther...

Keystone on 12-21-18 after a week of crazy storms was 8 to 10'. I want to see this site in good viz! Still awesome....

Great shots and a lovely dive! Thanks for telling the story here...

Keystone definitely delivered in spite of the storm!

I will post pictures later. Thanks to Eric for a wonderful introduction to a wonderful dive site!

I just read the whole thing. Even if I only take half of what he says as the truth, that is a classic example of a state agency steamrolling over a small business. I might have taken what he’s saying with a larger (maybe 3-5 shotgun shells worth of) grain of salt, but I myself have been on the rece...

I've got a chunk of days available to dive during that time as well. Please post your plans, and if you're having trouble figuring some out we can get creative! Not sure what tides are doing during that time but we should be able to find some great places to dive! (A day at Sund, anyone?!)

Very nice!

Thank you!

Such beauty and diversity!

[Trying to figure out how I could do this without breaking the bank.]

In the meantime, back to Bonaire this Summer.... surprise, surprise.

I dug out my old copy of Lange's Handbook of Chemistry. Lead oxide (PbO) is yellow. Lead chloride (PbCl2) is white. The milky stuff we are probably seeing from our soft weights is probably lead chloride (not definitive). It could form if some of the lead dissolved due to corrosion or some other typ...