Northwest Dive Club

What a great get together this week! Big turnout, great water conditions, and lots of life out and about at Redondo. I was very happy to see a larger number of sea stars, healthy, and even some Sunflowers! Here are a few of my pics from the evening: Redondo Pier September 05, 2019 (74 of 108).JPG Re...

Speaking of lithium battery chargers: I've been reading up on this and found that Drones use a particularly volatile battery type called Lithium Polymer. This is different from the Lithium Ion batteries we find in Lights and Cameras. It seems that they are so volatile that there are Dozens of produc...

A few ways to make an informed decision: 1) Buy an IP Gauge for $10 to see if your 1st stage has an IP in spec and stable or has drifted out of spec (should be 130-140 psi) 2) Remove the 2nd Stage purge cover and see if everything is clean without debris or scaled on junk 3) Put the 2nd Stage pressu...

That is a amazing and incredible too! Great Photos to commemorate the occasion.

Thanks for sharing this incident and the note of caution.

No matter how experienced, we are all capable of a simple mistake, stumble, or equipment failure. Be careful and be prepared!

We had another great turnout this week at ThThTh in Redondo. We had at least 10 divers, maybe a couple more? The weather was great and the vis was a pretty good 15ft for about 30 minutes of the dive. The high tide reversed and we got a pretty dramatic thermocline and clarity of the water dropped sig...

Looking forward to it!

Hey Folks, I have a last minute Bandito Charter out of Tacoma planned for this Tuesday Aug 13th @ 8:30 am. $100 two dives, snacks, good diving! Two dives, bring your own full tanks. We've had good vis this week so I am hoping for the best. Would anyone care to join? Let me know soon! Once confirmed ...

i'll be there.

That's pretty great! I got a pretty nice shot of one of the Amphipods in a PMH a few weeks ago.

(BTW, also getting a very low res image upload. This is under 300K locally and looks sharp. Very fuzzy in the post.)

I'll see you all at Three Tree!

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Thu Jul 25, 2019 8:49 am

I am out. Completely forgot my reg hasn’t come back from service. Trying to get it back before the club dive now [emoji27]

I can bring a spare reg-set for Thursday or Sunday. What do you need? Din, yoke, primary & octo? I have extras and will config to order!

Penopolypants wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 25, 2019 2:13 pm

Aha! Now I see! After Fukushima, the sea stars have been melting so that they can come together to form one giant Gojira-star!

Fear the Gojira-star!

I am more concerned about the inevitable rise of Mecha-OchreStar, the ultimate predator!

It's been 8 years since the Fukushima radiation plume smashed into the west coast of North America. Makes sense that the sea stars would start coming back now that the radiation levels are decreasing. Fukushima has nothing to do with this topic. The measured radioactivity from Fukushima is tiny com...

I'm in for this week. Redondo works for me.

I plan to join the fun. I'll bring Coffee!

I am in this week!

Much better date. The first weekend in August is Seafair so other parties and events were conflicting!

Probably 30 feet at Day Island Wall today. Might have been more than 30 but there were too many wolfeels to see any further!

Squid egg mass. Hundreds of individuals all stick their eggs in a big cluster. You can see them do it after dark on occasion.

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Derek, Vaidhy, and I had a great dive together. Low tide at the start, rapid incoming tide at the end of the hour. Not a really strong current but it sure did stir up the Salad on the way up the beach. My camera looked like SwampThing and I spend 15 minutes picking the vegetation from the nooks, cra...

Well I arrived. Anyone else gonna show?

I will plan on being there.