Northwest Dive Club

Thanks, All! I'll be dancin' the night away to Scottsax's band tonight... Looking forward to the next time we get to dive together!

(oh.. and P.. you are SOOO kind for the 25 thing.. I just act like I'm 25.. that's all.)

Yay, Penelope! Have a wonderful Birthday!

Um.., I can't exactly say I'm bright-eyed or bushy-tailed... Yowch. :violent1: But I can echo the sentiments above. The people on this board are amazing and I feel lucky to be able to dive, lurk, and laugh with y'all. Here's to a 2009 full of tons of great dives, adventures, milestones and even more...

I'd take either bunny, as long as its still chocolate.... :evil4: Thanks to all for a great day of diving, as well all of your collective assistance in setting up the new bp/w. Oh.. and for the scooter envy. Joe, I'll try to find you the actual purchase price of a kidney. In my former life, I worked...

Yay, Sockmonkey!
Hope you had a great Birthday, Eric!

I got back into the water for the first time in over a year in February.. Less than 40 dives under my belt. I’m pretty sure that I’m going to break 100 for the year on the 28th, as long as the weather decides to cooperate! So every dive has been amazing this year. Highlights include: The "octo-...

Have a great Birthday, Kate! (Hopefully someplace underwater!)

The excitement still hasn't worn off of me yet, either! I keep telling people things like, "You know what its like being pressed up against the glass, watching seals frolicking in front of you at the aquarium? Ever wanted to swim with them?? Well, I did!!..." Maybe someday I'll be familiar...

Just saw this comment posted below the KING 5 news story..... Looks like we have at least part of an answer. http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_110108WAB_alki_rescue_KS.16e463f6a.html _______________________________________________ ChF88816 10 minutes ago wrote: The diver was my brother in la...

What a great weekend! The fact that I had to go to work this morning and wasn't just hanging out watching another sunrise over Hood Canal, really sucked. It was just too short. Despite pretty crappy viz, there was some amazing diving to be had. As you can imagine, the company was great, and if you'v...

It's all about the Instructor. I would highly reccomend doing AOW soon after your OW. It wasn't until my AOW class that I started feeling like a diver and not a tourist Actually, I have to agree with Spatman on this one, too. I jumped right in and took the PADI AOW class with about 15-20 dives unde...

A couple for the general category..

in grassy shallows
we breathe blow bubbles smile and
watch sunlight pop them

crappy day at work
log on to "clenching girl bits"
then laugh my ass off

a diver's secret
neoprene and saltwater
aphrodisiac

Count me in for wherever i can grab a spot. (Sorry for the late post..) I was envisioning roughing it a lot more when this overnight thing was first posted, so the thought of even a corner of a bed in the cabin is sounding darned fine to me. Depending on when we're able to take off from Seattle Frid...

Everything just kind of melts together after such an amazing day. =D> The first thing I heard after the second dive was, "Suck-factor 9, Mister Sulu.." as soon as Matt surfaced. Nice to be able to laugh after 20 minutes underwater having your butt kicked by the current. Didn't sign up for ...

Please count me in for the weekend also. No way I'm missing out on the shirts thing! Wow. My first official Dive Club over-nighter... (I have visions of sitting around a campfire telling ghost stories about psycho GPOs that steal the occasional dive knife and terrorize unsuspecting tourists as they ...

Thanks for all the positive comments, everyone. When you're surrounded by this many people encouraging you to succeed at something, you just do it. This is the COOLEST board! I SOO wish it weren't blocked at work for me! (Apparently some "big-brother-type' feels there might be something offensi...

Just call me a follower. I tend to rely on others to guide and watch over me on every dive we do… and I am tired of being a liability to them. I want to be an asset and resource underwater. I want to be like my buddies, and I knew that without some training, it just wouldn’t happen. So I’m re-taking...

Sorry for the circumstances, Mark. Make sure you let us know when you'll be down here next, and take care.
- sheri

The band seems to be in a pretty busy season right now, and that appears to be coinciding with a lot of your buddies getting out to dive before it starts raining again. #-o To help supplement during this season of Bridezillas, would there be any way to alter your work schedule to allow for occasiona...

Count me in for fruit, at least one bag of Pirate Booty, and a few cookies. Yay! Looking forward to seeing everyone there!

Hi Mark! Color me there, Spatman... Not on call, will (hopefully) have finished AOW by then, and this will mean I can tell people I actually HAVE something planned over Labor Day weekend.

Looking forward to hooking up on the 30th.
- sheri

Heya Kate... Thanks so much for letting me tag along this morning. This sport just keeps getting better and better! Not only for the way our skills are developing with every dive, but also for the great new people we can share critter sightings and laughs with on the surface interval. (I mean jeez.....

Happy to report that it was indeed a splendid time! (Um.. why are there socks on my teeth this morning???) And I highly encourage anyone to catch the show next time around. Watching 15 people giving that much energy to a crowd is a treat of a way to spend an evening. Oh.. and after watching Scott on...

Count me in for Tuesday after work. (Probably between 530 and 6.) Yay!

Squshy, count me in for the after work thing as well next week. I've been lucky enough to meet up with Penopolypants more than once for those evening dives, and they are always good. I'll keep my eyes posted, and hope to catch up with y'all some night next week.