Northwest Dive Club

If you're able to make it, this is well worth the trip! You'll learn the buffalo sculpin song and dance too! "FISH-O!"

John - in your article you wrote about GPO's being very smart and using planning, strategy, etc and that they sometimes even "play" with divers. Would you elaborate on behaviors you've seen where the octos were playing, using tools, planning, etc? I'm really interested in hearing more!

I can't wait to at least SEE one! I'm not sure about a 60 pound 30 footer though. That's big. I've seen the video of the octopus in the aquarium that was taking out the sharks - 6 gills beware!!! They do look like a lot of fun!

I work in Kirkland and live on Pine Lake in Sammamish. I get over to Ballard here and there and WILL be doing a lot of diving the first few weeks after I'm cleared so perhaps we can hook up then?

Pink? Sssssuper!!! I WILL look Sssssmashing!!! it'll go with my... uh... hmmmm.

That's funny!!! So did your boyfriend end up eating it (I hope)? I agree - never had a problem with eating them before, and then one of those little buggas got my finger while I was holding him (he was really flexible!)and using my calipers - hurt so bad I barked out my reg and didn't care... now I ...

I would like to take you up on that, so perhaps we can set a time to meet. There isn't any urgency as I'm still dry for a while, but I will be sure to get with you once I'm cleared. It'd be nice to have them available for my drysuit orientation with Bob whether I end up using them or not. This way I...

Did your car spend the night at Les Davis?! That really stinks. Clearly, this just means you'll have to go diving several times to find it.

Yeah, that's the other agenda - weighting (which I've already discussed with Bob). Everything is new when changing from wet to dry diving. Worth it though if I don't have to wrestle with a wetsuit! I'm currently diving jets but may make the jump to turtles if I decide to go with different rock boots...

I'm getting very close to accepting that offer... if we used Dave's boat in AK he could use that little crane and winch me out of the water too!

Soon I suppose, but I was ready a month ago.

That's all great information and is along the same lines I was thinking. Most drysuit divers I've seen didn't have them, but some do. I can see how an uncontrolled ascent could be a problem, but that sounds like a training issue instead of a gear issue. I also agree that I like having my feet up and...

You'll always be my hero Tom!

As I look forward to getting wet again \:D/ with my back injury healing nicely, an instructor recommended to me that using ankle weights with my dry suit might be a good option. They cited the fact that as one gets used to a drysuit they will surely do a feet-first ascent at some point and that with...

Read it last night - very well written and informative! I have yet to see my first GPO, but it got me excited. Why do they have to die after they mate though (didn't know that)!? That sucks! Anyway, it was entertaining and Mrs. Sounder and I both enjoyed it.

A+!!!

Ooh! Ooh! I could come too and make sandwiches while I watch everyone else have a great time diving!!! ](*,)

I have heard several people with excellent reviews of Pac Adventure though and I'm looking forward to jumping off their new boat soon after I'm cleared!

I'm still broken. :-({|= I have physical therapy tonight though!!! Wahoo! Three times a week! Yeah, my disk is still healing and I'm not cleared for diving yet. That damn girl who hit us really turned my whole world upside down. Otherwise I'd totally be in. There is nothing I'd rather do than get in...

I'm going to need to get this one autographed!

Hey Dana! Welcome overboard!

I haven't read it yet , but NWDC's own John Rawlings has a lengthy article on GPO's in the latest edition of NW Dive News!! It says it's on page 44 , but it actually starts on page 48.

Nice work John!

Nailer - it's worth going into 5thD and watching the videos. They might be for sale too, but it's much more fun to have Mark standing with you there talking about the dive as you're watching it. What I can't believe is how long it takes the team to dive 300' down a line on scooters... it's a real tr...

Voted and joined. I think the octopus attacking the mountain is funny - like a bad Japanese movie. I commented that a wolfeel or grunt sculpin would have been cool too, but I think those who were involved did a great job. It will be awesome when those plates are out. Is there any word on which one i...

Looks great! Hopefully this will help pave the way for more in the future... now, if they could just do something about that darn surface swim at Edmonds!

I saw it too - wouldn't mind being the guy who's camping out waiting for the pink dye to show up, but they had 6 regulators between the three divers... by the time they finished, all but one were frozen.

Altitude+Climbing+Cold+Overhead/Dynamic Environment=?! I wonder if DAN would cover it.

Even more reason for your CCR Nailer... "Run silent, run deep."

Here's what part of the regulation says but I didn't post everything: 5.32.060 Underwater park regulations. In addition to the regulations applicable to all parks as set forth in the Edmonds City Code, the following additional regulations shall be applicable to underwater parks and it is unlawful fo...

White shark sightings without a cage? Sounds great (wtf?!)!! I'd hoover at least 1500psi and can't say I'd stick around for a picture. That's a big fish. I'd love to jump in a cage though! That's on my "list of things to do before I die."