Northwest Dive Club

:smt119 ha, ha ... i'm feeling some of your painful pleasure. ](*,) i have a list of all of my SCUBA "investments" to date, and when i added it up today i was more than a little shocked. #-o just today i bought two alu 80's and a dive rite nitek 3. over the past few weeks i have been accum...

um ... is anybody going back today who wouldn't mind picking up a dive alert for me? i got one on friday, but my buddy wants one, too, and he's out of town. i just need the standard da-1 that they have there for $38. i am super-stressed out studying for a test i'm taking tomorrow, and it's really, t...

i'm thinking it's here. :-)

lol; yeah ... the last thing actually works pretty well sometimes.

wow; sounds like a lot of people are going to be there!

damn, calvin! who doesn't like sausage? :smt038

is there a new version of that book? i think i was looking at it today at the university bookstore and it was coyrighted in 1999 or 2000 or something ... and that just seemed a little old to me.

i "accidentally" drove down to the water in burien once when i took a wrong turn and didn't feel like battling traffic (sometimes i prefer to explore roads less travelled). but anyway, i was pretty surprised - for some reason, i have this rather ugly picture of burien in my head, but once ...

nice to meet you, too, calvin! :supz: there sure were a lot of people there. it was almost overwhelming at that time of the morning. :pale: anyway, i didn't get that lucky in finding items i just couldn't live without ... but i did manage to buy myself a dive alert and an xs scuba weight bag. i'll b...

well, i've never been there, but this page has some information: http://www.seaotter.com/marine/html/threetree.html it recommends using a map but does have some directions that - according to the author - may (or may not) be useful. #-o using that description you could put this "Sw 170th St &am...

Sounder wrote:Welcome Paul! You'll find a fantastic group of active people here to dive with. How did you find us?

hmm ... somebody's paranoid ... ;-)

hi, paul!

well, i know i started this thread, but i am coming to the sad realization that i can't really dive this weekend. i have a big test on monday and really need to spend all weekend preparing for it. :-( i actually talked to my boss this morning and am going to use a precious vacation day tomorrow to s...

Grateful Diver wrote:If I can find somebody who knows what to do with an AVI file. I'd like to edit it somewhat ... the first 15 or 20 seconds are the shark, and the last 10 seconds or so are me trying to figure out how to turn the camera off.

hey, who needs editing? that last part sounds highly entertaining. ;-)

from the "Octo Wednesday???" thread: I, and three others are diving Mukilteo T-Dock at 8:30 a.m., Sunday the 30th. someone else said they are always up for mukilteo and that i should maybe start a thread if i was interested, so here it is .... i'm a total newb and i haven't done any dives...

Sounder wrote:Then there's the extra insulation some of us are blessed with... that helps A LOT! Similar to marine mammals, some of us have extra insulation to keep us warm.

*LOL* yeah; i was just trying not to go there. ;-)

perhaps once i can control my buoyancy a bit better, i too will get to chase crabs!

I dove at Mukilteo on Saturday in a 7mm wetsuit and was uncomfortably warm. I was unzipping, opening my hood, and taking my gloves off trying to cool off by letting water in. while you were diving??? if so, i'm guessing your internal heater works much better than mine! how's that for diplomatic? ;-...

sent you a pm, but had another comment. it sounds like you are a new diver. (sorry if i missed that somewhere.) so ... did you wear a wetsuit on your ow dives? how cold did you get? if you plan to dive around here, i'd use that as a good gauge. i did my ow dives in a wetsuit (2-piece 7mm) and i live...

great pics, gd! what i want to know is ... why didn't i get to see all of those cool things when i was doing my ow dives there? ;-) (that's a rhetorical question -- for anyone thinking of being a smartass!)

thanks, pinkpadigal! it's always helpful to hear someone's experiences with different kinds of suits, the reasoning behind their preferences, and what they see as the possible benefits and drawbacks to them. this type of information is really appreciated by someone like me - who's only exposure expe...

:hello2: i can't come this wednesday, but i'd like to go diving this weekend and my normal buddy (my boyfriend) is out of town, so if anyone's open to doing an easy-going dive with a naui newbie, send me a pm. (i have to rent gear in kenmore and i have a test on monday that i'm studying for, so i'd ...

ArmyJeff wrote:Heres a pic of the kids.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/39053564@N00/81243390/


For the record, My Wife named them.

are those really their real names???

i haven't TOTALLY written them off; just certainly leaning away from them. and i wasn't really planning to wear my down jacket - that was just meant to evoke some humor. but ... as for the bubble ... i hopefully won't have to contend with that much air in my drysuit! #-o i do have to admit that thos...

now that's service!

i checked out their website. (as i too am in need of an affordable drysuit.) it looks like they have pretty nice-looking suits. their neoprene suit has a huge front diagonal zipper, so i don't think it'll be much more difficult to put on than the trilam (if at all). one of my concerns with getting n...

mmm ... crab ...