Northwest Dive Club

i'm kind of confused about the measurement. i found a page that said "Total Length - measured from end of longest arm to posterior end of mantle." i think that is what calvin is saying? that page has several pictures, including this one: http://www.tonmo.com/images/content/measure-fig2.jpg...

Amazing pics Diver Dave! :supz: I save most of them! Look forward to diving in Sitka someday! We r here waiting for u and every one else to show... http://www.akdivers.net/gallery/galleries/Alaska_Diving/0021.jpg that's the most beautiful slug i've ever seen! actually, it's the only beautiful slug ...

ha, ha. i worked a lot last night on relaxing. i definitely felt much more comfortable in the water and breathing through foreign objects than i did two days prior. *yay* i sort of freaked out the first time we tried the mask-pass in a circle, though. but after standing up (we were most thankfully i...

Man the vis was fantastic the last couple of days. I noted in this thread that pictures were wated and I am here to deliver. The photo show is long, but with the great vis the shots look pretty good. Please enjoy. These are from both scubak and Cpt. Bungee. Here is the link: http://photoshow.comcas...

yeah; i think we will be practicing lots tonight. i wish i could take tomorrow off of work and practice more somehow ... but i wanted to add that when i was searching for a class, i made a conscious effort to find a place that limited the number of students, and i feel incredibly fortunate to be in ...

thanks for the schedule of events, calvin! that really helps in case we are done early enough. the show sounds like it shouldn't be missed ...

I am told that GPO's only live a few years. They lay and guard their eggs, stop eating, and after hatching the next generation die in a short while. They are similar to Salmon in this regard. The fact that she is dieing is an indication that she completed her life's mission, and the next generation...

Diver_Dave wrote:Glad some one likes them..

did you eat all of those?
i bet they were yummy!!!

um ... that's a cool pic, but i wish you hadn't told me it was dying. :-(

last night i wore my 5/3 semi-dry, and i wasn't cold at all. i actually didn't even realize i hadn’t been cold until the end of the class, and that in and of itself is amazing since i am pretty much cold most of the time. i had done equalization exercises throughout the day and tried to consciously ...

Looks like I should be able to make it, although I might be a bit late ... ... Bob (Grateful Diver) i really wish i could come. i will be doing my first open water dives on saturday at cove 1, and i don't think we'll be done until 1 or 2. and i am guessing the only thing i will want to do thereafte...

wow!!! those are cool! :-)

Don't overthink it. Don't build stuff up in your mind until it becomes an insurmountable obstacle. Try to relax, and just keep breathing hmm; seems i've heard this before. and by before, i mean BEFORE i even began my scuba class. #-o it is my nature to overthink EVERYTHING and make it into somethin...

wow; that is one huge picture. i sort of agree with the above request - if you could post one that is a little smaller - like no bigger than the size of a computer screen, that would be great - faster to load ... and i could see the whole picture at one time. and you could post more than one. :-) i ...

*ha, ha, ha* that was great, calvin. thanks! it is nice to hear you were able to overcome your fear of the water. i would never have guessed you had such an aversion (seeing how involved you are in the sport). i was (and still am) hoping scuba diving will rectify at least some of my own apprehension...

i'll be diving (if i can call it that yet) in a pool tonight.

happy birthday, sparky! from a fellow cancerian ...

okay; okay. i am trying to relax. *breathe in ... AND out* i took a lunch away from the office, and ate some food and read tsandm's description of her dive class experience. geez; if she can pull through all of that, i should be able to, too. so why did i feel ill on my way back to work? i did feel ...

last night was my first pool session. afterwards people keep asking me if i had fun. i'm thinking to myself -- that was supposed to be fun? well, some of it was fun ... and some of it was frustrating and/or freaky (and not in the best sense of that word). i am generally a pretty athletic and aggress...

so, bassman sent me a pm asking if i was diving lots, then saying he'd check back in a few weeks - after i finished my cert course. *HEE HEE* anyway, i told him my boyfriend and i had watched "the cave" and "into the blue" recently, and he wrote back asking if i'd seen "deep...

it really sucks when people steal things. i have always been super-paranoid about this and it comes from years of climbing and hearing story after story of people having thousands of dollars of gear and other items stolen while they were out climbing (not to mention having cars broken into and/or st...

hey calvin, that's a nice design! but ... i just can't own another t-shirt. it's against my wardrobe religion. any chance there's a spaghetti-strap tank top in the works? ;-)

hi, jeanna/edge. *WAVE* my boyfriend and i are taking your scuba diver course next week ... and really looking forward to it! *WOOHOO*

so, after more research and much dilly-dallying i finally got my personal gear. *YAY* i ended up going with 5mm for the boots and gloves ... and buying them locally. i'm looking forward to trying everything out next week ... and learning about what more i'll need to buy once my checking account has ...

ouch. good to know for future reference!

too bad there wasn't much to see in there. i think it's really cool that you went and looked, though! and i don't think you could beat the scenery for an approach drive. :-)