Northwest Dive Club

Please continue - I keep learning as I read and I am loving it. I would like to spend less than $300. Portability is key, as we move (a lot) and do a lot of camping, so it would be nice if we could take it with us. As for tinkering - if you ever see my husband with a tool kit in hand, please tackle ...

As far as I can figure out, NWDC has a subject matter expert for just about anything I could dream up and I am at a loss on this one. Even :eric: has useful knowledge sometimes. My husband wants a telescope for Christmas. I am aware that telescopes are used to look at the bright pretty things in the...

Happy birthday! You deserve it my friend.

Tacoma Scuba was my shop of choice - a quick story will illustrate why. In the middle of a class, a buddy's drysuit started to leak BAD. She was going to miss the next day of class unless we figured something out. Grateful Diver called Wally to see about a loaner suit and I offered to run the suit i...

You are one sexy beast Scott. I hope you are feeling better soon. Quitting smoking sucks. I did it five or six times before it stuck (most of the way, unless I was diving with you or drinking with another of my friends). All nicotine gum tastes like ass, in my experience. My solution was the nicotin...

Scott, if it is your mask, you owe me something.
MZ, I would recommend that your ransom demand include tix to the next public appearance of Scott's band http://www.typeaband.com/.
See Scott -mask recovery services AND band publicity.

If it's Scott's Halcyon mask that he had for about 15 minutes and wanted to make out with because he loved it so much, I want it! It was lost at Sund Rock moments before he lost his dignity (or what was left of it) falling on his ass in the parking lot.

Erika, I am so glad you had a good time on your first OWC dives. It just gets better from here. Sorry to hear about the weight belt suckage. It just takes some time to come up with the best combination to carry your dive weight. One option is to purchase two of the cam band weight pouches that go on...

Sungurl, I did 30 dives in a rented wetsuit before I bought my first used drysuit. Each and every dive, I found myself getting colder and colder as my skill set improved, my dives got longer, and my level of exertion decreased. If you are cold now, you will be a popsicle once you get comfortable in ...

I have never heard a big debate about warmth between the two, it seems to be a matter of personal preference coupled with quality of the suit and proper fit of the wetsuit. When I was diving the full suit/vest and hood combo I envied the folks in their farmer john's for the ability to get out of the...

When I switched to my DUI suit, I had a really hard time with air in my feet. I am not a drysuit duckie (I sucked for a long time at diving the thing). Gaiters helped me tremendously, as well as diving the thing tight enough to get a full body hickey until I had it under control. Once you finish you...

There is nothing else to do, so pregnancy is big business in greater Leesville. Seriously, if you go to the Wal-Mart (the only grocery store) at around three, the cookie aisle is packed with all sorts of pregnant women fighting over the Oreos. The beer aisle around here is deserted, but the cookie a...

So, I have been hounding three of my friends to get certified. They finally took the bait and are doing a referral program out of NC. We were already planning a trip for this fall and they would like to finish their certs and do some diving on the trip. The trick is, I will be on the only one NOT di...

As a vet and someone who routinely accessorizes with a cute active duty husband, I think that the sentiment is great but that the gesture is silly. I asked Greg about this and evidently soldiers have no idea what is going on with this campaign. Should make for some interesting conversations when sol...

Moral issues aside, prescriptive easements are more complicated than just openly using a piece of property for a period of time. Under Washington law, there are five requirements for establishing a prescriptive easement: that the use be (1) open and notorious; (2) over a uniform route; (3) continuou...

If I ran a dive shop, I would: Have an indoor pool of my very own for classes and for folks to try out gear. The best thing about the shop where I got my C card (in Virginia) was that they had a pool as a part of the shop. If you needed more pool time during class, hop right in. If you want to try o...

Nicely done. At least the slippery little beasts have good tastes in dive lights.

Eric, for the first time since you moved to paradise, I am not jealous of you. Well, not the sickly green jealous that I normally am. I am still jealous, but in a slightly creeped out sort of way. That is an insane centipede. Absolutely nutty. I am really glad that you are okay and that we are just ...

So the Army has spoken. No later than Friday, the Stricker household will be caravaning down to lovely West-Central Louisiana for at least a year in the lovely humidity. We are very excited. I have tried everything I could to avoid or delay this move, but circumstances are such that I can't justify ...

So I have a BP/W that I love. But I can't figure out how to get the pretty, nice little grommet that seem to be standard gear on all of the other BP/W's. This is the grommet on the part of the harness where the top of the BP attaches to the STA or bolts. Frankly, my harness is jealous of my friends'...

Here is my worry with a She-P - I can't pee in a wetsuit. Seriously. I've tried and I just get major stage fright. I have some weird mental block when it comes to peeing in my clothes, even when it results in a mad dash to the bathroom immediately upon exiting the water. Has anyone else overcome sta...

I loved jumping. What I always hated was the plane ride and the process of getting out of the plane. Once I was out the door, for some reason all of the fear dropped away and was replaced by joy. My first jump, I ended up laughing out loud the whole way down - it is a wonderful feeling. As a point o...

Hey Dale! Good to have you here. A quick hint - take LCF up on her offer. Seriously. You won't regret it. There are some other great big buddies on this board - you have landed in a great place to get started on some fantastic cold water diving.
Kate

Those are the fish I saw. Thanks for grabbing pics Matt and for the ID. Any idea why so many of them would be dead in the same general area?

My apologies - I am not a photographer and I am terrible at fish ID (although I am learning). This would be a much better question with pics or a solid ID. Regardless, here goes. Today at Sund Rock my buddy and I found six dead cabezons (or some other large sculpin shaped fish). The bodies were at v...