Northwest Dive Club

We're already planning our return around Thanksgiving.

We met several Washington divers while at God's Pocket in October. It was great putting faces to the names I had known from Scubaboard and the Northwest Dive Club websites. ScubaJess and Eric talked about the Pacific Spiny Lumpsuckers, Lumpies appearing soon at their local dive sites. Merry and I so...

I have a small collection of old Coke bottles. My favorite is a 1923 Christmas bottle. The U.S. Patent offices happened to be opened that day, so Coca-Cola had a limited run of Christmas bottles made.

That is definitely a juvenile sheephead.
The while line fades as they enter the intermediate phase.

I had to Google Tapatalk.

You can take the girl out of Minnesota...

I tried a small suction cup but it slides right off when it gets wet.

I thought about that. It's a stone, not glass, so it might work.

I bought a seven inch disc. They are heavy and sail when you drop them. :( I dropped mine on its initial dive. I didn't see where it fell, but a buddy did. It went into a crack at 90 feet that was about a foot away from my outstretched hand. I had to remove a fin and use it to bring the stage back t...

I sweep the nudi from the substrate, catch it on the stage, and wait for it to grab on. I turn the stage to get a good angle, rest the end of the port on the stage to reduce camera shake, look up to get a black background, and have my strobes pointed inward and turned down. Once I have good focus, I...

I got mine on Amazon. I've used obsidian stages for a few years but didn't know about the polished ones until a few months ago. I had to look up the word scrying.

Where did you get the form? We have a few trips lined up and I don't want to pay for my own housing again.

Our annual trip to God's Pocket was a bit more difficult this year. Delayed a year because of the pandemic, we were only allowed into Canada if we were fully vaccinated and had a negative COVID test within 72 hours of travel. We also had to get a negative test to return to the U.S. The Border Patrol...

U. S. Customs wanted to charge us a tariff for bringing our housings back from God's Pocket. They wanted to know the value, but let us slide this time. They said we need to get a card from Port Authority next time. The U. S. is turning into Cabo San Lucas.

We'll be hauling our boat out for bottom paint and mechanical repairs. We really need some fun dives!

Merry and I arrived in Port Hardy today. It was fairly painless. We showed our vaccination cards and negative tests at LAX and Vancouver airport and had no real delay. We'll be here for 2 1/2 weeks. I hope we don't get sick while we're here.

Yay Christa! You had an epic trip. Merry and I arrive Friday with hopes of a little bit of that luck.

I will actually get to dive with ScubaJess and Yelloweye n October!!!

Very nice! I recognize most of the names and have dived with some of them. It's great to see their work in one place.

Unless they were sleeping in full asbestos suits, breathers, and full helmets there is no way they could walk through fire. According to the latest reports, the victims were already dead from smoke inhalation. I know television and movies make us think the crew always goes down with the ship, but th...

Before Merry retired, we used to collect sea water and look at in under the microscopes at her lab. There are so many animals and silica particles that I often wondered if it would be better to spit in my mask and not rinse it.

Tangfish wrote:So glad to know the operation is not only running but running well from the sounds of it.

Great photos and welcome to NWDC. Maybe I’ll see you at Long Beach?

Gdog, let’s make good on our deposits we got back!

I just heard from Claus. He has two spots open for June 16-22.

They will be there until the end of the month before heading to work at a fishing lodge. I talked to Claus and he wants to try hiring them full time.

We had a second trip scheduled for last August that was postponed twice. We had them hold our deposit. The gamble paid off. It was the best vacation I have ever had. We'll be back again next March.