Thanks for pursing this. I wonder what is different about WA that the underwriters won't insure 70+ here?
FWIW, DAN insurance is secondary insurance. Your primary insurance is the first line of defense; making sure that's as good as possible is probably the best (only?) action available.
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- Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:09 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Dive Insurance ....
- Replies: 1
- Views: 125
- Sun Jan 03, 2021 8:28 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Hypothetical Question (sorta): What do you do if you find a firearm while diving?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 782
Re: Hypothetical Question (sorta): What do you do if you find a firearm while diving?
And there it is.
Good posts.
Good posts.
- Tue Dec 29, 2020 9:14 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Hypothetical Question (sorta): What do you do if you find a firearm while diving?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 782
Hypothetical Question (sorta): What do you do if you find a firearm while diving?
Kinda slow on the board lately. Thought I'd stir up the silt a bit... The question isn't really hypothetical because, inevitably, someone here will find a weapon while diving. This year alone we've found quite a lot of unspent 30-06 ammunition from the WWI era, and a CO2 air pistol (badly corroded)....
- Tue Dec 15, 2020 9:50 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Divers Discover Nazi WW2 Enigma Machine in Baltic Sea
- Replies: 2
- Views: 288
Divers Discover Nazi WW2 Enigma Machine in Baltic Sea
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/artic ... baltic-sea
That's nothin'! I find 90's-era flip phones all the time, and they're much higher technology...
That's nothin'! I find 90's-era flip phones all the time, and they're much higher technology...
- Tue Dec 01, 2020 11:09 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Dolphins Swimming in Bioluminesce
- Replies: 4
- Views: 509
Dolphins Swimming in Bioluminesce
I think this is the most beautiful thing I've seen all year.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/k4xw8t/glowing_dolphins_playing_in_the_bioluminescent/
https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/k4xw8t/glowing_dolphins_playing_in_the_bioluminescent/
- Tue Nov 24, 2020 11:55 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Sewage Overflow in Port Townsend
- Replies: 2
- Views: 631
Re: Sewage Overflow in Port Townsend
Advisory lifted. Now all you need to worry about is the normal icky bacteria.
https://www.ptleader.com/stories/water- ... send,72301
https://www.ptleader.com/stories/water- ... send,72301
- Sat Nov 21, 2020 6:30 pm
- Forum: Dive Site Listings
- Topic: Hood Canal Bridge, West Side
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6475
Re: Hood Canal Bridge, West Side
Just a follow-up on this.
I drove over the bridge today and checked things out, and there a still -- very definitely -- two signs that say NO SCUBA DIVING BELOW THE BRIDGE.
Killjoys.
I drove over the bridge today and checked things out, and there a still -- very definitely -- two signs that say NO SCUBA DIVING BELOW THE BRIDGE.
Killjoys.
- Fri Nov 20, 2020 11:18 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Sewage Overflow in Port Townsend
- Replies: 2
- Views: 631
Sewage Overflow in Port Townsend
Area affected includes Point Hudson dive site. Overflow happened a few days ago but the warning is still in effect.
https://ecology.wa.gov/Blog/Posts/Novem ... Port-Towns
https://ecology.wa.gov/Blog/Posts/Novem ... Port-Towns
- Mon Nov 16, 2020 8:24 am
- Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
- Topic: So this washed up on my beach today...
- Replies: 8
- Views: 980
Re: So this washed up on my beach today...
Oh no!
Diving with a live one is near the top of my bucket list. Can we set up a mola mola emergency text hotline for sightings?
Diving with a live one is near the top of my bucket list. Can we set up a mola mola emergency text hotline for sightings?
- Sat Oct 31, 2020 3:56 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Bottle Thread
- Replies: 240
- Views: 87473
Re: The Bottle Thread
From Fort Flagler the other day... Claussen Brewing Association, Seattle Wash. blob-top beer bottle, ca. 1901. A bit sand-blasted after being underwater for 120 years, but otherwise in great shape. An excellent history of the Claussen Brewing Association can be found here . (Edit: Holy smokes! I jus...
- Sat Oct 17, 2020 6:44 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Bottle Thread
- Replies: 240
- Views: 87473
Re: The Bottle Thread
Oi! This was kind of a crazy dive day in Port Townsend. Our afternoon slack (Dive title: "Slack? What slack??") dive turned out to be amazing. Clear, aquarium diving with tubesnouts and all kinds of goofy things. -- A ceramic Chinese Tiger Whiskey bottle. The lip is chipped but this one is going on ...
- Thu Oct 08, 2020 10:31 am
- Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
- Topic: Massive Anchor at Fort Flagler
- Replies: 3
- Views: 402
Massive Anchor at Fort Flagler
Had a wonderful dive at Ft. Flagler yesterday. 25+ vis, lots of rockfish and cod, old medicine bottles, more live ammunition (30-06, circa WWI), and this massive anchor in the video, with probably 100ft of heavy chain. The video starts at the top of the anchor where I brush some silt off a massive s...
- Wed Oct 07, 2020 8:55 am
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: Crazy Currents This Week
- Replies: 3
- Views: 422
Re: Crazy Currents This Week
Getting darker earlier kinda sucks! But on the Peninsula side of the sound, many of the local dive sites have slack times that are 45 minutes to an hour before the predicted slack. For instance, we are planning a dive at Ft. Flagler today; the Marrowstone Point current prediction (nearest to the sit...
- Tue Oct 06, 2020 8:01 am
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: Crazy Currents This Week
- Replies: 3
- Views: 422
Crazy Currents This Week
I'm looking ahead at some amazingly good currents, especially Thursday 10/8.
But wow... Late in the week it's almost all "ebb" with no "flood". WTH?
But wow... Late in the week it's almost all "ebb" with no "flood". WTH?
- Thu Sep 17, 2020 3:42 pm
- Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
- Topic: Sixgills and more....
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1429
Re: Sixgills and more....
Epic shots!
- Sun Aug 30, 2020 1:15 pm
- Forum: Diving Education (Recreational)
- Topic: Altitude Diving and Nitrogen Narcosis
- Replies: 1
- Views: 354
Altitude Diving and Nitrogen Narcosis
I was just reviewing altitude diving procedures and found this statement : Nitrogen narcosis might not be experienced by an Advanced Open Water diver who only dives to 100 feet normally. However, put that diver down 100 feet starting at 9,000 feet elevation and they will experience it to some degree...
- Sat Aug 29, 2020 4:00 pm
- Forum: Gear Central (Recreational)
- Topic: Transfill Whip Gauge Leaking Oil
- Replies: 3
- Views: 716
- Sat Aug 29, 2020 10:36 am
- Forum: Gear Central (Recreational)
- Topic: Transfill Whip Gauge Leaking Oil
- Replies: 3
- Views: 716
Transfill Whip Gauge Leaking Oil
NWDC hive mind, I need your advice-- I went to use my transfill whip today and found the gauge leaking oil. It is coming from rubber stopper on top of the gauge, that pops out all too easily (which may explain why it's leaking). So. It the gauge salvageable? It still works, I just don't know how cri...
- Mon Aug 24, 2020 10:06 pm
- Forum: Dive Travel - Planning and Adventure
- Topic: Dive travel kinda bites right now
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2463
- Mon Aug 24, 2020 4:15 pm
- Forum: Dive Travel - Planning and Adventure
- Topic: Dive travel kinda bites right now
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2463
Re: Dive travel kinda bites right now
You haven't dove everywhere here yet Glenn. Let's do some exploring and find some new stuff. Yes. Yes. Here's the short list of places I haven't been to yet (on our side of the water) but need to go: Skyline Wall Rosario Beach Deception Pass Sekiu Blakely Rock Neah Bay (closed for now) Keystone hig...
- Wed Aug 19, 2020 9:29 am
- Forum: Dive Travel - Planning and Adventure
- Topic: God's Pocket keeping deposits for COVID cancelled trips
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1118
Re: God's Pocket keeping deposits for COVID cancelled trips
In this discussion, I don't think anyone mentioned who , exactly, cancelled the trip. If a US-based dive group canceled it, then GP is doing you a big favor by offering to apply your deposit to a future stay. A guest's inability to travel to the resort is not GP's fault; they could just as easily no...
- Thu Aug 13, 2020 11:59 am
- Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
- Topic: Why we like Fort Flagler (short video)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 399
Re: Why we like Fort Flagler (short video)
wow, nice area. I'm trying to recall, is that current sensitive dive site? Very. It's why we don't dive it often. The water gets flushed out in the straits so the vis is usually better there. We use the Marrowstone Point current chart. Actual slack is typically 45-60 minutes before predicted. Yeste...
- Thu Aug 13, 2020 9:47 am
- Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
- Topic: Why we like Fort Flagler (short video)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 399
Why we like Fort Flagler (short video)
Vis was great yesterday, 25ft in places.
Please pardon the backscatter, shot with a GoPro and small light.
Why We Like Fort Flagler (0:57 secs)
Please pardon the backscatter, shot with a GoPro and small light.
Why We Like Fort Flagler (0:57 secs)
- Tue Aug 11, 2020 8:14 pm
- Forum: Dive Travel - Planning and Adventure
- Topic: Dive travel kinda bites right now
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2463
- Tue Aug 11, 2020 8:13 pm
- Forum: Dive Travel - Planning and Adventure
- Topic: Dive travel kinda bites right now
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2463
Re: Dive travel kinda bites right now
I've been focusing on hitting Deception Pass, Skyline and Keystone off slack to work on skills Wait. You've been diving them off slack ?? I'm hoping to do a long weekend shore dive trip to hit Salt Creek, Seiku and some other random sites out on the peninsula. A camp/dive trip to Salt Creek or Lake...