Northwest Dive Club

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.

And there it is.

Good posts.

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)....

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...

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/

Advisory lifted. Now all you need to worry about is the normal icky bacteria.

https://www.ptleader.com/stories/water- ... send,72301

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.

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

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?

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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?

Epic shots!

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...

Jeff Pack wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 29, 2020 1:17 pm

Doesnt affect the gage, the oil is largely for dampening.(Its just glycerin). You can run without if you want, or refill and abit of silicon to seal it up better

Thanks! I'm on it.

glenn

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...

YellowEye wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 24, 2020 6:35 pm

Salt creek is more about high enough tide height and surge/surf than current.

Ah, yeah. Last time the surge was awful and I got seasick while diving. Not something I want to repeat.

But otherwise a fantastic dive area!

glenn

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...

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...

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...

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)

BUZO71 wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 11, 2020 4:09 pm

Monterey!

Dove Monterey Bay last year. Tried for a boat but they were all booked.

I hear some of the boats are going out again but with limited passengers.

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...