Northwest Dive Club

SCUBARM79 wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 18, 2019 4:33 pm

What size is your BCD? I've got a chest size 46-48" (think L/XL T-shirt). Would you're BCD fit me?

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Welcome to the board!

Go dry. Sooner or later you'll get too cold in a wetsuit and decide to get a drysuit. Might as well just do it from the start. :-)

I misread the title as Possible Dive Site in Mongolia.

I thought, Wow, that's like super extreme! Hmmm. Is there diving in Mongolia?

Random gear that I don't need... Oneill wetsuit, $40. Size L, 3mm full, rear zip, in great condition. I'm 5'11" 220lbs and it's a bit too small for me. Would fit someone 5'10" or shorter, <200 lbs. wetsuit1.jpg Booties, $10. Almost new. Size 10, but run a bit big for my size 10 feet. booties1.jpg SM...

BillZ wrote:Red Sea Explorers is the ultimate in dive your own profile luxury. If you're up for an adventure, during the Winter-Spring they take one of their boats to Sudan and dive some amazing sites that are rarely seen.

Red Sea liveaboard trips are surprisingly affordable...

NWDC hive mind! I need your ideas. I'm starting to think about my next big international dive trip. Here's the thing... I recently got back from Thailand, which was nice enough, but all the diving was follow-the-divemaster style, and crowded. I cannot take any more of that! I'd like to find someplac...

I'm still looking around for an inflatable boat. Found this...

https://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/boa/ ... 15164.html

Wait, what? The HO SQUAD?

Cetacea wrote:Here are a couple recent finds from the sound.

Nice finds! I especially like the Macy & Co. drug bottle.

Diving Townsend Bay yesterday, I was very pleased to see three young sunflower stars (Pycnopodia). No really big adults, but these smaller ones looked healthy.

ohopdiver wrote:How old is it?

Molded but with an applied neck... Probably 1890's - 1910's era, rough guess. Hard to say definitively without embossing.

Oooo, nice, clean. Not sand-blasted like most of the ones we find in the ocean.

The latest find from Port Townsend. Not as old as I first thought, but old enough to be Edwardian...

"By Appointment to His Majesty the King"

Great photos! I just returned from diving the Similans, Richelieu, and Koh Phi Phi last week with the Manta 8 liveaboard; you beat me to the Thailand review! Sadly, my review is not so positive. Background: I dove the same areas 23 years ago so I was interested in seeing what has changed since then....

As some NWDC members know, I have a long association with the US Antarctic Program (USAP). Something that comes up almost every year is a National Science Foundation (NSF) solicitation for artists and writers. It's highly competitive, and applicants should be able to show a body of public work that ...

Cetacea wrote:Recent finds...

Wow, that's amazing!

(yummm, botulism...)

OK, not a bottle, but it is an un-damaged coffee cup, no cracks, no chips,found over the weekend in the silt at about 100'. As far as I can tell, this is the old ASC logo, which seems to have disappeared from 1927 - 1931 when the new logo showed up. Ah, now that could be put back in service! Beauty.

I have a DiveRite Tanspac-II I'll sell you. Currently equipped with a travel wing.
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Tangfish wrote:Looks hilarious! I wonder if it comes in pink.

But of course!

What can I say? Some people are geniuses. Or maybe my Amazon shopping got redirected to the sex toy shop...

Point Hudson, 2/10. Windy with 9 inches of snow. Churned-up shallow, ~20ft vis at depth -- very nice!

Got kinda beat-up with the wave action on entry but otherwise a good dive. 42F water temp, yowsa.

10,000 lbs of lift would be roughly 25x 55-gallon drums. Yikes!

Must be a big boat on the bottom... Good luck.

mike77jm wrote:

A current chart can be found at: http://tides.mobilegeographics.com/locations/45.html

The above chart has changed from Admiralty Inlet to some place in New Jersey.

Thanks. Yeah, mobilegeographics keeps changing their site. Lately, the normal Point Hudson prediction brought up someplace in China...

Try this one:
http://tbone.biol.sc.edu/tide/tideshow. ... on+Current

Well poop.

Fecal Matters: No-contact advisory issued for the southern shoreline of Bainbridge Island

I'm selling my Dive Rite II harness and travel wing. The wing (retails for $379 new) has a new inflator hose and valve. Straps, D-ring, tank bands, all in great shape. I originally got the TransPac for drysuit diving but switched to a backplate. Since then I've only used the TransPac for tropical di...

What are these particulates, anyway? Not sure it's from runoff as we haven't had much lately.

Pt. Hudson yesterday was ~10-15ft, milky looking. All the way down.