Northwest Dive Club

It is all a personal preference thing. I personally have 8 AL80's and 3 steel HP100's. Most of my dives are with the 80's but I do use the 100's occasionally. I have two for them set up for nitrox so those get used when I want to stay deeper longer. If you are not sure what you really want, try them...

My two cents worth. . . . . - When you are recording, move slowly or not at all. If you move too fast or are jerky, you will make your audience motion sick. If your subject is moving you can be still. If your subject is still, you should be moving. It's video after all and your audience expects moti...

I made a trip to this dive shop last Friday and was very pleased with what I saw. It was a nice clean shop, well set up with stock & had a good looking fill station. It is not a big store front but is surprizingly roomy inside. I spent a while talking to one of the guys there (I think his name w...

We have a couple of sites down at the South end that require going across the train tracks. While I don't see any reason to close the access, I have noticed specifically at Titlow, The teens seem to like just hanging out, on the tracks there. :lurk: As I've seen many cargo type trains go by, I once...

I did a dive at the oil dock about 5pm yesterday (7/8) and came back with a limit of real nice crab (3 at 7inches and 2 just over 6 1/2). They are still out there dispite 2 months of commercial crabbing before we got to go out. We got all ours just under and within 20 feet on the south side of the d...

I assume you are referring to Jeff Christianson. I have had many a conversation with him over the last few years and the way you just explained it is how I understood it too. When they show up they all seem to have a common parent (Mom) with a few different Dads. That big female that washed up on a ...

I work for a little aerospace company in Everett that has had a very hard time getting it's latest and greatest airplane off the ground. But hay, those planes make for pretty good yard art over there by the paint hangers. My schedule: Work Work Work Work Dive Dive Dive somewhere in the middle of tha...

100ft rock is an awesome site if you are into macro photography. I could always find many cool critters to point my video camera at there. I will really miss that site. Hopefully, with the passage of a little time, that fence will go away and we will have access to it again.

Randy

Last weekend I was at a diver friend's July 4th party and heard my first report of a sixgill being seen locally in a long time. It happened about 2-3 weeks ago and was just off the rope trail at Cove 2. They said it was in about 70fsw just sitting on the bottom. Now my first response was "BS&qu...

THATS IT!!! I'm bringing more than one tank to the Monday Muk-a-mania. Nice report and I am still waiting to see a seal when I dive. Try a night dive at cove 2. There is almost always a (very well fed) seal or two around there waiting to sneak up behind and scare the @#$%$#@ out of you. At first th...

We made our latest attempt at finding a sixgill last Friday night. This time we were out near Saltys and in 80fsw. No sharks but we did have some pretty spectacular visability (Could see the boat from 50fsw) and a bunch of BIG jellyfish to keep us entertained. We soaked the bait for 3 hours before d...

We had a guy at one of our past dive club meetings a few years give us a presentation (and sales pitch) on diving at some fishing resort in Alaska. He talked about going down 150 feet and shooting a 175 pound halibut. However, he was using a spear with a 12ga shotgun shell on the end (bangstick) and...

Thick 4th element top, bottom & socks with some fleece under that. I love it! Even when it gets wet, it feels dry (Downside, it's sometimes difficult to tell when the suit does have a small leak in it).

Randy P

Last Friday night my buddy & I made our latest attempt at finding a sixgill. We have adopted the "if you can't stumble across them then bait them in" approach. Our bait last Friday was frozen lingcod carcasses. It was out about two hours at about 70fsw before we descended on it. We man...

I do not use a filter in our green water. I rely on a lot of light to bring out the colors. Tropical I use a red filter for day dives and no filter for night dives. If you go down beyond 30 or 40 fsw then you will need to use your lights along with the red filter.

Randy P

There is another gill net about 200 feet noth of Sares Head in about 50fsw. I ran across it last Saturday. I cut severl golf ball crab,a red rock crab and a Red Irish lord ot of it before I had to head back up. It just makes me sick to see how much life that one net catches knowing there are thousan...

Okay, back on topic here. I did go out Friday to give a shot at finding those big toothy fish at the Mukilteo T-dock. I entered the water around 6 and bopped on down to about 100fsw and spent the next 25 minutes searching but to no avail (Technically I was at 90 with about 10 feet below me). Sort of...

I have been in a LONG sixgill dry spell - Several years in fact. Is anybody seeing sixgill sharks anywhere and if so, where? The Elliot Bay population has moved on. They have to be somewhere.

Great idea Jenn. Boeing had to quit doing theirs because corporate policy changed who they could have on site. They weren't going to be allowed to have non-boeing vendors/sellers or visitors. At least this is how I remember it. At the time, I had offered up my school as a great facility to house so...

I setr mine up in a data base program. I can do searches for specific things (Where I found the xxx fish, when I used Nitrox or whatever) or I can print out two (could be more) different versions of my dive log (Short & full). I have been using it for the last 1300+ dives and it is working great!

thanks for the info, randy. the mag looks interesting, and their movie, too. here's the trailer: http://www.summerofthesharks.com/trailer.html I got to see their (SDM) movie while on the boat in the Bahamas. It is awesome! Eli & Paul (editor & photographer for Shark Diver Magazine) were on ...

If you get excited about sharks (Which I do) then you need to checkout the Shark Diver Magazine website (www.sharkdivermag.com). It is geared towards dedemonizing (Is that a word?) and preserving the sharks we have left. I have been on a couple of the shark diving trips they offer the latest one div...