Northwest Dive Club

For those who are interested, I'll be teaching the DAN Hazardous Marine Life Injuries class on Tuesday, November 28. It's a four hour class beginning at 6:00 pm and will cover various marine life injuries including bites, stings, envenomations etc, with a review of local PNW hazards as well. There a...

wow; you guys take such great pictures! i guess those skills (taking the photos themselves and finding the cool things to photograph) will come in time. i take a ton and only get a few that i really, really like. Well your pictures are pretty great too! One of my faves was the silouette of the jell...

Delightful pics Val! Love looking at them... Val, tell me about the salmon pic. It seems that salmon sightings are about as rare as any other fish for NW divers. My guess is that they are fast, and normally not in the water column that divers frequent. Yours is one of the only diving salmon pics I'...

And here's where my photos are...

-Valerie

http://jellyfish.smugmug.com/gallery/2130099

I'm posting this for a friend at work, a non-diver. She is having a garage sale on Saturday, November 11 to get rid of a ton of stuff that was left behind by her daughter's ex. There are a variety of wet suit boots, different thicknesses, hoods, gloves (all name brands), loads of soft weights, vario...

Actually, I kind of liked Puking Pumpkin...

-Valerie

Does anyone know of a reliable computer guru? I'm in rather desperate need of someone to trouble shoot and clean up my computer, install a new (bigger) hard drive and do the data transfer. While I'm fairly creative with the beastie, I'm not technosavvy enough to do the work myself, and I really hate...

I'd be there John, assuming I'm not supposed to be at work.

-Valerie

Try this site as well

http://www.seaotter.com/marine-life.html (hit the crustacean link on the left)

-Valerie

Grateful Diver wrote:Well, last week's seminar went so well that Walt has asked me to do two more.

I'll be giving the gas management seminar again on Wednesday January 31 and Wednesday April 25.

Admission is free ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

Way to go Bob! Woo-hoo!

Usually if you are acute the fire dept will transport you. If you have no acute immediately life threatening injury they will arrange for a commercial ambulance. Actually, it depends on the municipality. In January Auburn FD started charging $$ to transport patients and now transports almost exclus...

More pix from the REEF Quarterly Dive are here http://jellyfish.smugmug.com/gallery/2070108


-Valerie

Leave word with Discount Divers in Seattle as well, they deal in used dive gear and are sometimes a place stolen gear winds up.

-Valerie

I too have a DUI TLS suit, which I've had for nearly 5 years with over 720 dives on it. It's had seals replaced a few times but the suit itself is still holding up well and has many many dives left on it. Can't beat the customer service and 7 year warrantee with DUI either. I like trilam type suits ...

Pinkpadigal wrote: .

We looked for small red octopus and did not see any. It has been about 2 months since I have seen them at Redondo. Has anyone seen any there lately.

I was there Monday night and saw one on each dive, out and about. Cute little guys.

-Valerie

Nope, I'm not complaining at all. Second try today and it's still working! Woo-hoo! :supz: -Valerie (aka Zen Diver, the original) So....should we now refer to you as "the artist formerly known as Zen Diver"? #-o - John John, John, John.... "Artist," ha, you flatter me. "Div...

Exposure suits make great packing material, wrapped around regs, lights etc. I also stuff my small lights into my booties (protection). I pack as Amy suggested, regs inside BCD, fins on top for protection of the stuff below. Small box with SADK stuff, minimalist tho (fin strap, mouthpiece, few O rin...

Nope, I'm not complaining at all. Second try today and it's still working! Woo-hoo!

-Valerie
(aka Zen Diver, the original)

John Rawlings wrote:Hmmmm....I see that you are logged in as "Zen Diver 2". Does everything work correctly when you log in using your original "Zen Diver" member log-on?

- John

Can't seem to log in using the original Zen Diver anymore. Says that account is not active.

-Valerie

Well, I don't know if it was Calvin's magic or that the Computer Gods have smiled upon me, but things are working this morning! It's been a long long time and I'd stopped frequenting because it was just too frustrating and time consuming. ](*,) A huge THANK YOU to Calvin for all the time and effort ...

Sorry Soundman, it may be working for you but not for me. I can at least post, but I still get the "no new posts" screen. Tonight I logged on, hit the "new since last vist" and it did bring me to new posts, but only the first two actually took me to the new posts. After that I co...

testing testing testing

-Valerie (as Valerie, trying to get this weirdness figured out )