Northwest Dive Club

Joshua Smith wrote:Something in my "home brewed" de-fog solution seems to keep funk from growing in my mask.......

So Josh are you putting radioactive waste in your defogger or what?? Or is it just the black silicone mask and you cannot see it. One advantage or a disadvantage of the clear silicone.

I pour Hydrogen Peroxide in the mask then use a kabob stick to scrap out the snot candy from the corners and seams while letting the HP in to sterilize.

I just thought I would put this out as kind of a preliminary. I am putting together a trip out to the Cob Seamount. Not sure of the costs just yet it will be at least 1 week on the boat. 2 days out 3 days on site 2 days back. If anyone is preliminary interested let me know. My guess is it will be 2....

You are right I always get Snow Creek and Salt Creek mixed up.

Well this is coming (obviously) from a complete layman so maybe this is a stupid question but CCRs seem to be really pretty basic in their design. It doesn't really seem like there's a whole lot to them that couldn't be swapped or fixed with little more than a Leatherman and some spare parts at the...

I talked to Kirby and was unsure about what vis was going to be for you guys. but when i went down to the river and saw it had 5' of vis in it Saturday I knew you were going to have a good dive. She is my favorite wreck up here to dive next to the Bunker Hill. Josh did anyone make it to the bridge? ...

Sail Rock, Seal Rock, and the Rock Garden are just off their also, the ANDALUSIA is located just under a half mile out and makes for a great scooter dive from shore. It is quite easy to find the ANDALUSIA if you follow the contour of the bottom. The spear fishing is great along that stretch as well.

Mel at silent scuba is a cave instructor from up here in Seattle. she is in Florida this week then back for a week then back to Florida for cave classes. She also goes down to Mexico quite a bit.

http://www.silentscuba.com/

Drop her a email. She does both OC and CCR Cave.

They have a nice little HD camera. I have one and it does as good as some of my friends 2K plus cameras. Next weekend I am sure that they will have a booth at the Tacoma Dive Show. Check it out.

If you do not want to spend a whole lot of money and want something that does a great job good take a look at this one. It is not anything like a camera that cost thousand but it does a good job.

http://bonicadive.com

Laura if you talk to most none bubblers that do deep dives MOD 3 as well as shallow. Very few of us do gas planning weather you are mCCR or eCCR. I think if you go to rebreather world and do a pole you will see many (mod 3) of us run 10/50 for dill all the time becuse it is easy to make and covers f...

Laura I designed this and had a few cut out to mounted on any butt pack. I chose a OMS butt pack becuse i like to have the dry tube for sea-dye marker and a flare. You know those days when the boat is on the other side of the channel running back and forth looking for you and you can see them but th...

Just wanted to update folks on how thier info helped me... I am now the proud owner of an Apeks ??? 200. I will pick it up from LDS tomorrow! I was leaning towards the XTX50, but they didnt' have it in stock but did have the 200 in stock. ANd I leave Wednesday night for my catalina/lajolla/monterey...

I have found the Deep Outdoors Road Trip to be one of the best. It has the largest capacity for the least amount of wight I have been able to find. I have two one for gear and one for my scooter. it wights is about 7 lbs. http://deepoutdoors.divebiz.net/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=29_...

I went with OMS's work horses for my deco bottles they breath quit decent but only cost $140.00 each. It seams that deco regs get beat to hell all the time and one should not be working hard when on deco so they have worked fine for me. But yea you definitely need good flow on the primary. One thing...

Thanks nwbrewer and loanwolf....I just saw another post somewhere else about 5 minutes ago that told me AL & Apeks were the same company. Oh yea...it was on the US Dept of Labor (?) website. It said Aqualung was recalling the APEKS XTX, ATX etc models manufactured jan 09 to april 08 I think it ...

As long as the second stage you are using is designed to operate at the same intermediate pressure that the first stage is designed to deliver, they are compatible. Almost, but not quite right. There are two types of designs of second stages, upstream and downstream, which, for simplicity's sake, r...

If I am not down south then yes I am up for one. What did you have in mind?

I told you that you would love it Cam. Antarctica is my most favorite place on the planet. As I told you I have been there 9 times and 7 climbing 2 times with the Navy and one of those was a winter over and i did quite a bit of diving on both. Too bad you did not take your breathers and get some goo...

. Edit - I heard that diving between the ship canal and the locks was illegal, but I don't know where I heard that. In this case, the law and common sense would seem to agree. Yes, that is correct--it is in the Seattle Municipal Code. Ship canal out to through the Montlake Cut past Husky Stadium. {...

I've got two bottles that are clear coated that have been getting salt inside of them (The clear coat, that is). When I can, I'm gonna go get them blasted for $25 a pop. D(B) One thing to keep in mind is all the manufacturers state that aluminum tanks must be blasted with only walnut shell and not ...

If you are truly concerned about it get a Coltri Sub Filter. That way you can fill form none O2 clean if you cannot find O2 clean air and not have to worry about Hydrocarbons and keep your tanks O2 clean.

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I could see your point if this was a debate about recreational diving somehow being commercial. Maybe comerciational diving? But, your logic falls apart with the "3 tier" approach you argue things are at the end. I think the term "techreational" is somewhere in the gray area bet...

we coined the term 18 years ago to describe basically everything most of us in dubs, ccr, etc are doing for 'recreation'. technical diving is a term i save for those pushing the envelope, but are not doing it for real scientific purpose or work. i would call myself a techreational diver now, i dive...

This is a good topic it gives people Ideas for things to put in the tool box. But be careful you can be opening yourself up for lawsuits should something go wrong and you did something that is not the standard. The good samaritan law is not very strong anymore. One main reason to remove the rig is t...