Northwest Dive Club

And back to work on the Egabrag, which in reality never stopped as we kept adding equipment, modifying existing gear for every job required something different. We lived aboard, the quarters were small, after all, this was a workboat, not a pleasure yacht. Note that we added a cabin behind the wheel...

Good for you Dusty! The Tritonias are sure beautiful. Time to dust off my gear, you are inspiration

Not all the time was spend working on Egabrag, other job were taken to bring in some money. One of the more interesting ones was the salvage of a charter fishing boat which run into Mexican island about 17 miles south from San Diego . At night and in fog. Coast Guard rescued the passengers and crew,...

Great photos and very entertaining report of Thanksgiving adventure.

Dusty2 wrote:Awesome stuff Scott! Very professional looking site and some really great photo's

2 Thumbs up on that venture Scott

Agree 100%

http://jankocian.smugmug.com/Other/Trinec-2010-History-dive-show/Egabrag-75-remod-2S/1109615761_dAirB-XL.jpg Two of the US Navy YGs took part in firefighting at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 ! Earning a Battle Star no less :supz: http://jankocian.smugmug.com/Other/Trinec-2010-History-dive-show/N...

Thanks. Now comes another conversion from a old US Navy boat into something new and different. This time the metamorphosis involves an ex garbage boat. In the good old days, these small ships collected garbage from big ships in the harbor and then sailed out into open seas, opened the eight side-doo...

Nothing like to find a new critter to add to the list! You're right, who cares how short the dive is

OK for the few who are still following the journey of mine. We flew out of the Solomon Islands aboard Nauru Airlines jet. Back then, Nauru Island, an independent republic in the middle of Pacific, was a very rich country mining phosphate ( deposits of bird guano ) and nobody worked, they hired forei...

The Whitespotted greenling is still guarding the eggs, most of the Bull kelp is now gone from the vicinity ofthe eggs. I sure hope they will hatch successfully. Still no eyes showing.. http://jankocian.smugmug.com/Other/New-Arrivals/112610-Whitespotted-gr-S/1108053822_Hdv8z-XL.jpg Leopard sure fits ...

And it is time to wrap the South Pacific venture. http://jankocian.smugmug.com/Other/Trinec-2010-History-dive-show/Ch-R-74-Guadal-uw-4S/1107172980_7TiF5-XL.jpg I got a chance to get a bird-eye-view of the island, pilot from New Zealand took me to the skies after he finished fertilizing local rice fi...

Great job ! Thanks for sharing..

Here is a little fishing story from the South Pacific : http://jankocian.smugmug.com/Other/Trinec-2010-History-dive-show/Guadal-74-fishing-1S/1106068189_jMpkr-XL.jpg http://jankocian.smugmug.com/Other/Trinec-2010-History-dive-show/Solomons74-fishing-2S/1106068200_8ZR7c-XL.jpg http://jankocian.smugmu...

Land excursions into jungle of Guadalcanal Island. http://jankocian.smugmug.com/Other/Trinec-2010-History-dive-show/Ch-Rose-74-Guadal-riverS/1105052456_jevKJ-XL.jpg I was beginning to have problems with my Nikonos camera, the advancing mechanism started to fail, rather frustrating situation. Picture...

Same to you from the other corner of this state :0 It is nice to have so many like-minded (or should I say single-minded)
friends all in one place - the NWDC Happy Thanksgiving to all

World War II remnants are to be found all over Guadalcanal, well, at least back in 1974. Although the jungle is doing pretty good job in covering it all up. http://jankocian.smugmug.com/Other/Trinec-2010-History-dive-show/Guadal-74-ww2-S/1104262667_usDGP-XL.jpg Since there was no any attempt to pres...

So, what happened to the boat? Did you just leave it in the terrible Solomons? (Jack London called them that in South Sea Tales.) OK, I will get to the boat story later :pirate: Since we are having record cold temperatures around us, I thought little bit of tropics might help the spirits. As the bo...

Although I'm not the best expert on the Jetty I have been diving there a couple of times each year for awhile now, and yes I'm seeing juvenile PSKC that I haven't seen before. And I've also seen them recently over in Port Townsend as well. I seem to recall that the jetty was going to be torn out an...

First few years diving the jetty, I did not see any. Then once in blue moon I would see one. Now I see them on every dive.
Hopefully they become a permanent residents there. I noticed similar things at Langley. I now see species I never found there before, including algae - the Bull kelp ...

Anchors Aweigh !! Time to sail on. http://jankocian.smugmug.com/Other/Trinec-2010-History-dive-show/Chr-Rose-74-UW-Majur-S/1100508919_THcWw-XL.jpg When your sole way of propulsion is wind, being close to the equator is not always a good thing. It is almost unbelievable that the ocean can truly be &q...

Hey good for you, little bit too cold for me now, few years back it would not stop me, but for last few days my arthritis
bothers me so I keep out of water. I do miss diving, but for while I have to live through the dive reports of others

For while the boat is not moving at all times, not need to get up at two o'clock at night and steer by a faint compass light into the darkness, instead a peaceful lagoon anchorage, swaying palm trees, shore excursions. http://jankocian.smugmug.com/Other/Trinec-2010-History-dive-show/Ch-Rose-74-Majur...

And we sail on. The trade winds are steady and we make good progress. Happiness is not having to mess with the sails too often, the square sails are just the right stuff for going with the wind. For the first few days after leaving Johnston, we enjoy fresh foods, not scurvy aboard :) http://jankocia...

Thanks Ben, but no coffee cups. Yet :) We did have a old whiskey barrel aboard for fresh water storage. Our coffee had an interesting flavor thanks to it.. With the frost and possible snow coming to Whidbey, it is time to head to the South Pacific aboard the Christian Rose :pirate: http://jankocian....

Thanks Calvin. Gathering old pictures, notes and memories :) Although I did not have any commercial diving endorsements, I dabbled in diving for wages a little bit, nothing too heavy duty, scuba was sufficient. From cleaning boat bottoms, changing props and zincs to a deckhand on work boats. http://...