Northwest Dive Club

I hear people are looking at boats right now, Altec II is alive, well and available :-)

Happy Birthday Calvin !!!!!! Hope you had a good one

Here are a few shots of the new Shearwater Predator OLED in the Florida Caves.

Mel is in Florida Cave Country teaching a CCR Cave Class and there are 2 Predators in use. Mel told me today that she can see the Predator 15 ft away in the cave and because of the 3 color screen (Green, Yellow, Red) she can tell if the person diving the Predator is keeping everything where it shoul...

Diving The New Shearwater Predator The new Predator is a dream underwater, the new OLED display is larger, very bright, extremely easy to read and with the 3 color display, will convey important information quickly to the user. The OLED display will automatically adjust it's intensity based on the ...

That's great news, I hope it's not just pillow talk.

Sounds like you guy's had a great trip, congratulations on pulling it off and getting some great pictures looking forward to seeing more :biggrin:

What a deal, spend the day in Victoria, BC and try out some rebreathers

Thanks to all that showed up, we had a great time and the stories were flying. Those that missed it, there is always next year :-)

Don't forget the BBQ on Labor Day, I have lots of food and drink !!! come join the fun

I put 75 ribs in BBQ marinate today starting the preparation for the Divers BBQ coming up on Monday , hope to see some of you there.

Actually, Shearwater to this day has not charged for any repair on the Pursuit or GF models, if we had a display failure for whatever reason, we would just change the display out, our unit is not potted and it makes repairs easy and more cost effective. It is a very reasonable position for any manuf...

Yes, purchase a Shearwater sorry, the door opened and I just had to say that

Curt and Mel are putting on a Divers end of summer BBQ at our home in Mill Creek on Labor Day, Sept 7th around 5:00 :clap: . I will be cooking BBQ ribs, BBQ chicken, hot dogs, and hamburgers :bounceline: . We will have cold beer and some mixer for any special type drink you might want to bring :occa...

As Tom said, Thanks for great report. I am glad that fellow Czechs were part of the effort, even if I don't know them personally :clap: Jitka and Lubo are great divers and boat operators and run a first class operation and we have become good friends. Both Mel and I enjoy very much hanging out with...

H20doctor wrote:what are the white tubes that are bunged together on curt in the Bell picture ?

They are bouyancy tubes that I made out of schedule 40 PVC pipe to to help support my 21 W HID light heads. This helps to keep my HD camera housing from wanting to roll over on me, they look funky but work well.

Diving the Carl D Bradley in Northern Lake Michigan, August , 2009 The Carl D Bradley was a 623 ft long self unloading bulk freighter built in 1928 which sank in 1958 with the loss of 33 men in 360 ft of water. Here is a link to the history of the Bradley- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Carl_D._Br...

360ft - wow! I take it you didn't entrust your housing with the camera for this dive, hence no underwater pics/video? I'm curious how was the ambient light at depth? Was there any? No ambient light but I did take my housing with the camera to see how it would work and all was fine. I needed to know...

Mel, myself, Jerry from ISC, Erik Foreman and Etienne Rousseau, a brand new rEvo diver, enjoyed the weekend at Lake Crescent. The goal was to do some dives to 350 ft to test gear and practice for an upcoming trip to dive the Carl D Bradley in Northern Lake Michigan coming up for Mel, Erik and myself...

Mattleycrue76 wrote:

TCWestby wrote:
Hey guys, I'd need to add a compressor...

How about one of those CCRs instead?

Yes, I would be glad to sell you one of the CCR's for $39,500, that's a no brainer

Aquanautchuck wrote:That is not to expensive when you consider all the gear you get with it. Heck, you can sell those 5 CCR's for at least half the price of the boat.

Rebreathers not included

Tangfish wrote:What new boat are you guys getting, Curt?! Inquiring minds want to know.

We are not getting a new boat, we don't use Altec the way we use to and it is to good of a boat to just sit around, we hate to sell it :-(

26 ft 1986 Marinex- All aluminum- 200 HP Volvo Diesel This is a great Dive/work boat, set up for 6 divers and is very heavy duty with a 6 cyl turbo-intercooled 200 HP Diesel and a Volvo 290 Dual Prop outdrive, cruises at about 28 kts burning only 7 GPH. • Built by Marinex on Vancouver Island in 1986...

Hi curt , I think the best way to test that is to get a Boat, go to lowes and buy rope, then weight your housing and throw it over board.. I'd also attach your dive computer to the outside with a zip tie.. Lower the Housing down to 300 feet and check it that way.. This is the best and quickest way ...

I have a Stingray HD housing that I would like to take to 350 ft diving the Bradley in LK Michigan in a few weeks. I am told that the factory depth rating is 300 ft but cannot get them to say at what depth it will actually break. Looking for more information on how conservative factory depth ratings...