Northwest Dive Club

Come all ye physics geeks. I would like to resolve this issue for good. In so many places, including a current instructor's manual I read this type of statement "With a wet suit, a thin layer of water between the diver’s body and the suit serves as insulation." Other say no way, "wate...

He was diving from the Salish Explorer dive boat.

I know that this statement by the media is not accurate for a couple of reasons: "Yesterday, one of two divers who were exploring off the edges of Blakely Rock noticed his diving partner was no longer following him. He retraced his path and found his buddy unresponsive."

I heard that the diver who died was on a CCR.

I don't have a lot more to add but I did learn from someone who was there that the news stories do have many mistakes (age, who found body, etc.). KING5 reported the body was found today. I will encourage those that know to say more as soon as they can.

Someday maybe. But not until I can really afford one (and maybe a boat boy to care for it).

Thanks for the hopeful advice.

I suspect the Salish Explorer was overly expensive to run. They quoted a price to do 2 tank dives to one shop that was $133 per diver. If they could fill the boat for two days in a row the price dropped to $125 per divers.

Don't forget the wonderful Hood Canal diving and cookies with Don Coleman and Pacific Adventures.

There are plans for a Port Townsend based charter on a temp or perm basis in the future.

The Exotic Aquatics facebook page just announced that their dive charter - The Salish Explorer is under new management and is no longer doing dive charters.

I also see that Octopus Gardens offers a "free regulator check anytime."

Attendance was down a little, and some long-time vendors weren't there I wondered about why it was so lightly attended and if the show can survive for another year. Question for the ones that didn't go: why not? Maybe it would help the organizers need to here what they need to change to get more pe...

I agree with the trim too. It now feels natural to only use the suit. The main issue for beginners using both, is that as soon as put any air in the BCD you commit to having to manage both BCD and SUIT air exhaust on ascent due to expansion. Thanks for all the feedback.

Thanks for the input. I thought the bubble may come into it. I am one that just uses the suit, but I have the Whites Fusion and the compression layer keeps the air nicely dispersed. Maybe that it why it seems easy for me.

I find that some divers learned (and instructors teach) to dive a drysuit by only using the drysuit for buoyancy which is easy. Others teach to regulate both, using the air in the suit for loft and the BCD for buoyancy. The second method means you are always regulating to sources and I worry that th...

I have been diving since 1969 but had a long gap in my before returning to diving. I love diving everywhere but especially in Canada. I am curious about everything to do with diving and will ask a lot of odd "why" questions. I am now training for divemaster.