Northwest Dive Club

Just curious as to why you would be asked to test military equipment?

This is a follow-up review just in case anyone comes across this review in future searches. The change of batteries solved the dimming problem. I did several dives with other batteries and no problems. Just for fun I did a dive with the original batteries and at 20 fsw it dimmed again. This time I j...

LCF wrote:Thanks, Scott! So finding them in the eelgrass/mud flats makes perfect sense. I wonder if we would see them in more places, if we spent more time in these relatively "boring" areas.

I assume so, you can definitely find them at 3 Tree N as well.

Snow would be warm! I was supposed to dive last night so I got to the site and set all my gear up. The person I was supposed to dive with got there, wasn't feeling good so she decided to cancel. We ended up just going to dinner which was probably a smart thing. As I was repacking my gear, my hood wa...

I use Rosario Strait with no corrections so slack before ebb would be 9:22am. No one agrees with me and most generally use Fishmiller's figures but others get blown off and I don't. I would have gotten in for the swim at 9:10am or so. I time it so when I've dropped down and I'm actually diving the c...

For those interested in dive lights:
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/for ... .php?f=127

A nice starting point to understand deco theory:
http://njscuba.net/gear/trng_10_deco.html
http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/

Is there any place to get o-rings locally (retail)? I need the following in particular. Bezel o-ring Inside Diameter 46.22 x Cross Section 2.046 Hardness shore 57 Body 0-rings Inside Diameter 20.87 x Cross Section 2.215 Hardness shore 55 Except that they are too soft and I would replace them with du...

Nwbrewer wrote:Let's do a dive sometime, my canlight is a P7 with the Deal reflector, so the beam angle should be the same as the one I linked. We can compare.

Sounds good. Maybe some evening at the Cove.

I couldn't find the MC-E one. This one - http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.29069 Looks cheaper, uses a P7 rather than an MCE, which is more heat tolerant, and brighter than the MC-E, but basically the same light. Try this: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.26498 I ended up with that...

gcbryan we need light pictures! What light did you mod? Glad to hear it sounds like the batteries. You might consider getting some nice Sanyo or samsung batteries for it so you don't have to worry about the quality of the "trust"fire batteries. By your standards it was a very modest mod. ...

gcbryan we need light pictures! What light did you mod? Glad to hear it sounds like the batteries. You might consider getting some nice Sanyo or samsung batteries for it so you don't have to worry about the quality of the "trust"fire batteries. The light is $95 and the sock is $25. So wha...

"I went solo diving and saw Josh and Lynne diving together." Buddy, you were narced out of your mind. That's the craziest narc-story I've ever heard :laugh: (Honestly, hearing this news makes my day. I think it's awesome.) :luv: I didn't actually get finger prints and I don't know Josh th...

Ha! Glad you solved the problem! It was good to finally meet you, tonight, too, Grey. Was that you we saw down on the boundary line, around 80'? If it was at the beginning of the dive yes. You and Lynne and I were the only ones in the water on the beach and got in at the same time. A few minutes in...

Thanks for the description of your experiment -- it makes much better sense of what I saw when we ran into you! Ah come on Lynne, you know us strokes always dive with one light turned on dangling below us, another big clunker turned off, dangling and another bright one in our hands! We don't all ha...

Ha! Glad you solved the problem! It was good to finally meet you, tonight, too, Grey. Was that you we saw down on the boundary line, around 80'? If it was at the beginning of the dive yes. You and Lynne and I were the only ones in the water on the beach and got in at the same time. A few minutes in...

TEST DIVER_COVE 2! I was feeling a little under the weather today and thought about canceling my planned dive at Cove 2 tonight and I'm very glad I went anyway. I have a new dive light that was having some intermittent problems and I had another small light that I bought as an experiment. It wasn't ...

Is there a stream that dumps in there? Could it be a function of lots of rain and higher flowing streams?

I've run into it there and I don't have all that many dives relatively speaking at Redondo. I've also run into it at Lobstership Wall a few times just in the shallows.

If it doesn't do it out of the water, it's not a temperature thing, but it sure sounds like it is. I've seen some people on CPF with DX lights where no thermal grease was used between the emitter and the body, or between the driver and the body leading to a poor thermal path. This (to me) sounds li...

I'm using Trustfire 2500 ma. I'm running mine now as a burn test to make sure it doesn't do this after a while out of the water. I believe this is only an in water problem however. I've heard of a few others having a similar problem. I'll file the RA request in case I need to send it back but I'd re...

This is a $95 670 lumen (potentially) led dive light available from DealExtreme in Hong Kong. It comes with lithium-ion rechargeable batteries and charger. It is more or less comparable to a Light Cannon at 1/4 the cost and size. Well, I have mixed results for the actual dive test tonight. It didn't...

Believe me, I was looking! When I saw your title I was hoping you were gonna tell us you spotted a six-gill. Cove 2 is always entertaining. We had a seal join us on Friday night as well. As you say, they're fun for the first few minutes ... but like an energetic puppy, after a time you'd prefer they...

Back for another season of entertainment and annoyance are the Cove 2 harbor seals! I had their company for most of my dive tonight. It's always a pleasant sight for the first time each season...after that not so much! Viz was much better than last week once you get below 20 fsw or so. I saw one of ...

I've had good experiences with all of the stores I've dealt with. The closest to me is Lighthouse Seattle and I have longer personal relationships there. If that shop closed down or personal friends left Matt and NWSD would be my shop. It's reputation is deserved. I've gone to UWS Seattle and Bubble...

Cove 2 last night...10 ft viz.

So hows this going gc? I got the GF coding done without too much problem. I got stuck on another part but it's not due to not understanding the theory. It's more a matter of my novice coding skills! As a learning experience it was successful even if I don't finish the program. So...it's on the back...