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by oldsalt
Wed Feb 09, 2011 5:31 pm
Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
Topic: Birthday celebration at Mukilteo
Replies: 11
Views: 1917

Re: Birthday celebration at Mukilteo

Happy Birthday Curt. Is there room on your Mukilteo dance card for a dive with me sometime? Ron: An enthusiastic yes. Mukilteo, or Edmonds, Keystone, Cove2, Hood Canal, or whatever. I haven't dived Salt Creek seemingly forever and have never dived Port Townsend. The possibilities are endless. Pleas...
by oldsalt
Wed Feb 09, 2011 9:38 am
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: A New Member of the Family
Replies: 27
Views: 2968

Re: A New Member of the Family

We, too, are possessed by a dog. Chelsea follows my every move around the house. When I put on my running shoes, we get happy jumps. If I pull out my diving gear, her body language sags and I am given a look of betrayal. "Dog is love."
- Curt
by oldsalt
Tue Feb 08, 2011 6:39 pm
Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
Topic: Birthday celebration at Mukilteo
Replies: 11
Views: 1917

Birthday celebration at Mukilteo

While still in bed, my wife said "Happy Birthday". I stumbled out to see the fog lifting off Puget Sound bringing to mind the vapors off the moors from a Shakespeare play. I did what any normal old guy would do, I scraped the ice off my windshield and went diving. By the time I drove aroun...
by oldsalt
Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:31 am
Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
Topic: Down the memory line
Replies: 377
Views: 204827

Re: Down the memory line

Jan: Amazing. My first cruise in the Navy was on a WWII heavy cruiser similar to the Prinz Eugene. Unlike you, I never carried a camera, nor sketchbook, nor kept a journal. I really appreciate your remembrances.
Thanks - Curt
by oldsalt
Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:10 am
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: Help in shrimp ID
Replies: 2
Views: 667

Re: Help in shrimp ID

Thanks. Life a clean life and you, too, will be old someday. Outstanding pictures on your website. I just looked at your Puget Sound Gallery. I will check out the others later.
- Curt
by oldsalt
Sun Feb 06, 2011 5:05 pm
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: Help in shrimp ID
Replies: 2
Views: 667

Help in shrimp ID

My godson's son is in the school of fisheries at UW and needed some keys to ID inverts. I gave him mine figuring I could rely on my memory. My memory failed me. Is this a coonstripe shrimp?
Thanks - Curt
by oldsalt
Sun Feb 06, 2011 4:46 pm
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Happy Birthday Grateful Diver!!
Replies: 28
Views: 2337

Re: Happy Birthday Grateful Diver!!

Bob: Hey young man, let's show these kids that these birthdays may come but we still have a lot of dives left in us.
-Curt :rawlings:
by oldsalt
Sat Feb 05, 2011 9:30 pm
Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
Topic: Sund rock, 226 feet deep, 162min.. All on 9cu ft of gas !!
Replies: 22
Views: 2997

Re: Sund rock, 226 feet deep, 162min.. All on 9cu ft of gas

Aaron: Good write-up. I hope you never lose your sense of wonder. Of course you know that you don't have to be deep or novel to have a great experience. Appreciating the beauty in the commonplace, gulls, seastars, anemones are examples of things that enrich our lives without our really being aware. ...
by oldsalt
Fri Feb 04, 2011 7:46 pm
Forum: Dive Travel - Planning and Adventure
Topic: Maui in April
Replies: 10
Views: 2756

Re: Maui in April

I'm no expert, but I have traveled to Maui twice and really enjoyed myself both times. There is a dive shop every 15ft. I have dived with four of them and had a good experience each time. B&B Diving in Kihei took us out to the Helldiver, a WWII plane wreck which we really enjoyed. All of the cha...
by oldsalt
Thu Feb 03, 2011 4:23 pm
Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
Topic: Wolf eel rescue at the Muk
Replies: 13
Views: 2408

Re: Wolf eel rescue at the Muk

Thanks to both Aaron and Bob. :supz:
We Muk divers had best keep a watch on this place. Was the octo still under the boat? It was still there last week.
- Curt
by oldsalt
Wed Feb 02, 2011 1:31 pm
Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
Topic: Best Dive Job -- Guys, I need your help please!
Replies: 53
Views: 5244

Re: Best Dive Job -- Guys, I need your help please!

Kriss: I have tried several times on different days and have yet to get through. I'll keep trying. good luck - Curt
by oldsalt
Wed Feb 02, 2011 1:23 pm
Forum: Introductions (New Visitors, Start Here)
Topic: Hello!
Replies: 10
Views: 1542

Re: Hello!

Chris: Welcome. I live nearby and am retired, so I can often dive during the week. Send me a pm if you want to dive.
-Curt
by oldsalt
Wed Feb 02, 2011 1:19 pm
Forum: Introductions (New Visitors, Start Here)
Topic: Ahoy
Replies: 5
Views: 476

Re: Ahoy

Fred: Welcome. When you get over the hill you start picking up speed. I keep wondering how I could be over the hill when I never made it to the top. Never-the-less, some friends will be joining me next week for my 67th birthday dive. You are in for a treat. On a routine dive yesterday we saw three o...
by oldsalt
Sun Jan 30, 2011 3:22 pm
Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
Topic: be a good neighbor ...
Replies: 3
Views: 874

Re: be a good neighbor ...

Bob: A good reminder. I live in a waterfront home and not much bothers me. Beach walkers, kayakers, kite surfers, duck hunters, etc., come with the territory. Sometimes it is impossible to avoid Mr. Angry. One example is a Hat Island resident who rowed out to my sailboat anchored out over the artifi...
by oldsalt
Thu Jan 27, 2011 9:04 am
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Pretty cool...
Replies: 4
Views: 596

Re: Pretty cool...

Laura: Thanks for the posting. It brings memories of Philipinnes/Fiji/Hawaii. As a geezer diver, I constantly wonder how many dives I have left. This brings me hope.
- Curt :rawlings:
by oldsalt
Wed Jan 26, 2011 1:13 pm
Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
Topic: Viz Reports Thread
Replies: 3235
Views: 638304

Re: Viz Reports Thread

Mukilteo T-Dock. 26 January. 10-15 foot vis at depth. Less near the surface. Entered at high tide (+12.5 ft). Met up with morningdiverbob. GPO under the boat, 2 wolf eels on the geodome, greenling, lingcod, and normal stuff.
- Curt
by oldsalt
Tue Jan 25, 2011 6:07 pm
Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
Topic: We lost another Dive site
Replies: 39
Views: 6826

Re: We lost another Dive site

Frankly, I like the idea of... Buying the marina and put in an elevator the the water. Re-stare the boat rental and put in a dive shop. Okay, where's my rich uncle, Hey Obama, since you are blowing all that money why not spend it on something someone will actually use? Years ago a group of us paid ...
by oldsalt
Sat Jan 22, 2011 4:56 pm
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: FOUND CAMERA
Replies: 6
Views: 544

Re: FOUND CAMERA

I lost an Intova with red trim. I doubt that ot would have drifted that far.
by oldsalt
Tue Jan 18, 2011 9:14 am
Forum: Underwater Imaging - Photography & Video
Topic: Hood Canal Rainbow
Replies: 2
Views: 679

Re: Hood Canal Rainbow

I should be listening to Israel Kamakiwiwo'ole's Over the Rainbow
-Curt
by oldsalt
Tue Jan 18, 2011 8:26 am
Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
Topic: Down the memory line
Replies: 377
Views: 204827

Re: Down the memory line

Jan: Thank you. Your history of the Saratoga is especially appropriate as today (January 18th) is considered by many the birthday of naval aviation. Eugene Ely landed his Curtiss biplane on the USS Pennsylvania on January 18, 1911 for the first shipboard landing.
Curt :rawlings:
by oldsalt
Sun Jan 16, 2011 2:47 pm
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: Whidbey Island Critters
Replies: 5394
Views: 926506

Re: Whidbey Island Critters

Jan: Years ago I took a series of ichtyology courses in the San Juans. We studied several venomous fish, but I can find no reference to toxins in the sculpin. They are just ugly, except to mama sculpin.
- Curt
by oldsalt
Thu Jan 13, 2011 5:55 pm
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: He's finally here!
Replies: 24
Views: 2885

Re: He's finally here!

You are in for the greatest adventure of your life. If you ask your parents what the greatest thing to ever happen in their lives, they would both say you. You will now understand. This recent father/son picture will let you know what you are in for.
by oldsalt
Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:53 am
Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
Topic: some pics from Hood Canal
Replies: 16
Views: 1834

Re: some pics from Hood Canal

Agent 47: Great videos. I have admired your photography for some time. Think what you will do with your new rebreather.
Thanks - Curt
by oldsalt
Wed Jan 12, 2011 3:15 pm
Forum: Critter Watchers - PNW Marine Life
Topic: Slide show of January PT critters
Replies: 9
Views: 1071

Re: Slide show of January PT critters

I think both of you got great pics of the candies. I'm envious. Thanks for posting.
- oldsalt
by oldsalt
Mon Jan 10, 2011 11:06 am
Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
Topic: The piling al Mukilteo
Replies: 11
Views: 1946

Re: The piling al Mukilteo

I just got out of the water with Morningdiverbob. The piling has toppled over and rests atop the satellite dish. Lots of big rockfish though. Also lings, GPO under the boat, and two wolf eels in shallower water. Lousy vis, great dive.