Northwest Dive Club

Hi Kelly, welcome to the board! I'm not sure where in the area you are located, but if you are more towards the south end of Seattle, I can recommend Clay Farrer as an instructor. He helped my daughter get more comfortable drysuit diving after she got her initial certification and is an amazing inst...

If no one else is going to Redondo, I think 8 Diving is doing a shop dive tomorrow (Thursday) night at Cove 2 that @jmartel may be able to join. Call the shop at 206-429-3480.

The Waterproof H1 is sold.

Two neoprene hoods for sale:

1) Waterproof H1 7mm hood (size Medium) - $20

2) DUI 5mm? hood (size XL) - $10 - The DUI hood appears to be 5mm neoprene with 3mm around the face opening.

PM me if interested.

-Doug

I have an extra undergarment that came with the used drysuit I bought earlier this year. It is a Fourth Element Xerotherm Arctic package with top, pants and socks. It appears to be unused -- the pants still have the tag on. All of the pieces are size XL. It retails at Dive Right In Scuba for $369.90...

@kneedeep and I went back this afternoon and found the light. Thanks to everyone that kept their eyes out for it.

@kneedeep and I were diving at Edmonds this afternoon and at some point out past the third buoy on Jetty Way my light came untied from its boltsnap. It is a BigBlue TL3500P with a metal Goodman handle. If you find it I would highly appreciate its return (especially since it actually belongs to my wi...

How did the dive go last night? Any six-gill sightings?

Unfortunately I am out for the next few weeks due to other commitments and travel. Hoping to make it a few times in September, though.

Wow! That looks amazing.

Well, all my planning was for nought since it looks like we're now going to be in Monterrey, CA that weekend. Thanks for all the planning advice, though. I'm sure I'll make use of it at some point. Looks like we'll be getting some diving in on Monterrey Bay, though.

-Doug

Hey Peter, Welcome to Seattle. The water right now is probably pretty close to what you are used to (about 55° Fahrenheit when I dove on Sunday), but it will cool off during the winter to the low to mid 40s. Winter is some of the best diving here, though, since the visibility opens up quite a bit, s...

Hit the afternoon high tide at Redondo today and visibility was an amazing 20-30 feet from about 25-70 feet deep. It actually was a little worse from 70-90 depth, but still a solid 10-15 feet

I'm in for the BBQ. Please let me know what I can bring.

-Doug

Hi, For those of you that use Subsurface (http://www.subsurface-divelog.org) to log your dives, you may have noticed that version 4.9.1 was just released. One of the new features that I helped add to the 4.9 version is the ability to import and export dive sites from the program as XML files so you ...

It turns out that the Sea Dragon is reserved for the GUE Nanaimo Wreck Fest the weekend we were going to head up, so we're looking at other options now. We'll either pick another weekend or dive with Bandito Dive Charters in the San Juans that weekend. Or maybe try to make it to Vancouver Island if ...

I can do Saturday morning. Still meet at 6:30 for a 7:15am splash?

-Doug

I might be able to make Saturday or Sunday morning for an early dive at Alki. I'll keep an eye here to see what firms up.

-Doug

Thanks for the info, everyone. I think we are going to stick with Vancouver this time since my wife doesn't get off work until late Friday and we will need to be back Sunday night. Diving on Vancouver Island is definitely on my list of things to do, though. I'll look at the weekend after Labor Day f...

Unfortunately I'm not going to be able to make it this time either. I hope you all have a great time!

We're thinking about heading up to the Vancouver area in early September (either Labor Day weekend or the following weekend) and I was wondering how the diving conditions in Howe Sound are usually around that time of year? Is the visibility normally starting to improve yet? I was thinking about one ...

I’m out this week due to travel. I should be in next week though.

-D

@kneedeep and I dove Redondo this afternoon and visibility was horrible down to 20 ft then just a little better down to 60 ft. Below 60 ft there was a solid 5-7 feet of visibility.

I'm out this week. I'll be down in Oregon for a family reunion.

-DJ

I had a super fun time diving with you all last night at 3TP. It was my first time diving there, but I'll definitely be going back.

Thanks, Jess, for buddying up with me. I enjoyed taking it slow and looking for the little critters.

-Doug