Northwest Dive Club

Mid-day tides are looking good, and the water's been clearer lately.

My usual buddy is out of action for a few weeks. If you're diving locally, can I tag along?

Glenn

Me too.

Dive Site Name: Hoffman Cove, Shaw Island Skill Level: Intermediate Current Sensitive: Yes Location/Address: At the very end of Hoffman Cove Road, Shaw Island, San Juan Islands, WA, USA Directions: Take a ferry to Shaw Island, wander southwest until you find Hoffman Cove Road, then drive to the end...

Boarderguy wrote: ↑Wed Jul 13, 2022 10:47 am Depending on what transpired the vessel or vehicle may belong to the insurance company that paid out a claim on it. All kinds of weird little loop holes to keep you from keeping what was retrieved.

Yeah I expect as much. Hmmm.

Let's say, hypothetically, that a diver finds a sunken boat (or vehicle, or whatever) somewhere in Puget Sound. Maybe the original owner of said boat wants to recover it. Or maybe not. Either way, the diver gets there first, and raises/salvages the boat. What rights does the salvager have? Does the ...

One good Shaw dive is Broken Point. I've been curious to know if it is doable with scooters, you may want to check that out! Broken Point looks like a great area. If we could get to a nearby beach I think scootering would be very doable, but the nearest beach is the small isthmus leading out to Bro...

¡Hola amigos!

I will be on Shaw Island for a few days next month and would like to get a few dives in. Shore access is ... limited... Same goes for nearby Orcas Island.

Do you know of any good dive sites on either island that we might access? We have scooters, if it helps.

glenn

It's a filter feeder frenzy! Fabulous fauna footage!

But it seems like vis may be better at Lake Crescent...

They all seem to be awkward. Or non-functional. There's definitely a need for an elegant tide/current predictor web site, if there was a way to fund it without too much advertising baggage.

I use tide.arthroinfo.org, which is quirky and tedious but seems to be comprehensive.

And now for something a little different... We did a cleanup dive near Point Hudson today and pulled up an old gasoline sign. It was newly exposed by winter storms, I think, because we'd never seen it before. It took a lot of digging and a 50# lift bag to get it to shore. This is a keeper! Haven't q...

Some of you have probably known this since Before Scuba ... but it's new to me! I wanted to leak-test my drysuit and was looking for a way to inflate it that wouldn't drain a scuba tank. If you have a shop compressor with a blow-gun nozzle that has a removable tip, an LP BCD inflator hose fits perfe...

Hey hi!

Where are you located?

glenn

Biked across on the ferry today with snorkeling gear and took a look. They're still there! Very fun. Not as many as in your video, but still a great afternoon splashing around in the lake.

The moon jellies are at Driftwood pond I don't know if they're still there and I don't know how or why this pond supports life because it's brackish water... I saw post and reached out to Jan and he said the pond is full of moon jellies which I thought was completely weird ? And not possible... But...

So cool!

I would like to do this dive.

Deets?

Bump. Same question!

jmartel wrote: ↑Tue Jun 09, 2020 9:42 am What's at Jack's reef? I don't think I've been there before. I've been out to the barnacle reef once or twice on favorable current days.

The second one. But I think the composition is the main reason I like it best.

Wow those are all beautiful!

Thanks for all the replies.

Maybe CaptnJack or others have already done this, but the only thing I can think of is to (maybe) identify the background in the photo of the sinking -- presumably Whidbey island in the distance.

The North Pacific is a sidewheeler wreck, supposedly somewhere off of Marrowstone Point.

Does any know the location? My searches turned up nothing.

g

Well, finally reached 1000 dives, and it only took me 38 years!

yay.

This afternoon the water around Port Townsend is churned up, muddy looking.

I'm interested to hear what effects people see around Puget Sound.

https://tsunami.gov/

...and estimated start times, depending on location.

We scuttled a dive in Port Townsend at 11am this morning, around the same time as the arrival. Bummer, that.

glenn

Diverdave68 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 04, 2022 8:14 pm I'm open every weekend.

Most of the campgrounds don't open until Memorial Day weekend. Argh. I need to chew on this.

Diverdave68 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 02, 2022 6:34 pm I would be interested in that trip.

Cool. Would any particular days work for you?

I figure on one two-dive day, camping the night before.

glenn