Northwest Dive Club

Welcome Jeff,

There are a number of club members in PDX as well as further south who travel through to dive the sound/canal area. We should get together.

Welcome Nomad! There's a bunch of pretty active divers just over the hill from you in Salem using Salem Scuba as our LDS. http://www.salemscuba.com/ There's usually a couple opportunities a month to travel up to the Sound or one of our mud holes on the Oregon coast. We also do dives in Clear lake (3...

Hmmm, I wish my best efforts were half as good as your "odds n ends"

Very nice!

Welcome to scuba diving and welcome to the NWDC! Most of the divers on this board are in Gods country up around the Sound but you'll find that the information available from these great people and this site will apply to your location too.

Welcome and enjoy the site!

Ron

Part 2 of the SMB question (at least in my mind) is whats your favorite reel to use with an smb? After reading the Original, original post - I went and bought a simple thumb spool to start out with.

Good discussion - Thanx!

nwscubamom wrote:I have links to all sorts of things you might be interested in, Peter, on my links page:
http://www.pnwscuba.com/links.htm

- Janna

Love your avatar!!!

I didn't see the shoredive sight listed, it's one of my favorites.
http://www.shorediving.com/Earth/USA_West/index.htm

Very nice Aaron!

Hi catone

Heres a site that maybe of help to you.

http://www.shorediving.com/Earth/USA_We ... /index.htm

JBL.. Is what I use ... A B Biller, is another nice gun... Dont buy a pneumatic, there junk.. Really? I've been using a pole spear and was thinking of getting one of the Mare's pneumatics on advice of a dive buddy. He's had great success with his; it looks like it would be ideal for crawling around...

Cool video, thanks for sharing - I like your write ups too. :supz: BTW, what was the black and white fish with the huge long dorsal? Although it has a similar color pattern, this is not a jackknife fish, it's a juvenile drum. Actually I have to correct myself - I've never heard of a "jackknife...

Nice photo's and video. I really liked the tiger rock, looks like he was pretty cooperative for you!

Thanks for sharing.

Is this it? Jackknife fish?

Cool video, thanks for sharing - I like your write ups too.
BTW, what was the black and white fish with the huge long dorsal?

I have already started my swimming refresher course and i am already swimming at least 30 feet underwater in one breath :). Initially it looked so intimidating but now i am really liking it. i hope that my diving also turns out that way! Oh sheesh - you have to know how to swim to be a diver?! Neve...

As far as what's dangerous in diving, I think for now the biggest threat you face is probably inexperience. Get together with some of the trusty buddies on this site, stay shallow, take it slow and easy and get some experience. In a few months you'll have answered a lot of these questions yourself....

Blue sky, glass flat water and some great pictures shot. Looks like a heck of a way to end the year.

I almost went on that trip Aaron, I really wish I could have now. I'm for sure planning that trip next fall. I'm looking forward to your Bonaire video.

Nice video Aaron, loved the free swimming wolf eel - and those were some BIG lings cruising around. Glad they don't eat divers!

Thanks guy's for your input. I take it that overdriving LED's is a no-no and its better to be a bit more conservative and be under the maximum voltage: 7 cells @ 1.2 volts would be max @ 8.4 and 6 cells at 7.2 volts would be even better? I'm also wondering if I should use use D's or C's, something w...

Question for light builders - I bought the divelight companion book and have started a can light but am now second guessing my project. The build I started is based on a halogen 50 watt bulb, maglite head, D cell NiMH's @ 10 wired in series for a 12 volt battery pack (wow the can is huge!) I'm now c...

Very nice! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks all for the comments, suggestions and (gulp) warnings re: cost. I stayed at Scuba Club Cozumel and while I really liked them, I hated the aluminum 80 tanks. The music was produced for McPherson guitars to demo their terrific instruments and is one of my favorite albums of acoustic guitar musi...

Inspired by all the great videographers on this board, I put my first movie together using video clips of my recent trip to Cozumel. Watching it makes me want to back but also gets me excited about taking videos here in our local waters. :) Wish list: HD camera; housing; flood lights. Oh crap, this ...

Funny but I photo'd my dive partner experiencing a "zen moment" last week in Cozumel. Looked really weird watching him doing a drift dive in a "Buddha" pose: He'd drift along using breath/buoyancy to pop over rocks and then back down.