Northwest Dive Club

Can anyone suggest books, articles, or other info on weight training for our cold-water beach diving? What do you do? I've been running stairs. Its cardio, and you can push it and get HIIT going up hard and then coming down for the break. It also builds the leg muscles for moving around with tanks ...

You don't have to 'fight' cardio or strength training underwater at all. Its just a benefit. Every diver should get themselves a little bit fitter than they are.

Couple more that I missed last night:

https://vimeo.com/47952640
https://vimeo.com/45989170
https://vimeo.com/46530097

Here's a couple videos if they'll help:

https://vimeo.com/44643790
https://vimeo.com/44270450

About every 4 years I seem to find one of these, and enough time has passed that I've forgotten what they are and I make a post to NWDC asking what this weird 'eel' is that I found on a dive...

My co-worker is a meg diver and has gotten me very interested in CCR, I know I cannot afford it till probably next Xmas or later. My main choices for CCR's are Meg, JJ's, rEvo, and Sf2. I want opinions and also other. Ccrs also, I want to find the right one. Megs are local and your coworker already...

My IM client tells me that the line is hooked back up again.

Unfortunately, this was all back when I swore I would never do u/w videography because I already spent enough time/money on scuaba gear and was trying not to let it spiral out of control...

Yeah, ran into her one night back around 2007 down on the deep end of the pilings where Olive's den is. We were swimming back shallower and she swam straight at my dive buddy Raul head on. He got out of the way and let her pass and she slipped off into deeper water. Really huge animal. The smaller 6...

+1 thanks for the report. Rough job to go through.

KOMO reporting he was from Oregon:

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Oreg ... 81411.html

Its also just a huge cop-out to blame it all on the nuclear reactor meltdown half a world away and not accept any possible responsibility for yourself. Its a great way to blame it all on something you clearly don't understand so that you don't have to think or do anything hard yourself (all the whil...

Science? The science says it isn't bacteria, isn't viral, isn't fungal. I'm ruling out bananas and smoke detectors imo. I'll go with huge nuclear accident that was due to hit our shores at this time for $1000 Alex. The science says its viral, you couldn't possibly be more incorrect: http://www.pnas...

Science? The science says it isn't bacteria, isn't viral, isn't fungal. I'm ruling out bananas and smoke detectors imo. I'll go with huge nuclear accident that was due to hit our shores at this time for $1000 Alex. The science says its viral, you couldn't possibly be more incorrect: http://www.pnas...

Kind of sounds like diving in cold water... http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/01/does-global-warming-make-me-look-fat/383509/?single_page=true Of course if you hop out and eat&drink 2,500 cals it won't do much, but it has seemed to me like cold water diving can supercharge dieting...

By far the easiest trick to being able to dive safely is just to protect your ability to breathe underwater at all costs. Once you lose that ability your options are incredibly limited. Check that your valves are open early and often. Breathe off the regulators on the surface to make sure that they ...

People simply HATE CO2 buildup.... *Most* people hate CO2 buildup and would panic before blacking out. There's probably a bell curve and may be outliers due to genetic variation, and probably fitness. You've also got elevated enough N2 at that point to have measurable effects on short term memory, ...

Should recover it, and not give it back to the owner.

lost consciousness at 95 and headed back home the next day is not the typical outcome... good job whoever brought her up...

Nice CCRx thread. Simon Mitchell's post earlier in the thread is also a good read:

http://www.ccrexplorers.com/showthread. ... post170477

(assuming that URL works, either my chrome or their website is being stupid for me, I'm talking about post #10...)

i just know he offers a course in how to effectively manage Narcosis You can't effectively manage narcosis. The biggest problem isn't the nitrogen, its the viscosity and density of the gas, that increases the work of breathing and the risk of overbreathing your regulator at depth and building up CO...

30# should be enough for an experienced diver. I liked my 40# (although Halcyon and probably not really 40# like rjack said) when I was first learning. It let me do silly things like switch from a buoyant Al80 to some old PST LP104 that was about 15# more negative without switching my weighting and ...

http://www.johnchatterton.com/2013/03/1 ... ad-divers/

That's an article from Chatterton talking about basically the same thing. His "accomplished bad divers" are GI3's "strokes".

I saw this first on Facebook when someone else commented, then on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingJerks/comments/26l38b/rockfish_feels_like_calimari_for_dinner_nibbles/ You aren't by chance "scubadger" are you? Because I'm also super upset I did not think of that name first!! ...

Someone started tucking his tenticle tips in better after that...