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- Tue Nov 01, 2011 2:05 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: I'm back! And I'm hiring!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1641
Re: I'm back! And I'm hiring!
Yeah, I made one trip down to Perch Lake and the Blue Hole with the LDS here (Denver Divers). They're super nice folks - actually, it's a great dive shop, and they do the best that they can for what they have to work with, in regards to training... no real tech stuff, although they have a few o/c t...
- Fri Oct 28, 2011 2:06 pm
- Forum: Underwater Imaging - Photography & Video
- Topic: Need expert advice...that's YOU guys!!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2832
Re: Need expert advice...that's YOU guys!!
I recommend shooting without strobes for awhile before adding them too. As Cardiver said, there's lots to learn and you can do a lot with the internal flash. You'll make a more informed choice if you add strobes down the road. OK, good point. I guess my thinking is colored from the wimpy effect int...
- Fri Oct 28, 2011 12:51 pm
- Forum: Underwater Imaging - Photography & Video
- Topic: Need expert advice...that's YOU guys!!
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2832
Re: Need expert advice...that's YOU guys!!
Hi Girldiver - I am also part of your demographic... I'm a fairly competent dry-conditions (out of the water :-) ) photographer, primarily with my Pentax DSL (for which no-one makes a housing, alas...), but for diving I am looking for a simple rig I can use locally *and* take on vacations (I'm plann...
- Thu Oct 27, 2011 12:04 pm
- Forum: Dive Planning
- Topic: Thursday South Sound Dives!
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1494
Re: Thursday South Sound Dives!
Well, apparently Wally is alergic to penicillin and almost ended up in the hospital. :( Glad he's on the mend, and wow - what a scare! Keith can you pick up my tanks? They are paid for.... Thanks! Ouch - also explains why the phone went to answering machine on my drysuit inquiry (re-glueing a coupl...
- Wed Oct 26, 2011 10:00 am
- Forum: Buy/Sell/Trade Dive Gear
- Topic: WTB - HP steel 100 tank(s), weights
- Replies: 2
- Views: 465
WTB - HP steel 100 tank(s), weights
Hey everybody... I've gotten one more step down the path of picking my own "stuff" with a new drysuit (Bare D6). Now I'm looking for a couple of steel 100s to add to the collection. It's what I have used in all but 1 of my dives so far, and I'm getting used to the weights and buoyancy char...
- Mon Oct 24, 2011 8:43 pm
- Forum: General SCUBA Discussion
- Topic: drysuit, and BCD for buoyancy?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3716
Re: drysuit, and BCD for buoyancy?
The ankle weights are a good investment ... when you get to the point where you decide you want to dive doubles you can cut the buckles off and they will make a nice 6# channel weight ... ... Bob (Grateful Diver) I have been kind of feet-heavy the last couple of dives with the new drysuit, so on Sa...
- Fri Oct 21, 2011 10:11 pm
- Forum: Underwater Imaging - Photography & Video
- Topic: Octopus Wolf-Eel Rodeo at Day Island Wall
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2546
Re: Octopus Wolf-Eel Rodeo at Day Island Wall
Well, that's my new sig line... Good thing I was munching on Girl Scout cookies and not drinking something when I read that...Penopolypants wrote:I, for one, would welcome our new cowboy octopus overlords.
Jim
- Fri Oct 21, 2011 12:26 pm
- Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
- Topic: Port Townsend on a Thursday...
- Replies: 21
- Views: 782
Re: Port Townsend on a Thursday...
Ever see a Real submarine show up at a dive site? We did! :neener: Ain't gonna believe it 'till pictorial proof is posted! :smt064 :rawlings: Sure sounds like a fun day though... Jim It was a great afternoon/evening for diving over in PT. The temperature was mild and there was not a hint of wind on...
- Fri Oct 21, 2011 9:34 am
- Forum: Underwater Imaging - Photography & Video
- Topic: Octopus Wolf-Eel Rodeo at Day Island Wall
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2546
Re: Octopus Wolf-Eel Rodeo at Day Island Wall
Wow... That is Sooooooooo cool!
Yeeeeeeee-Hawwwwww!!!!!!!
Jim
Yeeeeeeee-Hawwwwww!!!!!!!
Jim
- Fri Oct 21, 2011 9:28 am
- Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
- Topic: Port Townsend on a Thursday...
- Replies: 21
- Views: 782
Re: Port Townsend on a Thursday...
Ain't gonna believe it 'till pictorial proof is posted! Sure sounds like a fun day though...BASSMAN wrote: Ever see a Real submarine show up at a dive site? We did!
Jim
- Mon Oct 17, 2011 9:04 am
- Forum: Underwater Imaging - Photography & Video
- Topic: First Pics With Oly EPL-2
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1987
Re: First Pics With Oly EPL-2
Very nice shots!
What's your impression of the Oly *above* water? I have heard lots of good things about the 4/3 technical capabilities and seen some sample images, but not much of user impressions...
Jim
What's your impression of the Oly *above* water? I have heard lots of good things about the 4/3 technical capabilities and seen some sample images, but not much of user impressions...
Jim
- Fri Oct 14, 2011 3:58 pm
- Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
- Topic: I saw my first adult octopus!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2011
Re: I saw my first adult octopus!
Yes it was - first run on my new Bare D6 It's back in the shop for Wally to put the pockets & wrist rings on, but it did the important bits - kept the water outside and the warm insideLinedog wrote:Hey Jim, was that a drysuit dive?
Jim
- Fri Oct 14, 2011 9:11 am
- Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
- Topic: I saw my first adult octopus!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2011
Re: I saw my first adult octopus!
Congrats - I got to see my first Octo this last weekend too, at Sund Rock (dives #8,9)... :supz: Two nice big fellas, up at fairly shallow depths in daylight (due to low O2 levels I would imagine), one hanging out on the side of a rock and the other underneath an overhang in the hull of a wrecked bo...
- Wed Oct 12, 2011 9:27 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Sunk Punk
- Replies: 2
- Views: 578
Re: Sunk Punk
Arr, sounds like a ripe franchise for the takin', matey!
- Sun Oct 09, 2011 6:43 pm
- Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
- Topic: MY FIRST DIVE TRIP!! (Browning Pass!)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1775
Re: MY FIRST DIVE TRIP!! (Browning Pass!)
Oh. My. Gawd... That's definitely going on the bucket list! Great trip report...
Jim
Jim
- Mon Oct 03, 2011 11:29 am
- Forum: Dive Recaps & Trip Reports
- Topic: Dive #100
- Replies: 7
- Views: 900
Re: Dive #100
yeah, yeah, whatevah... You might have gone out on a milestone dive, seen lots of cool critters, met lotsa nice peeplez, seen a pod of Orcas, and taken a bunch of really nice pictures with a (non-leaking) new camera, but WE got to go up to Mom's house, dig up a whole bunch of garden, fix up the gree...
- Mon Sep 19, 2011 8:01 am
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Port Townsed still holds treasure!
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4163
Re: Port Townsed still holds treasure!
... I often wonder if we should be depositing current bottles back in, for future finds. You never know, In a hundred years from now the whole concept of using glass bottles might be something of the past. But I leave the Taco Bell Hot Sauce Wrapper, for our future divers to find. ... Keith. Hmm, w...
- Tue Sep 13, 2011 6:07 pm
- Forum: Dive Planning
- Topic: Monday 12th
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1611
Re: Monday 12th
Thanks guys :-)
Jim
Jim
- Mon Sep 12, 2011 10:25 pm
- Forum: Dive Planning
- Topic: Monday 12th
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1611
Re: Monday 12th
(well, *that's* not the world's most satisfying dive report, was it?!?) Question is: Would you still have jumped in the water even with 3 other divers calling it in if you didn't have a problem with your zippper? My gut feeling tells me that you would have heeded to the forewarning and called it in...
- Mon Sep 12, 2011 8:01 pm
- Forum: Dive Planning
- Topic: Monday 12th
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1611
Re: Monday 12th
Turned out to be one of those days... Met up at Les Davis parking lot, got the gear all prepped and schlepped it down to the picnic tables by the entry stairs. Chris discovers that the zipper in my suit is totally Farkled up and wide open to let the outside in and the inside out... Called the dive b...
- Mon Sep 12, 2011 1:19 pm
- Forum: Dive Planning
- Topic: Monday 12th
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1611
Re: Monday 12th
OK cooler (smarter) heads have prevailed. :supz: +1. Hm, sooooooo... Since there seems to be a mass agreement of you experienced types :rawlings: about not doing Titlow Beach today - makes me curious about the reasoning. My understanding is that for these locations that are current-intensive, the b...
- Mon Sep 12, 2011 10:43 am
- Forum: Buy/Sell/Trade Dive Gear
- Topic: New Camera and Housing w/ ext. stobe = $200.00
- Replies: 6
- Views: 808
Re: New Camera and Housing w/ ext. stobe = $200.00
Hmm, that's the same place Alex has been getting leakage... :-/BASSMAN wrote:I've had a few problems with the shutter button leaking. To be honest, I have someone checking it out now, and if he decides not to buy it, I think I'm just going to keep it for warm water diving.
Jim
- Mon Sep 12, 2011 10:40 am
- Forum: Introductions (New Visitors, Start Here)
- Topic: Not even a wet duck yet.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2570
Re: Not even a wet duck yet.
Welcome! Where are you at?
Jim (ex-USAF, recently retransplanted to the Tacoma area, novice diver)
Jim (ex-USAF, recently retransplanted to the Tacoma area, novice diver)
- Mon Sep 12, 2011 8:38 am
- Forum: Buy/Sell/Trade Dive Gear
- Topic: New Camera and Housing w/ ext. stobe = $200.00
- Replies: 6
- Views: 808
Re: New Camera and Housing w/ ext. stobe = $200.00
Keith, I've been going back & forth about your kit here - it's a great deal and sounds perfect for a starter rig a novice like me could use and be happy with. :partydance: On the other hand, it's the same camera my brother has (Alexitt), and he's on his third replacement camera/housing from Into...
- Sun Sep 11, 2011 10:21 pm
- Forum: Dive Planning
- Topic: Monday 12th
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1611
Re: Monday 12th
Should be an interesting dive with those tides tomorrow. Well, hopefully the time will get us in and back out when the currents are low enough to not be a problem. If not, I suppose we can go from piling to piling and work our way home, or dump all our air and crawl back in... One way or the other,...