Northwest Dive Club

My brother and a friend dove Waldport last Friday night and had 6-10. I heard it was about the same at Newport the following day. For Oregon in the winter, the viz hasn't been too bad so far this year- most likely since we haven't had a lot of rain.

This thread and the one Peter Guy posted about the Adorama deal convinced me to stick a crowbar in my wallet; I ended up buying an E-PL2 from another user on this forum. I'm loving it already, and I can't wait to get better. Here's a couple of my favorite shots so far...

Relisted, and expiring today. I figured I would go this route instead of returning it and incurring the freight to get it back to New York...

I bought the Adorama bundle but ended up buying an E-PL2 kit from another diver. Don't need both, so the E-PL1 / PT EP01 package is listed on e-bay, and it ends this evening. As noted on the auction, it also comes with the zoom gear and an extra battery. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Oly-PEN-E-PL1-with-PT...

Sorry- we pulled it apart at the shop out of curiosity. What kind of oil do you refill them with?

Heh, I replaced my third one in 2 years just today. Apparently, I'm hard on them. Any bubbles in it?

Siuslaw South Jetty- Florence, Oregon: 6', which was better than I expected...

Thanks for posting these reports, Lynne. Makes me think about taking a class or two someday...

Yeah, I wish I had a dollar for every time I told one of my dive buddies to check out this thread

Really thinking hard about this. Before I upgrade, I've got some questions for the experts here: -How much "growth" can we get out of these? Peter mentioned the dome, but what other lenses should we be thinking about? Diopters? Anything else? -I currently have a YS-02 strobe since my curre...

One other thing that I believe is new is that scallops are not be removed from the shell in the field, except for immediate consumption. My 2psi is that it would better to leave the shells as close to the taking point as possible because of all the organisms attached, but I don't make the rules.

Thanks for the comments, guys. It does have an older VP but my brother has plans for a TBI 305. He's a diesel mechanic, so to him carburetors are evil and not to be trusted...

I made the video-light-must-be-the-best-of-both-worlds mistake a couple of years ago with the Sealife 980. It really wasn't enough light for stills, and it seemed that it scared the fish. I now have a strobe, and the video light is still on my rig- I aim it off to the side and use it as my primary d...

I remember doing some casual internet searches to find ideas for setting up a dive boat, so I figured I’d payback the knowledge I gained by posting some shots of the two boats my group dives off of. First is an 18’ open tri-hull my brothers and I went in on together. Ugly White Boat has been in our ...

I got to thinking- some of the coolest rock structure I've seen has been in rivers. I have no idea what you washingonians have up there, but it might be worth looking into for late summer / early fall. There's current (duh), but it can be manageable and predictable. As an example, around here we div...

I'm not sure- we had different buddies. He mentioned it afterwards; he took some pics, but they didn't turn out too well. As an aside, I was surprised how big some of the lings were there- one of them looked like it could eat a small child.

I know this is an old thread, but it's as good a place as any to mention something my brother saw last weekend. We were diving the Pinnacle in Hood Canal when he found a squat lobster cleaning a ling. Any one else ever see something like this?

Last winter a few of us made some dives off the public boat ramp in Gig Harbor. Not the most exciting dives ever from a critter standpoint, but there were tons of different nudibranchs. It was mostly about bottles and the other sort of man-made detritus you'd expect in a muck dive. Might be worth a ...

Nice- I might be diving there this weekend and would love to finally see a Brotula. Where was it hanging out?

Thanks for the thread, Lynne. I'm totally outclassed here, but I'll post a couple of my favs anyways. DSC07135.JPG RIL on a pinnacle offshore out of Newport, OR DSC07212.JPG Kind of a lousy pic from a technical standpoint, but it was sure cool seeing this big old Chinook in a 30' hole in the McKenzi...

Just out of curiosity, what kind of camera rig are you shooting now? Those are nice macro shots.

From the Newport area north and from Charleston south you can find diving like that. I've never been lucky enough to get that good of visibility, but even with 10-ft of viz, the diving is spectacular. It's so hit or miss as to whether you can even get across the bars, though- more often than I'd lik...

Sorry to hear that, Jan. Hopefully you'll be back in the water soon...

I've got a USIA bag suit that I bought used for $500. I use the USIA undergarment that it came with, along with a thin performance-type shirt and bottom (mostly for moisture wicking if we're hiking or swimming a ways). That combo is fine for temps down to mid to low 40's. Colder than that, I add fle...

Thanks, Jan- I've been looking forward to these posts