Northwest Dive Club

Hi! DLH, KneeDeep and I did Redondo last night. Lots of critters were to be found.... two species of snailfish, octos, grunts, stubbies, penpont gunnels, mating hermits, moon jellies, lumpies, a swimming hooded nudiranch, three lined nudies and more! Of particular note was a shrimp which looked very...

Hi
A lot of our early tank people are out this week, but perhaps somebody will chime in to join you. 6:30pm meet for the main dive.

Hubby and wife diving different locations?
Have fun!

I don't know much about WSA, perhaps somebody else on the board does. The following was on their facebook page: Washington State Parks has again asked us to help them with artificial reefs in their parks. This has created a lot of interest and the site that we have chosen is Camano Island State Park...

Hi A friend forwarded me this note From Washington Scuba Alliance. Thought I'd post it here incase you missed it. Thanks WSA!! =--- Happy New Year! WSA is off and running in 2014. Permitting is in progress for the artificial reef at Camano Island State Park. Additional surveys both on shore and unde...

Thank you so much for the info! Very interesting!

Who's up for some south sound night diving on Thursday?
Redondo, 6:30pm meet, beer after.
Note: 2' low tide at this time

PM me if you'd like to carpool from Bellevue.

(updated to change the dive date which was wrong)

Hi Rich Thanks for the info! Just to be clear, I'm looking for stubbies not market squid, though I'd imagine they'd be similar, and both would be cool huh? Do stubbies school to lay eggs? Watching them lay the nest would be quite the sight! Here's a pic of a stubby nest (with the top-left egg showin...

Hi Jesse found a nest of stubby eggs the other day in the hood canal that was so close to hatching you could see the squid inside the eggs. Very cool. Questions: 1) Does anyone know if all the nests tend to hatch this time of year? 2) Have there been any other recent nest sightings? Preferably redon...

Nice! I like the red eye medusa in there. It even pulses to the music.

Very cool. It is a fun dive to do from time to time, especially with viz like that. Love the feisty cabbie at the end, that just says Edmonds to me

The Hood Canal (Flagpole, Elephant Wall) yesterday was looking healthy with the exception of possibly one sunflower in the early stages:

I'm out
Have fun!

Scubie Doo wrote:Nice work on the sea angel. You got it in a great position!

Thanks. It took me 150 shots to get this one I could have spent the whole dive on these critters.
These little ones (<1cm) were very hard to capture. I read they get up to 8cm long.

We loved Flagpole, thanks very much for showing it to us, Don-B. That site doesn't look very swimmable, scooterable, even monofinable to me. Unless you're one of the lucky people we saw doing a shore dive from the private house right in front of the dive site! So thanks again for the ride! (with you...

Hi Don
That would be great! None of us (at least most of us) haven't dove the site before. Could you advise a meet time/location, based on the currents?
-Eric

I'm most likely in!

Hi!
Thanks!

#2 -- I think it is a sea gooseberry. There are lots of these at Redondo these days (as are there juvi plainfin midshipman, as shown in #3),

Snaps from Redondo last night:

Hope everybody has a great Christmas!
-Eric

Word is, it is spreading to the Port Hardy area as well :(

Interesting. Thanks for the info!

Hi
The seastars at Redondo are starting to die off now too, unfortunately. :(

I'm sure many of us would be interested in helping out any way we can.

Thanks for what you do.

Hi Kneedeep, happy to show you my camera closer on the next dive, as I'm sure many other ThThTh guys would.
My recommendation (if you haven't already done so) is to get a macro lens and a dslr and learn how to use it on the surface, then get the u/w stuff later.

Cool. But if I were flying in 3d, I'd want a 1atm wet sub!

Hi Chris. Welcome!
Hope to see you at ThThTh again soon!
-Eric