Northwest Dive Club

Is it even going to be diveable tonight at that time? Looking at the tide chart, it looks like we'll be in the middle of a 11+ foot exchange. Tonight is a full moon plus lunar eclipse... I'm just trying to learn the dive planning aspect for this area.

oh - and please save me a sticker or three...

I'm like 90% positive I'll be there. I definitely prefer to buddy up, so hopefully someone doesn't mind that as well.

Will

Very nice.

Found another one - this one was probably half the size of the first one, but this one has feeding tentacles out...

It is amazing what some in-water eye training can do for helping you to spot things in the future. You can look at photos all day long and still look right past a critter in the water, but somehow once you see it in the water, your brain decides that it can find more in the future. Hope that is the ...

Bryan is an awesome guy! My first dive with him he told me about lumpies and said he has never seen any and I've since managed to find 3. I told him I might have to make it a personal goal to find one for him on a dive. My current goal is to find a stubby squid. Anyone really good at spotting them?

There is a Marker Buoy dive there tomorrow evening... I'm supposed to dive at Cove 2 in the evening, so I'm trying to find some folks who would want to dive the Junkyard earlier (I'm available any time after 2:30PM). If anyone is interested, let me know!

I guess technically I do too since I do stick a GoPro on top of my SLR, but I've never been super thrilled with the stills results from my GoPro.

Do you mind me asking what you lug around?

Not "a" ... multiple. I saw at least half a dozen. They seemed to be all throughout the seagrass. That is two different individuals above, and I know I saw at least a handful more that just weren't in a spot to even try for some shots. I'm not super familiar with them - can anyone tell me ...

Wow - that's an incredible range of shots from the wider angle stuff all the way down to what I am assuming is greater than 1:1 macro. Is that multiple dives/camera setups?

Figured I should share some of the highlights from my first dive with you folks! Thanks all for pointing stuff out for me and helping to train my eyes a bit more for the local critters. I missed critical focus on a couple of these and think I want to go back and try for some better shots of those sk...

Are we aiming for one or two dives? Need to know if I should coordinate a second tank.

I can likely do a 10AM meet. If I get to the AirBNB at 9AM, drop my stuff off and then be on my way to Alki by 9:30, I should be able to make it there by 10AM. If you folks are willing to hold off a bit that would be awesome. But if it makes conditions less than ideal, don't feel like you have to - ...

Earliest my new AirBNB will let me check in is 9AM, so the earliest I could dive would be 10AM. I'll check here in the morning to see what you folks are up to, but it looks like I'll not be able to join.

You said that is right by the Cactus restaurant, right?

Any word on this weekend? I'm still trying to figure out my accommodation checkout/checkin arrangements and if I can squeeze a dive in tomorrow, but also looking at sunday. Both days are supposed to be fairly breezy...

Found this late in a dive at Three Tree Point the other day. My strobe batteries were dead so it is lit by my buddy's dive light and I only got this one decent photo...

How are we looking for tonight? Do we have a time and location picked yet?

I'm in. I can confirm lumpies and pipefish and baby wolfies at Three Tree. Haven't been back down to Redondo since before all the rain supposedly turned it into muddy zero vis... Though if I'm looking at the tide chart correctly, hitting Three Tree in the evening tomorrow might be tough with current...

Any more thoughts/details on hitting Keystone on Saturday? I need to switch AirBNBs this weekend so I'm trying to figure out logistics with that and trying to squeeze in some diving as well. Would this be a day trip or overnight? Would it be a single dive or multiple dives? What is the general dive ...

Is there a visible shell? Watching the video (from the other thread) it flies by so fast (has the video been run through a stabalizer?) that it is really hard to tell, but I thought I saw movement along the body of it... and it is rather over-exposed so it is losing all the detail.... but I honestly...

Very cool - thanks for the visuals on that so I can get an idea of what I'd be working with. I wonder if you could put it on a drill press and drill a small hole in it to be able to put a lanyard of some sort on it to keep it from taking off if you drop it.

Nevermind - I found them on Amazon. Looks like they're only about 3-4" in diameter from what I'm seeing. I'm guessing you're shooting with some diopters to get the port that close to the subject?

Thanks for the info. I definitely see both arguments - photographing the animal in its natural environment is good, but also eliminating the background so you can focus purely on the animal is a good way to eliminate distractions/confusion. Both have their value. I can certainly see the argument abo...