Northwest Dive Club

[...]They planned to go down 215 feet as part of a training course and each had enough air for five minutes, but only one of the two students came back to the surface.[...] This is of course a tragic accident, but it is even MORE tragic if this was done during a training course, since the diver (as...

Lol- no, really- I don't have the exact profile, because my computer was back in the van, but it was something like 107 feet, 35 minutes, with a fair bit around 60-70 feet. I'll have to check, but there's no way I'd come back with 1200 psi on a normal dive, so it wasn't just buddy w/ crappy air con...

Based on feedback from Bob and others, we always clean up the shallow decompression line after a dive these days.

If those darn fishermen wouldn't drag our line all over the place at times, there would only be one line down there. :-) That said, plenty of line has been removed too.

The http://www.aplponline.org site has been updated with a new video and some more dive reports, and the SCRET page (http://www.scret.org) will be updated with a new newsletter regarding a wreck in Lake Washington within the next couple of weeks.

They are very cool indeed. Obviously, you may already have download capability from your dive computer. But if you don't, or if you question why you should pay as much for a download cable as you'd do for a Sensus, or if you have requirements for more accurate readings than you typically get from a ...

We started posting reports from our latest push, code named The Last Waltz, last night.

H20doctor wrote:those guys go DEEP.... I mean deep.... How do you not get Narced at 300 feet.. thats insane even on tri mix gas, helium, etc....
Them boys are good at diving deep...

The answer is by not having much nitrogen in your breathing gas, and not too much oxygen either. Not much at all...

As I understand it, the APLP is a "trail" of cave line that creates a simulated cave dive, is excellent for technical skill practice, and allows for long-range scooter diving. Evidently there has recently been a whole host of baby grunt sculpins at one of the gas drops too. That's a prett...