Northwest Dive Club

Howdy I did a dive at TTN tonight. I was hoping to go photograph all the beautiful pink-mouth hydroids I saw on the boat last time I was there several months ago. Last time I counted over 200 PMH's in the area! When I got there today, unfortunately it was majorly stripped of them. Many of them were ...

Nice Job, ScubaJess!

Note: I see them bunched up at particular depths. If I don't find them at one depth, I check another depth. Once I find one at a particular depth, I see others at that depth. The depth I find them at varies from dive-to-dive, usually between 30 and 5 feet. And often they're found on healthy-looking ...

Hi Jesse!
This should be the time of the year. I've only seen 3-4 so far this year, but I haven't looked too much.

For somebody buying their wife that last minute present George?

Get better Tom! Hope to see you out there soon!

There's a huge ebb tomorrow. We're thinking probably TTN (squee! pink mouth hydroids!). Anybody else in?

Nice work Jan
Happy Holidays to all!

Cool pics Jesse! Nice background on the bay pipefish.

Andy Lamb thinks those hatchlings are stubby squid babies. They really were quite a bit smaller and had different movements than GPO babies.

Your crab looks like a helmet crab. They're usually yellowish orangish.

Cool! Nice vid!
What kind of sharks were those?

Hi!
I can't make the ThThTh HoHoHo edition :(

Anybody up for a TuTuTu dive this week? Anywhere from Muk to Redondo, depending on who's interested.
Approx 6:30pm meet time?

Very cool!

Jens -- how/where did you get those Humpbacks? Very cool!

Nice ones George. I do like those pathes of around the otherwise plain snail fish!

Welcome to the addiction!

Hi Jens!
Good to see you here online! Hope to see you at one of our Thursday dives!
-Eric

Hi! H2oDoc mentioned that he ran into some severe current there sometime back... so do watch the conditions. I will have to check this site out again, its been too long! You eye'ing it Tom? Maybe if we do a camping trip to Salt Creek, we can hit this on the same trip. Hi Gray! :) This is your old bu...

Howdy Folks! We had another great ThThTh dive tonight! :funky: Scubie Doo, GDog, ScubaJess and I made it for the dive! ScubaJess and I got to see a very unexpected critter on our way up -- some sort of baby squid or octopus! It was smaller than a GPO hatchling, and orange. I thought it may be a baby...

Very interesting tip!
I will have to try that, thanks dave!

Hi I learned a couple tips for dealing with the unfortunate event of moisture/fogging in your camera housing setup over the last couple months 1) if you do get fog in your camera (or you're afraid of this), I found on my California trip that if I placed ice on my housing, away from the dome that it ...

I'll bring the lightsaber-like glow sticks for our dive thrusday

too cool!

Howdy Folks!
Who's up for ThThTh'ing this Thursday? Redondo, 6:30pm meet.

Hi Dave
I used the camera mode control. The one that can switch between aperture priority, shutter priority, manual etc. There are other options but that seemed easiest and most convenient to me. I've never used it underwater (I always use manual).

Hello folks! I got myself the basic vacuum pump system from underwatercamerastuff.com So far I really like it. I installed it myself on my ikelite housing for my Nikon d7100 I use for wide angle photography (more prone to leaks because you're always changing the front port!) I'm happy to show it to ...

Scubie Doo wrote:Awesome, it's a date. Let me know when you want to hit it at night Also, we saw a market squid at DIW and it appeared to be in "mating" mode. It looked a little roughed up and was not as colorful as usual.

I'll have to give you one of those late night booty calls like Penders does!