Hello All

Curt McNamee · Post by **Curt McNamee** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 11:07 pm

John Rawlings told me about this site and said that I should join, so here I am.

I have been certified since 1970 and are currently diving a KISS Classic Closed Circuit Rebreather.

My wife and I are enjoying the incredible world of rebreathers which allow us to do deeper and longer dives. We are both very active in the sport and have been to many interesting places. My wife, Mel Clark, is a technical OC, SCR and CCR instructor and is on the go all the time.

I look forward to participating in this forum.

DiverDown · Post by **DiverDown** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 11:45 pm

Welcome!! This club has been growing at an exponential rate lately. The best thing about it is that the level of experience and knowledge from the members. Makes us a pretty diverse group, this is a great group of folks that like to dive at all different levels.

Hope to see you in the water soon..

Sasquatch · Post by **Sasquatch** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 12:08 am

Very glad to see you here. It is a diverse collection of divers as Diver Down pointed out. I look forward to meeting you both sometime soon.

John Rawlings · Post by **John Rawlings** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 7:32 am

Hey, Curt!

Welcome to the gang!

I think that you'll find this to be the friendliest little group of divers on the web, as well as the most active in terms of discussion.

I'm glad to have another one of my good dive buddies on board, as well as a fellow KISS diver!

- John

thelawgoddess · Post by **thelawgoddess** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 11:30 am

hi, welcome. i looked at your website - you two have sure logged a lot of dives! wow!!!

Tangfish · Post by **Tangfish** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 2:00 pm

Awesome site Curt! I love the photo of the diver (is that you?) kissing the juvenile wolf eel.

Welcome to NWDC!

Curt McNamee · Post by **Curt McNamee** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 9:26 pm

Calvin Tang wrote:Awesome site Curt! I love the photo of the diver (is that you?) kissing the juvenile wolf eel.

Welcome to NWDC!

Thats my better half. She let me use her camera for a few shots. All the pictures on our site were taken by Mel. She does the stills

and I do the video $\:D/$ .

Thanks for the warm welcome :hello2:

Tom Nic · Post by **Tom Nic** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 12:18 pm

Welcome Curt!

BASSMAN · Post by **BASSMAN** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 1:21 pm

Welcome!
Looking fwd to Meeting / Diving some day.

Bassman (Keith)

Tangfish · Post by **Tangfish** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:49 am

Curt has the coolest avatar of all!

Tom Nic · Post by **Tom Nic** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 10:00 am

Yes, Extremely Cool!

Tangfish · Post by **Tangfish** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 10:22 am

His may be cool, but mine is hot!

Tom Nic · Post by **Tom Nic** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 10:26 am

Now wait a minute...

Foul! 15 yards for unfair avatar choice! Contest rigged!

Curt McNamee · Post by **Curt McNamee** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:09 am

Calvin Tang wrote:His may be cool, but mine is hot!

I agree with you, I would really rather look at yours

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Joshua Smith · Post by **Joshua Smith** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:18 am

Curt McNamee wrote:
Calvin Tang wrote:His may be cool, but mine is hot!
I agree with you, I would really rather look at yours .

Seconded! Motion to carry?

sparky · Post by **sparky** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 7:14 pm

Welcome Curt:

I think you will find a wide range of divers call the NW Dive Club web site home on the web. every thing from beginners to experts such as your self and John R.

not haveing the hornor of meeting you yet but your reputation is well known to me at least

I think you will be a grate adition to our little P. O. D.(Pool Of Divebudies)

So welcome and we all look foward to you adding yet a nother level of expertise to our discussions

Sparky

John Rawlings · Post by **John Rawlings** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:59 am

Calvin Tang wrote:Curt has the coolest avatar of all!

If I recall correctly, the photo that Curt is using for his avatar was taken in Truk Lagoon (aka Chuuk)....is that correct, Curt? (If you ever want to be fully occupied for an hour or two, just ask Curt about Truk!)

That's one of the benefits to diving regularly with an accomplished still photographer - plenty of great shots to choose from of YOURSELF! My house and office are chock full of shots of my dive buddies, but I don't have very many photos at all of me, much to my wife's chagrin, (Ginny is still my biggest fan, and I'm her's!).

- John

Tangfish · Post by **Tangfish** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 1:00 pm

I have a question about that photo then... How the heck do you bring all that gear with you overseas? My weight restrictions always kept me to the basics. I never thought of bringing tanks, much less stage bottles!

Curt McNamee · Post by **Curt McNamee** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 4:07 pm

Calvin Tang wrote:I have a question about that photo then... How the heck do you bring all that gear with you overseas? My weight restrictions always kept me to the basics. I never thought of bringing tanks, much less stage bottles!

This trip to Truk Lagoon was hosted by Ron Benson of Going Under Dive Center who is located in Minn.. Ron stagged all the tanks, O2 and Helium at Truk before we arrived.

I still had my hands full of gear, even without the tanks.

We did two, two hour dives per day for 7 days and saw some incredible WWII wrecks. Most of our dives were in the 150-200 ft range. We were diving trimix and got 4-5 hrs out of our 19 cu ft tanks and soda sorb fill.

What a great way to see some history and the people were very accommodating.

What a fantastic experience, I highly recommend it.

The most recent Advanced Diver Magazine has a great article about this trip- " WWII Wrecks Of Truk Lagoon CCR Invasion"

Contact John about how to get a copy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!