Club Dive! Club Dive! Club Dive! September 18th!

[Penopolypants]

Our day is almost here, and it's time for all the lollygaggers to declare their scuba noms! Typically someone brings a costco-type bundle of hotdogs, burgers, and buns, and I haven't heard anyone pipe up for that yet. Anyone? Bueller? I'd like to make a comprehensive list so that the undecideds can get some help deciding.

[John Rawlings]

I'm pretty certain that I'll be bringing a batch of Ginny's homemade Pumpkin Bars....

[LCF]

I'm bringing can lights. And maybe some food, if I get ambitious. I promise it won't be chips.

[Mongo]

I'll bring a mini-keg of Heineken Light and some wieners. Anyone bringing cups?













We can stuff what ever we don't eat into some poor, hapless drysuit.

[LCF]

Do we have any kind of head count on big buddies, and folks wanting to dive with them?

[Sounder]

Our day is almost here, and it's time for all the lollygaggers to declare their scuba noms! Typically someone brings a costco-type bundle of hotdogs, burgers, and buns, and I haven't heard anyone pipe up for that yet. Anyone? Bueller? I'd like to make a comprehensive list so that the undecideds can get some help deciding.

I totally called dibs on all-natural Cheetos before anyone else!! I'm bringing those.

I've got two mentoring dives arranged (complete with a gas plan ).

[Penopolypants]

Yay beer! I'm bringing cups!

No head count on big/little buddies yet. Please pipe up as to which you are as you roll call and name your nom.

[mz53480]

Our day is almost here...

....Typically someone brings a costco-type bundle of hotdogs, burgers, and buns, and I haven't heard anyone pipe up for that yet. Anyone?..

I'll bring hotdogs.
And some free zip-ties.
MZ

[spatman]

No head count on big/little buddies yet. Please pipe up as to which you are as you roll call and name your nom.

i have no idea what i'm bringing besides ORDiver.

i might be able to be a big buddy, depending on timing with some other folks i promised to dive with.

[scottsax]

I'd offer to be a big buddy, but I haven't been in the water since May. I'll need just a regular buddy for at least the first dive.

[Mongo]

Oh, I'll be a buddy alright. I am just not sure in which line to stand. Are there any medium buddies?

[Grateful Diver]

I'll big buddy for the day ... probably get there early and get my own visit to the bottle field in before the rest of y'all get there ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

[Penopolypants]

Oh, I'll be a buddy alright. I am just not sure in which line to stand. Are there any medium buddies?

But of course!

[kat]

i have been racking my brain trying to figure out how to convince my other half that packing scuba gear into his new bimmer will be ok....

[spatman]

i have been racking my brain trying to figure out how to convince my other half that packing scuba gear into his new bimmer will be ok....

are you coming from ptown or oly?

[Sounder]

To clarify what "big buddy" is for folks who may not have been to one of our events, it's simply an opportunity for a diver who wants to learn something or dive with someone more experienced than they are to do so and to feel comfortable asking a more experienced diver to go out with them. Often it's a new or newer diver who wants to go out with a strong diver, sometimes to learn something, or sometimes just to practice and observe a good buddy. Other times it's an experienced diver who wants to try something new out - be it doubles, maybe a scooter, a new style of diving, etc.

All a "big buddy" is, is someone willing to take someone else out in a mentor-capacity of sorts. The rest of everyone else just goes diving. Big buddy events were initially started as a way for newbs to come have a great dive with experienced divers, but it has morphed into a term for any kind of mentoring dive.

SO... if you're new and would like to team up with an experienced diver, please speak up (both here and in the parking lot)!! There are LOTS of wonderful big-buddies around who would be glad to take you out. If you can't find someone, PM me or find me in the parking lot and I'll hook you up with someone.

[Sounder]

i have been racking my brain trying to figure out how to convince my other half that packing scuba gear into his new bimmer will be ok....

I'm bringing the 4Runner so I'll be using an x-table. You're also welcome to gear-up on it if you'd like.

[kat]

oly. but i still have to get all of my gear in one place then to the site. maybe i can convince my mother to let me steal her car. hmmmm

[BDub]

Jeanna and I can be big buddies, or regular buddies. We don't eat beef, so we'll bring a homemade pasta salad

[kat]

yay for grand theft! this will be my first time back in the water since the hayfever started this summer, so i will be looking for a shallow buddy.

i will be bringing something delightful to eat.

[CaptnJack]

I'd like to make a comprehensive list so that the undecideds can get some help deciding.

What's left on the list?
I'll be a big, regular, or midget buddy whatever someone needs

[Geek]

I'm coming, don't know what I'll bring but I'm closing the office for the day and getting wet.... as for being a buddy, I want to try out a scooter... if I could get a big buddy to bring and extra scooter for me to play with.....

[LCF]

I'm happy to be a big buddy, and maybe I'll try to whip up a big bowl of tabbouleh for those of us who try to limit fat.

[scottsax]

Penelope, I'm open to suggestions for food.

I also have a host of cylinders I can bring if someone wants to try out an HP tank.

Currently filled with 32% in my garage I have 4 HP120s (2 DIN only [PST], 2 either yoke or DIN[Worthington]), 1 HP119 (yoke or DIN), 2 HP100a (Fabers, DIN only), and a stage-rigged AL40.

[lizard0924]

To supplement the aforementioned Heineken, we will bring the cooler o' libations (beer, soda, water and other assorted fermented bottled goods). And a veggie-type appetizer. You know, healthy to offset the beer. Its all about balance really.

I've got no scooters or other dive crack to offer, but I can offer up Psundquist as a dive buddy for someone else for dives #2/3, since everyone knows I'm a one-tank dive kind of girl. I'm sure he won't mind.