What will 2009 bring?

[Sounder]

Spinning off from the 2008 dives thread, I thought it be fun to hear what diving everyone is looking forward to in 2009!!

For me, 2009 will be an interesting year of balancing fatherhood, graduate school, work, and diving. I'm looking forward to technical training with NAUI and/or UTD, an exciting 3-day trip to the northern Channel Islands, a trip to dive Atlantic wrecks and Florida caverns, a trip to dive somewhere around Vancouver Islands (to be determined), my first several Lake Washington dives, more exploration around Lopez Island, a crab rodeo/feast even larger than last year, and much more exploration of new-to-me areas around Puget Sound.

Where are you going underwater in 2009?!

[Grateful Diver]

February - back to Bonaire

June - Channel Islands

July - cave country (maybe)

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

[Norris]

2009 will bring MANY PNW dives where I will attempt to master my air consumption, and frog kicks, as well as backing up.

Nitrox cert

Rescue Cert

Planning a trip for next winter to take the wife somewhere warm to help her SAD, while also looking to dive. It will have to be reasonably priced and I will be hitting many up on here.

MEETING MORE PEOPLE FACE TO FACE FROM NWDC

[scottsax]

January - Bonaire
February-March - lots more dives, lots more skills work
April - DAN DES and Rescue Diver with Zen Diver and Grateful Diver
May-August - lots more dives, lots more skills work
September - Maui
October-December - lots more dives, lots more skills work

Overall goals-more dives, more skills, more buddies, more fun, more critters (also, take a damn ID class so I know what I'm looking at! )

Meet more NWDC members, have more club dives, laugh more....

[Tom Nic]

"Lord willin', crick don't rise, etc. etc."

**Back to Bonaire, date to be determined -I'm having trouble finding a frequent flier mile ticket all the way through.

**Dominican Republic in February.

**Hopefully Sitka in February (not confirmed yet)

**Gotta get to Vancouver Island, Date and Place to be determined.

**Some formal / informal doubles training after I loose my next 50 lbs. Almost halfway to my goal!

[BASSMAN]

Sitka in February, (maybe)
I would like to go down to California and dive Channel Islands (? on date)
And mega NW Dives!
It would be fun to get back up to do a San Juan Islands charter again
And last but not least, a trip to Hawaii with my spouse, and dive, a Night dive with the Manta Rays!

[BigFameOne]

I am looking forward to a huge year of diving for me. Looking forward to getting to dive my own gear, to dive with some of the PNW divers who have been so helpful to me, I have so much to learn so I am excited to get started, and I am excited about trying to do some diving in Lake Washington as I am sitting in my house drinking coffee right now and I could throw a baseball and hit a swimmer (if there were any to be seen).

[Burntchef]

getting married

trimix 1

do way more diving on some of the wrecks up north

build a better scuba shed

[Joshua Smith]

Governor, Admiral Sampson, Bunker hill, Multnomah.....

[LCF]

February: Diving with North Shore Explorers on Maui.

April: Hopefully back to MX for more cave diving, and then the dive Expo here at the end of the month.

May: My 25th med school reunion gives me a perfect excuse to go down and dive Monterey for a couple of days.

June/July/August somewhere: Cave 2. Also 3 days in the Channel Islands at the end of June.

October: A week on the MV Tala in the Red Sea.

November: If at all possible, back to MX.

Somewhere in all of this may be somebody's Tech 1. I also want to get our boat out a LOT more this year, and go exploring in the Sound a bit.

[rjw]

Governor, Admiral Sampson, Bunker hill, Multnomah.....

Ditto. Plus a few more.......................

[sheahanmcculla]

getting married

Ha..and people think diving is expensive! My wifes wedding dress could have bought my whole diving setup, including my dry suit.

I would like to:
A) Get over the hyperventilating past 80'
B) Try my hand at underwater video's
C) See an adult GPO, and Wolf EEL
D) Take 1 more class (not sure which one yet)

[CaseyB449]

Getting married in April....
which leads me to my first warm water dive (with or without her...she's a non-diver... for now )
Going to doubles
Start Tech training...
Be productive...
Stay happy, healthy, grateful...

[Samson]

2009 will bring tons of boat diving scooter licious heaven!
Back to Maui in March..(anybody up for a group trip over spring break??)
Nitrox cert, AOW cert, rescue cert,.....
Hopefully landing that elusive 40+lb King salmon!

[pogiguy05]

I am just hoping to do more diving in the PNW and as of right now be glad to see warmer weather. My goals would be to take my advanced open water and BUY a DRY SUIT cause I fear going diving with this below freezing temps in a wetsuit. It is not the diving but the stripping down in the back of my truck turning into some shivering blue snowman.

[Huskychemist]

January: Diving the HMAS Brisbane off the Gold Coast in Australia (http://www.sunreef.com.au/hmas-brisbane.htm)

Feb to May: Diving the Gulf of Thailand

June: Lembeh Strait! Seven straight days of diving with my own boat and dive guide. Woohoo!

June 15th: Knee surgery, followed by no diving for a while.

[DiverBob]

Hopefully a LOT of diving in Puget Sound

I agree. Hopefully a warm water trip for a week of steady diving thrown in as well.

[Jan K]

Find and photograph a Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker. OK, I know I am only dreaming...

[coachrenz]

Find and photograph a Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker. OK, I know I am only dreaming...

May your strobe fire correctly and you have ample room on your memory card and fully charged batteries when this happens.

[mattwave]

Jan- Triple Crown in the Channel Islands - Maybe some other Wreck too (If they can find it)

Jan- Nanaimo
Mar- Gulf Stream/Capilano
April- Aug: 2 more Nanaimo Wreck Trips and maybe Transpac
Sept- Roy a Jodrey 1000 islands (Just sent first deposit)
Dec- Maybe finally Cave

[Ken G]

2009 brings me a Meg! Can't wait to start diving ccr although my love for wrecks will have to get put on hold until I am trained and ready.
I'm hoping also to get back to Bonaire and possibly a wreck trip to Key Largo with the crew.

[Dmitchell]

Probably 2 weeks in Akumal in late June. Working a homeswap with someone who has a condo there.

Otherwise, Exploration, exploration, exploration.. Just got word of a sailing ship that sank near here and has never been found or looked for. Also have several others to find in addition to exploring for new sites that aren't wrecks or relic sites. I also want to do a trip into the Klondike and dive some old goldrush sites (freshwater). I can't wait for April - we plan to hit it hard!

I'm spending the winter researching and training my buddies!

Dave

[Maverick]

Adv. Trimix, April

Governor!!!!!!!!! Aug (and others, but this is MY Everest )

Res Sea, June

New Zeland, June

[Peter Guy]

Lynne posted most of my diving year:

February: Diving with North Shore Explorers on Maui.
April: Hopefully back to MX for more cave diving, and then the dive Expo here at the end of the month.
May: Dive Monterey for a couple of days.
Also 3 days in the Channel Islands at the end of June.
October: A week on the MV Tala in the Red Sea.
November: If at all possible, back to MX.
Somewhere in all of this may be somebody's Tech 1. I also want to get our boat out a LOT more this year, and go exploring in the Sound a bit.

Although I suppose the "real uptick" is that I just signed up for an AI course in January with the intent of becoming an OWSI not too long after that. It should be an interesting experience and an interesting year.

[ORDiver]

A trip to Mexico and a dry suit. Hopefully the dry suit will be soon. Diving wet in the winter sucks!